Chicken & Biscuits

^^^^What I'd like to eat.

What I should eat- protein, vegetables, less carbs and less cheese.

String cheese is totally a gateway cheese! But yesterday I didn't have ANY aren't you proud?! I ate cottage cheese which is awesome but not the same. Sad.

Yesterday I woke up with the sudden desire to rejoin my old fancy pants gym, Lifetime Fitness so after work I headed over to the small YMCA and gave them the boot and then went to fancy pants gym and joined! I took a tour of the gym with an older Korean couple who kept giving my nose ring the stink eye and complaining about the noise and all the people. So there's that, I shelled out $110.12 for the first month and to for the joining fee. Score.

Being fit is making me go broke.

BUT BUT BUT, I decided to go back because of all their awesome resources that I can use

ie. The millions of treadmills and other assorted machines, the really good fitness classes (I'm looking at you spinning!), the several pools-- my favorite feature, they have a master's swimming for people like me and for people who are training for triathlons (my next goal) and it's all associated with USA Swimming and in the summer they have meets and whatnot. They also have a spa, a cafe, rock climbing walls etc etc etc

Today I hopped on over there and got myself assessed for my fitness and all that madness. My results? Not the best, but better than last May (success? sure).

Here are my results:

Kylie Williams

Height: 5'2"      Weight: 135 (hush you)     BMI: 24.7 (see, I'm still healthy)   Age: 22

I'm 26.82% body fat-- The trainer said I should shoot for 20% body fat which I want to say is about 10-15 lbs of fat, but I also want to gain muscles so I imagine that it'll be about 10 lbs less than I am now with the added muscle. The average for my age is 22% so apparently I'm at 46 years old for my body composition

I then did a flexibility test like you did in grade school where you put your feet against the box and you lean over and push the thing. I pushed it 16 inches which is bad. The average for my age is 19 inches, so they placed me at about 51 years old for that.

Then I did a muscular strength and endurance test--pushups. They made me do them on my knees, which I guess is the standard way for women (lame.) and I did the max 30 in no time so that put me at 18 years old. Apparently the average is 17 pushups, which makes me sad for people who have no upper body strength. Lift weights people!

I also realized that when I actually pay attention to what I eat and try to be healthy I don't actually eat enough calories-- I usually try to stay between 1200-1400. My minimum daily caloric intake should be 1429 and I should be eating up to 300 more calories on days I exercise even if I want to lose weight. So the trainer told me to eat between 1400-1700 calories a day. I made the executive decision to go back to calorie counting instead of Weight Watchers so that I can make sure that I'm eating enough, because who doesn't like to eat more when they can?!

Another really valuable piece of information the trainer gave me was about training for my half marathon that's coming up in 7 weeks. He told me that because I have so little time to train (woops) that I should focus on doing 2-3 sprint/interval days a week for 20-30 minutes and then 2 distance days a week. He said that the intervals will really condition me for the running and the distance days are so my body can get use to the distance. So that's what I'm going to focus on, 2-3 interval days, 2 distance days, and 1 snowboarding day.

So what I'm taking away from this is I have a metabolic age of 33 and I actually need to train for my half marathon and eat healthy, who knew?!