Check Up!

Hey, I just wanted to do a quick check-up!

The Good:

Well I am still motivated to lose the weight.

The Bad:

I ate a whole lotta junk this weekend. I am going to switch my focus from calories to good nutrition. The reason being that you can still eat unhealthy foods as long as they are within your calorie range. I feel like this can teach you moderation to some extent, but when you are combating serious unhealthy eating habits, it becomes to much work to log in your pizza intake. I prefer just keeping my blog as my journal. The calorie counter website was giving me a headache. A lot of the foods I eat where not even listed. I think I am going to stop being lazy and go back to the whole foods diet! I wasn't definitely smaller when my focus was on eating foods that were good for me.

The New Plan:

I am going on the whole foods diet. The whole foods diet is a way of eating where you focus on eating foods that are good for you and cutting out foods that are not good for you. You do this by eating fruits and vegetables and shying away from proccessed, packaged goods and fast food. This way of eating requires you to work for your food, by shopping frequently and cooking almost daily. I use to live this way for several years and I never was excessively over weight. This way of eating will produce gradual weight-loss, but I think it will be a better way for me to know when I am doing good with my eating and when I am eating poorly. I may still keep a food journal, I just won't be tracking the calories. I may just add it at the end of each night to my blog, or something.

On the exercise tip:

I did have fun doing the biggest loser work out dvd. I previewed the Jillan Michael's thirty day shred. I really am not all that thrilled about the indoor routine. I like walking our doors a whole lot more. I just want to add in some strength training and maybe some yoga. I am going to check out the power sculpting video tonight, but I may just create my own strength training workout routine to do on monday's, wednesday and friday's for twenty-minutes. I don't really like the cardio combination strenght moves. We shall see. In the meantime I am focused on getting my walks in this week! I really need to add in those weekend walks even if it is for thirty-minutes.

Well that is all for now folks.

CLM