Hello all,
Today is the first full day of Spring and guess what is happening? It's snowing! I guess that's New England weather for you. One day sunny and 52 degrees, the next 34 and snowing.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
March 17, 2011 - Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! I read in an article about St. Patrick this morning, and it started off saying "On St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish".
Today on the news one station was reporting from a local pub at 7:30 am, and it was packed with patrons already drinking and an Irish band already playing knee-slapping music! I wonder how many people either took today off or called out "sick", or did people just have a morning drink then head to work? I sure don't want to be on the roads tonight! lol
So back to keeping track of my nutrition and fitness. Yesterday was busy, I had a few meetings throughout the day, so I did not make it to the gym. I did, however wear 1.5 lb ankle weights for the 8.5 hrs I was at work. It was a weird feeling. I had to work harder to climb up stairs and I felt like I was falling (my feet were heavier) while going down the stairs.
Today I did make it out for a 2.5 mile run with a friend from work. It is the first official run of the spring time/summer season. I am really excited about it! The weather was nice, a perfect 50 degrees. My legs felt strong while running. My friend suggested doing sprint intervals. I had only done walking to running intervals, so I was interested to try run to sprinting intervals. We chose a stop sign to sprint to then the next stop sign to run to. She said that the last time she tried that, it had cut down on her time 1-2 minutes. I'm always open to try a new method to increase my time. I am signed up to run a 10K on April 3, so I need to train as much as I can.
So for the run I burned about 255 calories, then for lunch I had a progresso soup (160 cal), 2 large crackers for the soup (60 cal), Shakeology shake to help my muscles repair and to help with digestion (140 cal), and an 4oz applesauce (about 100 cal). So run = -255 cal, lunch = +460 for a total of positive 205 calories. Hmmm, that is a big difference from the last lunch that I calculated.
I have done a bunch of walking today, drinking lots of water, and I will be on my feet tonight working my part time retail job, so that will be a great calorie burn. For dinner I plan on having a 350 cal sandwich with a 150 cal cranberry juice. Then if I'm still hungry after I'll have a tall glass of skim milk.
I hope everyone enjoys their St. Patrick's Day! Until next time,
xoxoxo Nicole
Today on the news one station was reporting from a local pub at 7:30 am, and it was packed with patrons already drinking and an Irish band already playing knee-slapping music! I wonder how many people either took today off or called out "sick", or did people just have a morning drink then head to work? I sure don't want to be on the roads tonight! lol
So back to keeping track of my nutrition and fitness. Yesterday was busy, I had a few meetings throughout the day, so I did not make it to the gym. I did, however wear 1.5 lb ankle weights for the 8.5 hrs I was at work. It was a weird feeling. I had to work harder to climb up stairs and I felt like I was falling (my feet were heavier) while going down the stairs.
Today I did make it out for a 2.5 mile run with a friend from work. It is the first official run of the spring time/summer season. I am really excited about it! The weather was nice, a perfect 50 degrees. My legs felt strong while running. My friend suggested doing sprint intervals. I had only done walking to running intervals, so I was interested to try run to sprinting intervals. We chose a stop sign to sprint to then the next stop sign to run to. She said that the last time she tried that, it had cut down on her time 1-2 minutes. I'm always open to try a new method to increase my time. I am signed up to run a 10K on April 3, so I need to train as much as I can.
So for the run I burned about 255 calories, then for lunch I had a progresso soup (160 cal), 2 large crackers for the soup (60 cal), Shakeology shake to help my muscles repair and to help with digestion (140 cal), and an 4oz applesauce (about 100 cal). So run = -255 cal, lunch = +460 for a total of positive 205 calories. Hmmm, that is a big difference from the last lunch that I calculated.
I have done a bunch of walking today, drinking lots of water, and I will be on my feet tonight working my part time retail job, so that will be a great calorie burn. For dinner I plan on having a 350 cal sandwich with a 150 cal cranberry juice. Then if I'm still hungry after I'll have a tall glass of skim milk.
I hope everyone enjoys their St. Patrick's Day! Until next time,
xoxoxo Nicole
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tuesday March 15, 2011
Hello reader
I have decided to start blogging/journaling again. I want a way to keep track of my fitness and what better way to keep accountable than to post here online.
