But hiking...the connection to the earth, the movement, the beauty, the sun shining through the trees, the trails, the mountains, the vistas...it moves me. I feel present. Connected. Joyful. Here are a few pictures. We hiked about seven miles.
Jill and I then ate at a vegan restaurant in SLC and had some vegan ice cream for dessert. Felt decadent, but stayed pretty close to my plan. I should have taken pictures. We had "carne asada" tacos and "pork" nachos that were house-made seitan and jackfruit. They were delicious. My ice cream was oatmeal raisin and peanut butter ripple. Although Jill and I tried pretty much all of them.
I did do my two week check in. And I have lost 6.6 pounds in the first two weeks on this Nutritarian Plan with the 4x a week weight training. I lost 5 the first week and 1.6 the second week. I did eat out several times last week, which is very unusual for me. I have hardly eaten out at all in the past year. I can't control much when I eat out, but especially not salt and oil so...there is that. I will prepare my own food. I have lots of recipes coming up that I think look super yummy.
For the next two weeks I am continuing with the same plan. However, I am adding in the supplements. And I want to add in some yoga. Let's see if that makes any difference. of course, we do have Thanksgiving coming up in the next two weeks, but honestly I love this food so much I don't plan to eat things that are not on it.
Supplements: The only one that I have taken over the past two weeks consistently is my trace minerals. I have, on some weight days, had leucine and glutamine added to a protein something (usually some chocolate cherry nice cream :) I am going to be adding in the supplements recommended in the Sculpted Vegan, along with some others. These are the ones I have been taking off and on this year:
General Health:
Trace Minerals
Vitamin B Complex
Vitamin C
Probiotic
Enzyme
Green Tea Extract
I am going to add in
ALA (alpha lipoic acid)
Iodine
Vitamin D spray
And on weight training days:
Creatine 1/2 before workout
BCAAs during workout (I've been doing this since July)
Leucine, Glutamine, and Vitargo immediately after workout
That seems like a lot, but most of them are just general health good stuff...and I feel good on them. It took me a couple months to build up a tolerance for the green tea, but I do think that it revs things up a bit. I want to experiment using it and not using it and see if there is any difference. I tried a caffeine pill in July called Shreddabull (or something like that). It was bright red. I took it when I got up in the morning in Halibut Cove, and then went to do my meditation.
I got maybe ten minutes into my meditation and I started sweating. Like a lot. And then I felt very sick to my stomach. Usually when I'm meditating I literally block out anything going on with my body...I don't need to go to the bathroom, hunger, muscle soreness, anything...I'm just completely unaware of it. But I could not get past this. I gave up on the meditation and went into the bathroom and threw up. I spent the next hour or two sweating and shivering. Needless to say, I never took another one of those pills. 😓
For the Yoga, I am going to do the Transform Your Life 30 Day Yoga Challenge for Beginners on DoYogaWithMe.com. I did a couple of them over the summer in Alaska, and I really loved them. I just have to figure out how to get them projected on my TVs here. I think I've been using that as an excuse not to start for months now. No more excuses. I will figure it out.
I'm not going to weight train today since I ended up doing legs yesterday. I will do Chest and Triceps tomorrow. Gene has been going with me. I decided when I bought the 18 month program that I was going to go at least a year consistently...4 times a week weight training..which means that I will do 208 weight-training days. I have done 8. So now I only have 200 to go. How cool is that!?
One of things that Kim Constable says in the Sculpted Vegan is that Motivation is not enough to get you to your goal. It is only enough to get you started. DISCIPLINE is what gets you there. Discipline is what gets you to the gym four times a week for a rigorous weight training day. Plus all the cardio throughout the week. I don't usually work out on Sundays, but I was not going to miss a day and the 7 mile hike had me pretty tired the rest of Saturday, so...Discipline.
I really need to figure out how to have different links and tabs on this blog. I would like to do one that is just posting what I am eating every day, pictures of it and what I would change. My biggest problem is that I am the MESSIEST cook in the world! I need to figure out how to cook without my kitchen looking like a war zone when I'm finished. Last night I made three different kinds of pasta. This is largely because I ended up feeding my family, my daughter's family, my parents, and my sister's family. And I was a little worried my pasta people would think was weird.
It was from Dr. Fuhrman's recipes and it was a "Bean Pasta w/Cauliflower" which sounds very drab and boring. It had roasted garlic, toasted walnuts, almond milk, nutritional yeast..I just wasn't sure. I added some no salt spice mix, extra marjoram, extra garlic, and I roasted the cauliflower along with some yummy little cherry tomatoes which I added to it. I used a red lentil rotini pasta. I really liked it! I did a have a couple of the butternut squash raviolis with goat cheese, browned butter and pecans. Which, incidentally, is the only animal product I have eaten since I began. But I think I liked mine the best. I was too full after the green beans, broccoli and pasta so have the salad I had planned. But Kaelys made the dressing and it was delicious. I'm really looking forward to having it for lunch.
I took a little 30 second video of the puppy, Mishka, and I'm desperately trying to figure out how to edit it and show it to you. I need to learn this little skill for my CareerWize company, and every time I try I get frustrated and want to cry. So, you will get your video, but I have to do some more research first. Hopefully today. There just aren't enough hours in every day to do what I want to do.
So, enjoy another picture from my hike on Saturday. Jack (my black doodle) was in the top shot with Celeste and Jill. Jemma (my English Cream Retriever) is in this shot. I love my dogs.
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