I got my Insanity box in the mail. It looks pretty intense/insane. A nurse on my floor just started it this week and said she's pretty sore. I think I can handle the work outs (maybe not) but my biggest problem is going to be the food! The program comes with a giant nutrition book. You're supposed to eat (5) 300-500 calorie meals a day depending on your goals. They have 5 different food sections and you pick one meal per section for all 5 sections per day. It's really clean stuff the problem is preparing it and cooking it during the days I work. This week is going to be a trial run for sure. I smoothie/juice most of my fruits and vegetables as well as having a protein shake after work outs which takes up about (2) 300 calorie meals anyways. So it might not be that bad... just pick 3 from the book per day and make sure I'm getting my protein. It's really difficult on a night shift schedule to eat 1400-ish calories.
I'm going to track everything with LoseIt.com (the iPhone app). It has food, exercise, sleep, measurements, all sorts of fun things to track and goals to work towards. There's also MyFitnessPal.com but I think I like LoseIt better. Check it out! They're both neat websites/apps. I will also work on my sleeping habits and use the iPhone app "Sleep Cycle" it's $0.99. Kind of gives you an idea of the quality of sleep. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has better apps to use.
Laying out the plan:
Monday-Saturday is the Insanity work out
Sunday is a rest day (and my mandatory cleaning day/take the dogs out for a hike day)
I think Sunday will also be the grocery shopping day.
This week will be my absolute last week working over time and I'll be back to my 3 in a row. So whatever the day before my 3 in a row is, I will use that as a food preparation day so that my meals are semi-lined out for the work week to come.
Goals:
The goals I am focusing on for now are my fitness goals/measurements.
I would like to maintain my weight between 105-115 where ever my muscle mass/body fat will take me. I'm around 117ish right now. My pre-Army weight was 103ish but I would much rather be 110-115 with muscle. So just a few pounds weight loss. I'm more focused on leaning up and changing my body composition from less fat to more muscle. I'll track my weight same day, same time, same scale every week as well as measurements. Most likely it will be Sunday when I wake up.
I would like my body fat to be around the 15-17% mark (I'm in the lower 20's I think, will check tomorrow on Monday).
I would like my 2 mile Army run time to be in the 16 minute mark--anywhere in there! Push ups to remain in the 60s. Sit ups to hit the 80s-90s. For all my non Army friends, it's a fitness test where you do 2 minutes of push ups and 2 minutes of sit ups till muscle failure. Then do a 2 mile run. I've passed every PT test in the unit and the next one is in October so I want to kick some butt on it.
We'll see how it goes. I'm not going to stress myself on accomplishing these goals too quickly. I am realistic in the fact I know I will have interruptions in my exercise regime :(. I'm going to have surgery in August and there's the good 'ol Army Annual Training (AT) so those will postpone my progress to be physically fit and will delay the Insanity program but I'll do as much as I can until then and pick up when I'm healed/done with AT. But at least those times I can do my best with the nutrition side of things. I'll keep everyone updated on that, hopefully have more concrete plans this week.
That's it for now, time to round on my awesome patients and finish up the shift. Stay cool in this ridiculously hot weather and drink water! I will post pictures and measurements tomorrow. Have a good day.
-Nic
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