Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Feeling Pressured to Be Fat

And it’s hump day, day 4 of no fast food, soda, chips, ice tea, anything that includes sugar, and basically everything I love. I haven’t done my workout yet today but I am sticking to the diet for now. I am at work and feeling a lot of pressure to be fat.
I should first say that one of my jobs is at a place called The Bistro. This is one of the places where I feel the most tempted to eat because I am constantly dealing with food. Well actually food isn’t even the correct word to describe what we have going on in here. We have an array of ice cream novelties, tons and tons of chips - I’m talking probably even flavors of chips you haven’t even heard of. We have them and they are delicious. In addition to the chips we have a full display of Gardeners Candy - everything from the chocolate covered pretzels and popcorn drizzled in chocolate and caramel down to the mini peanut butter meltaways . I am salivating just at the thought of all of it. And of course we have pizza and Stromboli’s. I’m sure your probably thinking what type of Bistro is this and the answer would be it’s not even a Bistro at all. This place has had the name The Bistro for years and I’m not even sure if it ever really was a Bistro.
Even though I am terribly tempted to indulge in all that The Bistro has to offer I must say that I am feeling better than ever mentally. I seem to be a lot more focused and driven when it comes to school work. I think this has a lot to do with the diet. I have a lot more energy than ever and I love it.  However I am feeling extremely sore in my abs and legs. 
When I first started the diet I was following the meal plan exactly. This was going well for days 1 and 2 but day 3 I had school and well lets just say the meal plan went to shit. Now I am doing the portion control diet and it is working better for my schedule. I am still incorporating the recipes in the diet book. But some of them I am eating for dinner rather than lunches. For example, on night two I had the shrimp stir fry and it was awesome. I also tried the turkey burger recipe and it was delicious. I bought a George Forman grill and I have been cooking everything on it - It works really nicely and it is very easy when it comes to cleaning up.
Tonight I am making a whole wheat Stromboli for dinner with fat free turkey ham, fat free turkey pepperonis, and low fat Swiss cheese. Depending on how it turns out I will be posting pictures of the process, along with a recipe for the Stromboli. I’m looking forward to it! Another thing I am looking forward to is the Yoga workout tonight! Stay tuned for more updates of my 90 days of the p90x challenge! 86 more days to go

1 comment:

  1. Exercising does indeed improve one's mental state. When I am stressed out, I find that exercising is a good way to relax.

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