Exercise: 90 mins treadmill

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2213 calories (28% fat, 39% carbs, 30% protein)

Breakfast: 12-grain bread, peanut butter, orange (282)

AM Snack: protein shake, almonds (276)

Lunch: beef mushroom barley soup, smoked ham, apple (414)

PM Snack: protein shake, soy nuts (246)

Dinner: chili with cheese, tostidos chips, salad w/dressing (656)

Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, biscotti (340)

A really quick post as I’m planning an early morning tomorrow.  I need to do the Costco run so I’m going to try and get up early, do an hour on the treadmill first.  Then I’ll have a shower, breakfast, and do the shopping before lunch (2-ish).  I’d hoped to wait until Thursday but we’re out of lettuce.  And getting low on lunch-time meat, and eggs, and egg whites… yep, time to go!

Well, I weighed in this morning at 316.6, which is 41.6 pounds from where I started this time.  This was a much better month than I expected.  I started using the New Lifting Rules for Women as a strength training routine.  I do it three days a week, and raised my calories to kind of a bare minimum that the book suggested.  I know the book is written for women who are addressing fat/muscle percentages,  but it really does warn that weight loss is not to be expected in the first stages.  It’s about reshaping bodies, changing percentages of fat and muscle.  I really just started it to give myself structure in a weight routine.  The bonus seems to be it has kick started me into another round of loss. So, first, the monthly totals.

March 2008

• calories per day: 2246, calorie balance: -1019 per day
• treadmill: 35h 30m, weights: 1h 15m, WATP DVD: 30m,
• ice & snow shoveling: 15m, strength training: 5h
• avg daily exercise: 82 mins
• weight lost: 11.6 pounds

I just added them to the stats page if you want to compare to previous months. Now I need to think about goals for next month. I don’t set weight lost goals, as I feel I would be disappointed if I didn’t meet them. I try and set goals that will push me, but I can control if they are attainable. Although you can do certain things to help, you can’t force your body to lose weight on a schedule. So, on to the goals for April.

• Eat within plan every day (2200 Tu/Th/Sa/Su & 2600 Mo/We/Fr)
• Drink water every day (18 cups min.)
• Exercise (90 mins treadmill Mon-Fri, 30 mins strength training Mo/We/Fr)

That exercise one is probably going to change slightly.  The snow is finally melting and we’re talking about opening the pool sometime after the middle of the month.  So at that point I may substitute some of the treadmill for water exercises.  Although if it’s still cold out I may just swim for fun and just work on laps.  On the first day of May I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done. Wish me luck!