Anyway, I took Tara's advice and checked out SparksPeople.com. It's really helping me keep my caloric intake under control. It's pretty much a goal-organizer. You input what your goals are (your current weight, your goal weight) and how much you want to lose a week. I said I wanted to lose about 30 lbs at 2 lbs/week. It figured that my ending date should be May 6. Our anniversary is May 8, so I actually changed my ending date to the 8th.
Then it gave me a suggested diet and workout program. It said how many calories I need to consume in a day to keep me on track and then I input the foods. It keeps track of my calories, carbs, fats, and proteins. It also helps me remember to drink 8 cups of water a day. Then I can add other goals I want to achieve. I've decided to monitor my sleep (at least 8 hr/night) and a reminder to take my daily vitamin (I always forget that!).
This first week with an online tracking system has been helpful. My suggestion is, if you need help figuring out your food, just check it out. It gives you the option to use their menu or add your own food. My only concern is that I don't know how many calories I burn using Insanity, so I may not be taking in quite enough calories.
Speaking of Insanity, if you are wondering if it's a program you'd be interested in, let me just say this.....
In the words of Shaun T (the Insanity creator), "That #$%@! is ba-nanas, yo!!" Twice this week I was scheduled to do the Pure Cardio workout. It's a little freaky when the instructor finishes the warm up and stretch with you and then says, "I'll be really honest with you, I'm really nervous about what's coming up." Uh, hello? I don't have the kick-butt abs he does. How the heck am I supposed to keep up? But I try and it's actually one of my favorite workouts.
If you're considering Insanity or P90X, I can tell you that you'll probably only love one workout or the other. Insanity is so much cardio and P90X is so much strength training. I love cardio, therefore I really like Insanity. Josh loves strength training and weights, therefore I think he'd like P90X much more. You know, in case you were wondering.
Anyway, it was actually a pretty successful week, despite my winter blues. I'm getting past those blues. Josh and the kids have been loving and patient with me. Tara watched the kids for us last night so Josh and I could head over the to Mesa Temple. That helped a lot.
I hope you had a good week!
How'd you do??
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I think I did pretty good this week. For me anyway. I've always been good at my portion sizing. And watching what I eat, but this week I was able to work out!! YAY!! Usually when I do, my stomach really starts hurting. But this week I was able to do it!! Soon I'll be able to do more during the week. Just trying to take it slow and easy.
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