Day 17

Yesterday’s Intake:
BW: wheat toast w/ low fat cottage cheese
AW: Protein powder w/ water
S: grilled chicken, cherry tomatoes, ½ avocado, organic vinaigrette
L: Jamba Juice original size Protein Workout without banana (soy milk, ice, strawberries, protein)
S: Red apple w/ low fat cottage cheese and cinnamon, protein bar
D: protein powder w/ water and fat free yogurt

Crazy Cravings:
Okay yesterday I got my first crazy craving since I started. I wanted chocolate and carbs soooo bad yesterday afternoon at work. I wanted chocolate cake or a hot dog or pizza. I think it is because I’m about to start my period. Or it could be that I decided to just have Jamba Juice for lunch (because I wanted something sand that wasn’t enough. But I surprisingly stayed strong. I had already eaten my planned snack of apple and cottage cheese. That just didn’t cut it. Then I tried having some more herbal tea. Nope. After about an hour of agony…I remembered I had a protein bar that I got as a free sample. I ate it and it was PERFECT. Totally felt better afterward.

Mind you, this wasn’t one of those huge, 500 calorie, 25 grams fat bulking protein bar. It was a sensible 4 inches. I try to avoid protein bars because I’d say about 80% of the kind that have enough protein are too high in fat and calories. And the ones that aren’t too high in calories and fat (these are usually marketed to women) usually don’t have enough protein to make a difference. So I won’t plan it into my regular eating schedule but…maybe I should buy some sensible chocolate flavored ones to be prepared for a chocolate craving like this, because they beat out a Snicker’s bar any day.

Sweet Little Lies:
I was at the gym this morning (45 minutes cardio) after my shower and I was putting on my lotion and I SWEAR my legs felt more muscular. It’s probably just me because they still LOOK the same. But in my hands they felt like there was more muscle. Even if it is just all in my head, I’m going to continue telling myself it’s real so that I can motivate myself. Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

I’m determined to stick to my leg workout. I was reading in a forum yesterday about how this girl noticed that her legs had grown ½ inch after weeks of lifting weights w/ her legs. She wanted to quit right then and there because NO girl wants their legs to get larger. But everyone kept encouraging her to stick to it, that abandoning her leg workout was probably the worst thing she could do. Many of the women (totally fit women with great looking bodies) commented that the same thing happened to them for weeks or months when they first started out. What happens is for some reason, women’s legs are the last part to start losing body fat. They noticed fat loss in their faces, their arms, even their tummies…then after a long time finally they started to see the fat loss in their legs which then revealed all the muscle that they had been developing all along.

This seems to be logical to me, I mean if I think back to the order in which I started gaining weight in the first place (puberty) the legs and hips were the first, only many years later did I start to gain weight around my tummy and my arms. So I guess it makes since that the oldest pockets of fat are the toughest to get rid of.



Nomination:

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