Around... and back again

I definitely learnt a few things these past few days.  Number one - it's impossible to blog my food intake every day.  I thought I could remember, but don't.  I started an actual journal yesterday to write down what I'm eating and also my work outs. 

Since writing the last post, I've had a few cheat meals... Oh, it's hard to keep track on the weekend but I will need to learn.  I've had a few achievements also.  I ate my salads, but also had a McDonalds.  Bad.  I had three days off from working out, but also went on two walks - one about 6 k leisurely and the other about 12 k also leisurely.  When I've had a dessert earlier in the day (after lunch, for example), I don't have one after dinner.  I used to think nothing of it before.  

So instead of trying to remember what happened Thursday to Sunday, let's recap yesterday (Monday) and so far, what's happened today.

Yesterday I didn't do anything physical - not even my Wii.  

Breakfast - shake made from hazelnut milk, ice, handful of berries, 1 banana, a protein powder and about 2 Tbsp of plain yogurt.

Mid morning - small teacup of coffee and milk

Lunch - large salad w approx 5.3 oz turkey breast.  Dark chocolate - 1 finger length and width.

Dinner - measured 91 g of dry pasta.  Cooked it and mixed it w approx 2 Tbs pesto.  That was around 5.  I also ate around 9.  Looking back, I really didn't need to.  I had a med portion of salad and about 2 oz turkey breast.  

Snack - pear sometime in the afternoon.

Today:
Pre breakfast work out:  Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred Level 1.  Gosh, that was hard to get my act together for that workout and I was lagging all throughout.

Breakfast - bowl of Muesli w around 14 berries, milk and 1 banana.  

2nd Workout - though I wouldn't really call it a work out per se.  I did a run/walk around my neighbourhood.  I installed something called "Sports Tracker" on my phone and so far, so good.  Here are my stats:
     Duration:  14:29 min
     Distance:  1.73 km
     Av pace:   8:22 km
     Av speed: 7.2 km/hr
     Energy:    110 kcal


Wow, I just found out kcal and cal are the same.  I was thinking if there was a 1000 conversion rate, that would really be strange!

I also started taking vitamins.  To some, it may seem like a lot but I'm hoping it works for me.  I take 1 multi vitamin, 2 vitamin E, 1 cod liver oil and 1 folic acid.  In part, I started doing that b/c of my skill.  It's dry and flaking and I really don't know what else (besides lathering Vaseline all over it) to do.  I'm not perfect - I do eat crap, I love french fries, but salads are normal for me.  Drinking water is normal.  Portion control is normal.  Hopefully the vitamins will help.  

So, all in all, week 1 almost complete.  I feel pretty good.  I don't know if it's my imagination, but I also feel my body changing - getting harder.  I used to do boot camps and that was when I saw the most changes, but I think my body's gotten jelly-like.  The other day, I touched my arm accidentally and thought "wow...".