sorry…blah blah….busy…yada….etc.  </apology>

I have actually been doing pretty dang good and so has JP.  Work gets crazy, life gets nuts and it doesn’t get recorded here.  So sue us.

I’ve worked out 3 times this week already and plan to go again today.  JP joined up at my gym and is officially official, so she won’t have to drop $10 every week to join me at Funky Fit anymore.  I have been trying to integrate more protein into my life…and more interval training on the elliptical.

But I want you guys to be confident that we are still watching our waistlines and working on ourselves.  Sometimes life gets in the way or reporting to our adoring fans…but we’re doing well.  I know for a fact JP has dropped a few more pounds and I have to have, though I haven’t weighed myself in a few days.  I am feeling good though.  Sticking to the plan and getting more energy in the process.

Just stick with us…and we’ll do better with sticking with you.

It has been one whole week since the inaugural post here at AOF and what have we got to show for it?  What have we learned?

1. Prevention.com has an amazing tracking tool to help you keep track of what you’re doing, what you’re doing wrong and what you’re doing right.
2. We need to eat less carbs and fat…and more protein.
3. Everyone has a different story.
4. This is harder than we thought.

Proud to have started such a personal, and popular blog that so many people can come to fir ideas, advice and support.  Here is to many more weeks.

This prevention.com Health Tracker has been really helpful. Just today I figured out the ration of carbs to protein to fats to alcohol in my diet. Unfortunately, it wasn’t necessarily awesome news. This was the summation of my diet yesterday. Thankfully I made up for some bad decisions making with about two and a half hours at the gym. I ended up, all being said, eating the calories I should (1400-ish), without any exertion to lose weight, and tacking on an extra 1100 calories burned.

I am on a slightly better trajectory today with only 36 grams of fat. I can’t imagine eating another 26 before the end of the day (though I wouldn’t put anything beyond my awesome willpower). Sixty-two grams of fat yesterday. Jeez. But it says so long as I do about 1400 calories a day, I should get to my desired weight of 120 by mine and the SM’s 2 year anniversary, on St. Patrick’s Day, 2009. That’s not bad.

Point being:  Try to integrate more protein into your diet.  Its more filling and takes away time from eating carbs and fat.  Plus if you do have the time to work out, it helps with the building of muscle.  Protein is generally meat…so it makes sense to put more human meat on your bones, instead of fat, you should eat more protein.