Day 1

Hi Everyone!
I am officially beginning a blog to track my weight loss. Why? Because I feel if I know people are reading this blog, either to support me or for inspiration, I will continue my journey when I want to give up. So right now I am thanking whoever has begun this journey with me, and I hope that you all with stick with me! :)

Today was day 1 of my journey. I weighed in at 264 (I think... more exact measurement will be posted tomorrow) pounds on my Jillian Michaels Wii game :( Not good at all. Not what I wanted to see to be honest. But I got myself here, so I'm going to get myself out!

I started off the day with a little sleep-in (I know, I know), but it was nice! I wasn't planning on starting today until about halfway through the day, so it didn't start off so well. I had waffles with syrup. Could've been worse, but still. Not my best. My lunch was small because I knew I was going to be working out with Julie (my personal trainer). The workout went really well! I've always referred to Julie as "Jillian", because I need her to be my Jillian Michaels. Today, she really set that in action! I warmed up on the elliptical (easy peasy, right? ha) for 10 minutes, then Julie joined me. She bumped up my resistance (up to 6 from 1), then we did sprint intervals every 15 seconds. I cooled down from 18-20 minutes, then the real pain started (not to mention my legs going numb, to which Julie responded "that's good, you won't feel anything now!"). We did a lot of exercises (full body) 2 sets of 15 repetitions for the remaining 45 minutes. It was tough, VERY tough. We did a lot of arms and legs (which Julie said there wasn't going to be a lot of legs. To that I now laugh!), but it was all full body. Julie pushed me really hard, and I can honestly say this was the first time ever working with her that I did not stop the exercises, I completed all of them! Granted, I got nauscious (yuck, that makes me want to work out again, cuz I LOVE bodily functions... eek), but I finished and it was GREAT! The drive home was a little rough (couldn't feel my arms), but now I'm feeling awesome. For dinner we had chinese. We had vegetable/chicken stir fry and an egg roll. Looking up calories for egg rolls made me never want to eat egg rolls ever again. 320 calories for a little egg roll! THAT'S CRAZY! Lesson learned. According to my "Lose It!" Application on my iTouch (great application, by the way!) I am allowed 1700 calories per day, I consumed like 1600, and burned 800, so I guess I'm on track? I guess I should probably check out the whole calories consumed vs calories burned. Note to self. :)

Summary: Day 1 was a success!! Had a great workout with Julie (AKA Jillian) and now I'm ready for tomorrow. I will be in pain, yes, but that's ok. It's a good pain. Tomorrow brings Zumba, a first for me. Hopefully I didn't bore you to death. ;-)