Whooooohooo!! Weigh In Day!

Well it has been one week, one week of wrapping my head around the changes I have begun...

One of the FIRST things I did last week, was to "dump" the fridge... I went through it, tossing out the "garbage" empty calories, like Icing for cake... I can still have cake if I want to, just will skip the icing and go for something more healthy, like a fruit puree over it.

Anyhow, I got up this morning, crossed my fingers and toes, prayed that I had lost something in this past week.

Now the scale I have is a professional Bio-ped Scale, I tell it my age, gender, activity level... it tells me good new, bad news and mixed news... sometimes more than I care to know lol!!

It tells me my percentage of body fat for example and if I want to stay at that weight, how many calories I have to eat to keep that weight.

So the GOOD NEWS IS.... I am down 3 & 1/2 pounds in one week!!! Yaaaaaaaay for me!!! lol!

Now next week, I have a reasonable goal, going for 5lbs... the dietary intake is perfect now, so it is the exercise that I am going to increase.

This past week, I worked at getting up to (by Sunday) 20 min on the Elliptical and 20 min on the Treadmill with Level 1 programs that I could complete... I also burned over 300 Calories total, based on my weight, program and time. Now those little readouts that tell you how many calories you have burned, don't take them as "cast in stone", they are just a "general number" but, if you have to add in your weight... they are better than the ones based on the time and what you do.

So this week, I start the Journals, putting it off one day, starting Tuesday instead of Monday, it was back to school day... just too much on the go.

I am on average eating 4-5 times per day and yummy food! I refuse to give up my Lattes, I make them at home, so I know exactly what is in it lol!! And today, because of the insanity in the mornings lol!! I bought a Woman's Whey Vanilla Protein powder, with no additives, preservatives, colors or lactose in it. And its high in fibre!

This way, those crazy paced mornings, I can toss a banana in there with some flax seed and out the door, have my Latte when I get back home... hit the gym and then have my lunch a couple of hours later.

Recipes coming!!! :o)