1st day of the 21 Day Fix

      For more information on the 21 Day Fix, please refer to my earlier post "All about the 21 day fix"

 As promised, I am going to give an honest review of my 21 day journey with the 21 Day Fix. Hopefully it will serve 2 purposes:

 1.) To help inform you of what the program is like 

and

2.) To help keep me accountable over the next 3 weeks.

     For personal reasons, I think that it is important for me to explain what my goals are with this program, so here goes!
 

MY GOALS

   I am starting this program at 127 lbs, and I am hoping to lose 6 lbs with this. I realize that this might sound a little crazy considering how much of my body weight that is (the heavier you are, the easier it is to lose a larger amount of weight in a given time period, and vice versa). However, this program advertises that it can help you lose between 5 and 15 lbs in 21 days. I am a little skeptical because I have been doing T25 and drinking Shakeology until now, and have lost 12 lbs in about a 4 month time span. However, I'm not a nutrition expert so my meals haven't always been perfect, and I have made bad choices with food along the way. I'm hoping that this "nutrition for dummies" as I'm going to call it will help this dummy out :p So basically, if you stick to it 100%, you should be able to lose what it promises. I am going to give it my best shot to stick to it, so let's see what I can do! Although, tomorrow is valentines day, so I might need to add on another day and really make it the 22 Day Fix! lol

    Here is a breakdown of my goals over the next 3 weeks:

               lose 6 lbs

               Get better at figuring out how to balance my meals between the food groups

               learning what correct portions even look like (because I literally have no idea and just guess)

              .....and I really want to be able to inspire people along the way to start making healthy choices 

              #EndTheTrend

Day 1: 

     Yesterday, I figured out my calorie target using the easy formula in the book and used the chart to find out how many of each color of container I should be getting every day. After that, I sat down and made my meal plan to make sure that I was getting all of my container portions in for the day. The first thing that I discovered here is that I was actually going to be eating a lot of protein throughout the day, and a lot less carbs than I am use to. Like I said, this is all a learning experience! 

    I was planning on going grocery shopping today, but I got so bogged down with everything else that I didn't get a chance, so I had to make due with what we had at home. I had everything except my lunch and second snack. To make up for this, I doubled the containers for dinner so that I was still getting in my 2 reds (protein), and 2 yellows (carbs). I have to say, I haven't been feeling great today, so I'm happy I was able to manage all of that. 

   One thing is for sure, those containers hold  MUCH MORE FOOD than I thought that they would. I haven't been hungry all day and wasn't even able to get all of my food in!

The Workout:

    Today was Total Body Cardio fix, and let me just say, I am not a fan of cardio at all...in general. But I know that it is a vital part of losing weight, so I do my best with it. Those people that love running...not me. Probably never will be! lol

   I was expecting to be able to breeze through the workout since I just got done with T25, but that was not the case. Even with the 20 second breaks every minute, I was still having a very hard time keeping up and I was doing the moderator moves more than I thought I would be. On a side note, I need to get some hand weights for the moves in this one, because the resistance bands are very hard to work with for the moves.  

To wrap up:

     More food than I thought there would be, challenging workouts, and I need hand weights. Day 2, here I come! It's all about getting better every day, and that's what I plan on doing! More updates coming in a few days!