First Day with My Trainer Left Me Sad & Depressed

Today I did OK with my diet even though my friend Sally made these absolutely amazing fried bananas for our afternoon tea. I only had 1 piece to taste.

It is so stinking hot today, the week has been so stressful and I am tired but I went to the gym to meet my trainer Tanija (pronounced Tawnya).

Say hi to Tanija :)

First thing we discussed was diet.  Basically, what I am doing is pretty good.  I could try to increase my vegetables and reduce my legumes (beans, chick peas, etc.) but since eating beans is helping me to feel full and satisfied that it was OK to stick with that.  She recommends more of a paleo diet which is mostly meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit.  It excludes dairy, grain products and processed food but it allows bacon so go figure.

I personally don't believe in eliminating food groups but I am willing to consider it if I don't get results.

I also need to eat more.  The LoseIt app suggests 1,393 calories per day but according to the body analyzer machine I should be eating 1,500 to 1,700 calories per day.

Then on to exercising.  It was very depressing how unhealthy I am.  We spent 30 minutes stretching and working on core muscles and then we did some squats.  I became more and more depressed as I worked through the exercises.  Then right at the end I was doing these squats with a bench (basically sitting down and getting up again) when suddenly I got really dizzy.   Like WTF???  It only lasted a couple of minutes but really?  Do a few stretches and some squats and I get dizzy?  That is ridiculous.

So then I suggested we take my blood pressure because my doctor had said that if I am working out I might become dizzy due to my blood pressure dropping as I lift weights or stuff like that.  Well my blood pressure was high 173/120.  It has never been that high.  I think I was just stressing though about feeling faint because when I got home and took my blood pressure it was normal.  The blood pressure machine at the gym also did something weird.  The cuff inflated and started deflating but then in inflated again.  I don't know what was up with that.  So maybe it was just something with the machine too.

**  After I wrote this post I decided to google "high blood pressure" and "exercise".  Guess what?  Your blood pressure normally rises during exercise because your body is trying to get more oxygen to your muscles.  For people who are doing really strenuous exercise their blood pressure can go up to 200/90.  It will then return back to normal over a couple hours after the exercise is done.

My next session with Tanija is Tuesday so we will see how things go.

Food log for today.

** Updated - decided to have a snack of 2 boiled eggs.  Shouldn't have done it.  Now I feel gross.  Should have had the cherries instead.