Change is Good

We've decided to change some things up a bit, starting this week, which led to changing things up a bit more...starting from now until we change things up again.

We were going to do a workout schedule of every other day (eg. M W F Su Tu Th Sa...) but the funny thing is...we kinda like the gym (how sad that I've become one of those people.)  So gym schedule has changed to Su, Tu, Th, Sa - which will be great this week, but will be a bit hard next week while we are in Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz ... and also the week of the Family Reunion.  We figured that next week, though, we would make a HUGE effort to get to the Monterey Sports Center twice next week (as well as drag my mom with us) and we are looking for walking buddies while in Oregon...bring your walking shoes.

Yesterday was the same ol'...we did 40 min on the treadmill and 35 on the elliptical trainer...I am SO enjoying ditching the bike.  75 minutes never went so fast.  We've decided that we are going to start adding the weights portion of the workout when we return from Oregon...as vacation week with be our two month marker.

Not much going on...going to head out to the library to pick up the books on volumetrics to read more about what my aunt Amy was talking about...I also need to review this other book that I...well...I'll talk more about it later.

We had an artichoke for lunch today...mmmm....forgot how much I LOVE artichokes.  If anyone wants us to bring some back from Castroville, let us know.  Good in fiber, calories, not a lot of sodium (and I do love them with mayo, but I gave myself 2 servings of mayo and only used 1...so, that's good).

We've learned a couple of things so far this week.

1. We intake entirely too much sodium, but it is not completely our fault.  I have never realized how much sodium is in most processed things.  We made pasta for lunch yesterday and the S&W organic tomato sauce has 340 mg of sodium per 1/4 cup.  So, I need to go through my big Martha Stewart book and learn how to make some of this stuff myself to hopefully cut back on sodium.

2. We took this personal diet evaluator on WebMD and given my age, weight, height, what I'm looking for, etc., I can eat 3065 calories a day to maintain my weight, reduce it by 777 calories per day through diet and/or exercise (which is what they calculated as my deficit if I want to lose 20 lbs in the next 90 days) to lose a pound a week.  That is insane!!  Yesterday I burnt off almost 700 calories at the gym and still barely ate 2200 calories, which is my on-day goal.  Its not like I was hungry, I just chose better.  So, I don't know what to think of this evaluator...but it has said similar things to other sites I've calculated from, which leads me to find some truth in it.

Anyway, we are off.  Hopefully the day stays relatively rain free so we can walk the dogs soon.