Day 288 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

Visiting Mum & Sissy… 🙂 🙂 🙂
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EXERCISE:
# continue rest & recovery from kickboxing foot injury :]

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* fruit bowl (pineapple, banana, blackberries, blueberries)
* homemade patchwork quilt soup (lentil, split pea, quinoa, brown jasmine rice, yam, potato, broccoli, carrots, green cabbage, red cabbage, green bell pepper, radish, jicama, celery, onion) served over raw baby spinach & topped w/ sauerkraut
* high fiber sourdough XL-toast w/ XL-avocado
* sandwich (XL-guacamole, tomato, lettuce, pickle, mustard on XL-“white” sourdough)
* baked steak XL-fries w/ ketchup
* sauerkraut

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 287 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# continue rest & recovery from kickboxing foot injury :]

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(2) × (25.4) = 50.8 oz

EATS:
* fudge brownie smoothie (collards, spinach, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana, carob powder, splash of almond milk) w/ rolled oats, then topped w/ berries & few XL-walnuts
* grapes
* brc (bean, rice, cabbage) naked burrito (no tortilla) w/ salsa (red and green), onions, cilantro, lemon juice & add sauerkraut
* high fiber sourdough toast w/ XL-avocado
* slices of grapefruit

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Going With The Flow…

Okay, so I went a little too hard the other day and injured my foot during a kickbox routine. Didn’t really hurt at first, but in the middle of the night I had a stabbing pain which caused me to jump out of bed and do the crazy dance in the dark! The next day it was fat. The next day it was even fatter. And by the end of that day it was fat AND black & blue!

Nooooooo! This can’t be happening now, not NOW when I’m in the big finale, the final stretch, the three-month push to my first Project Waistline anniversary weigh-in event! I have been XL-partying a bit too much the last week or two, what with the holidays. I was going to use my foot (and the *rest* of my body, for that matter) to work off some of those extra calories I had been indulging in. Now I’m sidelined for a spell. I’m going to have to use my wits to stay on pace.

Hmmm… this may just be the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Now I get to dive into this program (and see what could be the most dynamic results) by adjusting my eating habits alone. I just hope my foot recovers soon. I’m like a little kid…I LOVE my exercise. Sitting still is like containment in a medieval torture chamber for me!

Searching YouTube for encouragement I stumbled upon two excellent ideas. The first is a short presentation about caloric concentration. Remember, we should always be gravitating to the low calorie concentrated foods, and shying away from the high calorie concentrated foods. Here is a quick, concise, visual explanation of this concept from the Small Step Advocate, Nutritionist Sid Garza-Hillman:

CLICK HERE

For a deeper understanding of the “why” I found this humorous talk by one of the authors of The Pleasure Trap, Behavioral Psychologist Doug Lisle:

Have you taken notice how restaurants play into our weakness – the human pleasure trap? They serve us tiny anemic house salads with gobs of high fat dressings, then a gigantic plate with limp over-cooked veggies on the side like an afterthought, punctuating the mountain of higher calorie dense food (usually meat & taters). The quantity of raw salad & cooked veggies are insignificant enough that they leave plenty of space for those high density main courses… quite the opposite of where we want to be.

The video links above emphasize a few simple & effective power strategies that we can incorporate into our lives, particularly if we have limited mobility at this time:

* Stop focusing on weightloss (okay, okay, okay… I’m listening!)
* Focus on healthy lifestyle… strength, endurance, flex-mobility, disease/pain free living
* Make morning oatmeal a HABIT !!!
* Eat your main meal in this order, in descending-sized servings:

– HUGE SIZED: raw salad
– MEDIUM SERVING: cooked veggies
– ALL U CAN EAT (w/out exploding): starchy main course (beans, potatoes, pasta, etc)

Don’t you just love this concept? It makes the high starchy main course act like your dessert. You fill most of your belly with the nutritionally dense raw salad and lightly steamed veggies, then you get to reward yourself with the higher calorie starchy foods (which I, for one, crave more than I do a sweet dessert!) It’s as though I can tell myself, “YES, you may have that pasta, you may have that slice of avocado toast… just be sure to eat it when your tummy is nearly full 🙂

Okay, so I’m going to incorporate these ideas into my eating routine until I’m back on my feet again, kickboxing away the calories. Even if I do not separate my food and eat it in this order, I will combine it in proportions in line with the concept.

Hasta la vista baby!

Day 286 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# continue rest & recovery from kickboxing foot injury :]

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*Bad* pink girly shoes… grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
*Good* black burly shoes… perrrrrfect!

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
*oatmeal w/ strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana, splash of almond milk
* sushi restaurant: miso soup, house side salad w/ soy sauce lemon juice, XL-avocado rolls, noodles, tempura XL-fried veggies (but did NOT touch that mayo dressing!!)
* XL-sweet beverage
* sliced persimmon (mmmmm!)

Bit too much family celebration 🙂

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 285 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# rest & recovery from kickboxing foot injury :]

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WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* homemade burger (rice, quinoa, oatmeal & bbq sauce) on dill rye toast w/ lettuce, tomato, XL-avocado, mustard w/ turnips on the side (love ’em!)
* lowfat baked steak XL-fries w/ catsup
* small XL-sweet beverage
* grapefruit
* apple

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 283 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# rest

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* oil & lard free homemade tamales of masa (ground corn flour, XL-avocado, green enchilaida sauce w/ tomatillo) & filling (mashed potato & pinto beans w/ mango-tomato salsa, olives) & topped w/ vegan nacho cheez (see recipe section)
* banana
* radishes

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 282 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# Christmas Eve kickboxing class 60 min

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* toastie-o’s & wheat flakes w/ strawberries, blackberries, raspberries & almond milk
* homemade veggie burger (rice, quinoa, kale, oats, bbq sauce) on whole wheat w/ mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle, XL-grapeseed oil mayo
* air-XL-fries (only 2.5g fat for 3oz serving of potatoes)
* XL-olives
* XL-sweet beverage
* radishes-radishes-radishes… lots of ’em!

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 281 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# rest

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* fudge brownie smoothie (blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana, carob powder) and rolled oats, splash of almond milk
* pinto/white bean/yam chile, top w/ nacho cheez sauce (see recipe section) & XL-guacamole
* raw radishes & broccoli w/ XL-cashew sour cream dip
* banana

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 280 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# Lift rock bottom + abs

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS:
* oatmeal w/ strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana & splash of almond milk
* brc (beans, rice, cabbage) burrito on XL-whole wheat tortilla w/ pico de gallo & green salsa
* banana w/ XL-pecan, brazil nut, 2 walnuts, 2 almonds
* grapes (green/red) & tangerine

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food