...and I thought I was bad about updating in April. I missed all of May! Crazy how fast time is flying now. (Only 4 months until my 25th birthday O.O)
Important New Stuff! My workout partner and I have decided to try out clean eating for 100 days. We started this past Monday (June 2nd) and will be performing this "experiment" until September 10th (or longer, depending on the results!)
Here are the "rules" I've made for myself during this experiment:
100 Days of Clean Eating
·
Eat
o
Vegan
Clean Eating
o
Unprocessed/minimally
processed foods
o
No
added sugars, no sweets
o
No
fast food/ eating out
o
No
cheat days
o
No
juice/soda/etc—drinking water only (at least 1 jug a day)
o
Eat
at least 5 servings of fruit/veggies per day
o
Increase
protein intake
o
Log
all foods accurately
· Sleep
o
Get
at least 8 hours of sleep every night
o
Go
to bed before 11 pm
o
Get
up at 6-7 am
· Exercise
o
Workout
at least 1 hour, 4-5 days a week
o
30
min cardio, 30 min strength training
· Pictures
o
Take
progress pictures at least once a month
I'm excited to see the results!
And now it's... goal check time!
- Improve my relationship and walk with God
- Accidentally deleted my reading plan and with it, all of my progress. :( After wrestling with wanting to throw in the towel, I decided to just start the reading plan from the beginning. Which, for someone who hates having her time wasted by repeating things, that was a toughie. Perhaps there is a lesson and blessing in me starting over.
- Lose 50-100 lbs healthily
- I'm down a total of ~27 lbs, ~2 lbs since my last post. Not as much as I would hope, mostly because I was going off diet a lot. With this clean eating initiative, I think the "hunkering down" I've been longing for will finally occur. And, hopefully, the lbs will start to melt away like butter!
- In addition to the clean eating, my workout partner and I have also started back going to gym an hour a day, 4 days a week. Yay, exercise!
- On the first day of the experiment, we weighed in and got our initial weight/bmi/fat% etc. The readout said that I'd lost 5 lbs since the end of the 1st competition we were in and like 4% body fat. Woot!
- I ran my first 5k in ~45 minutes! Granted there were a lot of things I would have changed, like arriving on time (oops!) and running a lot more before and during the race, but I finished(!!) and that's what matters. I did run the first 1.5 miles straight (at a 12:30 mile pace!), which is the most I've run without stopping in a LONNNGGG time. So, first 5k in the bag, not quite ready for the second but I will definitely be doing more of them in the future!
Summer's coming! (Yea, it's not summer yet, in case the high 80's temperatures had fooled you into thinking it was...lol)
K
