Hi everyone,
As my blog begins and evolves, I’d like to share a mix of my everyday menu’s, workouts and a 'theme' for the day. Today’s topic is about commitment (might as well start with a big one). The commitment I’m addressing is the commitment you make to eating clean (preparing and eating unprocessed foods) and to doing a workout of some kind most everyday (then it becomes habit).
You might say "but, I work fulltime", or "the kids are off school", or "I’m just too tired". Here are some questions you might want to ask yourself: "Is making a commitment to my job, my spouse, my kids and my friends more important than me?" Why am I on the bottom of this list? Do you want more energy (for all the before mentioned reasons)? Do you want better long term health?
If so, then making a commitment to you, to your eating and exercise, should be a top priority! We will pursue many ideas in future blogs about positive eating choices, and different directions for workout ideas.
Start with baby steps and let’s try them together.
Monday 6/29 workout:
Power walked 50 minutes (about 3 miles- if you’d like to find out exactly how far you walked outside, try utilizing www.MapMyRun.com. It’s great)
Total 30 minutes w/weights as follows:
Strength Trained- chest (with weights in my basement)
Flat bench bar press- 29lbs
Pushups 3 sets of 10
Seated Chest Push (20lb)
Lying dumbbell flye (15lb)
Hand flye (1 resistance tube)
Incline bench dumbbell press (15lb)
Monday 6/29 Food Diary
Breakfast-
Old Fashioned Oatmeal with berries/mango A.M. Snack- Apple, 12 almonds
Lunch-
4oz fake crabmeat
2 cups raw spinach,
tomato,
snap pea’s asparagus
P.M. Snack- Soft Serve Yogurt (yes…but it was great for my soul!)
Dinner-
3 7/8 oz scallops
Yellow pepper
Whole Tomato
Dessert-
Homemade popcorn
Grapefruit
Total calories- 1234
I felt full and was pleased with my workout.