I'm Baaaaack!

It has been 2 months since my last post. I had taken the time off from the gym because I tweaked something in my back and hip and thought it would be best to let things heal before lifting weights again. I continued to exercise on the elliptical in the evenings.

I discovered that my LoseIt app was overestimating the amount of calories that I was burning lifting weights.  I have changed the setting to light weightlifting and dropped 10 minutes off my total time working out.  That seems to have worked and my weight loss was maintained.

I also changed my diet and started eating bread/pasta/rice again every day and discovered that it was much harder to lose weight.  This week, I made my Mexican Beef & Black Bean recipe and haven't had bread/rice/pasta for the last 3 days and I lost 1 pound.  I read somewhere that if you exercise when on a lower carb diet that your body uses your stored fat for energy and you lose more weight.  I certainly seems to be true for me.

Now it is time to get back into my gym routine and my carb routine.  I had gone 8 months without missing a day and now it is time to back on schedule.  This week for my diet I am planning to take salads to work for lunch and only eat rice/bread/pasta on my gym days.

To date I have lost 18.5 pounds.