Beef and vegetable kebabs

Only 1 week into the program and I can already see it starting to have an impact.  I’ve also become aware of a few things about myself, which is always a good thing especially when most of them are positive.  So this is what I’ve learnt so far:

• Doing exercise puts me in a good mood.  Duh!  I know, seems obvious, but I’ve never been so aware of it before.  Even my husband noticed!  I asked him if he had and he had to think about it, and then realised that I must be, because “I haven’t gotten in trouble as much this week”.  Oops, guess my post-pregnancy moods have been a bit off.
• I like red capsicum.  This is HUGE!  I have hated capsicum for as long as I can remember.  Green is still bad.  Red has been in a few of the meals this week and in some it wasn’t great, but in others it was actually quite nice. (My mum will get a laugh out of this one!)
• I prefer cardio to weights.  This surprised me as previously if I ever went to a gym, I always preferred the weights/machines over doing a class or treadmill.  This week I’m really enjoying running and walking on the treadmill.  There’s something satisfying about it.  I’m really looking forward to being able to jog/run for 20+ minutes straight which I had just worked up to last year before I was pregnant.
• I can survive on a smaller breakfast.  I used to have a healthy but BIG breakfast – natural muesli/oats, yoghurt and fruit, but adding it up now it would be around 500 calories.  Kept me going pretty much all day if I didn’t get a chance to have lunch until 2pm or later.  The smaller breakfast is plenty to keep me going as long as I make sure I have a snack mid-morning as well.
• Cutting out sugar was easy.  Really.  I’ve done it before and suffered from headaches for a few days as my body adjusted, this time because there is still some sweetness to few things and a piece of fruit every now and then I’m going great.  No cravings, no headaches and I haven’t even been tempted to have any chocolate.
• Pregnancy was hard on my body other than the obvious visible differences.  Really hard.  My legs have some strength back in them, probably from lifting the bub down onto and off the floor several times a day – like doing squats with a slowly increasing weight – although at first just going up the stairs was hard enough.  My core and my arms are really bad though and am finding all the exercise involving them a lot harder than I thought I would.

So that’s just a few things that I’ve noticed already.  Will be interesting to see what other things I stumble across over the 12 weeks.