la vie saine

Furnace

A little less sore on my third day of Insanity. I feel a difference already for sure, that shit turns your body into a furnace.

That being said, I’m exhausted.

I’ve decided this summer is for self-improvement. Mind and body. All that shit.

Insanity

I’ve just started Insanity. The intense, energy draining, but-at-least-you-look-good-in-a-swimsuit-that-is-if-you-can-even-muster-the-strength-to-drag-yourself-to-the-beach, 60 day workout.

Yesterday was the Fit Test and today is whatever the next workout is. I’m still in bed, I haven’t gotten up yet to check.

I did the Fit Test around noon, was lazy and recovering for the better part of the day, then felt like I had more energy so I went for a fifteen minute run around the block.  That’s all I can really do right now unfortunately, I have some awful shin splints in my right leg and I’m literally limping while I jog. I must look hysterical.

Anyway then I was sore but had to be social and meet my friends at an ice cream place, but instead of eating deliciously creamy, trans fat-ladened soft-serve I brought a protein bar.

Oh, that’s another thing, I’m going to try and do the nutrition. My goal is to do it until I weigh 130 lbs (I’m 140 right now) and then go back to normal eating.

Because I love to eat. I love food. I’m a foodie. And these 5 meals at 300 calories each are all well and good but call me crazy I like to have a little flexibility in my cooking beyond which 4 oz. protein to use tonight.

So, let’s see how today goes.

hummus

• 2 cups chickpeas (canned or cooked)
• 2-3 garlic cloves
• 1/3 cup tahini
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 2 tbsp reserved chickpea cooking liquid (or water)
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• few good shakes of tabasco or Frank’s hot sauce, to taste
• 1 tsp kosher salt, or to taste
• Fresh ground black pepper, to taste

simple workout

60 jumping jacks

40 crunches

10 sit-ups

10 tricep dips

20 side lunges (each side)

15 incline push-ups

10 oblique cruches (each side)

30 butt kickers

5 jump squats

15 jack knife sit-ups

muesli

mix together:

rolled oats

nuts - almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, peanuts, cashews

seeds - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds

dried fruit - raisins, currants, golden raisins, craisins

to serve:

with plain yogurt

with soy or almond milk and fresh fruit

add hot water & cinnamon for oatmeal