Here is what I am doing to lose weight...

I am currently training with a personal trainer 3x a week, before or after my session and before or after spinning I do 15-20 minutes of running/sprinting, then spinning 3x a week, I’m trying to get in at least 50-100 sit-ups every night before bedtime. Also, yesterday I tried Jillian Michael's 30-Day Shred. Which I loved! I weighed myself this morning and was at 142.5. I weighed 144 on Wednesday so I have lost 2.5 lbs this week. :)



Your nutrition is the most important part of weight loss, no matter how much exercise you do if you have a bad, unbalanced diet or you skip meals you will not lose good weight (body fat) as fast or at all. You will only lose that muscle you have worked so hard on getting.

The body requires 2 portions of carbs to survive. One portion feeds the brain, after the brain gets its nutrients from the carbs it sends out signals to the body to grab food for the muscle, that’s what the second portion or carbs does, it feeds the muscle.

But if you are trying to burn fat and tone the muscle then you only eat one portion of carbs per meal, so that when the brain gets its food and sends out signals to feed the muscle there wont be more carbs for it, so what the body does is it goes for the stored fat and uses that to feed the muscle.

When you workout without having breakfast then instead of creating muscle, the brain uses muscle as its food for nutrients and eats up the muscle.



Each meal should have:
1 portion of protein
1 portion of carbs
1 portion of fat

to make it a good balanced fat burning diet.

ALL PORTION SIZES ARE:
1 portion = 15g

Sample Meal Plan:

Day 1

Breakfast:
1 cup of 1% milk
1 scoop whey protein powder
6 pecans, almonds, chia seeds, flax seeds, or a tsp of peanut butter

Mid Day Snack:
1 medium size apple

Lunch:
½ cup of lentils
Portion of Salmon with chopped peppers (red, green & yellow) and onion
1 tsp of olive oil

Afternoon Snack:
2 medium size oranges

Dinner:
2 Corn tortillas
1 Portion of panela cheese
2 tsp of avocado

I hope this helps you start seeing some results. Keep me posted on how it goes and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

For a prompt reply I’m always on AIM: ytdianilu or on twitter: http://twitter.com/dianilu



Have a great day!

Much love,
Diana

A great option for a workout without the need for a gym.

Yesterday afternoon I was a little bored, but I wasn't able to go to the gym. So I tried out Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred!... it is a great workout that gave me a pretty good sweat and I felt like I was working out pretty good.

here is a Level 1. Enjoy!




and here is the full playlist for you guys =)
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dianilu&view=playlists

Gonna try this out!

Hello lovely people,

Since I realized I fail at keeping up with my video updates on YouTube, i found this to be a better way to stay in touch with you guys when i don't do a video, or when i don't gave the time to record one i can just write out something. I mean i already do it on twitter, but many of you are not using twitter yet, tried it but didin't understand it, or just don't like it. With a blog i can simply attach it to my YouTube Channel and from there go on. We'll see how this works out and you guys can let me know what you think. :)

I hope everyone had an awesome 4th of July!

Much Love,

Diana