This week was interesting for me. I always wear a heart-rate monitor when I work out, to keep track of which workouts help me burn the most calories, and also because the doctor wanted me to stay out of the "red zone" as much as possible due to my phantom high blood pressure. ANYWAY, that week I got bronchitis the doctor put me on a new blood pressure medicine, and this one works so my heart rate stays below a certain level. MEANING, I am working out just as hard as always however it is no longer reflected by my heart-rate monitor because the medicine is "working". This entire week, (according to the monitor) my peak heart-rate was an average of 15 points lower and my overall calorie burn was an average of 75 cal. lower. BUMMER!!! However, I would still sweat bullets on all the exercises that have always challenged me, and I would still get out of breath on much of BurnItOff. So I know I'm not slacking, its just not reflected by my heart-rate anymore=( Grrrrrrrrr.
Have either of you heard of the Body Bugg? I guess its a digital device similar to a heart rate monitor, however it is more accurate in reading your calorie burn-during workout, during rest, during stress, etc. AND it calculates your calorie intake as well, such as when you eat food. Its pretty expensive, and for it to be most accurate you have to wear it all day long. But Chalene promotes it on her blog/youtube/twitter and the gym we go to always has them on sale. Just curious if you've heard anything about them. I'm wondering it they'd be more accurate than my heart-rate monitor now that I can't get super-good news from that anymore.
This week I give myself a grade B for sugar-avoidance. I did AWESOME until Friday when Kristin brought homemade brownies to "thank" us for helping her out during her first weeks. It was also a bad weather day, so we had a TON of cancels and lots of downtime to sneak into the kitchen and gorge ourselves full with those yummy chocolate brownies. I tried to limit myself to 1, but by the end of the day had downed 3. OMG. I know I need to keep trying to overpower those sugar cravings but its soooooooo hard! I'm fine at home though, so its really just at work that those temptations seem irresistable. I think I should just make the kitchen off limits for myself. I'll store my snacks in the snack room fridge so I don't even have to go in there period:) I'm sure THAT will work.
Well my parents are visiting this weekend, so I'm gonna go have some family time...I just wanted to say great work girls! Sarai, I think you have a good system with doing L4L between each cycle! I think I may copy that! And I am considering buying the extra Chalene DVD's too. Just not quite yet. I still have a LIBRARY full of workout DVD's I can rotate through, some I've never even opened....haha don't tell Aaron! Shannon, what workouts will you be starting up this month? Talk to you later!
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