The Plan

I figured if I wrote my plan out here it would hold me more accountable. I am still feeling like I did yesterday, raring and ready to go. But I want this for the days I don't. For the days when excuses are too easy to come by.

Calorie Intake/Burn Goals:

I use a Bodybugg (NOTE: Bodybugg is in no way paying me to say any of this, they did not send me my bugg for free and in fact have no idea I'm writing this. Just to be clear I am not receiving anything from them for writing this.) So that is how I will track the calories I burn. Otherwise I track my calories mostly on paper, I haven't found an app for my phone I really like. I'm totally open to suggestions :)

Work day goals:
Intake: 1,800 Calories
Burn: 2,800 Calories
Deficit: 1,000 Calories
So basically I want a deficit of 1,000 no matter what. It use to sound crazy to me but I actually find it hard most work days to eat enough.

Off day goals:
Intake: 1,800 Calories
Burn: 2,300 Calories
Deficit: 500 Calories
I find it hard to get moving on my days off. I'm hoping with my new urge to change I will exercise more and then I will have the same goal for both days. But for now I'm doing this that way I won't get discouraged and eat an extra 500 calories instead.

Exercise Goals:

Work Days: Nothing....sounds lazy a bit but I work 12 hours 3 to 4 days a week. I live 2 and half hours from work so as you can see working out on those days is a little harder. I'm ok with this too because I burn so much those days.

Off Days:
Wedays- I'm not always off on Wednesdays. But I will do an upper body workout on the days I am and maybe run. 
Thursday- Total Body workout/ Run 1.5 miles
Friday- Core workout/ Run 1.5 miles
Sat- Yoga/ Run 1.5 miles
I'm a little scared about seeing 1.5 miles right off the bat. I'm basing it off of Hal Higdon's training program. I've heard good things about it and hope it helps me when it comes time to run my 5K. If it is too much to start out I plan to run what I can and walk the rest, building up to running the whole thing.

As far as a diet or something along those lines I am just going to try to portion better and not eat so much ready made, processed, fast food stuff. I am going to be honest in that it will happen. But I want to make small changes. This is the area where I have the least amount of ideas in what to do. I'm going to have to take a long, hard look at this and do some reasearch before I set any real in depth details.

I weigh in on Thursdays. Mostly because I am always home on those days so I can use the same scale at the same time. So tomorrow I will post my weight and my goals for the week as far as weight loss goes. Maybe a picture too...I haven't decided on that though.