Day 29 - Phase 2

Arrrrrrgh!!!

Pictures from day 29 (before I knew what was coming!)

Food was average today.  Oatbran for breakfast as normal

Then for lunch I had a FK pizza:

 

 

Black grapes as an afternoon snack:

 

For dinner I had 2 cider and apple sausages with roast parsnips, steamed broccoli and cabbage. yum-my.

Day 28 - PHASE ONE COMPLETE!!!

Woooooo phase one is DONE! 

Here are the pictures compared with day 1:

I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed as these aren't as good as the 30 day Ripped in 30 results that I had but they are different so that's good and I'll just keep going and we'll see how its looking at the end of phase 2 :)

Day 27

Almost at the end of phase 1, and Monday brought the last day of workout 4.  I'm a bit sad to see workout 4 go, mostly because I liked it but because I'm afraid of what is going to come in the next few days!

Anyway here are the pictures for day 27:

 With flash:

Food today was oatbran, pb, coconut and blueberry breakfast, for lunch I had leftover chicken tikka and aloo gobi and in the evening I got cracking on this:

That was Thai prawn curry for dinner for Mr D and I, and again in Tupperware for lunches the next day and a quinoa quiche for Mr D to get through whilst I'm away for work.  I heart leftovers.

Day 25 and 26

Day 25 was Saturday and the day I decided to take my rest day as we were off to the Theatre and staying with Mr D's parents so I didn't think I'd get the chance.

Was rubbish at food and remembering to take pictures of my meals this weekend but here's what I had for breakfast on Saturday morning:

 Glass of juice, boiled egg, one rasher of bacon and a piece and a half of toast - apparently Mr D ate the other half whilst he was waiting for the egg to boil.  Who am I to complain - I got breakfast in bed!

We went to a matinee and due to a slight error of timekeeping on my part we thought we would be there with half an hour to grab something before hand but apparently we got there bang on time so had to go straight in and take our seats.  By the time the performance was over it was 5, dinner was booked for 8 and we had to rush back home for the rugby ( Mr D is a Welshie... well he thinks he is but I'm not getting in to that now!) so as we ran through Waterloo to get the next train we hopped into M&S where I'm afraid my lunch was a bag of salt and vinegar crisps and a chocolate bar - FAIL. 

As I was still feeling pretty rough I had a lie down whilst the Wales game was on (thankfully they won so I had a happy husband)  and we whizzed off to dinner.  Tried hard to make sensible choices, had half a slice of bread with my minestrone soup starter, went a bit wrong with beef stroganoff for main and then epic fail when the desserts came out and I plumped for tiramisu.  All washed down with a couple of glasses of wine.  Not the best rest day anyone has ever had is it?

Sunday... I had oat bran as normal (yes I took all the ingredients to the in laws because apparently I'm mental)  on the way home we stopped in waitrose and I got us some sourdough to have a light sandwich at lunch:

That lunch looks pathetic.  Although I enjoyed the sourdough I'm really not a sandwich kind of a person, that doesn't look like a meal at all does it?

So then we watched the rugby and we were both happy because England won :D

Then it was time for workout 3 again so here are the pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner after that was meant to be filo chicken pie but I'd forgotten some ingredients so we popped out and got an indian - I know that's bad but I had a dry chicken tikka starter, chicken tikka massala and aloo gobi and mixed all that together.

Day 24

Today was a bit of a fail, thankfully nto on the Jillian front - I wouldn't want to go without my Friday cardio fix now would I?

Pictures for the day:

 

 

 



I know these pictures aren't going to give me the same results after 30 days as Ripped in 30 and I'm ok with that because the first couple of weeks weren't anything like as hard but I really am giving everything I've got when I'm doing the dvd.  Day 24 meant cardio and here's how hot and sweaty I was looking after the dvd was over:

Ewwwww.

So the bad things today.  I woke up feeling ill and rubbish and managed to forget to take lunch to work so had breakfast as usual.  Then for lunch Mr D popped out to pret and got me a pot pf Malaysian chicken soup:

And also an egg baguette:

 

 

Wasn't so keen on the baguette so had half of that and about 3/4 of the soup then as Mr D had bought me a coffee and a little salted chocolate bar I thought it would be rude to to eat it:

 

 

 



 

After work and dvd we headed to Mr D's parents where I had 2 fishcakes and chips for dinner.  not clean and lean but very delicious! 

Day 23

Day 23 and workout 4, on the whole I'd say I like this dvd best out of phase one.  The only things I'm not so keen on are the planks with leg raises and the squat rows, those burn my legs like nothing else.

Pictures for day 23:

 

Mr D was in the room and made me laugh when I took that first picture so excuse the weird face I'm pulling.

 

Food was good, breakfast was the usual:

 

 

For lunch I had leftover steak fajitas (which don't look so hot once they've been reheated!)

 

Afternoon snack was a couple of pecan nuts:

Dinner was another favourite... Fitness Kitchen Fast Fit Pizza. I don't think I'll ever get board of it. Before rocket:

 

That was a quarter punnet of meli melo tomatoes, 2 slices of prosciutto and half a ball of mozzarella, and then topped with a handful of rocket and Parmesan:

 

 

All in all a yummy day.



Oat Bran 101

I'm not totally sure what it is you're meant to do with oat bran, I first bought it because I wanted a porridge style breakfast but with more of the oat fibre than just the rolled oats gives.  I used to just add it in to porridge but then thought why not just make the porridge out of the bran instead.... and then one of my favourite breakfasts was born!

Again I don't know if that's what you're meant to do with bran and if it is you're probably supposed to make it on the hob but when you work in a tiny office in town that's not going to happen so here's how I make it, and I might be biased but I think it's pretty tasty:

Take 1/4 cup of oat bran (about 35g) and put it in a microwavable (is that a word?) bowl:

Then add about 100ml of milk ( I always add less as if it gets to thick you can add a bit more later) and stir it all together:

Then pop it in the microwave on high for 1 minute (mines an 800w so different power might need more/less time) after that take it out and give it a stir and see if its the consistency you want, if it's too thick put a dash more milk in and stir, if it's too runny then put it back in the microwave for a bit longer until it looks a bit like Ready Brek:

And now the fun bit :) You can put in pretty much whatever you want, protein powder, dried fruit, and for a treat a tsp of chocolate chips is nice.  I normally add in a spoonful of organic dessicated coconut, a heaped teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter and 40g of blueberries:

 

Give that all a good stir up and......

Enjoy!

Thanks to MyFitnessPal working it out for me I can tell you that the breakfast comes in at:
 Calories: 382
Carbs: 28g
Fat: 23g
Protein: 14
Sat Fat: 12 (9g of that is coconut so don't worry)
Fibre: 9g