The 6 Week Body Make-Over

Ultimate Goal: weight - 125 LBS, REWARD: healthy weight to start a family.
Day 1
Weight 222.0
Walking 55 minutes

Ordered and received the 6 Day Body Make-Over this past week. (I can't believe I succumbed to an infomercial!) Convinced the hubby (Cristian) to hop on board and do it with me.

Then, last night when he finally asked what he was going to have to do, he threw a little fit because of how much meat he had to eat.

Usually, you wouldn't complain about that, right? Here's the thing though. Twofold. 1) Meat in Alaska is expensive, and 2) He usually only eats one MAYBE two meals a day.

Like many "diets" out there, this PROGRAM wants you to eat smaller meals, many times a day.

You definitely eat MORE at each sitting, though, than you do with many other diets, and you ARE allowed to eat carbs. As a matter of fact, it's a large part of the program.

The program works so that you eat the meals right for your body in order to promote and speed-up your metabolism. For some people, this means only eating a few carbs a day. For others, it means eating a bunch.

Both Cristian and I fall right in the middle. We're both body-type C.

How is that determined? We basically completed a self-questionnaire about how we eat and gain (or loose) weight. This includes overeating, stress eating, after-meal sleepiness, etc.

I'm keeping a calorie count for today and maybe a few days just to see how much I'm taking in.

So. Here's what I've eaten so far today...
Breakfast: 2 egg whites, 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 banana
Morning snack: 2 egg whites, 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 banana (oops, wasn't supposed to have fruit this time! Didn't realize until I got home and checked the book.)
Lunch: 2 oz Shrimp (sprinkled with lemon juice), 1/2 medium red potato, 1 cup salad with balsamic vinaigrette and lemon juice (dressing not allowed).
Afternoon snack: 2 oz Shrimp, 1/2 medium red potato.
Dinner: 2 oz chicken breast, 1/3(ea) portabello mushroom, 1/3(ea) red bell pepper, 1/2 cup calrose rice with portabello mushroom (stalks) and green onion, 1 cup salad.
Evening Snack: 1/2 cup frozen fruit smoothy (2 bananas, 1 peach, vanilla, cinnamon, a little organic sugar-free applesauce, and nutmeg).

I felt like I was eating all day long! Just because of my busy work day and not having a lot of time last night to prepare, it was hard to stay on schedule and eat at the times and everything I was meant to.

So what's all included in the program?
There's of course a diet plan (I say 'diet' as in what you take in, not 'diet' as in limiting your food intake). There's walking as your cardio (they encourage NOT running or doing hard cardio exercise. PERFECT for an asthmatic like me), then there's the 18 minute strength building exercises. I haven't done these yet, but it utilizes elastic bands for resistance, and you utilize only things in your own home (like a chair or door).

Found out too that Cristian's boss' wife completed the Program and went from a size 12 to a size 6. AMAZING. She's going to do the program again after she has her baby.

Got a lot to loose, but I'm gung-ho.