Week 1 Journal Entry

This week Jay and I worked out Monday-Saturday at least 1 hour each day. From our estimations, we spent about 8-12 hours in the gym, covered 30-35 miles combined and burned over 6,000 additional calories combined.

Today was our rest day from working out. Tomorrow is the big weigh in day! We hope to have lost a good amount of weight, but we know that even if the numbers aren't what we are hoping, we are going to continue on our weight loss plan.

I worked a couple of days this week temping but Jay had the week off for spring break. A big challenge for this coming week is to overcome the draw to stay home instead of going to the gym after Jay gets done with school for the day.

DIET:

According to the Biggest Loser plan, they recommend eating 4 cups of fruits and vegetables each day and I think we did that everyday. We just added one to each meal or snack and it really helped to cut down the cravings. We ate approximately 1500 calories a day also recommended - Jay sometimes had more depending on how hard he worked out. Until today, we didn't have a problem cutting calories. Like I said - until today - we were so hungry! I don't know what it was, but we were good and ate our healthy meals and snacks.

EXERCISE:

We are trying to balance cardio and weight lifting with a heavy focus on cardio so that we can burn the most calories. Jay likes the tredmill and I use the elliptical machine a majority of the time.

One day this week, after temping all day, we went to do our workout. Jay had already gone to the gym to do his earlier in the day so he just walked until I was done. It was really dreary outside and I knew Jay was waiting on me, so 20 minutes into a 30 minute cardio workout, I was about to call it quits. Then I thought about those 10 minutes and how it really is not much time at all and I choose what I want to do with those 10 minutes. So I chose to finish my workout.


FINAL THOUGHTS:

Jay and I have talked about what we choose to do with our time and how easily we can choose to workout instead of sit on the couch at home. The same amount of time will pass whether we are working out or not. It is up to us to decide what we do with our time and energy.

We heard that there are 1440 minutes in the day. What are we choosing to do with that time?

Week 1

Jay's Starting Weight: 330.0
Kristi's Starting Weight: 198.6