Thursday February 3rd, 2011

Today was my official start day on the 'Bikini Land' blog. I am going to write this blog as each day unfolds so I don’t forget what I’ve eaten or had to drink. You know how easy it is to conveniently forget that you’ve eaten about 50 extra almonds! :) 

Here's how my first day went….

I woke up this morning at 5:10am.  I got right up and dressed for my workout class. I always lay my workout clothes out the night before so I don't have to take the time in the morning to look for them. It's hard enough to wake up that early and if I had to get up any earlier than 5:10am just to pick out workout clothes, I probably wouldn't do it.

I got ready and at about 5:20am I heated up a piece of Morningstar sausage in the microwave to eat on my drive to the gym. I also grabbed a few almonds and a diet coke. Most mornings I need some caffeine to get me going and today it was diet coke!

If I'm going to 'Chains Class', I like to eat a little something beforehand. We do lots of strength training in that class so I need something to help me push through it.

I did chains from 6-7am. Today we trained upper and lower body and did cardio in between sets. It was sort of like a HUGE circuit. Cardio bursts included squat thrusts, jumping rope, running in place w/high knees, jumping on and off a wooden box, and other plyometric exercises. For strength, we did chest press, pull ups, chin-ups, monkey rows, frontward and backwards lunges, dead lifts, weighted squats, and weighted wall sits! I drank water throughout class.

At 7:10am, I ran about 3 miles on the road with some friends and then headed back home.

At 8:25am, I ate a quick breakfast of two egg whites and reduced fat cheddar cheese. I ate fast because I had to leave the house to be somewhere by 9am.

Right now, it's 10:15am and I'm having a Starbucks coffee. I put 3 splenda packs in it and a little skim milk!  I'm feeling great so far!  I had lots of energy this morning and actually ran faster than normal. I credit that to a good nights sleep!!!

It’s 1:30pm right now and I am STARVING!  I just heated up some homemade spaghetti Mama made the other night.  She made it with whole-wheat noodles and low-fat ground beef and sauce (mushrooms, tomatoes, onions in sauce). Drank water.

3pm - I snacked on cocoa flavored almonds... I'm still feeling great. Lots of energy!!

4:30 - 5:30pm - I took a spinning class. It was the hardest spin class of my life I think!  I loved it though!  I had more water to drink.

7:30pm – Dinner was a grilled chicken salad, lots of veggies were on the salad.  And I drank water and some red wine. 

Over all, I think I had a pretty successful day on my plan.  I think if I should’ve changed anything, it would’ve been to leave the red wine out.  Alcohol slows down your metabolism. I probably need to limit my consumption to 1-2 glasses a week.  


That’s all for today!  


Going to bed now... 5am is going to come fast tomorrow!!