DISCLAIMER-- I've never blogged before. And I fully recognize that I'm probably not that interesting. I also recognize that I need to do this to keep up speed so that I don't get distracted and "fall off the wagon". That being said...
Monday, July 20 marked an important day. On that day, two good friends of mine and I started an 8 week fitness plan. We also started a nutrition plan, which is mostly likely more important for me than the exercise. I think if I throw myself into tracking and writing about all of this, I'll be much more likely to stay interested (and not so much 'oohhh shiny'). Maybe it'll even inspire someone else. We've already gotten two of my co workers motivated to try out parts with us, so yay!
As far as nutrition goes, I pretty much live off Mountain Dew, Hot Pockets, and Chips Ahoy. And it's been wonderful, don't get me wrong. I generally feel like crap though, and need to cut out major amounts of sugar (read: I don't want to be on an insulin sensitizer-again).
"1. No sugar
2. No alcohol
3. No white carbs
4. Anytime fruit, milk or sweet veg (corn and peas) are consumed, protein must
also be consumed.
5. An effort will be made to eat something at least once every four hours.
6. Diligence regarding vitamins / supplements.
7. Stay hydrated.
8. Keep a food journal
Caloric Needs per Day
Calories: 1300 - 1900 depending on level of activity.
Fiber: 21 - 25g - I don't know a lot about the soluble / insoluble values...
Protein: 0.4 per kg of body weight is the US recommended min. 0.8 per kg is the
max. This works out to 25 - 45g per day.
Carbs: (good carbs) 134 - 225 g per day. Ideal is around 150 - 190.
Fat: USDA recommends 30% of calories. So around 38 - 60."
Courtsey of K&M W. :)
As for the mentally much easier exercising portion, we are using an 8 week plan I found in the July issue of Prevention Magazine. You can find the article here- Turn your Walk into a Run!
Monday should have been a nice, easy start...run 1 minute, walk 3 minutes, repeat 13 times. Except I didn't double check and instead reversed the time intervals in my head! After 30 minutes of weaving in and out of neighborhoods and thinking "why the f*** have I gone so far?!?", I realized I most likely was making the first day much more difficult than it needed to be! Why wouldn't I start out in typically "Amanda"-fashion, though!?
As far as nutirtion, holy moly! I didn't miss the sugar so much, but I had a lot of trouble consuming enough calories and staying within all the other guidelines. I seemed to be at more than twice the needed amount for protein! Thankfully, after a long and painful (for her, I think) phone call with my best friend and the author of "The Rules", I came home from Wegmans with some better food choices. And sugar free peanut butter cups! Woohoo!
Tuesday- exercise for today included 30 minutes of "low impact cardio" and a series of toning moves and stretches. That worked out well because I needed to do laundry too, why not walk while the machine is going (since watching a washer is sort of like paint drying). My plan worked out great except that once again, I walked past the horse stables and got scared by a horse whinnying. Sigh...OH OH and I remembered that I really like Coke Zero, and I remembered that I have Jell-O Single Serve Instant Pudding packets...I recommend both to anyone attempting low sugar endeavors. Tuesday = happier than Monday! Since part of "The Rules" include keeping a food journal, I might enventually post part of that as my daily update...to prove it's not all that hard/actually harder than you might think. Complicated enough that the last statement is true. All in all strong start, I think!
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