Default Julie's food & exercise journal

Hi,
It's been a looong while, but I'm back. I haven't weighed myself for a while, and I haven't been counted calories or watched my food for a while. I have been sporty though. New start, again, so let's go for it! I'll go back to carb cycling and counting calories. I really - finally - want to lose that extra bit of weight.
 
Good to "see" you again!
 
Thank you & good to see you again as well! :)
So yesterday, I did pretty well... until I went to the pub and had two cocktails. Today there will probably be alcohol involved as well, as I'm going on a date (2nd date) and having a drink or two takes the edge off. But I'll go for something less sugary this time.
Food:
- breakfast: oatmeal with rice milk, protein powder sunflower seeds and peanut butter
- lunch: vegetables with sweet chili sauce
- dinner: sweet potato carrot soup with cashew nut cream
- snacks: Trek protein flapjack, some more oatmeal with rice milk, two cocktails (one rum based, the other gin based)

Exercise: race cycling, 2 hours and ten minutes (50k)
regular cycling: 40 minutes

Speaking of cycling: if everything goes well (corona wise), I'm going on a little trip for four days doing mtb in the Dolomites (North of Italy). It's supposed to be beautiful there so I'm looking forward to it! But it's definitely going to be tough. The organisation mailed me to hear if 100 k a day, 2.000 meters height meters (is this a thing in English,) is okay. I didn't want to seem weak so I said yes. I hope I'll make it! I'm leaving on the 3rd of october for four days. Now I'm still trying to train for it, but my surroundings are so flat, I'm really not used to cycling uphill. Oh well, we'll see!
 
Is mtb mountain biking? In any case, much homage to you for putting in for such a tough holiday. Will you have a vehicle accompanying, to carry packs etc?
 
Is mtb mountain biking? In any case, much homage to you for putting in for such a tough holiday. Will you have a vehicle accompanying, to carry packs etc?
Yep, mountain biking! Sorry, it's a fairly new abbreviation for me as well...
I still have to receive the exact details about the trip, but I assume that our backpacks are indeed transported by a vehicle. It's a work trip. I'm a journalist so I'll have to write about my experience afterwards. An extra motivation to do well :D
 
Wow that biking trip sounds intense! It does sound like a beautiful setting and lovely that you get to do that as part of your work!
Good luck on your 2nd date!
 
Wow that biking trip sounds intense! It does sound like a beautiful setting and lovely that you get to do that as part of your work!
Good luck on your 2nd date!
Thanks! Wasn't a good date, let's just say we had different expectations...
 
The past few days were okay food & exercise wise: no binge eating, okay food, no intense exercise but cycling to work and back... I'll start logging again from today :) I also weighed myself 2 days ago, gained a kilo since last time. 64kg now. I'd say my goal is 59, but my actual goal is just to feel good in my own skin. So I don't want to clamp myself down onto this number. I'm already healthy, so it's just for my own self image. And also certainly not to gain weight, 'cause I do feel that if I don't watch it, I gain it quite easily.

About the cycling trip: the tour operator made it less challenging, booo! I'm relieved, but even more disappointed because it seemed like a fun challenge! But it'll be fun either way.

After I'm back I'm going to start doing crossfit. There's a club nearby and I already went for an intake meeting. They seem nice. It's pricey, but a colleague who also goes there says it's worth it. There was a woman working out, I'm not sure she's one of the coaches, but anyway, she started talking to me about how she lost her baby fat - 30 kg (!) - by hypnosis. I was like: whut? But then it turned out her hubby is the one doing the hypnotising. So maybe just a sales talk. :) I do believe in hypnosis, and I even considered it once to get rid of my nail biting (I know, gross), but in the end I didn't do it because it's a) very pricey and b) not sure if it'll work on me. I think maybe not all people are susceptible for it. Chemistry in your brain, or something? Either way, I wouldn't do it to lose 5 kg :) That's just silly. And the challenge to lose that weight is fun too, right?
 
:p We´ll know when you get back whether or not the easier cycling trip was a good idea or not. If it´s too easy maybe you can talk them into letting you try the harder version next year!
My sister got rid of her fear of heights through hypnosis. I let someone try to hypnotize me once and mostly felt very silly. I agree about the high prices though :eek:
I'm just a poor judge of character...
Or they were very good at seeming something they knew would be more appealing to you than their real character. I generally think dating would be much easier if people would tell each other what they´re really looking for. I remember a guy (after our 4th date or so) trying to push me into promising to start going to church and have kids with him. Even though both my atheism and my disinterest in having kids came up the first time we met!
 
Speaking of cycling: if everything goes well (corona wise), I'm going on a little trip for four days doing mtb in the Dolomites (North of Italy). It's supposed to be beautiful there so I'm looking forward to it! But it's definitely going to be tough. The organisation mailed me to hear if 100 k a day, 2.000 meters height meters (is this a thing in English,) is okay. I didn't want to seem weak so I said yes.

Wow that sounds grueling! For the Americans, that's 62 miles with 6,562 feet of climbing. 62 miles in a day (what we yanks call a metric century) is a good challenge for a fit rider on a road bike, but it is a very impressive feat of endurance on a mountain bike. My quads and calves are sore at the mere thought of doing that for 4 days...
 
:p We´ll know when you get back whether or not the easier cycling trip was a good idea or not. If it´s too easy maybe you can talk them into letting you try the harder version next year!
My sister got rid of her fear of heights through hypnosis. I let someone try to hypnotize me once and mostly felt very silly. I agree about the high prices though :eek:

Or they were very good at seeming something they knew would be more appealing to you than their real character. I generally think dating would be much easier if people would tell each other what they´re really looking for. I remember a guy (after our 4th date or so) trying to push me into promising to start going to church and have kids with him. Even though both my atheism and my disinterest in having kids came up the first time we met!
It didn't work on you? Yeah, see, now I'm definitely not going to try it.

Hehe, what the hell, maybe he was just sooo into you he didn't want it to stop yet... But that's not fair, if these things are so important for him, he's just wasting your time.
 
Wow that sounds grueling! For the Americans, that's 62 miles with 6,562 feet of climbing. 62 miles in a day (what we yanks call a metric century) is a good challenge for a fit rider on a road bike, but it is a very impressive feat of endurance on a mountain bike. My quads and calves are sore at the mere thought of doing that for 4 days...
They changed the schedule :)
Now it's waaaay easier. I should combine it with hiking or whatever..
First mtb trip: 20k, altitude up: 800 meters, altitude down: 1.000 meters. Duration 3,5 hours.
Second mtb trip:25k, altitude up: 970 meters, altitude down: same. duration: 5,5 hours.
And there's one day of hiking, another day of just visiting a town... So yeah, it's gonna be just fine. I'm a lil disappointed it's not a bit more hardcore :)
 
Working from home = much more snacking than on other days. Bad Julie.
Food:
- Breakfast: yoghurt with peanut butter, protein powder and sunflower seeds
- Lunch: sandwich with humus and vegan cheese, royco asparagus soup
- dinner: salad with lentils, peas, mint and sweet potato. Dressing made from tahin, lemon juice and agave syrup.
- snacks: apple, banana, quinoa bar

Exercise: race cycling, 1 hour
 
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