Off to a late start

You know I heard somewhere that there's an increase in heart attacks and car accidents the week after we "Spring Forward" the clock by one hour. I wouldn't be surprised. Monday I spent doing nothing as I was under the weather and just needed to sleep. Today I'm still feeling residually crappy but not enough to prevent me from going to the chiropractor and gym after work. Lord knows that DST threw off my ridiculously timed bedtime/wakeup that I had FINALLY gotten into the swing of, and now I have to spend this week starting all over again. Grrrr!

I did not manage to drink all 8 glasses of water each day over the weekend, though I do not count water I drink outside of the fact (I only count the water out of my fancy-schmancy new water bottle), so maybe I did. My weekends are slowly slipping away from me, between house stuff and wedding stuff and DYD stuff and social stuff I seriously have to schedule date nights with Dan, much less time for myself to just decompress. Dan and I used to have lazy Sundays when I still lived in Detroit. I miss that. I'm going to do what I can to try and recreate that. Recharging and just doing nothing is as necessary for my cell phone battery as it is for me, apparently. And if I don't do it my body will find a way to make me, as it did yesterday.

Anyway here are my goals for the week:

Tuesday Goal: 5 minutes warm up, 20 minutes weights, 30 minutes cardio, 5 minutes cool-down/stretch.

Wednesday Goal: 30 minutes of cardio. (I need to study for the LSAT ***again***)

Thursday Goal: 5 minutes warm up, 20 minutes weights, 30 minutes cardio, 5 minutes cool-down/stretch.

Another thing I've noticed: If I'm going to start working out immediately after work, I'm going to have to find a way to eat more than just a banana or an apple around 5 p.m. I may start splitting my dinner in two, so that my calorie intake looks like this:

Breakfast: 400 calories

Snack: 200 calories

Lunch: 500 calories

Snack: 350 calories

Dinner: 350 calories

Speaking of calorie intake, I found this super-awesome app on my Blackberry called Calorie Counter by FatSecret. It's synced to the website www.fatsecret.com, which I also signed up for. The best part about it is they already have in there database the Meijer and Kroger-brand versions of things I buy, like saltines, string cheese, milk, etc. They also have in their database Activia yogurt and Kashi.

And the coolest thing (besides the fact that you can track custom things like sodium, fiber, and protein) is that it estimates, based on your weight and height, how many calories you burn doing this activity or that, and will give you an estimate of whether you gained or burned on a particular day. For example, yesterday I gained whatever the equivalent of 172 calories is. Not good, but it's cool to "know" that, though I'm sure it's not exact.

Anyway I didn't lose any weight last week (which could be for a variety of reasons) but hopefully now that I have this cool new app I'll be more inclined to monitor my food intake than I was before. Or at least I hope so.

Til next time,

Melissa