Hey welcome to my Tuesday!
Lydia and I hit the gym late last night, and worked out with weights for an hour. It was tough. For those of you who don’t know we’ve been using the Body for Life program for our eating and workout plans. It’s been going great. We’ve basically taken the ideas from B4L, and made them our own. We didn’t like the idea of having to sell a kidney just to afford all the supplements and shakes and protein bars and what not, so we decided to take the “fresh produce” route.
Basically B4L calls for 6 meals a day. We’re doing that and it’s actually pretty cool. I love to eat so getting to eat 6 times in one day is great! The difference is this though: the meals are smaller portions and basically exist to accelerate the metabolism. By eating smaller meals, we’re kind of creating a “food” burning machine out of our bodies. Food comes in and gets burned up 6 times a day. And by taking in smaller portions we’re making sure that we’re putting in just the right amount of fuel that our bodies need to repair and replenish muscles from working out, and to increase the metabolism.
If we ate larger portion sizes it would defeat the purpose. By eating too much, only 2 or 3 times a day, your body is actually sending a message to your brain that leads it to believe that it might not get a meal, so it stores the excess, and for me that means a nice spare tire around the waist. The trick is to have your body send the right messages to your brain. Something like: “Hey, bud, we’ve got just the right of amount of fuel coming enough times during the day that we can burn any excess off! That’s the point of eating 6 meals per day.
Also, we’ve divided our meals like this: 3 meals, 3 snacks. This makes it easier for us. I ‘ve found myself looking forward to the snacks in between the meals. We eat all of our fresh fruit for snacks. We eat apples, oranges, bananas, and pineapples along with a nice portion of protein (cottage cheese, or maybe a few small slices of reduced-fat cheddar cheese). It works. I find myself satisfied with tthe smaller portions, and I’m not really hungry hungry until I wake up the next morning, which is fine because I’ve gone 7 or 8 hours without food.
Tomorrow I’ll post our workout routine for those intersted.
We’ll be doing 45 minutes of elliptical cardio tonight, which is a bit more than the B4L method calls for, but we both feel that we benefit from it. We do 15 minutes of cool down on the stationary bikes to end the workout.
I’ll post our meal plans and workout schedule tomorrow for this week.
God’s Best.
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