Weekend of April 6th and 7th - Good Start

It's Monday morning and I'm not crippled. Yay!

I thought I would be. Over the weekend I started with DailyBurn. I'd been thinking about it for a while and decided to try it out. You can see the details of my workouts on the Exercise Log page.

Definately pushed it. I was a day behind because I opened the 30 day trial on Friday night. So I caught up on Saturday.

I picked the DB15 as my program. It looked like the best for rank beginners. Although I have a fair bit of exercise and fitness experience I am seriously out of shape. My thoughts are that the 15 minutes a day of the DB15 is the minimum for success. If I do that, great, goal accomplished. Anything extra is bonus levels.

So in all, I did 45 minutes of the scheduled DB15 videos and another almost 40 minutes of yoga. My only guess on why I'm not dying is the yoga. The Inferno was killer and I really thought I would be in extreme pain from that today but I'm not. Soooo happy!

For food good choices, I did one biggy, one smaller.

Saturday night I got hit by hunger around 9pm. I hadn't eaten dinner (bad choice) so I was very set up for a major binge fest. I went to Denny's and ordered the Prime Rib Philly Melt with seasoned fries and mayo. On the face of it a bad choice. The good choice was that I got a take out box with the food and before anything else I cut the sandwich in half and dumped it with half the fries in.

My guess is that the total meal was around 1500 calories. So cutting it in half turned it into a reasonable 750. (I ate the leftovers for Sunday lunch.) Was Denny's and that meal in particular a good choice? No. But I made it a "less bad" choice and most importantly, it's something I wouldn't have done normally. Usually I would have eaten the whole thing and just felt horribly guilty.

On Sunday, there wasn't huge good choice, but I did limit myself to one serving of the pasta shells we ate and had more green peas instead. I didn't look into it online, but I think I probably saved myself about 100-150 calories.

In all over the weekend I cut out 850-900 calories out of my "normal" choices. I'm feeling fairly successful for doing that. And I didn't splurge on anything else as a reward. (That's a problem I've had in the past. I do something good, like excercise or cutting out something bad, then "reward" myself with a treat in the way of some other high cal food. Pretty self defeating I know. I need to figure out different ways to motivate myself.)

So, good weekend. Looking forward to carrying that through the week.