Diet & Exercise Info

Diet - I dont eat carbs...No bread, pasta, rice, potatoes or sugar!!!!

I eat veggies, oatmeal and light yogurt...as my only carbs.

I limit my fruits also. I only really eat apples...and then not very often.

You should stay away from bananas, melon, mango & pinepple.

The first 2 weeks I ate ONLY Protein!! lots of cheese, eggs, chicken, shrimp and steak. You can use spices, butter and sugar free condiments. I lost my first 20 in these 2 weeks!!!! 

I use Atkins bars & shakes as my "sugar" & "chocolate" fixes. Ive found Balance has a Carb Well bar and there is another one called Supreme Protein or something like that - WalMart has them.

Coffee - I am an all day drinker :(  I use Half & Half and Splenda - and brew flavored coffee!!!  I only drink caffeinated first thing in the morning - and switch to decaf in the afternoon.

Exercise - I started out WALKING!! It doesnt take high impact aerobics in the beginning....do what your body will allow you to do.  BUT, you have to move past the comfortable and get UNCOMFORTABLE in order to achieve results!!  I also rode the recumbent bike and used the machines at the gym.

NOW i Run...but not for distance.  I run sprints during my walks, this is where my uncomfortable comes in. Think Biggest Loser & Jillian screaming at the top of her lungs to KEEP GOING!! Those kinda sprints!

I recently switched gyms...and the new one has a 30 minute express workout.  Its got 10 machines and 10 steps.  You do each for 60 seconds....I forgot how hard step aerobics is!!! 

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