I thought I was doing good; working out everyday, burning calories, watching what I eat etc. I was sore as I mentioned, and tired, but not so much that I didn't think I was doing well. I've struggled with the eliptical, I just couldn't seem to stay on for any continuous length of time longer than 5 minutes, so a 30 min. workout took 45 min, then of course there was hitting the weights. Then Tuesday came and that's the day of the week for me that if even 1 thing is off schedule, workout isn't going to happen, and guess what? Yep, about 3 things went long or got added and I couldn't work out Tuesday, so I got an unintentional day of rest; so come Wednesday, I'm ready to get back at it so I get on the eliptical and the most amazing thing happened--I did my 15 minute warmup non-stop and I could have kept going!!! It was amazing! Next is Thursday so I go in about 15 minutes earlier than planned because I'm gonna test myself, see how long I can go before rubbery legs and sore knees hit...30 minutes and I can still keep going!! Well of course I don't, I go into the weight training that Rocky (Our Trainer) set up. I had been hitting the eliptical at home also, trying and trying to build that endurance with just no luck, my legs would burn, knees would hurt, lungs would suck in air...then BAM! I'm cranking out a full 30 minute warm-up. God gave us a day of rest for a reason...use it.
I had a couple of people comment to me about the length of my last post so when I have xtra stuff to post, I'll post them in the comment section of the post so you don't have to read them if you don't want to...like this post is an awesome recipe my wife found and made for us...problem was not eating all in one sitting :)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Decisions Decisons
I have a dilema...how often to work out? Right now I'm fired up and want to work out whenever possible, but in the back of my mind I wonder if I do that, will I burn out; so I only work out 1 time a day at the gym for an hour and then do stuff at home...we have an eliptical and a Bowflex (insert circled R here for trademark). What I really want to do is go to the gym 2 times a day but I just fear burning out and then not going at all which would be worse. So at this point, like I said, I'm going 1/day to the gym and doing stuff at home.
The food lifestyle change is going good. Haven't had anything but water in over a week now. Friends and others keep telling me about these things called....oh what was it...oh yeah, "Diet" drinks. Sweet drinks as I think I mentioned previously, are my downfall. Pepsi (another circled R here) especially, and fruit juices (speaking of devious things...you'd think fruit juice would be healthy...I mean in the back of your head you know it really isn't but you grasp at anything to justify eating/drinking something you shouldn't) are really dangerous for me, I should have been in a program for Soda recovery...what I'm trying to say is that I don't even want to drink Diet Pepsi(circle R) or Crystaly Light((R)) etc. because I won't stop at just one, or I'd go back to justifying fruit juice once and then since I know fruit juice isn't really healthy then I can just say "Oh well, I've already blown it might as well go all the way" then you find me in the minute mart with my head under the Pepsi( (R) ) fountain like Pauly Shore drinking Slurppee ( (R) ) in the movie Encino Man. Not pretty.
I'm keeping my calorie count right around 1200/day and I'm going to try that as long as I can, but it's getting harder, the workouts have really boosted my metabolism and I can feel myself getting hungry more often...oh, I guess I should explain. Rocky, the Porterville trainer, has me eating 5 - 7 SMALL meals per day instead of 3 and always, Always, ALWAYS!!! breakfast. I was good about 3 squares/day, but of course they were very large squares. So now I'm eating smaller, healthier meals more often daily example for those that might need a bit of help:
Breakfast ( 7:30): 1/2 cup oatmeal and water 130 calories (can do light oatmeal for 100 cal)
Snack (9:30): 6 oz fat free Yogurt & water 100 calories (there are brands that are 80 cal)
Snack 11:30: 1.3 oz cereal bar & water 130 calories
Lunch 1:00: Turkey sandwich, ( use low carb whole grain bread and read label on turkey)
veggies (1cup) 1 med Orange
& Water 210 calories
Snack 2:30 6 oz Yogurt & water 100 calories
Dinner 6:30 (recipe my wife made not
sure ingredients) but 2, 2 oz hamburger patties (called Oriental Salsibury
steak) Green Salad with vinegreete or Balsamic dressing & water
500 calories
Total Calories for this day 1220
you do this and you keep hunger at bay and you are eating way healthy. And maybe for some people the "Water will fill you up" may be true, but it doesn't keep me from being hungry. This does, eat small and more often...and KEEP A JOURNAL!!! it really does keep you honest; and you need to right everything down...if you have a cracker as you're walking by the counter...write it down! its amazing how fast it adds up.
Anyway, this is where I'm at as of this post...Do more exercise? Drink diet drinks? I'm gonna go with what the Holy Spirit seems to be telling me...Slow and steady wins the race...push where and when you can, but don't burn out, its a long race.
The food lifestyle change is going good. Haven't had anything but water in over a week now. Friends and others keep telling me about these things called....oh what was it...oh yeah, "Diet" drinks. Sweet drinks as I think I mentioned previously, are my downfall. Pepsi (another circled R here) especially, and fruit juices (speaking of devious things...you'd think fruit juice would be healthy...I mean in the back of your head you know it really isn't but you grasp at anything to justify eating/drinking something you shouldn't) are really dangerous for me, I should have been in a program for Soda recovery...what I'm trying to say is that I don't even want to drink Diet Pepsi(circle R) or Crystaly Light((R)) etc. because I won't stop at just one, or I'd go back to justifying fruit juice once and then since I know fruit juice isn't really healthy then I can just say "Oh well, I've already blown it might as well go all the way" then you find me in the minute mart with my head under the Pepsi( (R) ) fountain like Pauly Shore drinking Slurppee ( (R) ) in the movie Encino Man. Not pretty.
I'm keeping my calorie count right around 1200/day and I'm going to try that as long as I can, but it's getting harder, the workouts have really boosted my metabolism and I can feel myself getting hungry more often...oh, I guess I should explain. Rocky, the Porterville trainer, has me eating 5 - 7 SMALL meals per day instead of 3 and always, Always, ALWAYS!!! breakfast. I was good about 3 squares/day, but of course they were very large squares. So now I'm eating smaller, healthier meals more often daily example for those that might need a bit of help:
Breakfast ( 7:30): 1/2 cup oatmeal and water 130 calories (can do light oatmeal for 100 cal)
Snack (9:30): 6 oz fat free Yogurt & water 100 calories (there are brands that are 80 cal)
Snack 11:30: 1.3 oz cereal bar & water 130 calories
Lunch 1:00: Turkey sandwich, ( use low carb whole grain bread and read label on turkey)
veggies (1cup) 1 med Orange
& Water 210 calories
Snack 2:30 6 oz Yogurt & water 100 calories
Dinner 6:30 (recipe my wife made not
sure ingredients) but 2, 2 oz hamburger patties (called Oriental Salsibury
steak) Green Salad with vinegreete or Balsamic dressing & water
500 calories
Total Calories for this day 1220
you do this and you keep hunger at bay and you are eating way healthy. And maybe for some people the "Water will fill you up" may be true, but it doesn't keep me from being hungry. This does, eat small and more often...and KEEP A JOURNAL!!! it really does keep you honest; and you need to right everything down...if you have a cracker as you're walking by the counter...write it down! its amazing how fast it adds up.
Anyway, this is where I'm at as of this post...Do more exercise? Drink diet drinks? I'm gonna go with what the Holy Spirit seems to be telling me...Slow and steady wins the race...push where and when you can, but don't burn out, its a long race.
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