Week 2 of Dieting!

Hey everybody, I am proud to say that I'm down another 2lbs this week!!! So a total of 5lbs since I've started blogging about it! So really excited about that. Training has been good, my knee is a little sore so easing up on the cardio.
Last weekends labour day Rider game was easy, I found some wrestler friends to watch the game with who completely understand the necessity of dieting and they didn't pressure me at all to eat or drink anything, they even gave me some veggies to snack on and didn't make it awkward that I brought my own crispy minis and a couple diet Pepsi's! So thanks guys!
Lots of rain this week so I'm looking forward to some sunshine for outdoor bootcamp! For those who live in Regina stop down to Les Sherman park on Wed @ 6pm for bootcamp and be in some photos that will be featured in Octobers issue of Adrenaline Magazine!!! So there it is, I spilled the beans, I am going to be in a magazine talking about Fine Tune Fitness and what its all about! So make sure you get your copy and I will be sure to post the link in this spot when the issue is out!
Also Biggest Loser #6 is starting Monday night so I super stoked to get started and see how these people will succeed! I will keep everyone posted on the successes of the group!
So my focus this week is going to be on my diet again. I have found that pre packaging my meals for a couple days in advance really has made a ton of difference. I always ate healthy but I guess where I struggled was when I was cooking my meals there was a lot of snacking that I never really noticed. So now I get home from school or the gym and my food goes in the microwave and I'm good to go! So tonight I'm gonna do my cooking for the week, also I will be doing it after I have eaten supper so that I don't snack!
So some of you may be wondering what I'm eating, well lots of chicken breasts, veggies like beets and beans that I have from the garden, also potatoes and carrots from the garden. I think these items also being home grown has made a huge difference as well. So once I'm out of that I will switch to sweet potatoes and broccoli because I like those. You have to make sure its foods that you enjoy, because if its not you will have a hard time dieting and not enjoy refueling your body. I went to an INBF Canada show in April and we had a meet and greet with all of the pros the day after competition and one of them I thought had a really great philosophy about food and eating. He said, "Everything you put in your body is used for fuel, why would you want to put anything in there that would impede your performance in the gym as well as all of your systems in your body? Feel how good it feels to eat good clean food and drink tons of water, you only have one body and take care of it and treat it with respect. Your body will respond better by being fed better. "
I took that home with me and thought of it like getting an oil change in you car, it doesn't run as well when you have dirty oil running through it. So running clean oil through it increases performance of your vehicle.
So hopefully this will give you a different view on food and how you eat. Its taken me a few years to feel like this but I understand what he was talking about. Eating like this makes you feel so much better, healthier and happier. So I challenge you to think about your food before you consume it and think, how is this going to make me feel?
Thanks to all of you for reading and comment, email, txt or tweet your thoughts about my journey, I enjoy hearing from you!