Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Friday, September 17, 2010

Well, Hello....Its Been Awhile

Hi Blog World. Yes, it has been over 2 weeks. Alot has been happening. I finished painting my living room on my time off between jobs. It looks fantastic, if I do say so myself.... Then started my new job this past Monday. So far, it is all good.

I have been slacking in making any new Spin profiles lately. For one thing, I haven't come across any great new music to inspire me, and Two, I haven't had alot of free time lately. I know, I was off for work for 8 days plus 2 weekends, but the first weekend was Labor Day and we went to visit my parents for a long weekend. The second, Jonas and I went to Houston, TX to see Dave Matthews at The Woodlands (which was AWESOME), and then to stay with his dad for a night. But the show made it completely worth the long 2-lane, backroad drive we had on the way to The Woodlands.

Anywho, that is what I have been up to lately. I hope to soon have some kind of inspiring super ride profiles to give out in the near future....

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Ipod Touch 4.0 RANT

Read this if you are thinking of up grading your iphone or ipod touch to the new software. I finally upgraded my Ipod from the original software that it came with, which was 2.(something), to the new 4.0 software that is available.....against my husband's recomendation to not do so.

BIG MISTAKE.

This is my story.

Gripe #1:

I use my ipod as my sole method for playlists in my Spin classes. I rely on this thing pretty heavily. I have put hours and hours into organizing my music and making playlists to have a good flow that not only sounds good from song to song, but also creates a mood for the ride and correlates to the movements that we are doing. I think being able to pull together music that has feeling in the ride is what makes a class special, and it has worked for me so far.
Last week, the next day after the upgrade before I knew things had gone badly, I selected a playlist and the class description from my notebook for class that day. Plug it in, and start the warm up. I get the correct warm up song, the correct second song, but wrong third song which was also the last song on the playlist which should have had up to 13 songs. So in the middle of class, they had to sit there while I found random music that could get us through the class. I did not like this one bit. After class, I glance through the rest of the playlists that I had made, and they were all the same. I was going to have to sit down re-load every single playlist that was on my ipod. Just counted them to be sure, and there are 82 playlists.
I'm not happy about this.

Gripe #2:

Back into the Spin classes. In the Settings option, I always select the Gereral>Auto-Lock>Never option so that my screen will stay on for the entire class. Before the upgrade, I just hit the "never" button, then the Home button, and go straight back to my music. Well, it doesn't work that way anymore. And for awhile, I thought I would not be able to use the Never Lock option and would have to constantly Unlock my ipod every couple of minute that I didn't touch the screen. Not Cool At All. But as I sat down and played with it for a little while, I realized if I hit the Never lock option, then go back to the General screen, then back to the Settings screen, then back to Home, then back to my music, that it would stay. Not that big of a deal if I do it before hand, but why couldn't they just use the ease of keeping it the way it was before??

Gripe #3:

The 4.0 software's supposed cool new thing is its ability to organize all of the apps into groups on your first screen so that you don't have 5 or 6 different pages of apps where you can never find what you need. Such as having all your games together in one block, your social apps in one, and your entertainment apps in another. So I took the time to drag all of my apps to make all of the appropriate categories. After I had organized everything, I noticed the Facebook App had a notification. So I tried to open it. It pops up, and immediately shuts down. Do I delete it and try to reistall it, thinking something had messed up when I was moving things, and the same thing happened. Then I try to open another app, and it does the same thing. Finally I tried syncing my ipod to itunes, and then it magically worked. So this was not that big of a deal either, but with all the great "user-friendly" crap you hear about ipod, you never hear any bad press about anything.

Gripe #4:

This doesn't necessarily pertain to me, but Jonas is the guy in charge at his work of helping anybody that has a company issued iphone that has trouble with syncing their work outlook email. Most of the time, it doesn't work the way it had in the past, and he has to go in and change a bunch of settings. He advised everyone at his work to not upgrade at all until Apple puts out a newer version that will import the email so that the average user can actually figure out how to load their own email and won't have to use his IT skills to fix everybody's phones.

Gripe #5:

The battery runs out super fast.


Ok, just to be fair, there is one thing that I do like about the new software. As I was fussing in Gripe #1 where all my playlists were screwed up, I found that if I opened a playlist and pulled it down, that there are now editing buttons and a search bar at the top where the playlists can be edited on the ipod. With the old software, only a tempory "On-The-Go" playlist could be made. But now, I could make several new ones and save them each without having to go to the computer. This is very cool.

