Did you know there are 600 calories in a blueberry muffin from costco and almost 700 for a chocolate muffin? My breakfast this morning wasn't even 400 and I had bacon.
When I count calories I begin to realize how much I eat. I don't eat a lot of food but I eat a lot of high calorie food.
You see I am on a mission to loose 8 pounds by June 21. It seems a lot but since I fluctuate 3 pounds anyway, I figure I only need to loose 5. I hope I am right because my trainer says she is going to make me pay if I don't and since I already have a hard time with her I don't want to know what the payment will be.
I started thinking about the things I need to do to lose this weight. I wondered how I did it when I was young. Yes being young helped, I metabolized a lot of the calories just be being young and active. I was very active. I walked everywhere. Now I am lucky if I do 30 -60 minutes of workout a day if I push myself. It is time I bumped it up. I was watching a info-commercial about a workout called "Insanity" which is an appropriate name. But as I watched it, I was thinking, that is how fit I want to be. I want to do those moving pushups or jumps. I want to be healthier but I want to be strong and fit. So I was thinking what I can do.
Well, one things is to make sure I go to the gym everyday (except Sunday) and work out. Not just swim but work on my strength training. Amanda has given me a lot of things I can do. There is one called the plank. I am supposed to hold it for 30 seconds. Well that is good but 35 seconds is better and once I do ok with this then 40 seconds is even better. She had me do some calisthenics that I want to do better at (especially the spider man crawl) I can swim for 40 minutes, it is time to make it 45 and so forth. Here is the cool part. I do not have to go to the gym to do a lot of this. It doesn't mean I am not going to the gym, I don't have a pool in the backyard! But I can randomly do things (like the plank)
Goal for this week loose 3-4 pounds (preferably 4) and drink 8-12 glasses of water everyday!
Oh yeah, and count calories!
You can do it! Remember years ago when you began teaching me about nutrition? You have your skills it's just a matter of taking things one decision at a time, one meal at a time - you can do it!
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