JennyJM:
You're waaaay ahead of me on the fit scale. hah
My coworker hasn't brought a DVD in to work for me yet. As soon as she does I'll check it out. I do two hours at the YMCA daily. Switch it up between running, cycling, cardio interval, yoga, pilates, sculpt, kickboxing, zumba and Boot Camp group classes. I have to do fun things or I quit out of boredom and disinterest. Going to check out Tai Chi there soon, it's on Monday nights.
My eating this week is:
Breakfast - 1 cup multigrain cheerios, 1 apple, whey protein shake
Snack - 2 hard-boiled eggs, pear
Lunch - Mixed red & green salad, raspberry vinaigrette dressing, 1 oz peanuts
Snack - Steamed medium artichoke w/ mayo/balsamic dip
Dinner - Steamed, mashed & curried medium sweet potato & snap peas still in pod with baked 4 oz. fish of the day.
Snack - Greek yogurt w/teaspoon of honey
I need to add some more grains - I'm only at 1200 calories a day and should be eating at least 1400 calories per day...
First off, that's great. And secondly, my body just reacts quicker than most to exercise. But when I work out I do it fucking hardcore and push myself past the burning sensation (you will learn this with p90x) - and my metabolism doesn't hurt either.
The main reason p90x works is because of muscle confusion with not only cycling body part days each week, but the variety of exercises and obscure movements. If you keep your body moving and the entire time and work up a sweat then you've had a good work out. If not, that's a sign you need to step it up a little bit or change it up.
It's a good thing to have a similar eating pattern every day as well as a work out time. The great thing with the p90x regimen is the down time week or whatever... you do 3 weeks of training and then the fourth gets you off track from your normal routine so you reboot your system to continue building muscle/toning your body for the new work out regimen for the next 3 weeks. If you just take the scaffolding of this system and substitute any other kinds of work outs then you will have a fail safe way to workout and get results.
Food-wise (I'm no nutritionist) but I wouldn't eat the yolk - and I'm not sure how much protein is retained in a hard boiled eggs. Cooking egg whites +++. And I pretty much stopped eating most condiments. I eat my salads dry AND I LIKE IT. I'm not torturing myself. If I don't like it then I don't do it. And my friend does the yogurt thing too, but I don't agree with it. Lol. I've become wary of my label reading.
