Go Me! Workin Out!

I am getting back into the routine of heading to the gym a few times a week. I am really determined to get back into really good shape. I mean REALLY good shape. I want to lose about 20 pounds and 8% body fat. I'll let you know how things are going as I keep working on it. I will be working with a personal trainer, which I think is just the thing I need to get things going. I met with him today for the initial consultation. He said that in order to get down to where I want to be, which he thinks is a really good goal, I need to have between a 500-1000 calorie deficit daily. Which basically means I need to burn between 500 and 1000 calories more than I consume each day. For now, my goal is to do at least 30 minutes of cardio about 5 times a week and to write down everything that I eat. I know right now I am eating WAY more than 1400 calories, which is what he said I should be shooting for haha. I probably eat like 2200, I love food!

I have found this really cool website, thanks to Women's Fitness magazine. It is called RUNNER+. It is a website where you have a profile and you can log all of the runs that you do. It tracks your runs on charts and shows the calendar of how much you ran on which day. But the coolest part is that it has challenges that other people on the site create which you can join. It is really awesome and so far has really been motivating me! I love to come home after I have been at the gym and sign in and log my run and see how I am doing compared to the other people at my level. The awesome thing is that it has people from every level, beginner to very advanced hard core people. Maybe one day I will be hard core, but for now I am just your average Jane trying to get into shape!

Check it out, this is the link to my profile but you can see what RUNNER+ is about from there:

I also want to announce that I have decided to separate my life blog from my fitness blog. So if you are interested in my fitness progress then check it out at GoMeGetFit.blogspot.com Thanks for supporting me!

This will be me!!!