- My healthier habits are inspiring my children to eat better, and my daughter to begin working out. I'm giving her different workouts than me. I'm a lot more flexible physically and have lifted for a long time. I'm having her do light weights, the trampoline, get basic exercises down without weights first.
- Every day I succeed at my goals is helping me with being consistent.
- My blood pressure remains higher, which causes me to have headaches. I'm pretty in tuned with my body. Added Ca/Mg/Z to see if this will naturally help my BP along with what I've been doing. It may take my body some time to adjust to the drastic change in my eating - low sugar/no grains/no starches and not feeding it any crap.
- Remember that when we make changes against what our bodies are used to, it will look to protect itself. I believe the BP is a byproduct of what I'm doing but once my body realizes this is for real, it will lower to a safer level. My sugar levels probably have been all over the place. Hopefully by next week it'll go lower so these headaches stop.
- One of my goals in addition to dropping bodyfat, getting my blood sugar levels good, increasing my HDL, lowering my triglycerides is to have my body go from a sugar burner to a fat burner. When fat is used as a main source for energy, that is called "ketosis"
- My weight this morning is the same as yesterday, though I ate all that food. I feel less puffy.
- I've had no gassiness or constipation the past 6 days. Maybe that's caused by eliminating grains & starches?
- Talked to my dr's office and they said my BP should not be high after this many days, so it might be another thing. Possibly an electrolyte issue where I need potassium. She recommended Zico Coconut Water, but that has 12 g of sugar per serving, which is a lot. I bought some, but reluctant to drink it.
- I got some Emergen-C Lite, which has less than 1 g sugar per serving and has 200 g of Potassium. I took 2 packets and will see if that makes a difference.
- I've intermittently felt hungry today, but it wasn't time to eat. But, being busy helped stave off hunger. Overall, I ate less today and it makes sense as I ate more yesterday.
SMARTER GOAL: Go for a walk either with my kids or after getting writing done. --- Failed at this goal today. I did not walk, nor did I get to do my writing (the paid kind). Drat.
SLEEP: 11:00 pm - 5:15 am (6.25 hrs) - I went to bed later by more than an hour last night and woke up earlier automatically. Both nights after working out, I tend to get less sleep. Not sure why that is. I would've loved to be able to sleep to 6 am. My alarm was set for 6:15 am. I'm feeling a little tired this morning. I may have to take a morning nap as I'm kinda out of it. I don't feel like I have had enough sleep. Did not end up taking a nap, as I felt better as the morning went on.
SUPPLEMENTS/MEDICINES:
7:15 am - Heart Meds, 3 Multi-Vitamins, 3 Probiotics, 3 EFAs, 4 Ca/Mg/Z
7:20 pm - 3 Multi-Vitamins, Heart Meds, 1 EFA
EATING: Jorge Cruise's Fast Track Menu (Day 4)
Meal 1 @ 7:15 am: a little more than 2 eggs scrambled w/baby spinach (no oil) seasoned with a little salt & pepper and a little heavy cream, 1 piece turkey (no nitrite bacon), 1 piece of other bacon (no nitrite) ---> Jorge's meal is 2 eggs sunny side, bacon, coffee & half half. I don't drink coffee and I basicaly put the half & half in the eggs.
Meal 2 @ 10:15 pm: wasn't hungry. Didn't eat anything.
Meal 3 @ 12:15 pm: 2.5 oz dark fin tuna w/avocado, big handful of mixed greens
Meal 4 @ 4:30 pm: 12 raw macademia nuts
Meal 5 @ 7:00 pm: Grilled tilapia (about 1/3 lb) with a butter/chopped Italian parsley/lemon zest/sea salt/ground pepper, stir fry artichoke & cauliflower in butter w/sea salt & ground pepper, cumin & minced garlic
WORKOUT:
Did not manage to get my walk in. Too busy doing stuff for my daughter that needed to be done, as well as for my kids. Still not done.
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