Today was a pretty good day all things considered. I was kind of out of it after I got back from the hike and one of my trainers suggested that I try eating fruit after my afternoon classes. They explained that I might just be out of it from lack of calories because of my relative size and how hard I am working out. I have to say I think they were right after my first class and extra fruit I felt more into the classes.
One of the great lessons you learn here is how to actually interpret what your body wants. I think I had things so out of whack I never knew whether I was really hungry, bored, stressed, or thirsty. After getting away from the fat and salt and eating what I need I am really becoming confident about choosing when I eat more, and what I eat. They tell you here to try to make the best choices 90% of the time, and you have 10% to make less healthy choices. They don't call it cheating, they call it making less healthy choices. It is a different mindset and one I am trying very hard to adopt.
Statistics:
I walked 22,838 steps and 11.6 miles and burned 5,300 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B
Watch calories burned: 3600 calories (I did a stretch class extra today, and my watch stopped working for a bit)
Hike/Exercise:
The hike today was at the beach and it was freezing and the winds were about 20-30 mph gusts. I decided not to walk in the sand today just because it really messes my toes up. I did walk in the sand on the second beach because that is the only option. It was a decent hike, but the people of Miller Lite were there filming a bootcamp commercial (probably for the superbowl) and there were some really cool tents and things set up. Also, there were about 50 models there freezing in their swimsuits doing exercises all over the place. Not necessarily a bad day at the beach if you are a guy.
As far as exercise went I woke up and did Sam's stretch class, then after the hike I did Micaela's stretch class. The two different stretch classes are completely different. Sam stretches you after his has given your muscles a slight workout so they are warm. Micaela's stretch is a calm down stretch class which is amazing after a rough hike. It almost puts you to sleep you get so relaxed. My post lunch classes were H2O intervals, kickboxing with Ursula and finally Mountain with John. Once again, mountain is a cardio class with 12 increases that you decide on. You increase speed and/or resistance 12 times for 3 minutes each and then cool down. John tried to make us do the 10th increase 2 times, and we argued and whined and he said his watch was at 27 minutes and he thought we were messing with him.... Well two minutes later he just says, "Ok, my watch is stuck at 27!" So we all shared a laugh and ended up not doing the extra increase. Guess you had to be there, but believe me it was funny.
Food:
Today for breakfast they were serving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with berries. I decided to go the eggs and toast route instead because the PB&J is not worth the calories to me. For lunch we had pumpkin soup, which is fantastic, and greek pizzas. The pizzas are good, and I like to put hot sauce on mine believe it or not. For dinner we had a salmon filet with asparagus and orzo pasta. That is a truly great meal here if you like fish. Dessert was a simple fruit skewer with some raspberry sauce on it. Once again, no chocolate covered strawberries, but still good.
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