C25K Workout #1/Week 2, Pizza Dinner and Cooking Marathon

Ahhhh! I"m so behind on blog reading - bear with me - it's on my To-Do list for tonight. :) I hope you all had lovely weekends, although I was sad to see that not all of you had long weekends. Grrrr. Mine was long but I don't feel like I took advantage of it as much as I should have. Here goes!!

Yesterday ended up being a nice day! It was beautiful outside so Austin went out and bummed around in the yard and washed our cars – sweet! Me and Reuben visited him, but mostly we stayed in the kitchen watching friends and cooking! For breakfast I made a fancy grilled cheese, then I had a snack of pita/hummus, and then me and Reubs made the following:

• 4 servings of chicken & mushroom pesto
• 4 servings of chicken in tomato sauce with feta
• 4 servings of chicken marsala
• 4 servings of breaded breakfast chicken sammies
• 4 servings of ham & cheese breakfast hot pockets
• 4 servings of tomato pesto pizza
• 4 servings of beef tacos

Yay! I’m good to go for the week and ready to have a successful work out week!! During cooking I made a lean cuisine (trying to rid those from my fridge - i'm down to 3!), and had a few dove chocolates. Around 5:30 I headed to the gym for Week 2, Workout #1 of C25K! Instead of 1.5 minutes walking alternated with 1 minute running, it’s 1.5 minutes of running alternated with 2 minutes of walking. Here goes!

1 – 6 minutes: warm up; walking at 4.0
6 – 7.5: running at 6.3
7.5 – 9.5: walking at 4.0
9.5 – 11: running at 6.3
11 – 13: walking at 4.0
13 – 14.5: running at 6.3
14.5 – 16.5: walking at 4.0
16.5 – 18: running at 6.3
18 – 20: walking at 4.0
20 – 21.5: running at 6.3
21.5 – 23.5: walking at 4.0
23.5 – 25: running at 6.3
25 – 30: cool down; walking at 4.0

C25K ended up being 2.37 miles burning 135 calories in 30 minutes. I must say that it felt super easy... I guess this is the point/a good thing?! I thought about it and with 6 running intervals x 1.5 minutes = about 9 minutes of running which at 6.3 is almost a mile - not bad! I stayed on to get to 3 miles, which took me to 172 calories burned. Then I hopped on the elliptical machine for a mile at resistance 5 for 10 minutes, which took me to 236 calories. Then I got back on the treadmill for 1/4 mile cool-down which left me a total of 258 calories burned in 56 minutes. Not a bad workout! I headed home and had a popcorn snack, then I tossed the tomato pesto pizza in the oven and through together a quick salad. Yum!







My portion!

My portion with my baybay salad!


Then it was shower time and time to get ready to go back to work – BLAH! This week is going to be crazy since I’ll be out all the following week. I ended up at 1,597 calories, 184 carbs, 67 fat grams and 69 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.