okay so I'm garbage at blogging. also, in my defense I haven't had internet until about a week ago, and I haven't had internet on my actual computer until today. yaaay internet.
So 4hrbody is going good, I started doing the ab workouts a couple weeks ago, and it's pretty impressive that under 9 minutes of exercise makes me feel like I did 1000 crunches. so that's awesome. I'm not getting a BOSU ball because I hate having a bunch of workout stuff around the house, and there's no way I'm ever stepping foot in a gym again, as I still think that gyms are the biggest crooks in the entire world.
but yeah.. I've been doing the kettleball swings with a 4 litre water jug like someone suggested on tim's blog, and I've been doing the abs on a comforter stuffed firmly into a pillowcase. works great :).
I ordered an adjustable kettleball from amazon.ca, so that should be here soon and I'll be excited to see it.
things are moseying along in my life. I haven't lost any weight on the diet, but my pants are less uncomfortable, and my body was looking kickin' in the mirror last night.
weird side effects I've noticed, not sure if they're usual:
1. I am JUST ROASTING. seriously, something is making me hot. I read it could be my body in ketosis, burning the fat and protein for fuel rather than carbs. whatever it is, it's crazy. I'm a cold person, and I can't keep a jacket on.
2. my cellulite is.. gone. and my stretch marks on the side of my butt are also almost gone. weird. maybe all the fat in my body is brown fat now or something? who the hell knows, but I'm pleased.
nothing much else to report. I'm gonna try to start pinning some recipes, you can check here if you want:
http://pinterest.com/di0de/4-hour-body/
or here
http://chelzrecipes.blogspot.ca/
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
4hr body recipe - Pan seared scallops with curry green pea puree and crisp procuitto.
Pan seared scallops with curry green pea puree and crisp procuitto.
For one:
Put two slices of procuitto in a 375° oven. Heat up a pot and a pan with about a tablespoon of ghee in each. Medium heat for the pot, medium high for the pan.
Cook some garlic in the pot, when it smells delicious, throw in one cup of frozen peas and half a cup of water. Little bit of salt, pepper, garam Marsala, thai chili sauce. Boil for like... 5 minutes.
Season scallops with salt and pepper, put in pan with hot ghee or butter, sear for 5 to 7 minutes on each side until cooked through.
Puree the peas and pea-broth with an immersion blender or regular blender. Plate the pea puree, crumble the crispy procuitto on top, plate scallops, garnish if you're so inclined.
Yum.
ugh, okay, attempt #2 at actually keeping a blog (which is apparently hard for me now.)
So I've been slacking on the blog (and a little bit the diet) because I painted an entire apartment and then moved there, which always makes everything in my entire life hard. it's good though, because now I won't be living with my brother and jessica, which is sad, but means I get to live alone (yay) and can cook and do things just for myself again. which will make everything easier.
So, I'm back strictly on the diet this week after having a ridiculous week of badly cheating (I'm looking at you pizza.) and generally being upset with myself.
so for breakfast (which I'm still struggling with, as I hate breakfast on weekdays) I'm trying something new in sort of a... low carb version of huevos rancheros.
I partially poach 2 eggs (I may start adding an extra glug of eggwhite here, as I'm having trouble reaching 20/30g of protein in breakfast still. because it's gross.) in the bottom of a small mason jar at nighttime. leave a little soggy.
then in the morning, throw in a generous tsp of refried beans, a generous portion of black beans, and microwave for a minute or 2 until everything is hot. cut up an avacado while it's heating, and throw half of that and a couple tablespoons of salsa and a tsp of paprika (I use hungarian smoked paprika, yum!) into the mix and shake/stir it all up. I like making food in mason jars because then this can be thrown in my bag while I finish getting ready and then I can eat it while I walk.
