Okay… so yesterday wasn’t so great…

So, I may have fallen on the wagon a bit.

Yesterday I was running late for work, so I gulped down some toast for breakfast before running out the door and didn’t make a green smoothie. God, did I regret it later. I leave home at 7:30am… by 9am I was dead on my feet. So I turned to sugar to get me through the day… ugh. Baaaad idea. I also skipped lunch because I couldn’t leave the office unattended while I warmed up my dahl and no one came back in until I was about to leave for the day. I was dead and feeling depressed all day. I had a huge headache and had a nap as soon as I got home. I could barely speak english by then end of the day.

Because I was so tired yesterday, I didn’t walk home from work. I didn’t do Yoga. I ate and slept. I’m really unimpressed with myself. Perhaps this will teach me the usefulness of being organized and planning/preparing my meals ahead of time.

I also miscalculated my budget, so I’m feeling myself off the old stuff in my pantry for the next two days – pasta, pesto, potatoes, onions. I have some mushrooms and two small heads of broccoli in the fridge.

I’m starting to write up a shopping list of the things I’ll need next week today, so I am well prepared not to set myself up for a failure like that again.

Tonight I am going straight home (walking, unless it pours down rain), doing my dishes that are piling up slowly in the kitchen before my sister gets too annoyed with me, having a hot, steamy shower and then jumping into my boyfriends Metallica shirt and some yoga pants to do a good session of Yoga and meditation to recenter myself and get back on track. Then i’ll de-clutter my room and spend the rest of my evening relaxing.

Week Two: Setting Goals

A start to a new week! Which means a new week of goals to achieve. I thought about what I wanted to achieve this week and I even thought up a few small food-related goals this week! I have come up with the following:

- Walk home from work (Mon-Fri). This is a good 50-60 min walk from start to finish. For now, this will be my Cardio.

- Yoga, three sessions this week. Tue, Thurs, Sun.

- Have a green smoothie every day, being mindful of the way it effects my body/mood for the next week.

- Switch to wholemeal pasta, only eaten in small portions no more than twice a week. Must be accompanied by a selection of veggies or a salad.

- No more living off pasta and bread.

- Drink 2 litres of water daily.

- Draw up meal plan for next week.

- Write out a shopping list for grocery shopping on Friday.

My “meal plan” this week is more of a “rough idea”, but it should prove helpful. I feel too caged in by a strict plan, and I buy my fresh produce every second day, so my plans will be loose and I keep a lot of healthy recipes and ideas handy to prompt my shopping lists. The general idea is:

- Smoothie and fruit for breakfast.

- Soup for lunch.

- Fruit, nuts or veggies to snack on.

- Dinner is whatever I fancy, but has to include vegetables.

Other aims I’m keeping in mind:

- Aim to eat more dark green vegetables.

- Aim to eat a wholefood, 70-80% raw vegan diet.

- Baked goods, bread, pasta and carbohydrate heavy-meals to be eaten in moderation.

- Soda and alcohol are unnecessary. Drink rarely, if at all.
I’m going out to my boyfriend’s sister’s boyfriend’s (haha, say that three time’s fast…) birthday drinks next Saturday, and I’m not sure what I’ll be doing about the drinking side of it. I’ll probably have a glass of wine or two, since I sip that slowly. I have no plans on getting drunk. Plus decent wine is usually not cooked, so it fits with my raw aim!

Stats Check: 7/Sept 2009

Date: 7/Sept 2009

Stats
Height: 5’6″

Start Weight: 78kg (on my somewhat dodgy analog scales…)

Start Clothing Size: AU 14

First Goal Weight: 72kg

Dream Goal: 60-64kg

Goal Clothing Size: AU 10

Previous Week’s Weigh-In: N/A

Loss/Gain: N/A

Measurements:
Arm – 12.5inch

Bust- 43inch

Waist – 34.5inch

Hips – 42.5inch

Thigh – 26inch

Calf-15.5inch

Last Weeks Goals:

- Do Yoga Wednesday, Thursday, Friday afternoon for 40 minutes (Inch-Loss DVD)

- Drink 2 litres of water daily.

