Beans and Rice Report and Log

Sunday workout: none. I was supposed to start my new Cathe rotation, but by the time I got home from work and made my dinners for the week, I was exhausted. Drop down drag out tired. So I did nothing.

Sunday eating: fair. I had relatively few calories, even for not working out, but a lot of sugar (134.2 grams).

Monday workout: none. It was an effort to even move. Tired, achy, bloated, whiny...uh oh. It's that time of the month again. I'm bummed that my new Cathe rotation has gone all to hell.

Monday food: fair. Actually, about the same as Sunday. Low calories, high sugar (137.2 grams).

But today is a new day. I have already walked, and I will do some weight work tonight, even if it isn't from my new Cathe videos. Yesterday I received my new Coffey videos in the mail, so I might pop one of those in.

I've noticed that since I've started restricting sugar that I haven't had any major break-outs. I usually only get them once a month, but they are really bad when I do get them.

A note on the Beans and Rice Recipe. I made it on Sunday, and it's nice. It's a little bland (but, hey, it's beans and rice), but it tastes brighter than my other recipe. It looks really festive, too. I love the red bell pepper. So this one is a winner and goes into my recipe book.

I've Got New Videos

First off, the log

Friday workout: 35 minutes of step (LowMax, no blasts)

Friday food: very good. Under 100 g of sugar for the first time. Calories were also good. Having a medium breakfast, a large lunch and a smallish dinner seems to work pretty good for me.

Saturday workout: nothing

Saturday food: good until the fiance and I went out for dinner. My actual order of grilled chicken and shrimp was fairly healthy, but I chowed on the tortilla chips. Calories were on my high end, especially considering that I didn't work out.

Ok, now for the good stuff. I got my videos on Friday, and I've been previewing and working on making up weight sheets, and I start my new Cathe rotation today. It is going to look something like this:

Sunday: Disc A, Workout 1 High Intensity Step plus Ch/Ba weights
Monday: Disc A, Workout 2 Low Intensity Step plus Shoulders/Calves/Core weights
Tues: Disc B, Workout 4 Bootcamp Cardio plus Bis and Tris weights
Wed: Disc B, Workout 3 Cardio Kickbox plus Legs and Core weights
Thurs: Recovery day- walk, Budokon Beginning workout, yoga video etc.
Fri: Workout 1 HIS
Sat: Workout 2 LIS
Sun: Workout 4 BCC
Mon: Workout 3 CKB

and so forth. Thursday will almost always be a recovery day for me. I might vary up the cardio, especially with two step days in a row, but I will keep to the weight schedule.

I will probably have to modify the cardio quite a bit at first, and I KNOW I won't be at the weight levels that Cathe is. I'm not worried about it, though. It just means that I have room to improve.

Checking In

Wednesday workout:
Walk- 45 min (lunch...and it rained)
Weights- 68 min: The same weights as usual, Cathe's Cardio and Weights Compound and Heavy Wts premix

Bento's 10 min Solution legs and stretch

Wednesday's eating: pretty good. Only 105 g sugar, the lowest total yet. Calories were good also.

Thursday workout: nothing. zilch, zip, nada. Hey, it's my designated recovery day. And it's been raining all day. Actually, I wanted to do the Budokon Beginning workout again. It's perfect for a recovery day- under 30 minutes, yoga and light cardio, but I just didn't get to it.

Thursday's eating: Oh, I've been bad. Ok, not that bad overall, but even though the calories were within my range, I would have liked to see them lower, considering that I didn't work out at all today. But my sugars! They are at 151.8 g, which is pretty high. I actually started out pretty good. I don't have too much that is a straight sugar snack in my house anymore, but at my second job, between the twizzlers and the caramel corn...look out!

My new Cathes are almost here! I will have to go home during lunch tomorrow to do some previewing. I've worked up a new rotation--a four-day split, imagine that. It should start this Sunday.