Despite upping my weight training, getting in my sandbag work and surely increasing my running, I stepped on the scale today for my weekly weigh-in and was nothing but disappointed and discouraged.
My problem isn't my training, it remains my eating. I've been using the Nutritionist, a phone app that helps me count and monitor my calories, but I'm still not eating enough. Business at Hulk's is good but it's busy and consequently my eating has taken a blow -- my meals have become infrequnent and inconsistant. Today I ate meal #1 as scheduled -- a five egg oatmeal pancake with homemade peanut butter and a small orange -- and then I ate meal #2 -- three egg whites and some strawberries. Meal #3 was supposed to happen at 2:30pm but when Snickers headed off to get groceries and dropped me at Hulk's thirty minutes early to set up, my setup and meal making time was occupied by two guests wanting to see the club and then members showed up extra early.
My 2:30pm meal #3 never happened until 6pm and it was only happened because I left the club. I was three and a half hours late for a meal and perhaps to the average person this really isn't a big deal but to me it is. I become a different person why deprived the very much-needed fuel I need to keep me working at full force, training our members and provding them with a source of energy and motivation. I can't run on empty. I need my food. Food is fuel.... must... be... full of fuel!!!
I was planning to take this weekend to start preparing my food a week in advance but this happened today. Snickers, who is now both my business partner and coach, wasn't impressed with my weigh-in. I'm not looking to lose weight but instead my focus is on increasing my muscle mass and getting my body fat percentage down to my goal of 14%. Today's weigh-in revealed that I had dropped half a kilo in muscle and increased full kilo in body fat. It may not seem much but I'm not exactly a big gal and this all occured in just the past seven days. Our members do monthly weigh-in but mine is weekly and sponsors and my coach monitor it closely. I used to hate this added pressure, especially considering I am a woman and us gals always seem to be sensitive about our weight as it is. I'm over it though now and actually prefer the close monitoring. It gives me an added sense of responsibility. However, the numbers not working in my favour means more than just me being disappointed and not impressed.
I was disappointed when I saw my results pop up on the scale but it just went to further remind me that the key to my success is going to be in what I put in my body. I've got the training down -- last week alone I clocked in exactly 63.26kms with my running because I buddied up two long runs in the one week. It was week two of my training camp and even with the increase in training, today's results were a harsh reminder that you can't out train a bad diet.
"Do what you have to do so you don't repeat this next week" Snickers told me and on that note he told me to go home. I spent some time searching out various cooking ideas and recipes on Pinterest and in my cooking books but ended up going with some meals I knew were a guarantee that I'd like.
Full-Meal Chicken Balls
Eggtastic Egg Muffins (minus any muffin except the muffin tin it's cooked in)
Chicken Sandwich Insiders
Rotisserie Chicken (with broccoli and brown rice)
And I prepared the following extras/snacks:
Celery sticks
Broccoli
Tommy-Toe tomatoes
Brown rice
In total, I had cooked up about 8 days worth of meals #3-6. I am a huge advocate of my protein-packed pancake for meal #1 and it's only meals #3-6 that I actually eat at Hulk's. My main starchy carb that I leaned on for the meals I prepared was brown rice and sweet potatoes. Last week I ate way too much multigrain bread but I was lured in by its simplicity and the fact that the coal thingy-a-ma-jiggy poses as the absolute best toaster. I've limited myself to only three opportunities to eat bread this week, when I eat my chicken sandwich insiders after all they are the insides to a sandwich and so bread is required.
I didn't care to get too creative with my meals or meal planning but I did want to make sure I got my veggies in. Getting in my protein is not a problem for me. I eat enough eggs to keep my local chicken farm in business and I surely inhale enough chicken to feed a small country -- gosh I did cook 14 chicken breasts tonight. My problem, however, has always been my veggies. I've never really liked veggies and I'm not about to start eating salads. I find veggies to be rather bland and a bit boring but I know that's only because I really don't know how to cook them. I like to make my so-called "one dish wonders" with them and more or less hide my veggies or blend them in with my other foods. Take for example my Chicken Sandwich Insiders, it's basically just chicken and sweet potato mixed together but I added in a whack of spinach and onions. I will say I am a huge fan of spinach but with the seasoning spices I used, you can't even taste the fact that half my chicken ball are veggies. Anyways, starting tomorrow, when I start to eat my precooked meals, four of my six meals will be veggie-packed ones. I'm not going to repeat today's weigh-in disappointment again next week, as Snickers would say, "Hell no!"
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