The beggining

We've started down a wonderful journey towards getting fit. This competition is just a truly amazing motivation and opportunity.

The first week:
We started with the crossfit gym on Saturday, which kicked all of our butts, but we did it, stayed the whole workout. Then went once during the week. If it hadn't been for this competition and the great support of the others girls, I normally would probably have not gone back for the second time. It was that hard of a workout. Someone mentioned that it takes about 6 times to get used to the workout, so I've set that as my goal, to go 6 times.

I believe the others have their own gym where they work out. I hadn't yet joined a gym but I really wanted to see if I could do this Paleothic diet, so I cut all processed foods out of my diet (thats all I really knew about the diet). I pretty much ate salad and chicken breasts for the whole week. My major accomplisment of the week came when my boss took us upstairs for a four course meal. I survived. I had a shot glass of fruit for an apetizer. I skipped the dressing and cheese on the salad. Then since it was seafood Friday I went for the only non-fried fish, the baked salmon with grilled green beans. For dessert I had another shot glass of fruit. It was only one meal, but I felt like if I could get through that meal without breaking my diet that I could really do this.

Now we're on week 2:
It didn't start that well for me. I bought all the ingredients for salad, some frozen salmon, and was going to make a quiche from a paleo diet recipe I found. Well, the salmon needs to thaw for several hours so my idea of going home and cooking the Salmon to take for lunches for the rest of the week, didn't work out so well since I had no time to cook except that night. The quiche called for a cup and a half of spinach, so I put the whole 10oz bag in there thininking I was shorting the spinach a little. Yeah, so I now think they meant to put in a physical measuring cup of spinach because there was so much spinach the egg didn't cook until the whole thing was burnt mess. So I didn't have the lunches (salmon salad) or the dinners (quiche) I had counted on.

Monday. I did sushi and then what was advertised as a healthy tofu and veggie chinese dinner. I knew I wasn't being perfect but I avoided the fried sushi and went for a fairly healthy veggie meal. Also, my girlfriend and I went and joined LA Fitness which is just a minute up the street from us. It's good encouragement for her because she is still conditioning and building back up after heart surgery and good for me because now I can work out even if I'm not able to make the Crossfit class times or not up to that grueling of a work out. I even went and did a Yoga class. I forgot how much I love yoga and the class was easy and relaxing rather that a real hard workout.

Today is Tuesday (we've caught up to present time), my girlfriend was really sweet and cooked my Salmon for me so the rest of the week I'll be able to eat that. Tonia, Stephanie, and I went to Crossfit to workout, but we ended up doing a nutrition class and learning about the Paleo diet instead. I found it really interesting and learned some of things I was doing wrong. I'll have to post later more informtaion about it. Afterwards, I thought I was going to go home and just go to sleep, but I ended up calling my girlfriend and went and got on the treadmill for 15 minutes and bikes for 15 minutes. I'm setting a goal to work out every day this week, and here I go posting it so I better do it. I'm going to get my money's worth out of this gym membership. I used to have a gym membership years ago but after a month or so I never went and I was under a year contract so I really was cautious about getting this one. LA Fitness has gone to month to month though, and with being able to go with my girlfriend I really think we're going to motivate each other to keep going.

I don't know if people are able to comment on this blog, but if you are. What sort of diets have you tried and what did you find worked and didn't work? What did you like and not like?