for coffee, which I'm also struggling with, I think I've settled with an okay compromise as long as I can still latte the shit out of my life on saturdays. for day to day, I don't mind a sweet-flavour coffee (I'm currently using van houtte chocolate rasperry truffle coffee in my keurig) because I think it tricks my mind into thinking it will be sweet, and then I glob in a generous tablespoon of coconut milk and a giant teaspoon of cinnamon. it tastes okay. it's drinkable. I don't enjoy it, but I haven't really been enjoying my double-double style coffee for that long either, so hopefully I'll adjust, I'm not opposed to other bitter foods.
for lunch I'm usually out so this is still varying. meat and vegetables. no bread and cheese, which limits lunch, but this is pretty reasonable to stick to. I'm thinking I might get a dehydrator and start making sugar free jerky at home. it's perfectly easy to do, I've done it in the oven before and it turned out alright, but in the dehydrator it'd be better. I do like snacking, and I think that jerky and seaweed/kale chips might be acceptable to me.
dinner is fine, I have lots of stuff to do for that, I'll remember to start writing down recipes as I go along to share, but really. other than all the cheating this week (which I know is avoidable, but would have made my week a LOT harder, so I decided to vice out instead) things will be fine.
in other goals things are going well but stalled. I have a dishwasher now, that should help with the keeping the house clean front, and once I get everything unpacked my place should be pretty nice.I also wore heels three times this week, and have blisters to show for it, but feel like I'm walking better.
so yeah. maybe I'll report back with a dinner recipe.
So I've been slacking on the blog (and a little bit the diet) because I painted an entire apartment and then moved there, which always makes everything in my entire life hard. it's good though, because now I won't be living with my brother and jessica, which is sad, but means I get to live alone (yay) and can cook and do things just for myself again. which will make everything easier.
So, I'm back strictly on the diet this week after having a ridiculous week of badly cheating (I'm looking at you pizza.) and generally being upset with myself.
so for breakfast (which I'm still struggling with, as I hate breakfast on weekdays) I'm trying something new in sort of a... low carb version of huevos rancheros.
I partially poach 2 eggs (I may start adding an extra glug of eggwhite here, as I'm having trouble reaching 20/30g of protein in breakfast still. because it's gross.) in the bottom of a small mason jar at nighttime. leave a little soggy.
then in the morning, throw in a generous tsp of refried beans, a generous portion of black beans, and microwave for a minute or 2 until everything is hot. cut up an avacado while it's heating, and throw half of that and a couple tablespoons of salsa and a tsp of paprika (I use hungarian smoked paprika, yum!) into the mix and shake/stir it all up. I like making food in mason jars because then this can be thrown in my bag while I finish getting ready and then I can eat it while I walk.
for coffee, which I'm also struggling with, I think I've settled with an okay compromise as long as I can still latte the shit out of my life on saturdays. for day to day, I don't mind a sweet-flavour coffee (I'm currently using van houtte chocolate rasperry truffle coffee in my keurig) because I think it tricks my mind into thinking it will be sweet, and then I glob in a generous tablespoon of coconut milk and a giant teaspoon of cinnamon. it tastes okay. it's drinkable. I don't enjoy it, but I haven't really been enjoying my double-double style coffee for that long either, so hopefully I'll adjust, I'm not opposed to other bitter foods.
for lunch I'm usually out so this is still varying. meat and vegetables. no bread and cheese, which limits lunch, but this is pretty reasonable to stick to. I'm thinking I might get a dehydrator and start making sugar free jerky at home. it's perfectly easy to do, I've done it in the oven before and it turned out alright, but in the dehydrator it'd be better. I do like snacking, and I think that jerky and seaweed/kale chips might be acceptable to me.
dinner is fine, I have lots of stuff to do for that, I'll remember to start writing down recipes as I go along to share, but really. other than all the cheating this week (which I know is avoidable, but would have made my week a LOT harder, so I decided to vice out instead) things will be fine.
in other goals things are going well but stalled. I have a dishwasher now, that should help with the keeping the house clean front, and once I get everything unpacked my place should be pretty nice.I also wore heels three times this week, and have blisters to show for it, but feel like I'm walking better.
so yeah. maybe I'll report back with a dinner recipe.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Well day 3, all was good. Still figuring out what I can and can't eat mostly.
