Goal Met! June 11, 2009

Rather than bore you with the details of what I consumed today, I’ll just give you the bottom line. I ate 1345 calories today, and then walked at a steady pace tonight for an hour (about 3.5 miles) and burned about 250 calories doing that. Then I went home, did some weight lifting and 215 crunches. Feeling pretty good about myself! So according to the calculations I did, I cut out around 5oo calories-ate 300 less than I would eat to stay at this weight, burned about 250 walking (not counting the calories I burned while lifting weights and working on my abs…I’ll just count those as an added bonus) which if I continue to do this everyday for a week, I should lose one solid pound. Keep this up for 2 and a half months, and I might just be able to cut off 10 pounds! The beauty about this is, if I know that I won’t be able to walk more than just on my lunch break in any given day, I can just make sure I make up for it by the calories I’m consuming. I can just cut out 100 calories (trade the ranch for fat free italian, or pass up 2 of those mini chocolates) and I’m good to go. Just wouldn’t want to get into that habit, working out feels good. I have found that when I jump in too far, and make too many extreme changes, I just give up. Its too hard to change that drastically, and counting calories, and just walking is doing a world of change, without the complete life makeover. Baby steps….and one day I’ll run a marathon! Or not. =)

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