So my point in this whole ipod soap-box is that you hear all this crap about how cool and easy and hip it is to have any Apple product, and then you hear all this bad press about any Microsoft product....but WHO CARES??  Well, Apple has its flaws too. And just because you put a bunch of Apple stickers on your Toyota Prius (yes, I'm talking to that jerk that cut me off on I-55 the other day that had 5 Apple stickers on his car signifying all the different Apple products that he owns) does not make you cool and hip.

End of Rant.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Spinning - Stage 7: Tournus > Station Des Rousses

Here is the profile for the Stage 7 ride that I did last night in class for anyone who may be interested. I used both the profile and the route to design the ride:

The Route:

And the profile:

We start off with a long flat road with a very gradual increase, followed by 6 increasingly harder hills. I used the route to determine when we would need to get out of the saddle for jumps or runs, used the brief downhills for short recoveries, and used the super steep hills as markers for using a 3rd position climb.

Playlist and Notes:

1. Clash (Junkie XL) – (5:06) warm up and describe class: Max HR = 85%

2. Hello Again (Dave Matthews Band) - (3:56) flat > alt flat and run or slow jumps to increase heart rate to 75%

3. Not Myself (Christina Aguilera) - (3:25) moderate climb for 3 minutes, @ 3:00, 1 passing jump (**a passing jump is when you move to third position to pick up speed (not quite a sprint) for a brief period, then sit back in saddle keeping climbing pace up - I queue "get ready to pass somebody!")

4. Stockholm Syndrome (Muse) - (4:05) flat recovery for 1 min 30 sec >@1:30 moderate hill, @ 2:30 gear down low hill

5. Fight For Your Mind (Ben Harper) - (3:41) flat road recovery if needed, maintain high cadence @ 1:00 add every 30 seconds to standing climb

6. Mr. Brightside (The Killers) - (3:41) gear down to low hill for 30 seconds
@ :30 jumps on flat for 1 min (to mimic going around the turns)

7. 999 (Lords of Flatbush) (< Free download!) - (4:21) seated flat 1 min, run 1 min, saddle 1 min
@3:00 find hill in saddle

8. Mercy (Duffy) - (3:40) jumps on hill through sharp turns to top - sets of 4, 8-count jumps
add a little gear last 30 seconds - Ask if anybody is crying for Mercy yet!

9. American Woman (Lenny Kravitz) - (4:21) flat road 1 min,
@1:00 run 1 min, @ 2:00 back to saddle for a fast flat
@3:30 low hill

10. Invaders Must Die (Prodigy) - (4:55) gear up for last 2 passing jumps, finish with strong climb to the end!

COOL DOWN! Take at least 5 - 10 minutes here if they will stay in the saddle that long....And my people really like it when I take a map of the ride I am doing, so they can visualize what is going on or where we are going. It seems to give them a goal. Sometimes I tell them that there is a pool bar waiting ahead they can all relax in once we get there.


Calorie Count for Wednesday, 6/30/10:
Breakfast - 337
Leftover hamburger and potatoes - 420
Banana - 100
Handful of Zapp's Voodoo Gumbo chips - 120
Pasta for Dinner - 550
Sierra Nevada - 190

Total Calories Consumed - 1717
Total Calories Burned - 911 (which includes spinning + weight lifting afterward)
Total Calories Remaining for the day...........................806

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

An Off Wednesday + DAVE MATTHEWS!

Since today is my Wednesday off, I had this grand idea to go to a weight class at 6AM this morning so I wouldn't feel the need to go to the gym this afternoon. I was pretty sure it would have me crashing around noon, but right now, it is about 2:00 pm and I'm doing all right. :)

AAAAAAAAND....if you know me at all, you know I am a HUGE Dave Matthews fan. Well, I just got me and Jonas tickets to go see him in July! So excited!

Calorie Count:
pre-workout banana - 105
post-workout cereal - 340
LC BBQ chick pizza (yes, again) - 340
2:00 snack (almonds) - 170
Dinner -We went to Cazadores and had fajitas and a margarita - No idea on calorie count. Half a basket of chips, 2 bowls of salsa, and fajita steak, chicken, onions, and peppers. No cheese!


Calories Consumed:
Calories Burned: 384 (no cardio today - but much needed weight lifting)
Remaining Calories.................................??