Yesterday was Monday, and I was feeling quite exhausted from the weekend, so I went out for lunch and grabbed a ham, cheese and mustard sandwich. Nothing too fancy, but the fact that i opted out of going to the gym showed me how tired and lazy i was feeling. I am usually a gym rat on my lunch breaks. I 'hit' the gym 3-5 times a week.
After having a lazy lunch w/o any exercise I found myself snacking the rest of the afternoon on whatever I could find at my desk, which ended up being a chocolate FiberOne granola bar (140 calories), then 2/3 of a king size Hersey's Dark Chocolate bar (360 calories) and a Dole Pineapple Juice (150 calories). So Just because I didn't get in any exercise during my lunch break I subconsciously consumed 640 calories in the period of 45 minutes!! My daily recommended calorie intake (I think) is around 1350 Total calories. And in 45 minutes I consumed 47% of my DAILY calories. Not good!! (And now I don't even want to try to count the calories I ate at the Hibatchi dinner I had that night!)
Hmmm, I need to fix my bad eating habits. I do tend to eat healthy foods but I didnt realize how much calories I was taking in verses how many calories I was expending throughout the day.
So for today I told myself I wanted to get to the gym, and I did! =) I did a cardio run on the treadmil for 31 minutes, lifted some hand weights for 10 minutes then did 50 situps - floor to knee. I'm guessing I burned about 335 calories. That left me pretty exhausted after all that. I had my shakeology protein shake with 1/3 scoop of whey protein to help with the muscle repair from lifting weights, which totaled around 200 calories. Then I had Progresso light Italian-Style Vegetable soup, which is 140 calories. I've only had water since and I'm not hungry to snack.
So for lunch today I consumed +340 calories and burned -335, so a total of +5 calories. Now that's a number I am a lot more proud of.
My plan for dinner is to keep it under 450 calories, and drink lots of water. I tend to get dehydrated towards the end of the day/night.
How was your day with food/calories?
~Nicole
I have decided to start blogging/journaling again. I want a way to keep track of my fitness and what better way to keep accountable than to post here online.
Yesterday was Monday, and I was feeling quite exhausted from the weekend, so I went out for lunch and grabbed a ham, cheese and mustard sandwich. Nothing too fancy, but the fact that i opted out of going to the gym showed me how tired and lazy i was feeling. I am usually a gym rat on my lunch breaks. I 'hit' the gym 3-5 times a week.
After having a lazy lunch w/o any exercise I found myself snacking the rest of the afternoon on whatever I could find at my desk, which ended up being a chocolate FiberOne granola bar (140 calories), then 2/3 of a king size Hersey's Dark Chocolate bar (360 calories) and a Dole Pineapple Juice (150 calories). So Just because I didn't get in any exercise during my lunch break I subconsciously consumed 640 calories in the period of 45 minutes!! My daily recommended calorie intake (I think) is around 1350 Total calories. And in 45 minutes I consumed 47% of my DAILY calories. Not good!! (And now I don't even want to try to count the calories I ate at the Hibatchi dinner I had that night!)
Hmmm, I need to fix my bad eating habits. I do tend to eat healthy foods but I didnt realize how much calories I was taking in verses how many calories I was expending throughout the day.
So for today I told myself I wanted to get to the gym, and I did! =) I did a cardio run on the treadmil for 31 minutes, lifted some hand weights for 10 minutes then did 50 situps - floor to knee. I'm guessing I burned about 335 calories. That left me pretty exhausted after all that. I had my shakeology protein shake with 1/3 scoop of whey protein to help with the muscle repair from lifting weights, which totaled around 200 calories. Then I had Progresso light Italian-Style Vegetable soup, which is 140 calories. I've only had water since and I'm not hungry to snack.
So for lunch today I consumed +340 calories and burned -335, so a total of +5 calories. Now that's a number I am a lot more proud of.
My plan for dinner is to keep it under 450 calories, and drink lots of water. I tend to get dehydrated towards the end of the day/night.
How was your day with food/calories?
~Nicole
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