Eat-Clean: Stripped (Round 2)

You may have guessed that after my fall from grace (or the Eat-Clean wagon) I did not exactly recover quickly.  St. Patrick's day turned into a busy week at the office with guests to entertain and food to indulge in and before I knew it, Easter had arrived.   I tried to start Stripped week 1 again last week but I was eating out for lunch and dinner Monday through Wednesday so that didn't work too well.

So here I am again - starting over!    This is my new motto:

Back on track - on plan - focused and ready to succeed.  

Starting weight:  135.8lbs (4/1/13)

Today's weight: 132.6 (4/4/13)

Goal weight: 124 lbs

Goal date for goal weight: May 15th

I have given myself a little more than the 28 days on Stripped to get to the goal weight since the book is all about losing the last 10lbs.  I'm hopeful that on Day 28 I will be at 124 though given the current downward trend.  

I started Week 1 on Monday and then the lure of the Easter candy took over.  So I re-started (for real this time!) on Tuesday.  I was probably up a pound or two after my little candy binge but I didn't want to know!  

My friend convinced me that I absolutely cannot for any reason have any candy, sugar or sweets!  This is hard for me because I always reward myself with one or two little chocolates when dieting.  Not anymore.  One or two leads to 10 or 20 and that quickly turns into a fat, fat mess!  So NO SUGAR ALLOWED!  

My days have been pretty similar so I will just post pictures from today's menu with some of the variations I have had this week.  

Breakfast - 7am - 1c oatmeal and 4 egg whites scrambled (some days I substitute for quinoa cinnamon bars)

8am - Green tea when I get to the office - no sugar!

AM Snack - 10am  - usually almonds and either berries or a banana

Lunch - 1pm (after the gym) - Spinach salad with grilled chicken (3oz) and cherry tomatoes with lemon juice.  This time I added egg whites and avocado but usually it's just spinach, chicken, tomatoes and lemon juice.

PM Snack - 3:30/4pm celery and egg whites, celery and hummus or celery and natural peanut butter

Dinner - 6 or 6:30pm - broiled fish with steamed broccoli or asparagus.  Tonight it was one of the recipes from the book - so good!

Evening Snack - only if hungry - fruit!  1/2c of pears, pineapple or strawberries

NO SUGAR!   NO CHOCOLATE!   NO CANDY!   NO SNACKS!

I have also started the Couch-to-5K plan (again) and I am currently on week 4.  So this week I ran on Monday, Wednesday and I will run again tomorrow.  On off days I still go to the gym at lunch and either do the Precore (aka death by sweat) machine or walk the hills on the treadmill.  My goal is to burn 350-400 calories at lunch and I will start to incorporate some weight lifting in next week as well!

Tonight I am going to make my THINspiration board - similar to this one but luckily I don't have as many numbers to cross off!