MyFitnessPal

During each week of the challenge, we have to attend a nutrition class. In each class, we are given three goals to work on for that week. In the past, goals have included drinking 2 liters of water a day and eating five to eight servings of vegetables. Recently one of the goals was to start using MyFitnessPal (a free app that can be found at www.myfitnesspal.com). You log in everything you eat, as well as your activity for the day. It is actually a pretty cool app for those trying to lose weight.

With the weather changes we have been having lately (alternating hot/cold with the cold being unseasonably cold), my allergies/sinuses have been giving me fits this week. I sent the following e-mail to my gym peeps w/ the subject line "MyFitnessPal HELP!" :

"I need the nutrition values for snot. I have looked for it under snot and phlegm both, and MyFitnessPal doesn't seem to have it listed. I am swallowing large quantities of it today and need to tract the calories at least. What is a serving of snot? And I also need suggestions on just how to count how many servings I am consuming. Please let me know. I want my experience with MyFitnessPal to be as accurate as possible."

I got this response from Chance (he cracks me up):

"Well, scientifically speaking, a serving of snot is a loogie. As far as their caloric density, I have no idea. You might ought to start hocking and spitting to avoid over consumption, not to  mention, you don't want to be called a snotlicker,-now do ya?"

Took some allergy meds that night and was tempted to send out a follow up e-mail that asked "how many calories do I burn fighting a drug induced fog?"

Green Machine

The one month weigh in for the challenge has come and gone. I lost 4.89% of my body weight. It put me in 4th place in my awesome GREEN TEAM. As I said in my previous post, the top 5 from each team win free large group training for the following month. GREEN TEAM also won the most check ins for the month, which means we got an additional 10 spaces in the large group training! My team is rocking it!!! I have been taking advantage of the prize. Large group training is also known as Art of Strength, something I have been doing with Kevin for a while. It is totally different as a class tho. With Kevin, he tailors it to fit me, my abilities. In a class, you have to try to keep up with those around you. IT IS BRUTAL! Think boot camp on steroids! The kettle bells and bar bells, I can handle for the most part. The problem is they are trying to force me to be BOUNCY!!! Chance is ecstatic about it, finds it VERY amusing. He walked through the area when they were making me do burpees (stand, bend down and put hands on floor, JUMP your feet back so you are in a plank, JUMP your feet forward again, stand up, and just for good measure, JUMP straight up...repeat til you fall on your face). He walked right past me and didn't even rescue me!!! Some friend he is...sigh. AOS as a class is a lot of work, but I believe it is going to be a game changer.