Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Livestrong - tracking

So when I woke up a few weeks ago and was a weight I never wanted to be in my life I went straight to the gym and worked out for a solid hour.  I came home and decided it was time to track everything I eat to be honest with myself and figure out what needed to go and what could stay.  I found the livestrong.com My Plate application that is free and started instantly to figure out what to do.  I gave the goal of 2lbs a week, figuring I would at least be able to get a pound a week and go from there.  Well it's been a week and 3 days and I have lost 6 pounds.  Of course I lost that 4 days in, but I have been holding steady and working hard.  I am no longer taking a day off from working out - I work out at least 3 times a week for a solid hour or more, and the other 4 days are 30 minutes or more.  I work at a pace that gives me slight pain, and keep that consistency up.  The good news I am find is that I do not eat much sodium or foods with very much cholesterol.  I get plenty of protein, but need to work on the fat grams.  It's not too high, but being that I do not enjoy fish, chicken is my major source of protein.  I am going to cook up some tofu this weekend and see how that goes.  Maybe tofu tacos will be my new addiction - like turkey tacos are right now :o)


I'll keep you updated and give my little hints as I take a few more weeks to get this all figured out.  I will say I am getting obsessive about this - good thing I use my addictive personality for good haha!


O and tomorrow I will be fingerprinted so that I can teach the financial ed classes to some kids from the Kyrene School District.  Nice to know that they do a detailed background check on the people allowed to be around the kids on school property :O)  Here's hoping I pass - I don't remember any nights in the clink.  Here's hoping that wasn't a weird night I never remembered haha!

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