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Tour de France Stage 3: Wanze > Arenberg Porte du Hainaut

"NEWSFLASH!!! Exercise doesn't make you gain weight. Consuming more food than you burn makes you gain weight ....period!!!"
- Chalene Johnson
 I saw that quote by Chalene on Twitter and loved it! Having balance in your life is all about what you take in, and how you burn it off. It's pretty simple, actually.

Keeping in line with the Tour De France theme in Spinning, I am working on a Stage 3 ride for today. It goes from Wanze Arenberg Porte du Hainaut. Here is the profile:
Mostly flats with three small inclines. This will definitely be a fast one with fast music! We will also try to stay at our threshold, or 80% MHR.
Music profile for the day:
1. Ain't That Cold - Bodega Girls (6:10) - warm up

2.I Need To Know - Tom Petty (2:23) - engaging in flat road, picking up cadence


3.Fell Down A Hole - Wolfmother (5:04) - hitting that first hill here, we'll make it about 3 minutes then back to a flat

4. Let It Rock (Cahill Remix) - Kevin Rudolf (3:36) - maintaining flat, move to standing to keep HR up if needed

5. Why Must You Always Dress In Black - Ben Harper and Relentless 7 (4:43) - hitting second series of small hills, climb 1 minute, flat 1 minute, climb 1 minute 30 sec, finish out with a flat

6. Go Faster - Black Crowes (4:03) - flat road but progressing with accelerations every 30 - 45 sec

7. Get On Back -  Tishamingo (4:32) - decrease gear for 1 min, add back and run during "Get on Back"

8. Crazy On You - Heart (4:54) - flat road surges during chorus to get to the front (add resistance while maintaining cadence)

9. Paint It Black - Rolling Stones (3:46) - last small incline, we'll climb for 2 minutes

10. Love the One You're With - Stephen Sills (3:06) - finish strong and fast!

11. Awe - Citizen Cope - 4:11 - Welcome to Arenberge Porte du Hainaut! Cool Down

After class, I stayed and went to Colleen's bootcamp (which I am subbing for next week if any of my people are reading!) It was brutal!

Calorie Count
Breakfast - 340
Leftover Pasta for Lunch - 440
Banana - 105
Protein Bar - 200
After-workout shake - 280
Dinner - 325

Calories Consumed:- 1690
Calories Burned: 1495
Calories Remaining for the Day............195

Monday, June 21, 2010

Spinning: Tour De France Stage 2

"Counting calories may not be popular but neither is balancing your checkbook. Both are necessary!"

- Chalene Johnson


Time to get back to the real world. Although the Food Challenge is over for me, I'm going to continue to try to keep up with my calories at the end of every day. Didn't sleep well last night (even had to drink some coffee this morning), and I'm thinking it is from the lack of training from the weekend. Plus I stayed up reading that book, only giving me 7 hours of sleep instead of the 8 that I prefer.

So another Spinning instructor at the gym had a great idea to mimic rides from Tour de France in our 4:30pm weekday afternoon classes. He printed out a map and a schedule of the type of rides, the start-finish, and the distance/time of each stage. I know I could just use some older rides that fit the description of each stage, but I'm a sucker for making themed rides, so today, I'm going to work on a ride for Stage 2, Bruxelles to Spa, about a 40 minute hilly ride. So we will do fast varying hills, will little breaks. Heart rate range should stay between 75 and 85% for the majority of the ride, which will consist mostly of flat roads (seated and standing), and mostly low to moderate hills, with two or three steep hills that may require a break at 3rd to get over, staying somewhere between 75 - 110 rpm.

This is what we are going for. This stage is actually scheduled for July 5.

Now, the trick for me is to find some music on my ipod that I haven't used lately because I have not gotten any new music in the last couple weeks. My plan is to find about 3 or 4 faster songs to get through the first 1/3 of the ride on a flat road, then we'll slow it down a bit with some power songs for the hills.

STAGE 2 PROFILE - BRUXELLES>SPA:

0:00 - 4:18  Scream My Name - LMFAO (4:18) - begin warm up, explain ride's purpose: 75 - 85% MHR, 70 - 110 rmp, flat roads that turn into small hills at an aggressive pace. Most of the ride should be aerobic until we hit 3 of our steeper hills at minutes 19, 35, and 40

4:19 - 8:00 I Need More Love - Robert Randolph - (3:42) - Second song of flat road, with small increase about half way through, but should still keep riders on a flat road. Begin to increase RPMs all the way through.

