Donna’s Fatloss blog Day 33
Entering the final stretch with one more week to go. I feel like I'm starting to get tired and my resistance to temptation foods is starting to wane. Last night at dance class, they were hosting an apple harvest festival. All the dancers were invited to bring in their favorite homemade apple treats. The refreshment table was filled with apple pies, tarts, dips, candied apples, apple crumbcake. Everything smelled and looked so good, but remembering the rumba dress I need to wear in 5 weeks, I stepped away from the table and danced until class was over. And, today one of my co-workers brought in birthday cake to celebrate another colleague's birthday and I so desperately wanted a slice. Yellow cake with cream cheese icing--one of my favorites--but I pulled my apple out of my bag and ate it instead. Temptation averted again.
I don't really crave sweets anymore; however, for some reason I do miss having them. Not sure why, but eating chocolate really was like a spiritual experience for me.
Next week, the moment of truth comes when I take my after picture.
Workout
Cardio
5 minutes of jogging
5 sets intervals: 2:45 minutes jogging; 2 minutes walking
Strength
Jackknife w/pushups: bw x 12, bw x 12, bw x 10
Single arm band-pull downs: 3 sets of 30 reps each arm
Lunge, curl, press : 5lbs x 18; 5lbs x 17; 5lbs x 15
Toe tappers: 13, 10, 10 taps each leg
Squat, curl, press: 5lbs x 14, 5lbs x 14, 5lbx 14
Front dual dumbbell raise: 5lbs x 14; 5lbs x 14; 5lbs x 14
Nutrition
Breakfast – 9:00 am
1 c. oatmeal w/cinnamon
Morning snack – 11:30 am
1 c. blueberries
2 oz pecans
Lunch – 1:20 pm
2 c. mixed greens salad w/ tomato, carrots and 3 oz. tuna and 1 tbsp olive oil & lemon juice dressing
Afternoon snack – 3:30 pm
1 apple and peanut butter
Dinner – 7:00 pm
2 c. mixed greens salad w/tomato, carrots, 4 oz. grilled chicken and 1 tbsp olive oil & lemon juice dressing
Fluid intake: 2 liters waters
Way to go Donna, your ability to resist temptation is incredible.
ReplyDeleteThere will never be a shortage of these opportunities, and the reason most people are overweight is because they give themselves excuses and permission to indulge like this all the time. But one thing leads to another...
You will be the one looking great while everyone else is feeling crappy about themselves.
I'm proud of you for your hard work.
All my best,
Coach Rylan
Well done Donna. I can almost taste and certainly smell all those yummy apple things..drool...What a great idea to have an apple harvest festival (we dont do that here in NZ). You guys are lucky (?!), you get proper halloween and trick or treating and lots of festivals around food dont you, like thanksgiving. We only really have Christmas and Easter featuring high on the calories list and of course New year for the more liquid calories...
ReplyDeleteHi Kim, don't know that we're so lucky in the states. Seems like everything we do here is centered around food. This time of year is actually the most difficult time to lose weight because of all the holiday foods with Christmas being the hardest. I used to work at a school where parents, volunteers, administrators and anyone else would thank us for all our hard by sending us baskets of homebaked and bakery made cakes, cookies, pies, chocolates and other goodies. Besides, I've heard New Zealand is beautiful.
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