Tomorrow is June 1st and I have decided to try the 17 Day Diet again. This time I have to be serious and PREPARED! Hopefully I am. I am not where I thought I would be by now with just running and working out so I have to take drastic measures!
As an added incentive (as if wanting to lose weight and feel and look better wasn't enough) one of my new Sun City friends is going to do a Tri with me! Yikes, she's very good and competitive. I know that I don't have to beat her and surely can't but I do want to be respectable and not drown! It's been so long since I've blogged I've pretty much forgotten how to do it but will figure it out eventually and make this a great blog like so many of the ones I follow have. I'd love to inspire others so that is what I will attempt to do and that should also help keep me on the straight and narrow!
What is the 17 Day diet you ask? That's a good question. It's pretty simple which is why I like it. It's basically a high protein carb diet however, you can have 2 fruits a day as well as yogurt and lots of veggies, chicken and fish. Green tea and hot lemon water are encouraged and what a great time of year to drink more water. I do plan on cutting back on my coffee consumption but cannot totally go without. My plan is to only drink the magic coffee potion in the morning. I also plan to "give up" diet Coke. That may be even tougher than my extra coffee. However for 17 days I can survive, right? That is why I want to post daily. I need to be held accountable and this is the best way I can think of to do that.
So here's the plan! I will focus on both cardio and resistance training and will cross train doing at least one exercise every day!!!! Even if it is only to walk, yes that is exercise although it's hard for me to think of it that way. I will definately need to do cross-training with a couple of tri's coming up! Now that we're getting settled I'll be able to dedicate more time to working out (or should I say playing?!) I will be posting everyday with my workouts and my food diary so keep my honest.
So off to Pickleball tonight and am looking forward to Day 1 tomorrow. I plan to run to the pool, swim 300 yards and then run home! I hope to run about 8 miles. When I get home I will do some resistance training from the fitfabulousforever.com website. She basicially recommends doing resistance training 6 days a week incorporating most muscles only once in that cycle. Tomorrow will be upper body, hams and glutes and abs. Not bad. It'll be fun! I will post the links that I'm using as soon as I can figure out how to do that!
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