Personal Trainer Foods Day 1

Today (well yesterday) is the day that I start the Personal Trainer Food, well, food. I woke up in the morning, looked at the madness in the freezer and grabbed a protein and a veggie and ran out the door. Come lunch time I was a bit skeptical, it looked small, and I wasn't sure how edible it really would be.  I took a look at the food randomly selected and I had ended up with the Buffalo Chicken Ranch sticks (2 sticks) and Broccoli.

Looked at the directions on the bag and it says to throw the veggies in for 2 mins and the chicken said 1 min. Done and Done. Below is the final product, with a little honey BBQ sauce that I "borrowed" from someone at work.

Surprising enough, it wasn't too bad at all. I won't lie, I was nervous, I did not think it would be edible but I was happy with it.  The broccoli tasted like regular steamed broccoli and the chicken sticks themselves weren't too bad.  I am not sure if it was the most natural, healthy chicken in the world, but it was pretty good.  Day 1 Lunch 1 Complete!

My struggle during the day is when I get bored I want to eat, and what I choose to eat is typically chocolate. We have a candy bowl at work and I will literally go in, take a handful, and hoard it at my desk.  That handful is 100% eaten by the end of the day, and sometimes I even go back for more.  At least there is no surprise on why I am not losing weight, I know that my snacking and desserts after dinner are what gets me. Today (yesterday) I tired my absolute hardest not to eat snacks in between.  I am trying to actually not eat any of the candy bowl at work, we'll see how long this lasts but I am trying!  I did have a glazed donut for breakfast which wasn't healthy, but it was delicious.  I had 2-3 (I can't remember) Peanut butter granola bars during the day to tide me over between meals and the gym.

I went to the gym and did my body jam class that I love and have missed dearly.  It is my favorite work out at the gym.  I get to shake my booty, sweat, lose my breath, and burn some serious calories.  In total after this work out I burned about 800 calories in a 1 hour class.  My ankle does not feel good, but I'll say it was worth it.  I ran to the store to get some milk, some fruit for snacks while doing the PTF, and some string cheese for a snack, even though I don't know how long that'll work for me, I am not a cheese person.  If you do the diet strict its basically just the meals they give you, nothing else, however as I stated I am just doing this for convenience and if I happen to drop some weight doing it, thats an added bonus (I hope that happens).  So even though fruit is not on the diet because of the sugar, it is that or handfuls of chocolate, so I'll choose the fruit for now. 

Home around 9 and it is dinner time.  I chose to have the Cajun Chicken and the Garden mixed veggies.  I again was surprised at how it didn't taste terrible.  The chicken had a little bit of a spice but nothing out of this world hot, and the veggies tasted like steamed veggies.  Finished that up with a glass of milk, I did allow myself to have 4 chips ahoy cookies (there were 4 left in the bag so I figured i'd eat them to get them out of the house, and in my belly) and that was it for the night.  I actually felt very full after my meal.  Not too bad for day 1 I'd say.

Total Calories for the day

Glazed Donut - 270

Buffalo Ranch - 360

Broccoli - 40

Peanut butter Granola - 170 x 3 = 510

Cajun Chicken - 210

Garden mix - 25

4 Cookies - 280

Total = 1695

Work out - 800

Not too bad at all. Day 1 complete.