Inspiration
I have recently found inspiration from a blog that I stumbled upon by chance. I look at it every evening when it's updated and have even been brave enough to try a breakfast concoction of hers.
Today though I realized I am an inspiration to those around me. My sister, who we have our good days and bad days, was talking about getting a gym membership today. Our local Y is so expensive, and since we adult children are living at home longer, our base for assistance includes our parents income, it makes it difficult. I have a student membership since I'm still in college, that's affordable for me.
I made an agreement with her... She has to download MyFitnessPal and if she can lose 20 pounds by July 1st, I'll pay for a 6 month gym membership to a small gym near home. I don't doubt she can do it at all! I am glad to see that I am an inspiration to my sister, and hopefully my other family members.
Today marks an "almost" 50 pound loss. I really need to get my sister to take a quality picture of me so I can see the remarkable difference. I hate stupid cell phone pictures in the mirror... I feel happy, and amazing!
I recently did a little trial and error with MyFitnessPal. I plug in the calories the treadmill, elliptical, and Arc trainer tell me whenever I exercise. I know they can be overestimated even with the technology some of the machines have. Anyways, I tried not to eat back my exercise calories one week and then did the next week ( I wasn't perfect, but I tried). Eating back most of the calories showed to be more effective than not eating them back in my weight loss. I worked a little harder on eating healthier foods after exercising instead of eating a ton of chocolate. I love chocolate though.
Here's to a new week and I hope I can inspire more people.
Today though I realized I am an inspiration to those around me. My sister, who we have our good days and bad days, was talking about getting a gym membership today. Our local Y is so expensive, and since we adult children are living at home longer, our base for assistance includes our parents income, it makes it difficult. I have a student membership since I'm still in college, that's affordable for me.
I made an agreement with her... She has to download MyFitnessPal and if she can lose 20 pounds by July 1st, I'll pay for a 6 month gym membership to a small gym near home. I don't doubt she can do it at all! I am glad to see that I am an inspiration to my sister, and hopefully my other family members.
Today marks an "almost" 50 pound loss. I really need to get my sister to take a quality picture of me so I can see the remarkable difference. I hate stupid cell phone pictures in the mirror... I feel happy, and amazing!
I recently did a little trial and error with MyFitnessPal. I plug in the calories the treadmill, elliptical, and Arc trainer tell me whenever I exercise. I know they can be overestimated even with the technology some of the machines have. Anyways, I tried not to eat back my exercise calories one week and then did the next week ( I wasn't perfect, but I tried). Eating back most of the calories showed to be more effective than not eating them back in my weight loss. I worked a little harder on eating healthier foods after exercising instead of eating a ton of chocolate. I love chocolate though.
Here's to a new week and I hope I can inspire more people.
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