helpful apps

I started using two GREAT apps to help keep track of my fitness. They have REALLY been a great motivation because it is fun to see my progress, and I like a good challenge :)

The first one is "nike+gps", this one I use for running. It tracks how fast I go per mile, and the gps shows where I ran and which part of the trail I went my quickest! It also gives an estimate of calories burned. You can link it to your facebook and when you go for a run it will post it to your "news feed" and your friends can "cheer" you on. When someone clicks "like", your app will make this crowd cheering noise. It will also let you know when you are half way to your goal and if you have beat a personal best!


Next, Is my FAVORITE app! It's called "My fitness pal!". You put in your height, weight and goal weight and how much you want to lose per week. Then, each day you log our food and your portion sizes. It will tell you how much of your daily nutrients you need and where you should cut back. One of my favorite parts of the app is that it basically has any brand of food you could think of as well as restaurant nutrition values, so its extremely accurate! You also can put in your daily workouts and it gives an estimate of how many calories you burned. I try to be conservative with my guesstimates, just as a fail safe :) Oops, I forgot, my OTHER favorite part of the app is that at the end of the day you "complete" your entry and it tells you that "if you eat like this every day, in 5 weeks you would weigh _____!" I love seeing the possibilites, that is a HUGE motivator for losing weight and eating right!

update.

for the last few weeks I have only been working out 3x a week. Which isn't bad, I know, but my goal was 5-6x a week. I have been running twice a week and doing my "ripped in 30 with jillian michaels" dvd 3x a week. On wednesday I decided I was going to just start doing it every day! and guess what? I have done it the last 4 days and I was able to slip into a pair of my pre-pregnancy shorts! Granted, they were big before I got pregnant and they are the boyfriend fit from American Eagle, but still they are a size ZERO!!! I feel so much better, I have a lot of energy, and I can see little differences in my body. Plus it just feels good to be working out. I'm excited to move on to week two and to post "before" and "after" pics at the end of september :)

I took two days off from ripped in 30 because my body was SORE! I still ran though ;) Tonight I was feeling tired and I was going to get into bed, but I decided to do the ripped in 30 video...and I didn't regret it one bit! I feel good (although sweaty!) and so glad I did it! I know I will never regret working out, but I WILL regret not doing it. It's about 1am, time for a quick shower and then to get some zzz's before Jack wakes up for his next feeding!

Ripped in 30.

Ripped in 30 is a body killer. I have been so so sore all day, which is NOT easy when you have a newborn that needs you! They reccomend doing in 5-6 times a week for optimum results...well I think today will be the day I take off to give my body some rest. I'm really excited to start seeing results though.

Along with the workout, a meal plan is suggested and I'm going to loosely follow it. I have a pretty good handle on what is and isn't healthy and how much to eat.

Here is day one of the meal plan(monday):

breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, and 100% whole wheat toast. (I didn't use any salt, butter, or EVOO...just a dash of pepper on the eggs.)

snack: whole wheat multi-grain crackers and hummus.

Lunch: all fruit smoothie

snack: carnation instant breakfast and string cheese.

dinner: Portabello mushroom sandwhich on whole wheat bread.

snack: baby carrots and grapes


I need to add some extra food to make sure I'm getting at least 1800 calories a day, because along with me exercising my body is burning about 300 calories to make milk!

from pregnant to thin....

They say you don't know how much you care about something until it's gone and that is so true! Before getting pregnant with my beautiful baby boy, I was sooooo skinny! And the sad thing is that I didn't appreciate my thin body until now. I went from a size 0 to a size 9 (granted I DID just have a baby.) I started out at 112lbs pre-pregnancy and I'm currently between 120-125. I know that doesn't sound bad at all, but I'm short and all of my excess weight is compact into a small area ;)

I started this blog to track my progress and keep myself accountable to working out and eating healthy once again. Not only that, but I want to teach Jack to live a healthy life from the get-go.

My goal is to lose 20-25 lbs by next summer. My workout routine starting out will be this: running 3 miles 3x a week (working up to 5 days a week eventually.) and doing the workout dvd "Ripped in 30 by Jillian Michaels". Those paired with a healthy diet (no, I'm not dieting, I just mean my daily diet.) I should definitely see the results I want by next June, if not sooner :)