I actually made breakfast yesterday, eggs and turkey bacon and spinach in the eggs.
Lunch I had a salad with roast beef.
Dinner I had a faux-caprese salad with chopped up basil and Roma tomatoes and added some avacado and firm tofu in oil and a very nice organic balsamic.
I need to look up if balsamic is okay.
I stayed at work til 10 last night so didn't weigh myself or really do much else. Will report longer after my day today.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Slow-carb Day 2!
So far so good, and I've almost finished the book for the second time with much better notes on how all of this will work. Especially the cheat day. Someone should really teach this guy how to write a simple set of instructions, instead of burying everything in anecdotes and experiment results. However, I actually do find his writing easy to read and enjoy the book, I just enjoy some good old fashioned clarity. Now I've just got to find time to pick up supplements and a kettlebell or two this week and I should be well on my way.
concerning my tea yesterday, I think it may be the steeped chicory root that makes the tea sweet? or a combination of the chicory and the cinnamon. regardless, either will be fine for the diet I believe. It's saccharides, which I think are slightly different than sugar, but I'll do more research when I'm sure about the chicory. I have another tea that gets a very similar heavy-sweet taste when oversteeped, so I'll see if it contains chicory to compare. I can't see it being a problem though, which opens a pretty interesting window to ways to sweeten my coffee. (something I'm ALREADY struggling with.) so tomorrow I think I'm going to try coffee with a teabag steeped in it and a spoonful of coconut milk too. I think both those things should be okay and pretty delicious, and hopefully will result in some kind of spicy but tasty coffee that I can survive drinking, since I hate it black, and cinnamon doesn't work for me. I mean, I love cinnamon, but it just doesn't sweeten coffee. if it works maybe I'll see if I can find straight up dried chicory to use as a weird sweetener.
so here's my food day:
bfast: 1/2 avacado, hard boiled egg, an organic pepperoni stick. sue me, I bought turkey bacon today.
lunch: sugar-free redbull, bo la lot, chicken, beef and shrimp skewers. Glass of ice water. there was probably a bit of sugar in the vietnamese barbecue sauce, but it was easily the most SC option on the menu. I need to check red bull and see if it's aspartame (it tastes like aspartame..) and not sucralose.
Mistake! So I forgot it was may today and forgot to buy a transit ticket on my way home and got slapped with a $150 ticket. with like $2000 worth of old transit passes on my person. yeah, I'm really trying to scam the system with my monthly passes for the last 29 months. So I was pissy about that and my brother called to ask if I wanted a bubble tea since he was getting one on the way home so I said yes, Taro with tapioca, and he brought it and a drank half of it before I even considered.. tapioca! milk! sugar out the wazoo! honest, taro I wouldn't even be sure about! so damn. that probably messed things up. I took 2 tsp of lemon juice and did two minutes of high intensity exercise (jump squats) and then repeated about 45 minutes later to attempt to damage control a little bit, but who knows. oops. not a habit yet.
dinner: I made a pork tenderloin in a marinade of garlic, olive oil, cumin and ginger with soy sauce. Made sort of a quick-stew of black beans, stewed tomatoes, onion, garlic and zucchini with cumin and black pepper. I have to go get some tamari because it doesn't contain any wheat like regular soy sauce, but havent had time yet, so have just been cutting it down. Pork tenderloin is so reliably delicious. I don't understand people who don't eat pork.
later: glass of red wine and I actually drank a whole litre of water after work too. I need to get better with the water and liquid intake.
other than the bubble tea I feel like I'm adjusting nicely, feeling starving of course, but I still fully expect that to go away and will only be concerned about it in 3 days or so. everything has been delicious too, so that keeps me feeling perky about it.
weight: 113.8 lbs. officially can't give blood anymore, the one downside of losing some weight. hopefully I'll put it back on in muscle later and can still do that.
other news:
-took possession of my new apartment today. decided on Roomba, Dishwasher and living room furniture as my initial purchases, as well as being allowed to paint. awesome.