8:00 - 11:50 Ex Lover - Friendly Fires - (3:50) - Third song of flat road. Maintain high cadence between 90 - 110 rpm. Alternate between seated and standing flat.

11:51 - 15:19 The Small Print - Muse - (3:29) - This song has 2 elevations at :50 and 1:55, so we are adding a little resistance each time, slowly building up our first hill.

15:20 - 19:37 Seven - Dave Matthews Band - (4:17) - Add resistance to a moderate hill for 2 min. 30 sec until we roll back to our flat road, maintain high cadence once we are back on flat road and check HR. Get ready to hit our first hard hill at the next song...

19:38 - 23:09 Shame And Fortune - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (3:31)- Crank up resistance to a moderate/moderately hard hill for 2 minutes, and move to position 3 to power over. At the 2 minute mark, lower resistance just a little, but keep climbing.

23:10 - 27:37 - Showdown - Black Eyed Peas - (4:27) - short flat for about 30 seconds (break here if needed), then add resistance back for a moderate hill at position 3 for 1 min 30 sec, then move back to saddle without changing the gear. Focus on pedal stroke!

27:37 - 33:39 - Assassin - Headman - (6:02) - back to flat road for 1 minute. Recover if necessary, or keep high cadence and light resistance before next hill. Back to a moderate hill for 2 minutes, staying in the saddle. Roll back into a flat road for 1 minute. At 4 mins into the song, go back to a moderate hill with switchbacks to gain speed through the end of the song.

33:40 - 38:10 - More Human Than Human - White Zombie - (4:29) 1 minute Recovery. Second big hill, moderately hard at 1:00 into the song for 1 min 30 sec, then roll back to a flat road for 30 seconds for a brief recovery. at 3:00 into the song, prepare for short accellerations on a flat road, adding resistance every 20 seconds without losing speed.

38:11 - 41:03 - Bacchus - Galactic - (2:53) - Our last steep hill (mod/hard, at 85% MHR). Climb through song.

41:02 - 44:55 - Armistice - MuteMath - (3:53) - Finish with two minutes engaged in fast flat road, and begin to slowly decrease resistance to cool down.

Calorie Count for the Day:
Cereal for Breakfast + multi- vitamin - 337
LC 3 Meat pizza for lunch -  390
Pure Protein Chewy Chocolate Chip - 200
Dinner:- 650 (pasta with wheat noodles instead of my spaghetti squash)

Calories Consumed - 1577
Calories Burned at the Gym - 945
Remaining calories for the day........................632

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Day 11 of 14 Day Food Challenge

6:00 am - Cereal! And a new picture!
8:00 - large glass of water. yummmmmm..........feeling slightly dehydrated from yesterday.

11:00 - another BBQ chicken pizza from lean cuisine. I eat this a lot. Not necessarily because it is delicious, but it is pretty good and easy for work. And I think one of the better ones they have.
12:30 - Still hungry, so had my free Special K Protein Meal Bar. (meal bar, my ass......) No way could this ever be an entire meal for me.  It's just an addition to. However, pretty dang tasty, and not as chalky tasting as my regular Pure Protein bars.

But I'm not going to buy these because:
a)this one only has 180 calories;
b)it only has 10 grams of protein; and
c) it has 15 grams of sugar (must be why it tastes better).

Sticking with my other ones because:
a)200 calories (and I need the extra calories);
b)20 grams of protein; and
c) only 2 grams of sugar. (Great for the low-sugar diet)
So not only do I get more fuel, more protein, but also less sugar to break through. I like it. :)

Song of the Day: Emergency by Faithless. 7:44 long, but it stays interesting. If you have never heard it - check it out! Yes, it is one of my weirdo spinning songs, but it's great! Every spinner should have this on their iPod.

3:00 - have 5 strawberries for a pre-workout snack, about 40 calories.
Head to gym at 4:00 and teach about 55 minutes in my Spin class. We did another strength ride, and it was a different group of people. So that is 3 this week for me so far. But that was all I did today. Calories burned at the gym - 763

When I got home, Jonas and I decided to go to the Pizza Shack to celebrate his birthday again. Love this place....
We got our favorite pizza - Chicken Curry Delight with Pineapple. I know....sounds weird, but give it a try. So good! And we split a pitcher of Budweiser, because if you buy a large pizza on Thursdays, a pitcher is only $2! I have no idea how many calories are in 2 slices of that pizza. I'll guesstimate 1,000. But I did get another fruit in with the pineapple. Plus the beer, around 350, maybe?


Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 340
Protein Bar - 180
Snack - 40
Gym - (-763)
Dinner - 1,350 - blew it....

Calories Consumed (approximate) - 2247
Calories Burned at Gym - 763
Remaining Calories for the Day.......................1,484

This is OK because I will definitely be making up for it tomorrow....

Monday, June 14, 2010

Day 9 of 14 Day Food Challenge

Happy Monday morning! Yeah right....Weekend is over. Time to get my food under control.

Breakfast at 6:00 am, back to my cereal + vitamins. 337 Calories
No coffee this morning. Just water.

Lean Cuisine BBQ Chicken Pizza for lunch - 340 calories

Snack, 2:00 - Yoplait Light Key Lime Pie, 100 Calories

4:00 - headed to the gym....Vinyasa Yoga, then my Spin class..be back for cals burned...

Oh yeah! - Song of the day (been slacking here) is Rods and Cones by the Blue Man Group. GREAT cardio song!! Playing this in my "Dub Climbing" Spin class tonight, because we are climbing!

Vinyasa yoga was fantastic. Vinyasa means flows, so we were constanty moving. Burned a few calories, and got some great stretches. Then moved on to my spin class where we did lots of climbs in the saddle. I have found that when you are in the saddle, you have to work more because you don't have your body weight. As long as you are not afraid of the resistence, this is a major calorie burner.
After my class, I came home and practiced TurboKick for Thursday. Checked the HR monitor, and 1,184 calories burned for the day.

Dinner - salad with turkey meat, 250 calories + 1.5 tablespoons of peanut butter, 285 calories.

Recycled picture, but same salad. :)


Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 340
Snack - 100 Calories
Gym - (-1184)
Dinner - 535

Tally for the day -  128 calories for the day. Back on track! Gotta keep it that way for the rest of the week, because I know this upcoming weekend will be a bust.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Day 5 of the 14 Day Food Challenge

6:15 - Start to make cereal. Put everything in the bowl. Go to open a new jug of milk that was in the back of the fridge, and it's frozen. Great. Drink some chocolate milk (not in cereal).Eventually, it sits out long enough for me to jab a knife into it and get some milk flowing, and I get to eat breakfast around 6:45.
337 + 90 =  427 calories for breakfast.


8:00 - 1 coffee at work - 10 cals


11:15 - Same exact salad for lunch as yesterday. 244 Calories


Ipod time....song right now: New Moon Rising (YACHT Remix) by Wolfmother. LOVE this beat. Search for it on http://www.rcrdlbl.com./ . It's a totally free, totally legal site where you can download music. Usually weird or remixes, but every now and then, you can get great finds.

1:30 - Banana - 100 Calories

3:00 - Protein Bar - 200


4:00 - headed to the gym to teach my Spin class, then abs, and my first ever Bootcamp class all by myself! I'm pretty pumped about it. Doing a big arm/chest/core circuit, and a big leg circuit. I hope I can keep up enough to teach it!

Class went fantastic, even though I had low numbers. Calories burned....1588!

Had a message to go meet my mother-in-law, her hubby, sis-in-law and nephew at Cozumel's, so I did. Had 2-for-1 margaritas on the rocks, about 500 calories; a basket of chips and salsa, about 400 calories;
 and a chicken fajita salad....about 560 calories (totally guessing). Total, a whopping 1460.



Tally for the Day:
Breakfast - 427
Coffee - 10
Salad - 244
Banana - 100
Protein Bar - 200
Gym - (-1588)
Mexican Dinner - 1460
Tally for the day..................853. I'll take that! :)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Day 4 of 14 Eating Challenge

My Tip of the Day: If you don't wear a heart rate monitor while working out - get one ASAP! How else are you going to know what you are doing? Plus it helps you keep up with how many calories you burn during your workouts. And it lets you know if you are eating enough (or too much) during the day, like I did yesterday. This is the Heart Rate Monitor that I wear, and so far, I've really liked it. And looks like it is on sale right now on Amazon (just click the picture). I think I paid $85 for it. But Polar is another great brand.

And....if you aren't working out now - START TODAY! You only live once, you only have one body - be the best you can be!! (I sound like an Activia commercial mixed with the Army slogan ....or something...)


