Day 1: How well did it really go?

How was my first day doing my customized meal and workout plan from Ryan Spiteri? Overall, I thought today went great! Let me just start by saying that waking up at 4:30am to make sure that I could get my full workout in was rough. I am not a morning person. But I managed to get myself out of bed, drank my protein shake and ate my hard boiled egg (according to the meal plan) before I headed out the door, making my way to my local YMCA.
Once I got to the Y,  figured I would start by doing my shoulder routine as well as some cardio. My cardio, according to my plan, is a 30 minute walk (3-4mph) 3X per week, for the first week. I hopped on a treadmill and started my walk at 3.8mph and quickly found myself getting bored, even while watching Law & Order:SVU (which my my favorite show ever!). To put my boredom to rest, I decided to kick up the speed to 6mph and run my remaining 20 minutes.
Following my cardio session, I headed to weight room to kill my shoulder routine. I have never ever ever had a day designated to shoulders, mainly because I felt like it was such a small muscle group, that I had to work out another body part to make my lifting session worthwhile. Today, I learned that my mentality was totally wrong about that. It started with smith machine shoulder presses, then throw in some cable upright rows, lat raises and some plate front raises, and I could definitely feel the burn.

After the gym, I came home and ate my banana along with my rice cake and 15g of peanut butter. I have never been a breakfast person. I rarely eat before 2pm (unless it's a protein shake) so I was not the least bit hungry after the gym. I forced myself to eat it, because that's what the plan said to do. By 10am, I was starving so I had my cheese stick however that didn't hold me over for very long. I could not wait to come home and eat lunch. My lunch was filling enough to hold me over until my 3:30 snack which consisted of a 5.3oz container of plain greek yogurt with blueberries mixed it.

Around 5, I could hear my stomach rumblin' again. For me, this is such a strange feeling. Normally, if I do eat breakfast or lunch, I'm not hungry for the rest of the day. Dinner was 100g of chicken, 100g of broccoli and 100g of white potato. Now I'm sitting here, filling you in, and I could not be more stuffed. Every time I ate today, I was incredibly full, but it seemed like hunger was held off for only an hour, and my next meal time could not come soon enough.

Even though I dreaded waking up as early as I did, it felt amazing once I got there. Hopefully tomorrow I can remember how good it felt, and I won't have to coax myself into going.

That's today's update. I won't be blogging and updating every day, as I'm sure most days are going to be pretty much the same, just different workouts. I am extremely excited to see where this next 8 weeks takes me, and to see what my body is capable of. I am also eager to see how much of a difference this eating plan will make not only for my workouts, but also how it will make my body feel, as compared to my usual habit of eating out.