Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!!! I feel like I'm doing pretty well with the plan. I am logging everything when I put it in my mouth. I'm not really sure how to log my exercise though. I mean to me it may be an intense workout where someone else may consider it moderate. I always err on the side of less is better but I work out hard and If I need to eat more points then I would like to know it.
Three days a week I do 20 mins on the elliptical machine at level 6-7 I make sure I keep my heart rate somewhere between 150-160 sometimes it gets a little higher. Then I do the circuit on the weight machines upper body and lower body, squats, lunges, sit ups and reverse crunches.... I usually do 15 reps of each and do the circuit at least three times. (Usually takes me between 40-50 min for the whole workout) On Tuesdays and thursdays we have a personal trainer at work who has a bootcamp workout which usually consists of 50 min workout with a warm up (jumping jacks stretches) then agility sprints, karaokes, lunges, high knees, skipping, then we have a 5 minute run. Then the real workout starts. We usually do interval work. This consists of 30 seconds of crunches followed by a sprint down and back, squats for 30 seconds with a sprint down and back, lunges for 30, sprint down and back, squat presses, jumprope, planks, pushups then we have a abdominal work out usually crunches or situps, reverse sit ups, oblique sit ups and throw downs...then we all want to die.
I just don't want to overwork out for the amount of food I'm consuming.
Right now I'm building alot of muscle, I can tell because I'm dropping inches really quickly but not really loosing lbs. I'm ok with that because I know it will eventually turn around and be the other way.
Is anyone else working out? I won't ever give up my workouts because they keep me sane. (by the way we have a gym at work and a personal trainer and my company will pay you to use one hour of your work day to go work out....so no excuses not to go)
~Elizabeth
