Day 1

Today is the big day!

I started out my morning with 55 minutes of Just Dance 4 for Wii. I was going to do Zumba, but not feeling quite so ambitious.

Started out getting myself together with Nexercise, I turned it on and put it in my arm band to track my movements. I chose the Electro Fight Combo Class thing, that was supposed to be 45 minutes (well they lied about that)... Basically it incorporated short bursts of kick-boxing in between the songs. (Which btw I was fortunate enough to dance to both Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj!! Good times... good times..) By the end I was, as I predicted, sweaty and smelly.. no rush of endorphin, nothing. I feel a little better now than I did immediately after. More than anything I was just thankful to be done for the day!

But when working out before breakfast, when you finish, you feel as though you deserve a huge reward breakfast!! A big yummy plate of eggs, and bacon and toast! ... I had 1 cup of Post Shredded wheat and 1/3 of a cup of milk, for a total of 204 calories. Since I cleaned up my room about 10 minutes for 40 calories, and Danced my ass off for about 55 minutes I burned exactly 421 calories. So I only used up about half of my calories from working out to eat breakfast.

That means I have 1,734 calories of my daily allotted 1,517. Before when I was doing this system my first thought would be "Great now I can have that big bowl of ice cream!!" This time, my thought is "Hmmm can I keep my total intake way below my allowance?" So instead of eating up my 1,517 plus 421... (which would be... lets see.. carry the 1, square root....) 1,938 calories, I am hoping to just eat about 1,000 to 1,100 of them.

Since I do meal planning I think I will be adding into each post that I do what I am making for dinner, and the recipe for it.

Tonight's dinner will be Panko breaded baked tilapia, with spinach and whole wheat dinner roll.

Panko Breaded Baked Tilapia (Recipe taken from a Pinterest post. Panko breaded pork chops.)

I did the breading on pork chops the first time I did them, then I thought about all the other things I could cook that way. And I really enjoyed the idea of breading fish with it! 

5 tilapia fillets
canola oil (for browning first)
2 c. panko
4 tbsp Parmesan cheese
3 tbsp parsley
1 c. flour
4 eggs beaten
kosher salt
pepper

You'll want to preheat the oven to 375* and season the fillets with salt and pepper. I also seasoned with a little garlic powder, just because I love garlic.

Get out 3 shallow bowls, in 1 bowl mix panko, Parmesan, parsley and salt (again I added a few other spices for taste: oregano, basil, garlic and a little bit of fresh cracked pepper). In the next bowl put the cup of flour, and the last one the eggs. Arrange them as flour, then eggs, then panko. Heat a pan with oil on med-high heat. Coat the fillets in the flour, then egg and then panko (the panko is loose and tends to fall off, so smoosh it into the fillet really hard). Brown the fillets in pan until brown and crunchy. With the pork chops it took about 3-4 minutes per side. Then take them out of the pan and out them into a baking dish. Bake them, uncovered, until the internal temp is about 145*. Depending on the thickness of your fillets, this shouldn't take long. I would guess about 15-20 minutes or so.

1 serving of this (1 fillet) is 347 calories.

I will let you know what the final outcome of this is tomorrow. I am looking forward to my family's reaction to the meal.

Hmmm with all this talk about food, I wonder what I'll do for lunch!


Question of the Day:

What are you having for dinner?