Back to the food: Had a very hard time getting up this morning. Another couple hours of sleep would have been spectacular.
Started off the day at 6:15 with a half glass of chocolate milk - 90 Cal
Next, Cereal at 337

Get to work, have some coffee and a big glass of water - 10 Cal

First song of the day: April 26, 1992 by Sublime. This song takes me waaaaaaaaay back! I will always love Sublime. Can't play it in any Spin class though.

Brought a salad for lunch today (can't ever go wrong with a bowl full of raw veggies). Most of the same ingredients: romaine lettuce, grape tomatoes, cucumber, broccoli, carrots, slivered almonds, and shredded cheddar cheese.  Traded out the grilled chicken for 2 slices of turkey meat, and traded dressings again for lite balsamic viniagrette. Tall glass of water. 244 Cal


Planning on skipping the gym today because a) I kinda over-did it yesterday, and I need a little time to recover, and b) Jessica and I have plans to eat at Pan Asia tonight - sooooo good!

Get home from work and see the almsot empty bag of Zapp's Spicy Cajun Crawtators chips Jonas left on the counter. Had to eat the rest! So good! 150 Calories. Not too bad. (This is why I fuss when he buys stuff like this - I have no will power not to eat it! If it's not here, I won't eat it!)

Then I have a few pieces of pineapple - about 28 calories.

Head over to meet Jess at Pan Asia and have tha Pad Thai. I have no idea how many calories are in this, but I'm guessing around 700. We also split a bottle of Guenoc Chardonnay (wine is half off on Wednesdays there!) about 200 calories.

Tally for the Day:
Choc Milk and Cereal - 427
Coffee with fake creamer stuff - 10
Salad for lunch - 244
Zapps - 150
Pineapple - 28
Dinner - 900

Total for the Day - 1759 .....not to great, but not too bad considering yesterday's count.

Day 3 of 14 Days Eating Challange

First off, I am thoroughly impressed with myself for having 5 blog posts now!

Anywho, Breakfast, 6:15 am, cereal routine. Delicious as always. And by the way, I have to give my mother-in-law 100% credit in making up this concoction. She also eats this every morning, except with soy milk. She is also a health nut. Thanks, Meg! 336 calories according to thedailyplate.com

I've been slacking on my coffee drinking here lately....mostly because it is already so hot outside, and coffee makes me hotter, so I tend to avoid it in the summer time. But this morning is starting off a bit sluggish, so coffee it is. Half a pack of Splenda, and about a teaspoon of powdered creamer stuff....only 10 calories for the fake creamer. Well....make that 2 cups. 20 Calories here.


Grabbing the ipod so not to be tempted by the leftover cupcakes in the kitchen.
First song on the shuffle: White Sky by Vampire Weekend. Weird but catchy.
Second song (only mentioning because I LOVE this song): Heart of Steal by Galactic. I love playing this song in Spin, or just working out in general, and in my car. And while sitting at work. Just a great song. Pretty much the only good on one the album though, which is a bummer. But I found a free download link to this song!! Check it out....
Click here for Free Download of Heart of Steal

 11:50am -  Time for lunch. I have the last serving of my spaghetti squash left-overs. This stuff is so good! I hate that I forget about it and only cook it once in a blue moon. And of course, my tall glass of water, which I actually keep full all day long.  320 Calories

Around 2:00 - I have my chocolate peanut butter protein bar, not too bad. 200 Calories. 20 grams of Protein. 0 sugar. 2 carbs.
3:15 - banana break. I wish I had time to spread these out more because I don't like eating so close to Spinning time at 4:30, but eat my banana any later than 3:30 and I'm burping bananas. Not fun! 100 Cals.

4:00 - Heading to the gym for my Spin class at 4:30, then going to TurboKick at 6:00.
Calories burned -1607....very hard day at the gym. Started my calorie counter at 4:30 and ran it until I was finished with Turbo at 7:00.

Came home and had a half glass of chocolate milk - 90

Had another salad. This time with lite raspberry vinaigrette instead of ranch, and a glass of red zin, but only drank half the glass. Calories came to 380
 
Feeling totally wiped out from today. Going to bed early at 9:00.

Tally for the Day:
Breakfast - 336
Coffee - 20
Lunch - 320
Banana - 100
Protein Bar - 200
Workout - 1607
Chocolate Milk - 90
Dinner - 380 

Total Calories for day 3: -161 (probably why I feel bad. Probably should have eaten something else during the day. Noted.)