Dinner and Day 1 Wrap-Up

3 PM two hard boiled eggs.

Today went fabulously. I wasn't hungry and didn't feel deprived. AT. ALL. I think I can hang with this for 30 days! We'll see.

I can tell already that I am going to be super sore from the workout. Amazing how a few simple modifications affected it.

I guess I'll finish off the half & half I have and then buy cream next time I go shopping. Otherwise I think my food choices were right on.

Still waiting on the supplements I ordered.


Oh ya, and I had 3 liters of water today.

So far so good.

5 PM Dinner: Turkey Sausage, Kale, White Bean and Tomato Stew. Recipe from the Jan/Feb issue of Muscle & Fitness hers. YUM! I've never had kale, love it. Who knew?

Afternoon mmmm

1:30 Coffee with half and half and cinnamon. I think I will try to cut this second cup per day out slowly. The half and half is off the plan I think. He says cream and only 2 Tblsp. Is that per day? Is half and half totally wrong here, anyone know?
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Lunch

11:55 am: 1/2 cup black beans, 4 oz chicken breast, 1 roma tomato. Sprinkled with a little garlic salt and cayenne pepper and microwaved for 2.5 minutes then topped with a couple Tblsps of corn, black bean and roasted pepper salsa. Might sound weird, but was yum.
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Workout 1

Sorry for the bazillion posts today, I'll try to get it together and condense into one post tomorrow. Just testing out posting from my phone today.


OK, so for my workout I did Xtreme Timesaver Training incorporating the suggestions from The 4 Hour Body. I don't have kettlebells, so I felt this was closest to the whole cardio/weights at once concept. I went a little higher on the weights and slowed the moves down to the 5/5 cadence he recommends and went to failure instead of a minute like usual with this DVD. My muscles feel like jell-o, holy cow! I also added dead lifts with my new 20 lb weights and the ab exercises from the book. 


Polar HR Monitor said I burned 242 calories.


Phew!

Breakfast

8:10 Monster Omelet! 2 eggs, 1/2 cup egg whites, mushrooms, spinach. Sprinkled with salt, pepper, and cayenne. Filled with 1/2 cup black beans. Mmmmm
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Morning Coffee

7:40--Coffee with Half and Half and Cinnamon. Testing out emailing posts/pics from my phone!
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Track, Track, Tracking...

Tomorrow I start my Hype or Help series on my main blog. My first experiment being Tim Ferriss's new book the 4-Hour Body. I thought a lot about how to do my tracking for this. I'll be sharing weekly posts on my main blog, but I also want to track my food intake, workouts, etc. I usually use a fitbook or sparkpeople, but I wanted to do this more publicly than those options..so, I started this blog.

I've always heard that studies say people who track consistently lose more weight than people who don't. In The 4-Hour Body Tim Ferriss says:  "...tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes." To me, this whole losing weight, getting fit journey is about behavioral changes. So, track I will. He also discusses a study where people took pictures of everything they ate. This is how I've decided to track my diet. I'll be doing daily posts on this blog with pics of everything I eat. Even the higher calorie day I'll be doing once a week!

I'll also be posting my workouts here. I recently got a new Polar HR monitor, so I'll be tracking that data too.

So, off I go...track, track, tracking!