Let me start by saying I LOVE my iPod nano! I use my iPod while I am at my desk working and it really helps make the day go faster. If you don't have one you should get one.
Don't ask me how to work one of these new ones though since mine is a 3rd generation nano but it still works GREAT and I am not the type of person who has to have the "latest" technology. After all, my cell phone is a pre-paid cell phone that does not even have a camera.
I subscribe to a lot of podcasts though iTunes and enjoy listening to them while I am at work. I frequently jot down notes as I listen to them. I have a pile of paper scraps with notes on them that I am trying to add to a word document I made with all of my podcast notes. If you do have an iPod and want to listen to some of these podcasts (all are free)here are the health & fitness related ones that I listen to regularly:
1. Beyond Diet Podcast
2. BTR: Underground Wellness / Blog Talk Radio
3. Build A Sexy Body
4. Dishing Up Nutrition
5. Fat 2 Fit Radio
6. Healthy Mind - Fit Body (these guys are very into Paleo diets)
7. Logical Weight Loss
8. NPR: Your Health Podcast
9. Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone
In an effort to get as much information as possible I also read a bunch of diet and health books. Some were very informative, some were boring, and some totally sucked. The first book that stood out to me was The South Beach Diet Supercharged by Arthur Agatston, MD, with Joseph Signorile, PhD. This book teaches you how to make better food choices and appears to be a nutritionally sound diet consisting of a wide variety of wholesome foods. I used it as a nutritional guide only. I did not do any of the phases since my intention was not to be "on a diet" but to change my eating habits. The book includes nutritional guidance, workouts, and recipes. This is the book where I found my recipe for "Chock-Full-of-Veggies Chili" which I make frequently. I made a batch of it last night and am taking it with me to work this week to eat for lunch. I serve it over quinoa- very YUMMY! I do slightly alter the recipe since I do not eat mushrooms- ick!
I will try to review more books with each post since I have read so many of them. So let's look back to February. I continued adding more healthy foods to my diet and by then had finished off any of the highly processed foods that remained in the house. One thing I should note is that my husband Brian was not participating in my new healthy food diet so I had to give him his own cabinet and I had my own cabinet. So any processed foods that he liked ended up in his cabinet and I finished off the ones he did not like. The next thing I did was went through everything in the cabinets & refrigerator. I read all of the labels and got rid of everything that contained high fructose corn syrup, MSG & trans fats that I missed the first time I cleaned out the cabinets. It is amazing how much of that stuff is hiding in foods and condiments.
I continued my workouts with Gilad's Total Body Sculpt. I had recorded them on the DVR and I randomly picked one each day to work out. On February 16th I chose one that was called Total Body Sculpt PLUS, not realizing that those are one hour episodes. I did not figure it out at first and by the time I did I was already into the workout so I thought I would just keep going. That was really hard. The 30 minute episodes are actually about 22 minutes once you skip the commercials so I had only been working out 22 minutes a day. This was like doing two workouts in a row and it was a challenge but I did live to tell the story. If you want to watch a free preview (the frist 2 minutes) of one of his workouts you can click the link below.
I don't have a lot of notes about February. I was continuing my eating plan and my workouts. I feel the workouts were very important to help me build my muscles to increase my metabolism that had apparently slowed down over the years. I was not tracking my weight at this point. I did not start tracking my weight until March. More about that in my next post.
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