Day 13

Workout: 10 minute warmup on the treadmill-50 cal
                30 minute elliptical run-300 cal
                5 minute treadmill cool down-25 cal
                Walk to Clarendon and back-85 cal

Total 435 calorie output with exercise

I ate 1511 calories with 6+ servings of fruits and veggies.  Today, was an overall very successful day.

Day 12

Saturday...the weekends are always harder, but today was pretty good.  I did my hip hop dance video today, eventhough I feel like death...burned about 325 calories.

The food/drink was a bit of a fail...I had 1900 calories (5 glasses of wine).  However, I did make my fruit and veggie goal with 6 servings, 4 of which were veggies.  Not a fabulous success, but it was dinner at Sara and Tom's so we had a feast with glasses never dry.

Day 11

Today, Richard arrived to DC and I am getting sick so I took the day off of exercise, on the plus side we took a walk to Clarendon and back...85 calories.

I ate 1734 calories today...including 2 glasses of wine, 2 beers, and gelato.  I am very proud of this!  On the downside, these special treats replaced my usual intake of fruits and veggies...I only got 3 veggies.  Better luck tomorrow!

Day 10

Today, I did my belly dance video.  I started with the 30 minute sculpting moves for beginners, then 30 minute fat burning.  I burned approximately 125 calories the first 30 minutes and about 200 the second, for a grand total of 325 calories and an hour long workout.  Then later this evening I walked to La Tasca and back over 1.5 miles burning approximately 100 additional calories, which is good since I ate and drank so much...

I ate approximately 2,000 calories today including 6 fruits/veggies and 4 glasses of 200 calorie sangria.  Not too bad for drinking.  I only went 200 calories over my goal and I burned about 425 calories today, so I am happy with that.  My goal is everything in moderation and to restrict myself from nothing I love!

Day 9

Today is day 9!  I shook the workout up a bit today with a fitness class at school.  I participated in a Zumba class.  It's a Latin/Hip-hop fusion intense cardio workout, it was great fun, and terribly intense.  So far it's the most intense workout I've had, I checked several websites and determined that it burns anywhere from 350-750 calories depending on the intensity and your fitness level.  I estimated that I burned around 450.  Prior to the Zumba class as a nice warm-up I shot baskets for 30 minutes to burn an additional 140calories.  Total output=590!  That's a victory...

Calories in 1628 (second day in a row...that's odd).

Unfortunately I only ate 3 fruits and veggies today...we'll try harder tomorrow!

Day 8

My workout today consisted of 35 minutes on the eliptical with an increased resistance to 3 (previously at 1), as a warm up I walked home from Rosslyn (.9 mile), and my cool-down was 10 minutes on the recumbent bike.  I burned about 410 calories.

I maintained my diet and goals today!  I ate 1,628 calories (goal=1800).  I also ate 6 servings of fruits and veggies.  DONE!

Day 7-Day of Rest

So today is day 7, one week, of my new healthy lifestyle.  I did good on the calorie count again today, 1450 calories in, plus about 6 servings of fruit and veggies today.  So, I'm glad that I've been able to stay well under my calorie goals the last two days, especially since I went over the previous three days. 

Today was my first day off from exercising, I was very sore and needed a repreive.  I just went on an mile long walk down to whole foods and back.