"I think the diet seems like the best thing about it. Not as much eating using these strict rules, but the fact you trained yourself to make good food. Whereas the food in the beginning looked pretty horrible, now it looks like something I would eat. There's some amount of training yourself to make good food that doesn't have to be covered in salt and butter. It's at least more aesthetically pleasing now than it was in the early days."
It's a little ironic that I get this lovely encomium on my cooking skills on a day when I had a pretty gross bowl of whole wheat pasta, tuna in spring water, and corn with no seasonings for lunch, but he's right. Since those early days, I at least haven't been in a position of choking food down, fighting my gag reflex.
In workout news, I think it's a terrible mistake to put bicycles and planks on the same day--WTF? I had no willpower left for the planks and barely managed to stay up for the entire first one. And then five sets? FIVE!? (Patrick: on the planks, is it better to go up-and-down for the whole minute, or once you're down, start over at one minute and call that the next set?) Of course, after getting through that yesterday, today's workout felt like the easiest thing ever.
Better to go up and down but best not to go anywhere at all!
ReplyDeletecant believe you guys are at day 62. thats insane!
ReplyDeleteyummy healthy food : good for you! that will keep your motivation once you have finished on day 90....
I feel like you've been working harder on making meals and that's good to hear from a outside source of the improvement. I did, however, make a great meal last week that was photo worthy, but I couldn't find my camera and I was really hungry so away it went.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big 8 minute ab person right now. I find that's it's a lot easier to have this video leading me the whole time, it just makes it so I can push through a lot more. I do it twice a day now, once after the morning bike/jump rope and after the workout.