The Week after my first meeting with trainer

The first week after I met with my trainer was interesting.  A big topic that we discussed was food intake.  We didn't get into calories in and calories out and all of that stuff.  We talked in general about food consumption.  He also emailed me a four or five page document about food as well as a sample meal plan and grocery list.  Right after meeting with my trainer, we will call him Linus, I went to the grocery store and started my new change in life.  For breakfast I eat a protein shake, and rolled or steal cut oat meal, a handful of nuts for a snack, a chicken salad for lunch, another handful of nuts for a snack and then a meat and veggies for dinner.  This is more or less the food I eat daily.

When I first saw this I thought I was going to starve.  Hello, I'm not terribly far from 300 pounds.  I believe the protein shakes really help keep me full most of the day.  I came home from the grocery store and immediately started cooking.  I try to cook for the whole week because with school, work, interning, and now going to the gym it's hard to find time to work through out the week.

Linus told me that I should do cardio 4 times a week and strength 3 times a week.  I can do both in the same day so I don't have to go the gym every day.  I think I did really well.  I made it, I worked out as much as I should I did a really great job eating too!  I lost a good bit of weight.  It was really encouraging!  It was a month ago so I don't remember exactly how much weight I lost.  I didn't go to a fast food restaurant or anything.  I went to Calypso, they have a great chicken veggie salad that taste great and goes with my diet.

During my work outs I didn't feel faint or nauseous any more.  I don't tend to work out as hard by myself as I do with with Linus.  My usual routine with "getting healthy" is I am really eager and great sticking to something for a week.  Thus I had a YMCA membership for several months and started out with great vigor only to have a membership that I was paying a lot of money to have and not utilize.  So it's no surprise that this first week is going great...  We'll see if I make it through the long haul.  We'll see if I really am going to be getting healthy or flake out.  My wife and I decided that I am going to see Linus for 10 sessions to have that accountability and have that help that I so desperately need to get my life back.  By getting healthy I hope I can put my shoes on normally, I can really fit my clothes and not stretch them literally to the break point.  Getting healthy is the goal not a weight or a number.  I want to be able to sit on the couch and not have my wife worry that I'm going to break it.  Living and enjoying life is my goal.