Today's Stats

T.E.A.M. Weight Loss Day!

Calories Burned: 538
Total Miles: 2.61
Total Time: 62:14 (including cool down)
Ending Heart Rate: Forgot to take it...

It was the nutrition day when Zak the Trainer checked our food journals. My feedback was add protein at breakfast (he suggested a hard-boiled egg) and add almonds to my mid-morning snack. These are doable...

6 is the number of the week!

I swam today. I swam for 25 minutes taking ~45 second breaks between each lap. My average lap was 2 minutes and 9 seconds.

That's 6 seconds faster than last time!

I'm AWESOME!

Today at T.E.A.M. Weight Loss it was weigh in day...my first one! It hasn't been a full week for me. Only 5 days. So I was expecting a little. Hoping for not nothing. I stepped on the scale and looked my trainer right in the eye and told him that I had better have lost weight because I stuck to his stupid diet plan. He laughed at me and said, is 6 pounds enough? YES!

It was a short workout due to the weigh in and stuff. But here are my stats:

Calories Burned: 363
Total Miles: 1.46
Total Time: 39:04 (including cool down)
Ending Heart Rate: 143

Total Pounds Lost: 6!!!!!!!

Shannon can try...

So today was a good day despite Shannon's attempt to thwart my diet. It was Liz's first communion! So we went to Shannon's for the party! And she had so many treats that were NOT good. But she also had fruits and vegetables and a fabulous chicken salad sandwich! The cake, though beautiful decorated, did not sway me.



After my incredible self-control at Shannon's, I went to the gym to do some cardio. Here are my stats:

Calories Burned: 501
Total Miles: 3.10
Total Time: 65:00 (including cool down)
Ending Heart Rate: 134

I feel like I am improving. I did hills but nowhere near the incline we do at T.E.A.M. So the comparison is not completely accurate. Having said that, doing the hills program on the treadmill with the lowest incline at 2.7 and the highest at 5.7 (in comparison, at T.E.A.M. we range from 4.0 to 12.0) I went 3 mph almost the entire time. My range in total was from 2.5-4.5. At T.E.A.M. I ranged from 1.6 to 2.7. Also, at T.E.A.M. my average heart rate was in the 180s, today it was in the 160s. Even with the difference in incline, I feel like I have improved...which is awesome! Yay me!

Fajitas FTW

Today I got a free massage at the gym. It was awesome. :)

I also went swimming. I was going to do cardio, but after a massage it just seemed wrong. I swam for 30 minutes taking ~1 minute breaks between each lap. My average lap was 2 minutes and 15 seconds. It probably sounds very slow to whoever is reading this. It is. But it is my time. I am 6 seconds faster than my swimming on the 18th. So, improvement is good.

Also, from a food point of view, today was great. I was at a friend's house during lunch time and she had bought pizza and I ate a piece and was able to fit it into my meal plan for the day. Then I went out to dinner at Chilis Too. Did you know that Chilis Too does not have any vegetables?!?!?!! Here is the conversation between me and the waiter:

Me: I don't see any vegetables on the menu. Do you have a vegetable of the day or roasted vegetables or something like that?
Waiter: No.
Me: Huh. Nothing?
Waiter: No. This is a Chilis Too.
Me: ::stunned silence::

So I ordered the Steak Fajitas with extra peppers to boost my vegetable count for the day. Not only did it fit perfectly into my meal plan, but it was DELICIOUS. Surprisingly so.

I feel like today was a big victory. I did not pre-plan my meals for the day or eat them all at home and met my diet goals!!! Good day!

Pilates = FAIL

Today was my second T.E.A.M. Weight Loss class. It was a special class where we got to take Pilates... ::irritated facial expression::

I have never taken Pilates. For good reasons. In one general fitness class we did one Pilates move. It hurt. Bad. I don't want to. But I did it. Cause that's what I do. And I cannot physically do most of the moves. The ones I could, I know I did not do properly. I feel like I wasted my personal training session.

So, no momentous calorie burning today. But I have stuck to my calorie levels for two days now...

Day 1!

I started the T.E.A.M. Weight Loss program today. It was good. Not impossible, but definitely worked me out (read: kicked my butt). It is one hour on the treadmill with varying inclines and sometimes resistance bands and free weight activity with the arms. You control the speed, which is nice, to keep yourself in various zones.

The zones are defined as:

Zone 1: walk-get started/warm up
Zone 2: you feel like you want to go faster
Zone 3: its working you out, but you can still breathe through your nose easily and talk in complete sentences

We spent most of the workout in Zone 3. Not too bad. My stats:

Calories Burned: 548
Total Miles: 2.44
Total Time: 64:20 (including cool down)
Ending Heart Rate: 150

I also got my starting measurements. Will record changes in the coming posts.

I did it!

I paid for my T.E.A.M. Weight Loss membership. Tomorrow night at 6pm, I will feel the burn...

I am both excited and terrified.

It Begins...

So, I assure you I am not a horrible, mean person. But Shannon wants some competition. And she's getting it.

Tomorrow I will be paying an insane amount of money to join the T.E.A.M. Weight Loss group at Lifetime Fitness in Columbia. I am a week or two late, so I will get the pro-rated fee (score!). And I will be tracking my pound-lossage in the line chart on the right-hand side of this page.

As I commented on Shannon's post: Game. On.