I woke up earlier than usual on day 2 which was great because I had a bunch of stuff to do.
I haven't eaten any refined sugar yet. Well...that's a lie. I haven't sat down to quarter of a cake or anything but yesterday I had Irving cappuccino which is essentially warm milky sugar water with some coffee in it (it comes from a machine and you drink it from a paper cup). I also ate some ketchup but gimmie a break, I was up and at work by 8:30 I needed something! Also it's nearly impossible to give up all sugar (see:ketchup) unless you want to have a hugely inconvenient life.
I'm not really going for the born-again-health-nut thing. We all know one person who used to be cool and then read an article in Reader's Digest about MSG and now they're on a crusade to rid themselves and you of all sorts of unhealty things.
"Oh, how can you drink that Pepsi like that...do you know how much sugar's in that?" "Yeah, I used to eat bananas but they're just so full of simple carbs." You know those people. They're often the same type of people who "find" Jesus/buddah when really they were just spending the first half of their lives ignoring them and having fun like the rest of us. I digress.
I'm trying to do this by being as unannoying as possible. So far so good I think.
So I got up early and ate a grapefruit.
Now, I don't know if this is just me or if most people feel this way but I really hate bitter things. If I taste bitter in something I can't eat it (usually), and I taste things as bitter when they're probably not. Like anything with portobello mushrooms in them.
But I read once in Reader's Digest that grapefruit is really good for you and I have this like romanticized vision of people eating grapefruit in their sunroom and reading the paper. Anyway this is turning out to be really long so I'll cut to the chase. I broiled the grapefruit with some brown sugar (oh, forgot to mention that) which made it look and smell really nice. I choked down half of one, it was okay. Not ever something that I would enjoy. I ate it like I take cough syrup or a loved ones cooking that I don't really like, completely out of necessity.
Then I exercised.
Already stiff from the day before when I lugged around a bag of sand and then did burpees I did a much longer workout that was like 5 different exercises in 3 different "phases". The oh-so-simple instructions here
Phase one was just squatting and jumping. Squat and jump for 30 seconds, 6 times. Yeah...great. The first time my timer didn't go off to tell me 30 seconds was over so I did 21. Then it was all uphill from there, I did like 15, 10, 10, 8, 7 and was gasping for breath. My thighs still hurt as do my calves. My cardio is my least favourite thing about myself. I see fat people on bikes but I can't bike without getting winded...this hurts my feelings.
The second phase was a total bust. I forgot how to do the first part of the exercise so I just did pushups (my arms/chest still hurt) and then you had to do reverse pushups which I tried to do with chairs but it didn't work because my hands wouldn't fit through the rungs.
Phase 3 was the worst. You do running on the spot but lift your knees like a fiend "high knees" is what "Zusanna" calls them. You do that for 30 seconds then drop onto your stomach, roll over, and do bicycle crunches. You do this TWELVE TIMES! Around the 4th time I hovered above my body and visited a place that wasn't exercise. I could only do 6 because I was gasping for air.
It's day 4, I'm taking 2 rest days while I work full shifts and I'm still sore. My stomach and chest especially. Last night it felt like I had the flu I was so stiff.
The thing I don't like about these work out videos is that there's no warm up at all and by the end I'm way to tired to cool down (which is my own fault, I know how to stretch).
So anyway if I have no refined sugar today then I'll be four days without it and I don't really miss it other than the convenience of eating a Mr.Big rather than having an actual lunch. <3
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