Poon and Trainer

Things worked out well.

With Dr Poon, he didn't yell at me (bonus) and looked at my food journal.  He told me too many snacks and explained I could have 2 Phase 2 snacks, and 1 Phase 1 snack per day.   Things like cottage cheese and a flax bagel are 2 Phase 2's.  Then having a donut also in that meal - again Phase 2 was all too much.  I could have all my snacks together, but not more then the '3'.  It was helpful the way he explained it.  Made more sense.  More protein and green veg, less snacks!  ha ha.

Josh came over yesterday and things went well.  I asked if he could send me his idea of macros for me, he will do that for Friday.  We all (Josh, AJ and me) went thru a full weight/strengthening (w/s) routine.  He wanted to make sure on what I and what AJ could do.  Then we went to the gym here to see what we are to do there. Goal is 3 times a week of w/s, and 4 times cardio a week. Best to do cardio in the morning before breakfast, just on a cup of coffee.  Coffee helps make the cardio better.  We are to do one w/s at home per week, and 2 in the gym.  My walking Jax doesn't count for cardio.  In cardio 20-30 mins of either bike or elliptical with 6-8 30 second bursts.  I'm happy with this goal.  Josh says as we increase the sets of w/s by the end of March I will see a change in my body. Hope so.

I input yesterday's foods into My Fitness Pal.  Was at 1406 cal.  Carbs continue to be at 70 g.  Tho fiber was 42 - so that gave me 28 net carbs.  Bit over, should be 25.  But again, much better.  Between Dr Poon explaining the foods again, and me inputting in MFP, I'm having more success at feeling like I know what I'm doing.  Even though I went over my goals, I feel I did well.  AND that doesn't count my exercise program which apparently gives me more food counts.

Oh, my weigh in.  Down 1.5 pounds.  Half fat and half water.  Dr Poon looked at my tracking chart, showed it to me - shows I'm continuing on downward.  Slowly, but still down.  I think that's a reason he wasn't too hard on me.  He does expect about 3 to 4 pounds in the next weigh in.  AHH.  I hope that will happen! I know I wrote in my last post I was semi-unwilling to stop the foods, but now I feel better as to the snack errors and understanding the foods, I'm more willing to plan my snacks/foods better.  I did binge on that Tuesday after we left (AJ comes with me to Poons).  Had a bacon cheeseburger and fries - my own fries, not a few from AJ's.  Not beating myself up over it, just continuing on and knowing my goals better.  Happy about that!  😄