olympians in the making

OK OK OK..if you're an avid reader of our blog then you are fully aware the Lee and I have been trying to diet and work out this whole year. Well..as far as dieting goes..we do pretty well during the week..and eat out a lot on the weekends..and as far as working out goes..three times a week if we were lucky..and sometimes not even. It was much too spiratic. Lee has been inspired by the olympics and his brother John spending the weekend with him. He has decided that if we dont do this and take it seriously then we'll never be as healthy as we want to be. I fully agree with him. We have not been taking it seriously. SO THIS IS IT. We headed over to Barnes and Noble on Sunday and decided to find a cookbook and plan our meals. We found this book on the Three Hour Diet. It's a diet basically about common sense..what we've all been told. Eat more smaller meals a day. He lets you make the meals you want and plan them out for your week and provides a ton of menu samples and recipes. All major meals (breakfast lunch dinner) are 400 calories each. a snack in between both of those must be 100 calories and at night you get a 50 calorie dessert. A total of 1450 cal a day. Meanwhile..eating these small meals raises your metabolism and leaves you feeling less hungry. I told a co-worker about it who said she knew someone doing the same diet and that its working very well! Not to mention the fact that we are busting our buts in the gym with cardio and abs and weight lifting. We have to get super serious about it now if we're gonna look good at that wedding. Its very exciting..and I will say that my arms are feeling like jello today..but its all worth it..and we can already tell a difference in our hunger and such. Well..thats it for now..gotta go..time for my 10 o clock snack!! :)