Day 2 was good! I trained with Maria in the morning and showed her my Fitday.com log; she gave me kudos for my pie chart. I followed up my strength training with 20 minutes on the bike.
I have to say that I am not thrilled with a mere 20 minutes on the bike, but the pain was insufferable and I had to stop. For the past couple of weeks I have been dealing with left knee pain that I believe to be tendonitis. I need to stretch and ice it for a while.
For dinner I made a quinoa-corn chowder that turned out to be really yummy! If you haven't tried quinoa, it packs quite a nutritional punch! (Just make sure to rinse it first; otherwise it ends up tasting a bit soapy!)
Maria text messaged me after dinner and I gave her the run-down. She expressed some concern over the high carb content of the meal. I let her know that I added a Boca burger to bring more protein on board, but still I got a stern warning. The thing is, any meal that is high carb (which I love!) throws off that pie chart ratio that I was talking about. That magical ratio really is the key to maintaining muscle mass; it's no good running off to the gym to lift and then not properly feeding it.
One of the best things about starting any diet is actually getting on the scale during the first week. The water weight loss happens quickly and provides nice inspiration... minus 2.5 pounds after just 2 days! It's too bad that kind of loss doesn't continue over the life of a diet!
I'm happy to wake up to a lovely morning with yesterday's rain gone. It's breakfast time. How do we feel about veggies in the morning?
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Keep in mind that Quinoa is a great protein though too! Sounds like you are off to a great start. Perhaps you can provide me with much needed encouragement and motivation?!
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