Week 1 day 2

I think if I put down what day it is, then I will hopefully remember to work out. Yesterday I did pretty good, until the evening and I got very hungry and splurged on Wendy's. According towww.livestrong.com I did okay on my Calories because I worked out again, well played racquetball for about 45 min. I would highly suggest livestrong.com to anyone who is trying to loose weight but is having problems. I can work out as much as I want but if I'm not watching what I eat, then I'm pretty sure it's not going to do very much. I'd have to exercise like all day long to keep eating what I normally eat. I've also noticed that it helps my stomach as well. Sometimes I get really bad stomach pains, and I think it's from eating too much. I've noticed that because I'm watching how many calories I'm eating my stomach doesn't hurt as much. When I'm counting how many calories I'm eating I'm paying attention to how much serving size I'm giving myself. So instead of just dishing it out onto my plate I'm measuring it out and giving myself less because I want to stay within the serving size. When I do this I'm actually full when I'm done eating, not over full. I think that is a lot of people's problems with eating. They just don't look at how much they're really eating. Their eyes are saying oh yeah I can eat this but their stomach would really say otherwise. Sometimes it can be hard to calculate my calories. I like to cook my meals, and I really like to change up the recipe when I cook. A lot of online recipes have how many calories there are per serving, which is very nice. It is surprisingly easy to calculate your calories these days. In any case I think everyone should check out livestrong.com

Yesterday's work out video really worked, at least I think because I'm feeling sore today. I remember in high school when I'd play volleyball, we'd come back from summer break and everybody would be very sore. Your legs would hurt just to sit down, and you find yourself trying to sit down in awkward ways trying NOT to use any of your leg muscles. Usually you end up just falling down. So needless to say I am NOT sitting on the floor because getting up would be too much muscle effort. I just need to work out some more so my legs can get use to it.

I just finnished the video. It was surprisingly a lot easier this time. My legs still hurt and will probably hurt even more later on, but I feel good because I'm keeping at it. I can already tell though, that I want to do something different tomorrow. You are suppose to switch it up. I'm thinking 30 min on the Wii Fit tomorrow. I looked it up online, and I don't know that it's 100% accurate but it says that doing the Slim in 6 video burns 400 calories. The place I looked it up also said it's really based on your heart rate per min, and how intense you work out. I feel like I usually try to push my self as much as I can, so I said that I burned 400 calories doing it. I tried measuring my heart beat, but it's hard because my heart beat has always been fast even when I'm just relaxing. I could count fast enough, I kept missing a beat. So i just decided to base it on how hard I work out.

I think not eating after 9:00 pm is also a very good idea. According to the Wii Fit your body has a harder time processing food later at night because when you go to sleep you're not really burning the calories you just ate. This is one I have a hard time with. I get so hungry late at night. I think if I went to bed earlier then it wouldn't be so hard.

I have also read that you need to start out with a big breakfast. I've read that people who skip breakfast actually end up eating more than they would if they had ate a bigger breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it gets you going and keeps your body going throughout the rest of the day. Breakfast for me was frozen hash browns and bacon. It was very yummy and filling.

I kept the cooking simple today. I decided to make some slow cooker pinto beans. Pinto beans are easy to make, yummy, have low calories, and filling.