3 important things

Ok so with the first week behind my I have three basic things to share with you tips or tid bits if you will.

1. Get a journal, sheet of paper, folder something and start right now writing down every single thing you eat.  Take it a step further and go to http://www.calorieking.com/ and look up the calories.  Write it down! Every single thing you eat or drink for a whole day.  Just try it once.  You will be amazed.  But once you have gone to all of that trouble KEEP Doing it!!!!

2. Save up, shop online, or go to a sporting goods store and invest in a polar watch.  Way Cheaper than a body bug, which is what they use on the show, about 100.00 dollars, but it is a watch that you wear that monitors your heart rate and calories burned.  This is important because you can seejust how many calories you burn on the excersises you do.  As well as thru out your crazy day!

3.  Know your RMR (resting metabloic rate).  Look it up online there are websites with calculators that figure it up for you.  It is a few simple questions. What this is, is the amount of calories that your body burns naturally like if you never got out of bed, what your body would naturally burn.  Mine is 1600 calories a day.

Ok then take all of these and put it together.

Calories Burned
+
Your RMR
=

Your Income

Then calories eaten in a day would be called your EXPENSES


EXAMPLE

1575 CALORIES BURNED
+
1600 RMR
=
3175 INCOME
-
1200 CALORIES EATEN
=1975 CALORIES THAT HAVE BEEN BURNED TO ULTIMATELY KEEP ADDING DAY AFTER DAY TO 3500 CALORIES WHICH IS A LB OF FAT.  :)


OK so if your lost the basic thing is this.  Journal what we eat, know howmuch we burn, and no how many calories a lb of fat is. IF you follow this mathmatically weight will fall off. 

So that is the basically the eduacation basis they have here as far as the how to...

I have learned about emotional eating and the other types of eaters we all are but that is for another blog.

Next just want to say how amazing this week has ended.  Our last hike of the week is tomorrow, and we get to choose our hike, soooo My super strong hubby decided he would sign up with me for the hardest hike I have done yet.  You know the one i posted a pic of! Its huge!  But we are gonna take it together,one step at a time and it will be conquered.  This is just how we all should look at these "diets" or life style changes.  It is one step, one choice, sometimes it is unpleasent, sometimes it is downright enough to make you wanna cuss, but you have to put that foot on the ground and keep on keeping on.  If you stop in these hikes you just stop... no van comes to get you, you have to get up and finish it.  Well thats the courage it takes to beat this fight!
You know, every morning,  I listen to my music while hiking, I dont talk I just absorb myself in my praise music, batheing in it.  Knowing that it is our Heavenly Father who put Shane and I hear, helped me to quit smoking, gave shane and i the strength to hike over 20 miles this week.  He planned this.  He knew it would happen.  And I am now.... ever so greatful.  I am sorry for cursing it so much in th beginning.  It was the nicotine talking :)

I love you all and thank you so much for all your support and encouragement,  I get messages all thru the day, usually in between workouts, and they really inspire me to push harder in the next class. So thanks!