Hey people!
Welcome to Week 2 of this journey!
I’ll be telling you every single bit of what happened in the last seven days since the last read.
Saturday:
Woke up pumped and ready for greatness quite literally. I was scheduled to visit my son in school that morning, so I got around to prepping something simple but delightful for him. So, I chose coconut jollof rice. What?! Is that not simple enough? We both know it is.
While I did that for my family, I sliced and diced my vegetables for my salad and kept a cask of black coffee for the road, and another of oat porridge. I get cranky without coffee. Addict much I know.
“Aunty Ejiro I can’t believe you will cook all this delight still eat only grass when you’re not depressed!” That was my step-daughter expressing shock and wonder at the discovery that I decided not to eat rice. The nerve of her to call my food grass! Meaning I’m a what? Don’t you dare say it! Well, I survived breakfast and lunch (which met me at my son’s school).
Got home much later in the day and quickly settled into the workout which had me putting in about 45mins of workout and then settled into my salad (not grass🙄) dinner.
Sunday:
Up and thankful for life! Got ready for church and took my daughter along.
Planned an intermittent fast for 18hrs, and it was looking great and hopeful but teaching kids can take a toll on you if do it on an empty stomach. I began to see the stars at some point and my tight wig was not helping, so I had to take the damn thing off and some measure of peace returned to paradise. No shame in my Father’s presence please.
Got off church before 10am and headed to the supermarket to get smacks for my daughter to chow on before lunch would be ready and boy! The puff-puff in the drawer was calling out my name, but I mustered every ounce of the will power in me and turned a blind eye after paying for my daughter’s scotched egg. Instead of this girl to encourage me, she said, “Mommy eat o! You better buy this puff-puff before you faint. You and I know you are hungry, so stop punishing yourself.” It be your family members! 😭
My step-daughter – the one who said I was eating grass – came back from church hours later with a very thick, juicy chocolate ganache cake and was like, “Eat o! You better eat this very mad cake.” Again, it be your family members! 😭 How I survived these two girls on Sunday is a miracle. But I won!!!
And yes, this was a rest day!!!💃🏾💃🏾
Well, I showed my friend my dietary recall (see below) and she slapped me back to reality that I was actively starving myself as my dietary recall for week 1 showed very negligible carb content. So, I have worked on that as you can see in week 2.
Monday:
Against the grain of all I’ve ever known and practiced, I woke up to put in an early workout.
By the time I opened my app to check the day’s routine, I realized it was rest day. I just told myself to do a brief yoga routine cos knowing myself, I can’t do two rest days in a row. My body experiences inertia to return to the grind. Or is it my mind? Maybe both.
So that was what I put in and of course I smashed it… to the best of my ability. But I must confess morning workouts are better. You got through the day feeling pumped up and deeply energized. But terribly hungry!!! So intermittent fasting fell face first in the mud today!!!😂😂
I didn’t ‘sin’ against my plan though. I had 3 small bananas and my morning black coffee.
I had white rice today!!! For the 1st time in a week! It was such a relieving delight but it was desperately small. I was eating and wondering if I will not go for a second helping. I quickly downed almost half a litre of water to fill up the space, then slowed down my chewing – a very unfamiliar practice as I usually almost swallow my food with little or no chewing.
Tuesday:
I’m writing this late and I have forgotten how that day went. Oh my! Well from the photos, I worked out early again and it was awesome. Oh yes! I remember now. I worked out early so I could meet up on a work trip to Ibadan. Breakfast was oat porridge and coffee, and lunch was potato salad. Then I snacked on boiled corn.
Wednesday:
This was a very one kind of day. It out the L in lazy morning. To get out of bed was as very huge chore – it was a Wednesday that felt like a Monday. So, you can imagine that there was no morning workout today. However, I eventually did an evening workout and it was a we-outside kind of event – warm-up wise sha. It took it back inside cos I cannot be doing yoga on interlocked tiles, no?
Thursday:
I got a very distressing news very early this morning. The good thing that saved the day was my friend’s attitude to the whole issue. It gave me courage to go on despite the distress. That was not the kind of mood for jumping up and down. I simply laid my lazy self on the mat and got into a 20-min yoga session. Not like I felt any better mind-wise though cos that news knocked the wind out of my sails. Still feels surreal even as I write but I know it’s going to be alright.
Friday:
Friyyyaaaaaayyyy!!! Best day of the week, yeah!!! Thankful for all days so far and all the things done. Fitness, diet, and everything in between. Today is my rest day, so I didn’t put in any workout. I had to be on the road all day, anyway, which makes it a good thing that it was rest day as provided in my VShred Program.
So that’s it, folks! That’s the end of week 2 of 15. See you next Friday for the chronicles of week 3 of my journey!!!
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