My New Fat Burning Plan
It’s always a good think to rethink your current fat burning plan. Especially if you have hit a plateau. For the past, well almost a year, I have just been “winging” it with my meals and workouts. No real plan, no tracking progress, etc. While I haven’t gotten that far off track, I do feel a bit “lost” in what I am doing and what I am trying to achieve.
I am always telling my clients to write down their goals! It’s very important and I also tell them to be very specific so that you will know when you achieve those goals. So I sat down and wrote out my goals as well.
Fat Loss Goals
These are specific, because I will know when I reach them by fitting into my clothes more comfortably, dropping 2% BF, doing a full chin up and pull up and noticing an improvement in my knees.
Next step I am taking is to write down my foods. I have not tracked my foods in a long, long time. For me, I want to be able to see just how many calories I am taking in each day, at least for a while to get me back on track and away from snacking too much, which ends up in extra calories.
So, because I just don’t have the time or motivation to enter my foods daily, what I did was go into Sparkspeople.com and enter all the regular foods that I eat on a weekly basis to get the calorie and nutrient count for them. I had already had this done for all of my vegetables and a few other things, so this was my updated one below. This way I can just look quickly at how many calories, carbs, proteins and fats I am adding to my meals.
Tracking Meals
Then I am writing them down, mainly focusing on the calorie count, but for a week, tracking my carbs and proteins as well. Like this:
This will just take a few minutes while I am making each meal to determine and will also give me a good idea how my fat burning meals are looking!
I also stared a daily food blog. All it really is, is a blog with a picture of my meals. I did it all last week (well tried to do it daily and for every meal) and found it to be a great tool to help me stay on track and away from the snacking. Knowing I had to share it with the entire world, kept me from choosing bad things. I am going to be adding more than just the picture this week and will do entire days in one post with calorie count at end.
I think this is a great idea for those people who don’t want to track their calories, but want to be held accountable for what foods they are choosing to eat. You can start up a blog at wordpress.com or blogger. com for FREE and with blogger, I am able to just snap the pictures of my food with my blackberry and email it right to the post! Saves me a lot of time and effort!
So there you have it. My new fat burning plan, in writing. Are you going to hold me accountable? 
Have you made a plan or are you just “winging” it like I was. I guarantee you will get much better results if you have a plan of action in place. Go ahead and use some or all of my ideas and let me know what you are doing and I will help to keep YOU accountable!
Angie Schumacher is a Certified Fitness Professional who trains clients in her home and is a Women's Boot Camp Instructor in Colorado. She is the author of The Fat Blasting Boot Camp Program and has offered a one stop website to help you with all of your health and fitness needs. Please visit www.BuildingABetterU.com to find exactly what you are looking for!
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Angie – I was looking at your food blog. What kind of dark chocolate is that and where do you buy it?
Here is link to what I get. I like it because it has the higher % of dark chocolate. I get mine at Vitamin Cottage. Not sure if its in regular stores or places like Target yet, but Vitamin Cottage is a health food store like Whole Foods or Trader Joes.
Love this..have started to track my foods again myself..I have to go back to using an online tracking system..I have new specific goals for myself and I know without a doubt that that is the only way to achieve your goals by holding yourself accountable.
Hi Angie,
LOVE your ideas for not just winging it anymore but getting really specific…brilliant! I’m just getting back into a consistent exercise routine now that I’m at a new gym. This is good motivation for me to get a little more clear about what I want to achieve.
One thing I have in mind in walking 3 miles on the treadmill 3x/week as a start for my cardio. My recurring knee problems are making it tough for me to do vigorous cardio but I’m going with the slow and steady approach. Also, I want to feel comfortable in my size 2 pants again, which means burning that fat on my tummy. My pants have been tight all summer although I’ve noticed a difference in the last week with things improving.
Thanks for the motivating post, I love it! BTW, I’m doing really well in the food department even though I don’t track everything I eat.
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All good stuff Wendy! You are moving in the right direction and that is what matters! Keep up the great work!
And you will reach those goals girl! You are working so hard!