Creative ways to burn calories

I took a midol with sleep aid last night and slept 11 hours!!! I don't know if its the winter or what but besides the "sleeping pills" I've needed a lot more sleep than usual. So after my 11 hour slumber I went over to my friends new house to help her paint. It was a lot of well painting, bending, lifting, moving and on my www.caloriecount.com account I imput my painting as an activity and it burns mad calories, I was excited to hear this since I was HUNGRY once I got home. I like it when something I do has multi-purpose- now I have helped a friend (awesome points for me) and have a friend obligated to help me with painting in the future (score!) and I burned calories in a place other than the gym.

Workout Summary

Workout Summary:

Ellipitical -3.1 miles in 31 minutes (I think my new soundtrack with Beyonces new single Countdown helped speed me up from last time)

Treadmill 5.2mph running 8 minutes/3.1 walking 22 minutes

I was bored and not trying that hard what can I say?

Weigh in Wednesday went very well, I lost 13 pounds! My original weight-loss goal was 12 pounds so I made a new goal of 18 pounds by T-giving. I've been slacking on the exercise, in the first 5 weeks of my weight loss, but it was a little intentional. I didn't want to dive right in with a new food and exercise program so I started out with the food but now am going to work in a regular workout schedule as well. This is whats been working for me so far but I understand not everyones the same.

I would also like to make a DISCAIMER and say I have no exercise/nutrition education. I see these a lot of health blogs and will make something a little more permanent but in the mean time would just like to state everything you see on this blog is my own personal experience, I'm not a doctor so everything on here should be taken with a grain of salt if you are looking for ideas about your health.

Also on a side note ShopRites have nutritionists on staff (at least the one that opened in my area does) so if you are looking for free nutrition advice from someone who has a license, you may not even have to look any further than your local grocery store.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!