This is my third week of getting up at 7am to exercise. It's been so wonderful to get up and get my body moving. Exercise does so many great things for me mentally, physically and spiritually. After not exercising for such a long time and feeling like crap I wonder why it is that I ever stopped in the first place. I now know why. I was doing the exercise for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to be skinny. Now all I want is to have a strong body, inside and out, allowing me to have the energy to keep up with 6 children, my husband and the demands of a busy house hold. There's a lot to get done in a single day when there are 8 people to take care of. If I'm sick and run down those task become a strain and almost unmanageable. Becoming light, fit and healthy is a process, a journey that is going to take probably a lifetime to achieve.
Today we increased our running time from 1 minute to 2 minutes. So instead of walking 2 minutes and running 1 minute, we swapped and are now running for 2 minutes and walking for just 1. I have to say it was a challenge. But I can do hard things. If I can hike the Y, I can do this. Towards the end of the run I wondered what I could eat today to help me improve my performance. I have never thought that way before. Eating the right foods will help me to run faster, my muscle to perform better and my heart to beat little easier. I struggle to make goals due to the destructive behavior that I found myself living to reach those goals. But this goal seem healthy, and one that will help me to progress in my running. Eating the right foods will also help me become light, fit and healthy.
Starting today I am going to try and eat between 1500- 1600 calories a day. I am not going to limit any foods, except for junk food i.e., red vines(my favorite), salt water taffy(another favorite), candy bars and the like. These foods are my downfall. I need to replace them, like I mentioned before, with oranges and watermelon. Candy and junk food make me feel heavy, sluggish and burdened. Burdened with the knowledge that I just ate something that I know is not going to help me feel better or run faster.
This goal is going to be a challenging one. But I can do hard things. I can and I will. As much as I HATE to count calories, I know I need to to help me get back on track and to once again bring to light my eating habits. It's all good.
I have been feeling out different website to help out with calorie counting. I decided to go with myfitnesspal.com. It is easy to navigate and another of my good friends asked me to join with her. I successfully logged all my calories today and stayed within my 1500 limit. Yes, success for one day. And it felt GOOD. I still need to add more vegetables to my daily intake. I am aware of this and I will try my darn dist to do so tomorrow. I have a ton of lettuce staring at me. I think I just need to make a great salad out of it and eat it with my lunch and dinner. I have a lot of great viniagrettes that I need to whip up. Maybe I'll even share a recipe or two.
2 comments:
You are so great!
Check out NutriMirror.com. On my blog you will see my before and after and there are osme posts in the archive where I talk about it. They are free, phone accessible, free food logging with nutritional values showing you what you eat. It is not a diet but it describes everything you mentioned you want to start doing. It wuldnt hurt to check it out.
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