-it's been raining here forever. gross.
So far so good, and I've almost finished the book for the second time with much better notes on how all of this will work. Especially the cheat day. Someone should really teach this guy how to write a simple set of instructions, instead of burying everything in anecdotes and experiment results. However, I actually do find his writing easy to read and enjoy the book, I just enjoy some good old fashioned clarity. Now I've just got to find time to pick up supplements and a kettlebell or two this week and I should be well on my way.
concerning my tea yesterday, I think it may be the steeped chicory root that makes the tea sweet? or a combination of the chicory and the cinnamon. regardless, either will be fine for the diet I believe. It's saccharides, which I think are slightly different than sugar, but I'll do more research when I'm sure about the chicory. I have another tea that gets a very similar heavy-sweet taste when oversteeped, so I'll see if it contains chicory to compare. I can't see it being a problem though, which opens a pretty interesting window to ways to sweeten my coffee. (something I'm ALREADY struggling with.) so tomorrow I think I'm going to try coffee with a teabag steeped in it and a spoonful of coconut milk too. I think both those things should be okay and pretty delicious, and hopefully will result in some kind of spicy but tasty coffee that I can survive drinking, since I hate it black, and cinnamon doesn't work for me. I mean, I love cinnamon, but it just doesn't sweeten coffee. if it works maybe I'll see if I can find straight up dried chicory to use as a weird sweetener.
so here's my food day:
bfast: 1/2 avacado, hard boiled egg, an organic pepperoni stick. sue me, I bought turkey bacon today.
lunch: sugar-free redbull, bo la lot, chicken, beef and shrimp skewers. Glass of ice water. there was probably a bit of sugar in the vietnamese barbecue sauce, but it was easily the most SC option on the menu. I need to check red bull and see if it's aspartame (it tastes like aspartame..) and not sucralose.
Mistake! So I forgot it was may today and forgot to buy a transit ticket on my way home and got slapped with a $150 ticket. with like $2000 worth of old transit passes on my person. yeah, I'm really trying to scam the system with my monthly passes for the last 29 months. So I was pissy about that and my brother called to ask if I wanted a bubble tea since he was getting one on the way home so I said yes, Taro with tapioca, and he brought it and a drank half of it before I even considered.. tapioca! milk! sugar out the wazoo! honest, taro I wouldn't even be sure about! so damn. that probably messed things up. I took 2 tsp of lemon juice and did two minutes of high intensity exercise (jump squats) and then repeated about 45 minutes later to attempt to damage control a little bit, but who knows. oops. not a habit yet.
dinner: I made a pork tenderloin in a marinade of garlic, olive oil, cumin and ginger with soy sauce. Made sort of a quick-stew of black beans, stewed tomatoes, onion, garlic and zucchini with cumin and black pepper. I have to go get some tamari because it doesn't contain any wheat like regular soy sauce, but havent had time yet, so have just been cutting it down. Pork tenderloin is so reliably delicious. I don't understand people who don't eat pork.
later: glass of red wine and I actually drank a whole litre of water after work too. I need to get better with the water and liquid intake.
other than the bubble tea I feel like I'm adjusting nicely, feeling starving of course, but I still fully expect that to go away and will only be concerned about it in 3 days or so. everything has been delicious too, so that keeps me feeling perky about it.
weight: 113.8 lbs. officially can't give blood anymore, the one downside of losing some weight. hopefully I'll put it back on in muscle later and can still do that.
other news:
-took possession of my new apartment today. decided on Roomba, Dishwasher and living room furniture as my initial purchases, as well as being allowed to paint. awesome.
-it's been raining here forever. gross.
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