Questions

What I'm researching:

Where's the best place to food shop?

• http://spoonuniversity.com/learn/trader-joes-vs-whole-foods-actually-shopping/?utm_source=usa-today-college&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=content-partnerships
• http://m.sfgate.com/food/article/Trader-Joe-s-vs-Whole-Foods-A-price-comparison-6462560.php
• Google Maps (I live near everything)

Which is cheaper, fresh or frozen?

• http://deals.ebay.com/blog/fresh-vs-frozen-which-is-less-expensive-which-is-more-nutritional/
• Above article suggests buy frozen unless it is artichokes, asparagus, or carrot

What's this paleo diet all about?

• http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/10/04/the-beginners-guide-to-the-paleo-diet

Which is better, cage free foul or grass fed beef, if you can only get one?

• http://recycledpetsnorcal.org/jargon-of-meat/
• What I got from the above article is that organic eggs are healthier and is okay to be an omnivore

When is too much cardio too much?

• http://www.muscleforlife.com/how-much-cardio/
• http://www.muscleandfitness.com/workouts/workout-tips/cardio-training-and-your-heart
• http://www.spinning.com/community/top-10-benefits-ride-spinner-bike

Can chicken deals be paleo?

• http://paleogrubs.com/chicken-salad-recipes
• The answer is yes and there is a mayo recipe

Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey feast! Still completely off diet. This calorie counting thing is not working, and had never worked for me. Time to reevaluate.

Postponed strength training (again) until next week. Not feasible with the travel. I only had the ability to get in one of my regular cardio sessions this week, let alone add new stress to my body.

I'm planning on adding a step and sculpt class this coming Tuesday to get me started. Something is better than nothing, and while I have the ability to take classes, I might as well, because it gets me to do SOMETHING while I build the fortitude to do it on my own.

Week 6 Recap

So I did NOT start strength training.

But I did do three cardio and two yoga. My skills are still rudimentary in all areas. And I learned that my new friend,the cardio machine, is called arc! I'm not very good at that, either, but I do my intervals like a good little cardio slave.

Last week in cycling class I met my thighs. Today I met what I think may have been my hip flexors. Not really sure. How could I be? I don't think I've ever used them!

My eating was atrocious.  Let's not even talk about it. This week is sure to go even better with the impending holiday....

Peace.

Strength Training

I was supposed to start my new strength training regiment yesterday, but the day made me tired and I got intimidated. So did some water aerobics tonight instead. It's social and I've got to do something, though I did feel bad about missing cycling tonight. I'll just hit the bike back hard next week.

I'm trying to not always just wait for next week, though. And it is working to a degree. I mean, I do think I hit the bike hard enough to get proud of progress on Monday. Just have to keep doing it and keep improving.

Some Details

This marks week 5 with the gym, week 6 of diet tracking. Classes are essential for me because I lose motivation when training individually.

What my schedule is beginning to look like.

Monday - cycling
Tuesday - goal - strength
Wednesday - cycling
Thursday - yoga
Friday - individual arc machine training and yoga
Saturday - makeup and/or strength

I'm nervous about the strength training. I already have been leaving my cycling classes early, week 4 and 5. I feel more muscle groups activating each week, and as the muscle groups I know tire out, the ones I haven't used in a while come up to bat. My legs felt like lead 30 minutes into my cycling class tonight. They. Did. Not. Want. To. Move.

This is how I'm looking at it. I can see my bike form improving in the mirror. I can see myself getting stronger (I spent more time out of the saddle this week in a half hour than I did in an hour last week). What I hope this means is that my form is improving.

That works and make sense since I'm feeling new muscle groups.

I hopefully start my strength training tomorrow. More on that later.

Been reading a lot of NerdFitness.

Week 5 Recap

If you look at the graphs in myfitnesspal I'm in the green on four days. That takes into account exercise. In reality, I was only under twice, but one of those days was today, a Saturday, a weekend! Potatoes.

As we know, in week 4 I did two cardio, one strength and two yoga sessions. I kept at it. Three cardio, one strength, and one yoga session this week. I'm going to call that comparable/better.

Habit building!

What I learned this week is that I may not keep kryptonite, aka chocolate, in the house. A box of it met an... unfortunate end on Monday. Yeah, those 2000 calories really did me in. Stupid chocolate. No more buying big packages of chocolate.

Week 4 Recap

I'm placating myself be focusing on the fact that I'm building healthy habits.

I've almost entirely cut out caloric beverages. I'm getting better at curbing food cravings (except for that day I ate all the candy). I'm building an exercise routine.

I met calories twice last week and did pretty well the other days. I was traveling this past weekend, so that went out the window. I did two cardio, one strength, and two yoga routines, and I'm slated to beat that this week. I'm discouraged by how weak my muscles are, but I guess that means I only have room to improve.

I'm experiencing weight fluctuations, but no measurable weight loss at this point, from between 209-208 to 205-204.

I'm hoping that I'll just suddenly get the hang of this and the weight will start falling off.

I can dream, right?

Week 3 Recap

I only hit goal once last week. Every other day was under 1800. Weekends don't count yet. Exercised twice, but both were mostly cardio.

No weight loss. Don't know what's up.

Fingers crossed for this week!