In my usual impulsive manner, last night I decided to sign up for the 30-day free trial of Men's Health's online "personal trainer" service. You answer a bunch of questions about your basic health and fitness level and lifestyle, then you select from one of their meal plans and workout plans that are very flexible because you can adjust almost everything in it, but the main benefit is that it keeps track of a bunch of info and calculates things like your calorie intake and stuff without me having to count anything.
Anyway, since this was my first official day on the new program, I figured now was a good time to report and this can serve as my weekly report here for this week.
On the meal side of things, the plan I chose is the one called "Testosterone Advantage" (try not to get too excited, ladies.
) and it set my daily calorie target as between 2,530 and 2,630. I'm happy to say I clocked in at 2,546 for day one. The goal is 36% calories from protein, 32% from carbs, and 32% from fat. It hasn't given me a calculation on my results for that yet, so maybe it only does that weekly. (The bulk of the results comes in the once-weekly "check-in" which for me will be Sundays.)
A lot of the workouts require dumbbells which I don't have any of, but I'm working on that and in the meantime I simply delete those and do the non-weight exercises, which for me is already quite a workout at this point.
It starts with 5 minutes "cardio warm-up" which I mainly did my mainstay of jumping jacks and arm rolls as well as jogging in place and what I can only think to call doing the twist.
After that, I moved on to knee-tucks and crunches, which I did the prescribed 10, and then the "Back Extension: Ground" for 8 reps (it just said do the max you can do.) Finally, it was "express cool-down" stretches which felt good but are the thing that is going to have me sore in the morning.
I woke up this morning by pulling a calf muscle hard before I had even done anything at all. It was like my body was already protesting.
So, when I did the stretches I took it easy on that one and didn't push it. No sense in injuring myself on day one of actually semi-following a plan.
Tomorrow's workout says 30 minutes of "Speedwalking." I have a feeling that is a little much for me, I can't remember the last time I speedwalked for that long, so it will probably be more like 10 minutes of speedwalking and another however long I can stand up of slower walking recovering from the speedwalking. If I don't collapse, maybe I'll remember to report on how that goes.
Oh, in case anyone was wondering what I ate, it could essentially be called the "fast food diet."
Hit the McDonald's drive-thru in the morning, got an egg mcmuffin and milk for breakfast (jack in the box hot sauce on the muffin - always good to keep sauce packets at work.) I also got one of those fruit & yogurt parfaits which was my morning snack a couple hours later.
Working for the Subway corporation has its privileges, namely - free Subway food. So lunch was a 6 inch double meat roast beef sub with swiss cheese, spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, honey mustard, oil and pepper. 1% milk to drink and an oatmeal raisin cookie for dessert.
Afternoon snack was about an ounce and half of Planters lightly salted mixed nuts, and dinner was Chick-fil-A - one regular chicken sandwich and three chicken strips with one pack of bbq sauce. Lemonade to drink. (and I thieved one of my son's fries, but I stuck to one!
) By the way, that's real lemonade that Chick-fil-A makes in store, not one of those corn syrup-filled fake lemonades that comes from the fountain.
Tomorrow, I may actually stick closer to the recommended foods because they have a hamburger for the dinner meal.
Toodle-oo for now! Zzzzzzzzzzzz....
my boyfriend didn't understand the importance of keeping cellulite at bay by keeping all of my body fit and not just being skinny 
Woo-hoo!
.. Jeffster did a comprehensive report? .. Where's that fainting emoticon??..
