If I felt proud for surviving week one of the challenge, then I was bordering on obnoxiously pleased with myself by the end of week two. The only real deviation from the meal plan I had in week one was the pint of beer I drank while out to dinner with a friend (sue me) and two Thai dinners during the week — a vegetable green curry and a tofu stir-fry, both with a small scoop of brown rice, in case you were curious. I made a couple of small changes to my meal prep this week, and it made a huge difference. The first — I added cinnamon to my bircher muesli (obvious, but also life-changing), and I added loads of Mexican-style spices into my lunch frittata to jazz it up a bit.
I really felt like I hit my stride with the workouts in week two of the challenge. I exercised five times. Five. The breakdown looked a little something like this: two resistance classes, a cardio class, and a combination class (Hollywood), and then I went to a non-F45 gym on the Sunday to try a new workout class, which was half treadmill sprints, half weights. By the end of the week, I felt like a goddess, albeit a tired one.
Week two was also when I started noticing changes in my body. Not huge changes, but changes nonetheless. My face looked slimmer, which I put down to changing my diet from consisting of mainly the big P's (pasta, potatoes, and — to a slightly lesser extent — pints), to including more vegetables, healthier snacks, and almost no booze at all. My clothes also fit a bit better, especially in the afternoon, when I'd usually be rocking a postlunch bloat, which was basically nonexistent following my healthy frittata.
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