Day 1

Today started my new regime. It helped that I didn't wake up until 12:30 p.m. haha. In my defense, I was at work until 3 a.m. so its not like I slept for twelve hours or something outrageous like that. According to the five week plan that I'm following I am allowed to eat up to 1000 calories today. I've been sipping on green tea throughout the day. I highly recommend green tea to everyone. It has ZERO calories, boosts your metabolism, and (for me at least) helps to fill you up when even water fails. I heated up a can of fit and active soup (Hey, even a college-budget Aldi shopper can find healthy food) which is 240 calories alltogether. I only ate about half of it, and I'm saving the rest for 6:30ish tonight so that it will be easier to get through my evening. I'm not allowing myself to eat after 7 p.m. no matter what. It is much harder for your body to digest food after that time. Even yesterday when I ate my normal "diet" meals (Usually consisting of salads, turkey sandwiches, and yet more soup) I decided not to eat after 7 just to see how well I could control myself. I did really well, ate nothing, and lost three pounds! My weight loss to date (from the start of my healthy "diet" which was two months ago) is 44.4 pounds.

Also according to the five week plan is to exercise (obviously). During this first week I am supposed to do 100 crunches a day and 2 hours of running a week. I did my crunches, but for several reasons I am exchanging the running out for alternate cardio sources. One reason being I was diagnosed with sciatica several years ago, and running for extended periods of time tends to make me hunch over like an old lady. Two, it is flipping FrEeZiNg outside! Screw that. Three, and the main reason, is that I am much too overweight right now to even consider RUNNING for longer than like a minute. However, I know how important exercising is, so here is how I've chosen to replace running:

2 hours of cardio a week equals about 20 minutes a day for 6 days. I have an exercise video that keeps you on your feet, and moving, for 20 straight minutes. After that, on three of those days I'm going to do strength training as well. I believe this is an even trade.

Welp, that's all for my first day. Gotta go do my cardio!

~ThInSpO~