Time to Meltdown!!

I hope everyone is surviving all this snow! I think it is a very appropriate time to start our Meltdown to Summer program. For those of you participating in this program you already know the drill, for those of you who are unfamiliar, it is a 90 day challenge to improve exercise and eating habits before slipping into a bathing suit this summer. I will be posting often with tips, motivation and recipes to help everyone stay on track. If you have questions and comments please post right here on the log. If you have a question, idea, success story, let us all hear about it. FYI, there is quite a bit of info already here, so just click back and look at some of my old posts. Especially for the Meltdown girls, you may want to review my posts on sugar and protein from earlier. We briefly disused this when we met but I do go into more detail here. FIrst challenge - LOG YOUR FOOD INTAKE. Research indicates that people who log their food intake lose twice as much weight as those who don't. Grab a pencil and notebook, find an app on your phone or log on to the computer. There are several free programs, Spark People is one, or the one I really like is Calorie King (not free) but you can purchase the software from me at the studio. This is not suppose to be a good food, bad food thing, but more a tool to help you identify what is working and not working. Take a look at your protein intake for the day and if you want, shoot me an e-mail with that number. If you don't consume enough protein, it will be much more difficult to lose weight. Protein comes from lean meats, fish, chicken, low fat/non fat dairy, legumes (bean such as kidney, chick peas and black beans), nuts, seed and nut butters. Protein helps to keep you full, stabilizes your blood sugar and aids in the reduction of carbohydrate cravings. Second challenge this week, write down 1 thing you want to work on - for me it is logging daily, for you it may be eating every couple of hours or increasing you water consumption. Whatever it is, write it down or even better tell someone - if we work on one new thing each week or 2 think of all the progress that will be made in 3 months. Ok, keep up the good work! As always, feel free to contact me with any questions.

Keep on MELTING! Noreen