This coming month Im going to make a commitment to keep very close track of my calories, generally I just watch my fat intake and try to keep to running 3 days a week and at least one of cross training in some way. But since I havent lost any substantial wieght in over a month I need to really re-evaluate what Im doing. I am thinner, people have noticed but my wieght hasnt budged in so long I have to do something. So I am going to watch my calories closely for a few days to see what Im taking in, generally without and restrictions I take in 1600 calories, give or take a handful, thats just where I usually fall. I need to find out if Im still in that range and Im going to need to figure out how many I need to eat to start losing again. Another suggestion I was given was ramp up my work outs. Which I am doing already. I am running four days a week now, training for a local 5k race. Im changing up my running routine from two 45 minute runs a week and one long slow run (5-10 miles) to include  3 mile interval training and 3mile hill training and one longer run (4-6miles)which will mix things up for me a lot! Im hoping this combonation will assist me in dropping some pounds!

Also water water water! I have been SO bad with drinking water lately. Its getting hot so I really need to pay attention to my water consumption as well.

Posted by Shelley in Nutrition on April 6th, 2007 |