Rest Day, Weigh-In, and Cheat Day

I love rest day!! Especially when it falls on the third day of my new workout plan! I enjoyed every minute of  rest day. Tomorrow I'll be teaching boot camp which will help me get my scheduled cardio-interval training workout in for the day.

I am going to make a habit of weighing in once a week.  (In reality I'll be weighing in every day, which is a bad habit of mine...... and one that can be discouraging at times.) So every Friday I'll report any weight lost or gained and why I think i lost or gained for that particular week. So far for this week I am down 2 pounds. That surprised me considering I haven't been working that hard at it yet. However, it does go to show you how important a healthy eating plan is to your weightloss goals.

It takes a combination of both exercise and healthy eating to create LASTING weightloss. You can just do one or the other, but once you are done with your "diet" or done with your "6 week workout", you'll go back to your old habits and that weight will creep right back on. To make it stick you HAVE to make a lifestyle change. That means incorporating healthy eating habits and regular exercise into your weekly routine FOR LIFE.

I love food. I love to eat, and I love to eat things that taste good. One thing I have learned is that I can be strict only to a certain point. I have to have a cheat day. So Sundays are going to be my cheat day. I am going to eat and drink whatever I want on Sundays. Its a good way for me to remind my body that it is not starving (which in turn keeps it from wanting to store fat) and to fill some cravings I have been having during the week. Its also a nice reward for all of the hard work I have been doing during the week.

Tomorrow will be my last post until Monday. I'll have much to share when I return! See you tomorrow!