{"id":2002,"date":"2016-01-06T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:48:04","slug":"my-fitness-journey-day-2-tuesday-04-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"My Fitness Journey \u2013 Day 5 (Tuesday, 04 January 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now\u00a0I am on my fourth\u00a0day of my fitness journey. Was a good day overall. In terms of exercise, I managed to get in 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer, and the second spinning class (60 minutes) for the week.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of food:<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scrambled eggs<\/li>\n<li>Turkey bacon<\/li>\n<li>Vegetable Juice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lunch<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken capri (leftovers)<\/li>\n<li>Cucumber and Mushroom salad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dinner<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolivian spiced porkchops<\/li>\n<li>South Beach Mashed &#8220;Potatoes&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Oven roasted veggies<\/li>\n<li>Lime Jello (sugar free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snacks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laughing cow cheese and some celery (although it isn&#8217;t right to call this a snack, I ate it as soon as I got back from the gym because I was starving and food prep and cooking for dinner took 45 minutes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u00a0felt much less hungry. Or should I say that I felt full on eating less. However, because I am doing cardio and not strength training, I feel okay to come in significantly under my calorie budget. On the days that I do weight training, I will strive to come within 500 calories of my goal. But again, not going crazy with the counting.<\/p>\n<p>I did notice that some work-related stress had me craving something &#8220;sweet&#8221; like some chocolate or something like that. It was the first time I realised that I potentially stress-eat and\u00a0if it is true, I need to find other ways to deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now\u00a0I am on my fourth\u00a0day of my fitness journey. Was a good day overall. In terms of exercise, I managed to get in 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer, and the second spinning class (60 minutes) for the week. In terms of food: Breakfast Scrambled eggs Turkey bacon Vegetable Juice Lunch Chicken capri (leftovers) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Fitness Journey \u2013 Day 5 (Tuesday, 04 January 2016)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}