2011 100 Day Challenge - Day 2/100: 23rd September

Day 2, arguably the easiest day of any new endeavour. You've set your 100 day goals and today you are fired up to begin. I certainly know that is the case for me. Day 2 is easy - it's the 98 days that are left which will be the challenge.

Day 2 ofwhat I call my "no white" diet - no rice, pasta, potato's, bread, flour or sugary derivates - during my working day or at home. That does give me some lea way as I do spend a couple of days at my partners, which will now become my eat whatever I want (within reason) days. These are also going to be my alcohol days - so I am extending my "no white" to include the white wine I do enjoy but need to cut back on to lose the weight I want to finally get rid of. Does that leave room for a nice glass of red? Absolutely, but red has supposedly better attributes than its white cousin, though I am sure the wine afficianado's will tell me otherwise of course.

That's the first challenge - back to a low carb diet to shift the weight

2nd challenge - be able to run 5km by the end of the challenge. After downloading my training schedule yesterday, i'm grateful to discover it is interval training, with each week building the running time and reducing the walk between run sessions. Yesterday was relatively easy - run 1 minute, walk 1 minute and repeat 10 times... I don't normally run on the pavements, so it was a little hard on the knees - and neither do I own a watch, so am going to have to count it - and roughly guesstimate - Saturday I will be able to train Day 2 at the gym.

How are you doing so far?

Comments

[Aditi]

;No White' diet day seems to be a great way to avoid rice etc. Short term goals are easier to achieve.
Can you suggest some food that can be consumed on 'no white' diet day?

[Elle]

Absolutely, I stock up on vegetables and salad foods instead of eating the refined carbohydrate component. If you like brown rice then that may be ok for you, but for me - no, I don't eat it. So for breakfast - a boiled egg, some avocado, tomato and lots of black pepper. You can add cooked meat to this one too. Or how about an omelet with masses of veggies... And of course you continue eating whatever protein source you have chosen for your meals.