Update – Fitness Programs

February 21, 2010 at 9:57 pm (health, Nutrition, Physical & Mental Energy, Physical Exercise)
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Been super busy lately.  I’m building a website where I can present all of the research I’ve been doing on vitality in a more organized way.

Have pretty much stayed on track with my fitness plans – lost about 7 lbs so far.  Got back into some jeans I had outgrown.  The bodybugg has been helpful in reminding me that I need to find ways to fit workouts into my days.

The Kinetix nutrition program has me looking at food labels in a different way.  Checking for a balance of carbs and proteins with minimal fat content.

I keep working at increasing my muscle mass because then I will burn more calories naturally and that means I can expand my menu!  Yeah!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2010 at 6:39 pm (Green Smoothies, health, Physical & Mental Energy, Physical Exercise)
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My partner, Joey,  gave me my gift a little early this year – a diamond solitaire engagement ring!  It is beautiful and he chose the perfect white gold setting – very simple, the way I like it.

I haven’t had time to make my green smoothies and figure out how to balance them with enough protein for the Kinetix fitness program I am currently participating in so I picked up my anti-depression prescription today to keep me functioning.  I need to try to figure this out so maybe I’ll ask for some help from my Kinetix coach.

In other news, the Bodybugg is keeping me on track with burning calories.  At the end of my day yesterday I headed over to the gym to do some major cardio work in order to meet my minimum goal of burning 1900 calories each day.

Right now my watch tells me that I’ve only burned 1233 cal. for today but I am having pain from what feels like a pulled muscle in my back on the upper right side – right under the clavical.  Every turn of my head is giving me pain right now.  I’m going to apply some heat there and try to mix up some green smoothie to make me feel better.

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Heart Rate Monitor

February 10, 2010 at 4:55 am (health, Physical & Mental Energy, Physical Exercise)
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Got a heart rate monitor yesterday and wore it to do my cardio workout.  As part of the Kinetix program, I will be doing a 20 min. cardio workout on Tues, Thurs, and Saturdays.  I bought the Timex Heart Rate Monitor because that one had the highest rating from Consumer Reports.  I didn’t have time to read the instruction booklet so I don’t know the full extent of its capabilities but it was interesting to check it against the reading on the cross ramp machine that I worked out on.  I was also wearing my bodybugg so I was checking to make sure that I was meeting my calories burned goal along with my heart rate target.  Kinda of fun if not a bit techno-geeky.  :-)

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Kinetix – Day One

February 8, 2010 at 3:33 am (health, Nutrition, Physical & Mental Energy)
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Spent some time working on ways to include my green smoothies into the Kinetix nutritional program.  I have to balance out the carbs in the green smoothies (usually a pear and a banana) with proteins and fats.  I believe that if I divide the smoothie into 2 servings and have each serving with a cup of 2% lowfat cottage cheese to which I’ve added 1 tsp. of ground flax, then I meet the proper ratios.   Took quite a bit of time to measure everything out this morning.  Now I’ve got to rush to get ready for work.  This is an awful lot of cottage cheese to be eating in the morning.  I will have to figure out some alternatives.

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