My gym gave me one free session with a personal trainer. I was really nervous about going, but excited too. I can now understand why people spend so much money on meeting with them every week! I learned how to use a lot of the equipment and it was motivating because I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of him. I felt like I HAD to work hard instead of giving it a half effort. I don't normal give it a half effort, but I tried harder than normal. I learned that some of the things I was doing were not correct. For example, my goal is to burn calories. I thought it would be best to do the elliptical at a decent pace for 30 minutes instead of burning myself out and then slowing down. The PT said that if I do the elliptical on intervals, I will actually burn more calories than if I just went at the same pace the whole time. By a lot. I used to do 50 RPM with a resistances level set at 6. He had me doing 70 RPM at level 8 for 2 minutes, and then I was able to slow down and lower the level for a minute, then back up. Like I said, he also showed me how to use different pieces of equipment. Not sure how much I'll actually take advantage of that, but I think I'll do some of it.
I've been doing ok with my eating too. Not great, but not terrible. I stepped on the scale at my gym and found out that my parents' scale is 5 pounds off. I weight more than I thought. Bummer! Oh well. Just means I have to work harder. I'd like to lose about 9-10 lbs before out trip to the beach this summer. At this point, I am not sure how realistic that is. But I'll do the best I can. I feel like 1/2 a lb a week is good for me. If I am able to do that, I'll be close but not quite there. I'll be happy with that :)
My family tried a "Green Smoothie" this past weekend for breakfast. It was pretty good! It needed more fruit, but that's easy to do. Even the kids drank it. Not a lot of it because they had already eaten some cereal, but I think I could get them to have that for breakfast a couple times a week. For those of you who don't know, a green smoothie is green from spinach. You can't taste the spinach though.
I've fallen back to just planning our main meal for each day. With all the other areas I've fallen behind on, I'll let this one slide until I get back on track with everything else. Our dinners this week are:
Baked Chicken with some yummy seasoning
Chicken Fajitas
Shepherd's Pie
Tacos made with ground turkey
Caramel apple pork chops
Monday's are usually my day to go grocery shopping, but I've got two kids who are acting like they're coming down with something. J is a wonderful husband and agreed to go for me :) Hopefully my kids stay healthy. Maybe they just needed a day to rest from the fun we had this weekend. That's what I'm hoping, at least! Did I share what we did this weekend? We went to a local college basketball game. It was a lot of fun! The kids and I didn't see much of the game (we played out where they had other things set up), but we still had a good time.
That's about all for me. I hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend and is off to a great work week!
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