First off, I just wanted to thank all of you so very much for the support! It's encouraging to know that people are rooting for you from far away! :) I'm one of those Words of Affirmation types of people (give a shout out to The Five Love Languages!) and so the more encouragement and well wishes, the better for me! If I at all sound like I'm falling behind and not reaching my goal, please, please, please knock some sense into me! Or better yet pray that God will smack me upside the head so that I keep doing what I need to do to build a healthy life!
Now that we have gotten that out of the way, I think I have devised a plan so far of how this whole thing is going to go down. I have decided to weigh myself every morning, track what I have eaten through out the day and then tally up my calories. I'm going to shoot to eat around 1200 calories a day. I'm going to work out for an hour hoping to burn roughly 500 calories. (today I only burned 460 calories)
So far for exercising routines, or what have you, I have ran on the elliptical machine for 30 mins lifted weights for about 5 mins and then ran for another 30...I think if I get tired of the elliptical, I'll do my Jillian work out DVDs.
I'm happy to hear any suggestions of workouts, recipes, or any other tips that you want to throw out. I'll be happy to try them and see if they work for me! I'm really excited about this and so far so good! I have a feeling that I'll be sticking with it this time....keep those fingers crossed!
Weigh-in: 234.8
Things eaten:
2 pieces of multi grain toast, (sadly with butter)=200 calories
1 cup of turkey sausage, cabbage soup (it tastes a lot better than it sounds)=280 calories
1 serving of blue corn chips=280 so sad that 12 chips adds up to my soup.....this doesn't seem fair
1 dove chocolate with almonds=42 you know how hard it is to eat just one?
Smartfood white cheddar popcorn 1 bag=100
chicken breast with roasted veggies=300
Calories burned: 460
If my math has served me right (I'm an art major...but yet I work at a bank) my total calories=742
We'll see how this goes....I might end up needing a snack.....
Hi Andee! Congratulations on your hard work! I just wanted to let you know that I have been working on the same goal and have been using livestrong.com to track my food and calories and it's super easy and free!!! Easy way to keep track. You can track your activity there too and it will give you back some calories depending on how much you burn. It graphs your weight for you too. Check it out if you'd like. It's been a great help for me. Way to go! Keep it up!
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