- Draw up meal plan for next week.

- Write out a shopping list for grocery shopping on Friday.

Feelings about this past week:

I didn’t do any full yoga sessions, I just did some sun salutations here and there, and some leg/hip warm up stretches. But I did go shopping and only bought wholefoods and I did plan out a rough meal plan. Oh and I drank my goal in water daily! Overall I’m proud of what I did achieve, even if I could have done better…

Today is the start of my proper week! I’m feeling motivated today, but wish me luck! My goals for the week will be published shortly!

Week One: Setting Goals

Today is Wednesday, so this will be a sort week. In future my weeks will start on a Monday, but I’ll be weighing in and taking measurement’s Sunday mornings. This week I am not going to make any goals diet-wise, because I’ve had a very tight week and will only because to plan my next week of food better after I get paid on Friday. This week it’s likely I’ll be living off too many carbs and not enough veggies, but I’m not too concerned – next week I’ll plan out my meals and be organized.

Goals I’d like to achieve this week are:

- Do Yoga Wednesday, Thursday, Friday afternoon for 40 minutes (Inch-Loss DVD)

- Drink 2 litres of water daily.

- Draw up meal plan for next week.

- Write out a shopping list for grocery shopping on Friday.

The Plan

So… welcome to my vegan health blog!

Most people dislike introductions, and I’m no exception. If you’d like to read about how I became overweight, lazy and then eventually vegan – feel free to check the “About” section for an overview.

So, sliding right of the whole introductory post, let’s get right into it! I have been “off the wagon” for a long while, so the plan is to start making small changes to my diet and activity level to ease into a healthier, more organized, more active lifestyle.

My Ultimate Goal is to be fit, toned, within a healthy weight range and eating a high-raw vegan (eventually organic) diet. But since we’re starting slow, I’m starting with small goals. Once I’ve gotten to a point where the new changes are consistent, I’ll take it to the next level and add in more new changes to intergrate.

Exercise Aims
- For the first 3 – 4 weeks, daily 40 min Yoga sessions to break myself into moving my body again.

- At week 3/4 change schedule to:
- 30-40 min yoga session in the morning
- 30 Day Shred circuit training for 30 mins in the afternoon
- 15 min yoga stretches before bed

- Add in belly-dance drills, free-weights, walking & pilates to mix it occasionally

General Food Aims
- Eat a wholefood, unprocessed diet
- Cut out added & refines sugars
- Limit fat and salt intake
- Drink 2 liters of water, daily.  No other beverages besides herbal tea. Alcohol on the rare special occasion
- Add more raw foods to my diet
- Cut down of my carbs and replace them with more vegetables and legumes
- Cut out wheat/gluten, it just doesn’t agree with my system
- Take Multi-Vit and flaxseed DAILY (I’m so bad at this one…)

General Goals
- Fit nicely into outfit I’m wearing for my bday (by 13th August)
- Fit comfortably back into a AU size 14 pair of jeans
- Fit into a AU size 12 pair of jeans
- Fit into AU size 10 pair of skinny jeans
- Feel confident in a bathing suit (possibly even a bikini…?)
- Do the splits
- Do 10 modified push-ups
- Do 50 modified push-ups
- Do 100 modified push-ups
- Do a proper push-up in good form
- Do 10 proper push-ups in good form
- Do 50 proper push-ups in good form
- Do 100 proper push-ups in good form

- Complete 10 Days of Jillian Micheal’s 30 Day Shred on Level 1
- Complete 10 Days of Jillian Micheal’s 30 Day Shred on Level 2
- Complete 10 Days of Jillian Micheal’s 30 Day Shred on Level 3

- Exercise consistently (min 5 times a week, for 30 mins) for a week
- Exercise consistently (min 5 times a week, for 30 mins) for a month
- Exercise consistently (min 5 times a week, for 30 mins) for 3 months