New year, new me... hopefully

Well I know it's been a while since I've posted and my topics have been a little off topic as this blog actually started but, I have taken on a challenge that I want to post about. I have a hard time remembering things and writing them down and where better to remember by posting it here.

As most of you probably know, I have hypothyroidism and have had a really, really hard time losing weight. I have no problems getting to the gym and exercising, in fact, I'm quite addicted to it though I have hoped it would help me look a little different. I'm not one to diet as I like to enjoy my food so that probably doesn't help. I have tracked my calories for a long time and that didn't help. I also started weight watchers about a month ago and only lost a couple of pounds when I was sick for a couple of days.

So, my hope is that by tracking things here, it will make me more accountable and maybe, just maybe I will see some results. As for this challenge I have taken on, it is to burn 21,000 calories in 6 weeks which is 3,500 calories a week which is equal to 1 lb of weight loss per week, hopefully!

I wanted to journal the things I'm doing for my own record but also for anyone else who might care to read. I'm hoping I can keep track of this every couple of days so keep checking up on me to see how I'm doing and get on me if I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

I started this challenge yesterday and because I was kind of sore from a class I had done on Friday, I decided to do yoga, the P90X yoga. Let me tell you, this is not an easy one. I have been doing yoga 3 times a week for a few months and it was still hard. The P90X yoga is 45 minutes of yoga and 45 minutes of balancing poses and abs. I wore my heart rate monitor as I will when I do any exercise and I burned 500 calories in an hour and a half, that wasn't even hot yoga.

Last night, we had some friends over to cheer against the Patriots and most of us had too much to drink. This morning, I was meeting my friend Andrea to do some weights, I'm really glad that I had scheduled to meet her, because I might not have gone to the gym otherwise though I knew if I didn't, I would feel awful all day. So, we did about 50 minutes of weights which was a great workout and then I went to a spinning class. I didn't push myself as hard as I probably normally would have though, I still went. I burned 1000 calories doing that hour and 50 minutes of working out.

To some of you, that may seem like a lot. I do have my heart rate monitor set up with my zones and have done testing even though it has been a couple of years ago, I guess I just burn a lot of calories, unfortunately, it still doesn't seem to help. I really need to do the metabolic testing and test my zones again to find out where I am but I just haven't made it a priority.

So that is 2 days of my journey, I'm at 1500 calories of 3500 for the week. Tomorrow will probably be kind of a light day as I do ashtanga yoga on Tuesday's, I'm going to try to get there early to do some cardio before or after class. I also am hoping to get the entire set of P90X so that I can do that in addition to my gym workouts!

As for the diet end of it, I would also like to track things on here as well, just not sure how realistic that is. Yesterday, I ate egg beaters on a multi-grain english muffin with a slice of cheese, then I didn't eat again until dinner which was a spinach salad, half of a mexican meatball sandwich, some pasta salad and corn casserole. Since we had friends over, I was bad and did have a piece of red velvet cake and had way too many rum and diets. Today, I had a protein shake with peanut butter for breakfast and a hard boiled egg. For lunch, I had a homemade turkey sandwich with a slice of cheese, olive oil mayo and mustard. I'm not really sure what we'll be having for dinner yet but will try to update that later.

Well, I better go shower now, I'm looking forward to vegging on my sofa for a while after that!