Day 5

Weight = 132

Calories = 1356

Carbs = 84

Fat = 96

Protien = 62

I decided to start weighing myself every day and recording it here. I'll weigh myself in the morning as soon as I get up. When I started last weekend I was at 135, today I'm at 132! Now, I don't know if any of that is change in water weight, but we will see when I do it again tomorrow and the next day. I have to say though, I do feel a slight change in my body. I feel like I'm seeing some muscle definition in my shoulders/arms that I hadn't seen before. Lets hear it for muscle definition!!!

Here's an example of the kind of breakfast I've been eating this week:

1 hard boiled free range Omega 3 egg

1/4 cup of 4% milkfat cottage cheese

3 strawberries.

I usually eat this after my workout (around 7:15am) and I'm not hungry again until around 11am, at which point I'll have a snack. I like this breakfast because its fast and has a variety of tastes. I've been switching my fruit intake to mostly berries. Berries have the most "bang for your buck" with regards to nutrients. They have a lot of antioxidants (cell turnover) and they are the lowest on the glycemic index, which means that they are not going to spike your blood sugar as much as other fruits (bananna comes to mind as a high GI fruit). You can have a look at this chart for a look at the glycemic index of foods. I try to stick to the lower range.

High - 70-100

Moderate - 50-70

Low 0-50

Since I'm a sugar whore I used to put maple syrup at the bottom of a cup and dip raspberries and strawberries in it to sweeten them up. But since I've been eating this breakfast and have been cutting WAY back (totally back) on sugar, I am enjoying the sweetness of the strawberries as-is. I guess it has something to do with your body acclimating itself to the change.

I would also like to just add that today at work someone brought in a cake to bid farewell to an employee and you know what I said when I was offered a piece? (ahem) I said, "No thanks". I DID! I SAID NO THANKS! Thank god they didn't offer me a scoop of ice cream or I'm not sure the story would have ended so nicely.

Exercise

This morning I skipped the legs & back p90x routine to give my legs and butt a break and change it up a bit. Instead I did the shoulders & arms routine which is basically working shoulders/triceps/biceps. What I love about p90x is that you're going quickly through everything and its HARD so you're also burning a ton of calories. I burn the same amount of calories doing the resistance routines as I do with my cardio days. So beautiful!