Weight Loss Week Six Day Seven Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 7 - Tuesday
25/02/2014

Lite n' Easy Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Berry Wheat Bites Multigrain Toast with Plum Jam

Love this brekkie, glad to have more than just toast and yoghurt this morning.  When I started I would never eat breakfast and eating this much would make me ill.  I have no problems eating it now and really look forward to having breakfast in the morning.

Morning Snack: Orange

Lunch: Chicken & Pasta Bake

Seasonal Fruit (Red Apple)

I swapped around the lunch as I had a spare from all the socialising I have been doing lately.  I just felt like this rather than a curry for lunch.

I couldn't finish the apple it was just that the skin had a strange texture, it was powdery and grainy.  I have never experienced this before and thought that it might have been going off or something? 

Afternoon Snack: Choc Hazelnut Fruit Mix

Gobbled this down quick, totally chocolate starved LOL.

Lite n' Easy Dinner: Roast Beef

Dinner: 14 Roast Beef

This dinner reminded me that I don't like Roast Beef :S  I really wanted to try all the meals I could and give them a fair shot as there may be a hidden gem, this is not one of them for me.  The meat is fine, I just don't like the flavour of roast beef.  

It's a shame as the gravy is really yummy in this one.  I couldn't eat the pumpkin as it was flavourless and mushy and the sweet potato was hard.  So I won't be ordering this again.

Glasses of water: 8

Additional Items:  2 x Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, 2 sugars)

I have been having two coffees lately or a coffee and a coke zero, I have to stop this!

Exercise: Dancing for 60 minutes, moderate to high intensity with soup can weights for about 15 minutes.

I was getting tired of exercise dvds and really not motivated.  It always felt like a chore, something that I had to force myself to do.  Even though I had been improving and finding the exercises easy, it was still not what I would call fun or even enjoyable.

I love dancing and always have so I decided to put together a compilation of my favourite "get that booty shaking" tracks.  I started with a low intensity paced track at the start just to get warmed up, to moderate/high intensity paced tracks and then gradually getting lower in pace towards the end.  I called it "Melercise" LOL

I used soup cans as weights in the highest intensity stage and did some shoulder rolls, arm stretches and calf stretches on the last track.  I even roped someone else in to do it with me and they really enjoyed it too.  I think I found my new exercise routine, it's fun and you can bust your own moves.

My plan is to move up to heavier weights and include some strength training twice a week.

What is your favourite workout?