Eat to Live - Day 1

Weigh in: 142.1

Exercise:

Warmup: 10 minutes on the bike

Strength training: 25 minute full body workout (2 sets of one exercise for each of the following muscle groups: biceps, triceps, chest, shoulder, back, quads, hamstrings, adductors, and abductors)

Cardio: 25 minutes on the elliptical.

Food diary:

Morning Coffee: 6 oz coffee with 1 Tb. of Soy Creamer and 1/2 packet of Stevia.
Not E2L, but I have cut down my coffee consumption and hope to keep
tapering it down.

Breakfast:
- Carrots, 1/4 cup homemade hummus dip (no salt added chickpeas, roasted red peppers, garlic, and lemon juice)
- apple
- pear

Lunch:
- Salad with 1/2 pound of raw veggies (romaine, bell peppers, green onion, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes), strawberries, and 1 Tb. of flax seed with raspberry vinegar.
- 1 cup of lentils cooked with kidney beans, tomatoes, onion, and spices.
- Banana.

Dinner:
- Salad with 1/2 pound of raw veggies (romaine, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots), beet, 1 oz walnuts, 1/2 avocado and Whole Foods Fat Free Balsamic (20 cal for 2 Tb.).
- 1 lb of veggie stir fry (eggplant, zucchini, onion, peppers, broccoli, asparagus, mushrooms, garlic, edemame and ginger), small amount of Bragg's Liquid Aminos.
- Grapes.


E2L goals met today: 1 lb raw veggies, 1 lb cooked veggies, at least 4 servings of fruit, 1 Tb. raw nuts, 1 Tb. flax, 2 oz. avocado, 1 cup of beans.

Non-E2L items consumed today: Coffee w/ soy creamer.

Felt pretty good throughout the day and I wasn't really hungry except for a little bit between breakfast and lunch. I actually kinda had to make myself eat the stir fry 'cause I was pretty full from the salad at dinner.