Pardon my dropping off the face of the earth (but clearly I had time to Facebook). I had a big deadline last Friday. I did meet it. Or so I thought. This morning I realized I had completely forgotten to write one article. Whoops. It's finished now.
Anyway, the winner of the Healthy Habits Challenge is....Anne K. who logged every single day and is doing P90X. Runner up is Erin M. who is doing TurboFire! Way to go, you two!
Ladies, I'll be in touch to talk about your prizes.
As for me, I have been great with my workouts and marginal on my eating. I had some sort of salty meltdown today. I still came in under my calorie total, but one of my big weaknesses is tortilla chips and I found a bag in the cupboard--I had forgotten about it--and I gobbled down a serving and a half before I reined it back.
I also ate cheese and chocolate today.
Food
Breakfast: Chocolate Shakeology, almond milk
Snack: apple, 1 oz. brie (that was the last of it, so that's good news)
Lunch: Amy's Mattar Paneer, cucumber (we're low on veggies. I grabbed a cuke and gnawed on it.), 1 oz. dark chocolate.
Snack: 2 Tbls. pumpkin seeds, 1.5 servings of tortilla chips
Dinner: 4.5 oz. of Cooking Light's smoked mustard dill salmon, roasted red potatoes, salad w/greens, tomato, cukes (not the one I gnawed on), yellow pepper, blue cheese, lemon juice, Bragg's.
Total: 1549
I'll just end up with my 500 calorie deficit today!
OK, great job for all of you who tried the challenge. My point was to just hopefully get you into a routine after the holidays! I know I'm back in the groove, so I hope you are, too.
I'm going to keep posting here because it helps my accountability immensely. Feel free to do the same.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
In Short
I have nothing good to say about today.
Rest day.
Sick kid (not terribly sick though).
No work on mountain (I'm actually OK with that).
Writing work deadlines by 5pm tomorrow.
Much chocolate consumed today. Milk chocolate makes me binge.
Made horrible Indian dinner--the house still smells.
I'm sure I'm over calories for the day, but I couldn't even begin to try and decipher the combination foods I ate today.
I'm going to bed.
Hope you had a good day. Three challenge days left!
Rest day.
Sick kid (not terribly sick though).
No work on mountain (I'm actually OK with that).
Writing work deadlines by 5pm tomorrow.
Much chocolate consumed today. Milk chocolate makes me binge.
Made horrible Indian dinner--the house still smells.
I'm sure I'm over calories for the day, but I couldn't even begin to try and decipher the combination foods I ate today.
I'm going to bed.
Hope you had a good day. Three challenge days left!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
When Do You Workout?
I know I've talked about how I get up in the morning and exercise at about 6am every morning.
Except this morning, but that's another story.
Anyway, once I read an article about when is the best time to workout. Overall, the article was saying that the best time to workout is whenever it works for you to make it a habit.
For me, that's first thing in the morning, otherwise I get going on other stuff and forget or run out of time.
But there is an actual best time of day for your body. It's between 4 - 8pm.
I'm telling you, that time would never work for me.
Today, I worked out at 5:30pm. This is a totally rare occurrence. I was exhausted this morning, so I didn't get up in time. This happens a lot when I get down to the last day or so before my rest day, which is tomorrow.
I went to a meeting and then Tara and I took three runs down the mountain. I did not fall and slide down on my back. Progress.
But I didn't want to skip my TurboFire workout. Because I couldn't stand the thought of coming on here and telling you I didn't do it.
So after my two hour conference call from 3 - 5pm, I ran downstairs and did my workout. And here's what I noticed--aside the fact that my knees were sore from skiing, I could do more moves high impact and felt more flexible when I got to the stretching part. It makes sense, of course. My bod had all day to warm up versus when I stagger down there at 6am every morning.
But I'm going to keep on with my 6am workouts because that time just works for me AND I like it that I get that metabolic boost first thing in the morning and gets me going for the whole day.
Never mind that my knees are creaking like rusty hinges.
Workouts: Skiing, HIIT 20, Stretch 10 (Surprisingly, I may not hit my calorie burn goal today, which stems from the fact that I sat nearly 4 hours of meetings today). Ugh.
Food
Breakfast
Chocolate Shakeology, almond milk
Snack
Cocoa cassava bar
Lunch
Mary's Gone Crackers flax crackers, salad w/spinach, arugula, tomato, cukes, olives, cheese (!), avocado, olive oil, lemon juice, Braggs. 1 oz. dark chocolate.
Dinner
Tortellini, sauce, parmesan cheese, garlic bread
Yikes! My calculation just said 1965 calories. That seems high, but who am I to say. I'm just at 1800 for a burn with 4 hours to go so I'll have a deficit, but not a big one. Rats.
Watching the State of the Union. This repeated jumping out of their seats to clap is annoying, but it's probably getting their heart rates up and burning calories, so I should probably do that, too.
Or not.
Except this morning, but that's another story.
Anyway, once I read an article about when is the best time to workout. Overall, the article was saying that the best time to workout is whenever it works for you to make it a habit.
For me, that's first thing in the morning, otherwise I get going on other stuff and forget or run out of time.
But there is an actual best time of day for your body. It's between 4 - 8pm.
I'm telling you, that time would never work for me.
Today, I worked out at 5:30pm. This is a totally rare occurrence. I was exhausted this morning, so I didn't get up in time. This happens a lot when I get down to the last day or so before my rest day, which is tomorrow.
I went to a meeting and then Tara and I took three runs down the mountain. I did not fall and slide down on my back. Progress.
But I didn't want to skip my TurboFire workout. Because I couldn't stand the thought of coming on here and telling you I didn't do it.
So after my two hour conference call from 3 - 5pm, I ran downstairs and did my workout. And here's what I noticed--aside the fact that my knees were sore from skiing, I could do more moves high impact and felt more flexible when I got to the stretching part. It makes sense, of course. My bod had all day to warm up versus when I stagger down there at 6am every morning.
But I'm going to keep on with my 6am workouts because that time just works for me AND I like it that I get that metabolic boost first thing in the morning and gets me going for the whole day.
Never mind that my knees are creaking like rusty hinges.
Workouts: Skiing, HIIT 20, Stretch 10 (Surprisingly, I may not hit my calorie burn goal today, which stems from the fact that I sat nearly 4 hours of meetings today). Ugh.
Food
Breakfast
Chocolate Shakeology, almond milk
Snack
Cocoa cassava bar
Lunch
Mary's Gone Crackers flax crackers, salad w/spinach, arugula, tomato, cukes, olives, cheese (!), avocado, olive oil, lemon juice, Braggs. 1 oz. dark chocolate.
Dinner
Tortellini, sauce, parmesan cheese, garlic bread
Yikes! My calculation just said 1965 calories. That seems high, but who am I to say. I'm just at 1800 for a burn with 4 hours to go so I'll have a deficit, but not a big one. Rats.
Watching the State of the Union. This repeated jumping out of their seats to clap is annoying, but it's probably getting their heart rates up and burning calories, so I should probably do that, too.
Or not.
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