Day 2

Day 2:

Slept in this morning so yoga will have to be tonight...

After work, came home, threw pork loin, sweet potato and baked potato in oven, changed clothes and hit Hardcore.  HOLY HARDCORE.   The name itself should have been my first clue, but that was hard!  Thank goodness it was only 20 minutes.

After hardcore, took out the pork and baked potato, yelled for my son to come eat, and told him I had another video to do.  The girls weren't due home for another hour, and husband had dinner/bible study plans, so I left the 16 year old to dinner and hit Cardio.

In retrospect, saving Hardcore for Cardio day was not my best choice.  Such is the life of a non-planner.  I made it through MOST of cardio, but definitely had to take child's pose somewhere around set 7. I think I sat out only one set and rejoined for the final 2-3.  DANG.

Note to self - lack of flexibility requires getting a yoga block, soon, before the next million side angle and triangle pose series.

Breakfast:
2 almond/coconut flour muffins spread with cashew butter
coffee with skim milk & vanilla stevia


Lunch:
Farmhouse salad from Potbelly - lettuce, grilled chicken, cucumbers, tomatoes, blue cheese, bacon.  Added 1/2 an avocado and dressed with Tessemae's Lemon Garlic dressing.

Snack:
15 "raw activated" almonds
1/2 dark chocolate (77%) bar

Dinner (after yoga):
Grilled pork loin
1/2 baked sweet potato
1 glass red wine

Day 1

So, I decided to document my experience with The Ultimate Yogi program.  This program is intended for 108 STRAIGHT days of yoga, with specific formats each day.  Concurrent with the yoga, I am supposed to follow a recommended nutrition program, which recommends a vegetarian diet. The program creators acknowledge not everyone is ready for that (duh), so they have outlined a "common sense" diet which unfortunately includes a bunch of stuff I can't eat (lentils, black beans, flax seed) and shouldn't eat (grains, potatoes) but is basically just another version of eating clean, which I already do anyway for the most part.  The biggest difference is they don't include beef or whole eggs (chicken, turkey, egg whites, seafood) or dark chocolate, both of which I consume nearly daily.  Baby steps, people.

Day 1:

For some reason, thought it would be a good idea to get the almost-14-year-old daughter on board, so I woke her up early and we hit the media room for yoga.  After much whining about not liking that yoga mat, she decided to just use the carpet.  Day 1 includes Hardcore and Cross Training.  We started with Cross Training.  I got through the whole thing without having to drop to Child's Pose, so I'd say it was roughly equivalent to one of the studio classes I have taken, although definitely not just the "Basics" 1 hour class.  Cross Training lasted about 1 hr 5 minutes including the cool down, after which the teen announced there's no way she was doing another video because it had already been over an hour.  Since I had to get ready for work, I decided to put off the Hardcore video for later.

Breakfast:
2 homemade almond/coconut flour muffins spread with cashew better
coffee with skim milk & vanilla stevia

Lunch:
Leftover grassfed beef chili over salad with salsa, 1/2 avocado, 8 organic blue corn chips

Snack:
1 honeycrisp apple
10 "activated raw" almonds
1/4 dark chocolate (77%) bar

Dinner:
Salad with shredded chicken, jicama, mango and salsa
1 glass red wine