Week number 1 is done! And overall I think I did pretty good. While didn’t do so good with packing food to bring to the office, I did try to make some smart choices… like getting a carne asada salad rather than a pastrami sandwich. I did do much better with breakfast and dinner having finally cleaned up my kitchen and did some cooking at home. Here are a few snapshots:
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- Italian chicken sausage w/ yams
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- Bacon egg cups w/ blueberries
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- Grass-feed beef sauce w/ broccoli
Another area I didn’t do so well with is the drinking, as I did continue to have some wine with dinner throughout the week. But in spite of this, I did still manage to make process according to the scale (which I know is not always a good measure, but it is nice to see progress there).
With regards to starting on a Friday, I think it works out well. As my weekends tends to be a little off when I’m being social, so rather than finish up the week that that way I get to start off the week that way. Speaking of the next week… its time to bump things up. I’m going to make an attempt to limit the amount of nuts and fruits, as well as not eat out so much.
Oh, here is the complete menu for the rest of week #1…
Monday (6/4)
| Breakfast | 2 bacon egg cups Blueberries |
| Lunch | Office Cafe: Small carnitas salad w/ pico, guac |
| Snack | Handful of pistachios |
| Dinner | Grass-fed beef sauce w/ spinach, onion over broccoli Grilled pineapple |
| Snack | 1 peach |
Tuesday (6/5)
| Breakfast | 2 bacon egg cups 1 pulot |
| Lunch | Office Cafe:Grilled lamb & veggies w/ cucumber salad |
| Snack | Hand full of almonds & pistachios |
| Snack | 1/2 caf iced americano w/ splash of heavy cream |
| Snack | Organic roast turkey breast Almonds Bell peppers |
| Dinner | Grass-fed beef sauce w/ spinach, onion over kelp noodles Glass of red wine |
| Snack | Smoothie w/ banana, strawberry, dark chocolate (unsweetened), coconut milk, Truvia |
Wednesday (6/6)
| Breakfast | 2 bacon egg cups Peach |
| Snack | cheesy kale chips |
| Lunch | Office Cafe: Taco salad w/ guac |
| Other | 1/2 caf iced americano w/ splash of heavy cream |
| Snack | cheesy kale chips |
| Dinner | Organic chicken Italian sausage Baked yams 1 glass red wine |
Thursday (6/7)
| Breakfast | 2 bacon egg cups Peach |
| Breakfast | Office Cafe: Carne Asada Salad w/ pico, salsa verde |
| Snack | “cheesy” kale chips decaf iced Americano (black) |
| Snack | Organic roast turkey breast Almonds Bell peppers |
| Dinner | In n’ Out: Double Double protein style w/ tomato, lettuce, grilled onion |
| Snack | Decaf Americano w/ splash of heavy cream “cheesy” kale chips |
As for getting active… I haven’t made it back to my gym yet, however, I did frequent Planet Granite this week. I had a 1-week membership via Groupon which I used along with some of my co-workers. So I did spend a few hours this week doing both top rope and bouldering. I think I want to keep doing, or at least give a try, as I’ve always enjoyed climbing on things ;-)
I also checked out one of the Crossfit classes at Planet Granite, which as any CF workout does to me after I’ve been off for a while, killed my legs. But it was good workout… snatch work and then wallballs+sprints. The class overall was just ok. I kinda felt like the instructor just didn’t want to deal with me. It was suppose to be power clean work, but he had me switch to power snatch instead since my shoulder flexibility limits my clean movement a bit. But at least I tried it, it would be very convenient to have access to rock climbing, regular gym, and Crossfit all with one membership.
… but I think I’ll be heading back to Santa Clara this coming week.