Making a commitment to write down what I ate
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Day 80: Food: Quantitiy vs. Quality
12
May
I have always believed that in order to lose weight, I HAD to eat less…SOOOO NOT TRUE.
After being on my body type diet, I feel like I am eating more, not less. I decided to tweak my food journal to include the serving sizes instead of just the calories (this isn’t a part of the program, but something I did because I noticed that writing down stuff really makes a huge difference!). Results: Amazing!
On one hand, I look like I am a cow (great – now instead of feeling like I do nothing but dispense milk to my constantly thirsty daughter, I also eat like one). Yesterday, for example, I only ate about 1500 calories – but I ate 8 cups of salad, a crystal light shake (try it: mix ice cubes with some strawberries and crystal light and a dollop of milk to make it a tiny bit creamy), 2 chicken breasts, one apple, a cup of spinach, 8 celery stalks (dipped in salsa) and an entire artichoke, plus 3 cups of sugar free hot chocolate! THAT IS A LOT OF FOOD for one person to eat! The best part is that I could have eaten a lot more if I was hungry because for the Adrenal Body Type, there are over 30 unlimited foods.
So the verdict is: when it comes to quantity vs. quality (for food) – I am definitely into quantity!
Day 62: Is Your Body Confused?
09
Apr
If you are craving carbs or sweets and you are fat, your liver is confused (remember, your liver controls the bodies fat burning hormones).
When you get stressed, your body uses more energy and needs to replace energy. Fat, to the body, is potential energy. Things that taste good make you feel good. Sugary foods and carbs get burned as quick energy
Day 62: Is Your Body Confused?
09
Apr
If you are craving carbs or sweets and you are fat, your liver is confused (remember, your liver controls the bodies fat burning hormones).
When you get stressed, your body uses more energy and needs to replace energy. Fat, to the body, is potential energy. Things that taste good make you feel good. [...]
Day 60: Diet and Exercise Downloads
01
Apr
I wanted to post some handy downloads I found for tracking progress
Day 60: Diet and Exercise Downloads
01
Apr
I wanted to post some handy downloads I found for tracking progress – one for diet and one for exercise (make that, EXTREME exercise). I received an email the other day asking me if I knew how to find out how many calories you should eat, cut, burn, etc. There are easy formulas you can use to do the math, but I found this cool spreadsheet that makes it simple. In other words, you just fill in the blanks in excel! Lovely. You can calculate your maintenance, fat loss, and/or muscle gain calorie intake and macronutrient ratios (fancy words for nutrition values) with Fat Loss Calculator v. 4 Excel spreadsheet.
Now onto the exercise part: these are great and they’re also FREE! This link is to download the P90X Worksheets in excel format. There are three versions of this workout – anyway this download is the best I have been able to find online. So, for those who failed to make copies of their workout sheets and are also doing P90X, here they are: http://www.paulymath.com/2009/02/26/p90x-log-sheet/
Enjoy!
