Last night was my dear friends Birthday, and we were all going out to dinner to celebrate at an East Indian Buffet Restaurant. I know - dangerous. I went in there with only the best intentions. I avoided the Chai, and any sort of alcoholic beverage or pop, and opted for water (go me!). Then it came time to eat. I thought I had done really well, I took a bunch of salad (I think I was the only one in our group who did), and I only took no more than about 2/3 of a cup of basmati rice, and spread it very thin on my plate, and then loaded up on a chick pea sauce, Palak Paneer (indian cottage cheese and spinach - my fav!), and butter chicken (which is ultimately a tomato sauce with chicken and spice) I avoided everything deep fried and had 1/2 piece of naan bread, which was so thin it was crunchy (I avoided the doughy ones). Even when it came time for dessert I had 1/4 cup of rice pudding and a plate with a few grapes and pineapple chunks (I didn't even indulge in the chocolate fountain!).
I was full, but feeling fine for most of the night, and then all of a sudden I got a crippling pain in my side. I got really bloated and started breaking into a cold sweat. I was certain I was going to throw up, but when I went to the bathroom, nothing happened. Ben and I drove home, and the whole time, I had my hand over my mouth to prevent myself from throwing up. Once we got home, I curled up in bed and took some pepto. The shooting pain in my stomach was unbearable, and I felt I was one burp away from losing my whole dinner. So rather than working out, we popped in a movie, and I waiting for my nausea and pain to subside before finally going to bed at 11pm.
This morning I felt good, the bloat was gone, and I didn't even gain any weight! Looking back, I'm thinking that perhaps the pineapple and grapes might have fermented in my stomach and combined with the rest of the food my body couldn't handle the extra gas and acid. That's my thought anyway.
This morning I went much lighter on the food side, breakfast was a protein shake with frozen strawberries and cranberries, and lunch will be a homemade chicken burger will all the fixings (minus the bun), and I don't know about dinner yet, but I might enjoy a green smoothie with Melissa later on too.
To make up for yesterdays lack of exercise, I did an awesome workout today! I found this on the BodyRock.tv website, and thought it looked like a decent body weight workout. In my opinion Body weight is where it's at - I can squat 200 pounds, can you? haha. I also hate when I don't have the right equipment, so I love BodyRock for that reason, all of their exercises take very minimal equipment, so you can usually sub out, if there happens to be something you don't have.
Here was the original workout:
Warm Up Strength Routine: Complete 4 Sets of the below
15 x Body Weight Squats
15 x Exercise Ball Roll Outs
15 x Shoulder Press
15 x Back Extensions Over the Ball
Followed by 8 sets of 50sec work /10secs rest
Do one of the below for the 8 rounds:
Skipping, High Knees, Prisoner Squat Jumps, Jog/run On Spot, Box Step Ups, Switch Lunges, Burpees, Squat Jumps
Cool Down Strength Exercises: Complete 4 Sets of the below
15 x Bodyweight Squats
15 x Push Ups
15 x Reverse Pull Ups
I only made slight modifications:
Rather than doing a Reverse Pull up, I replaced that exercise with Chest fly's on a Ball Just because I didn't have anything to do the reverse Pull Up with. And I did my pushups on my knees because I'm not yet at a place where I can do the full toe push ups for the entire workout.
As for the 8 minutes/sets of cardio I ended up doing several of the exercises because I couldn't do just one or two at this point. So this is what I did (50 seconds of each with a 10 second break between):
Skipping Rope (I didn't have a rope, I just mimicked it)
Jumping Jacks
Skipping Rope
Switch Lunges
Jumping Jacks
High Knees
Skipping Rope
High Knees / Butt Kicks (reverse the knee to the back to kick yourself in the butt - I did half and half)
This workout was a little harder than I was thinking because when I first looked at it, I saw 15 reps, and seem to have failed to noticed the 4 sets, so I definitely got very tired while going through everything. But I also pushed myself harder because I had more to do as well. A couple times I told myself I would only do 3 sets, or I would only do 6 minutes of cardio instead of the full 8, and once I got there, I just kept going, because to me, being able to say that I did everything was way better than saying that I did less because it was too hard.
I did it. I did the whole thing, and I feel awesome about it!!
Motivation:
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