Today was the first official day of this 12 week challenge. Last night I had book club and I gave into peer pressure and ate dessert, but that is my last dessert for 12 weeks, period!!! Today I decided to do a little cleansing just to kick things off. It was a good day for cleansing since I take Sunday off from any exercise. Actually today was spent laying around most of the day. This morning a drank 24 ounces of water with the juice of 2 lemons right when I got up. I didn't eat breakfast until 9:30 because of my laziness. I made a smoothie out of vanilla protein powder, spinach, pumpkin, flaxseed oil, almond milk and spices. For lunch I had egg whites, chicken, and salad with balsamic vinaigrette. I had another smoothie for my mid afternoon snack, but I added almond butter instead of the oil and chocolate protein powder. Dinner was salmon and sweet potato chips. I make them by slicing up a sweet potato as thinly as possible and tossing it with olive oil, sea salt and cracked pepper. Then I baked them at 425 for about 20 minutes per side or until a bit crisp but not burnt. I was hungry later in the evening so I had 2 egg whites and some of the leftover sweet potato chips I feel like my body is now ready for this new challenge.
I heard once that if you feel hungry, but you don't want to eat an apple, then you probably aren't really hungry. I decided to change it from an apple to an egg white, since I love apples and right now they seem like a delicious treat!. So whenever I feel like snacking on something, I'll get out the egg whites (good thing I boiled a dozen yesterday).
I've started buying the egg whites that come in a carton. They're super easy to whip up into an omelette or add to a smoothie and they last a while. Seems a bit more expensive than whole eggs, but then you're not wasting the yolk or having to boil them in advance, etc.
ReplyDeleteGood luck starting off your 12 weeks!! I'm starting week 9 tomorrow and I took 8 week photos yesterday.