Where do I stand right now..

Hey everyone...ok, so yesterday was November 12, 2007...the first day of of starting my transformation project.
Well lets just say i made it through my first day.ha.
As far as where my diet is concerned, what I am doing right now is what my trainer is calling "a baseline diet". What is a baseline diet? Well in my trainers exact words..

"When your body is programmed to store fat, which is what yours is programmed to do, you have to limit yourself to certain foods. This is done, so that you have a baseline strategy, to determine what foods are causing you to store fat. Everyone is different in this respect. The more overweight you are, the more you have to start eating basics. This re-programming, is essential to get your body back to burning fat. The foods I chose for you, are to produce only the most efficient energy, during it's adjustment back to a fat burning machine. Once, your body responds the way it should, the next stage is to adjust the diet.Whether this means, exchanging different foods, or adjusting the ratio of carbs, to protein, to fats. It will be adjusted according to the internal feedback your body is going to give you, and along with my professional training experience will use that to adjust it in the right way."

Thank you Rob for those words. So right now my personal baseline diet consists of natural oatmeal,1%milk, a couple of different fruits,dark rye bread,Large whole wheat pita bread,mustard,turkey, chicken,yogurt,almonds,broccoli, and greenpepper.I believe i got everything.Oh and i cannot forget to mention drinking lots and lots and lots of water....

So how did I do on my first day you might be wondering? Well i am going to tell you anyways..not bad..a little hungry because I am so used to filling my stomach until its so full and comfortable where i find with this diet, there is always room left to still be feeling a little hungry,as now I am eating small meals every 3 hours,instead of huge ones something i guess i need to get accustomed to. My energy level surprised me because I felt(even being the fact that i was eating different) that I had a lot of energy!

As far as exercise, I am not really expected to do much this month..in terms of cardio.I was surprised when i heard that one. I guess just like the baseline food diet..i will be doing certain exercises using what I think is called a medicine ball, and some weights, again to get my body ready for kick ass routine which i am sure Rob will do for me later.:-)
But according to my trainer I will still lose weight doing those exercises. So, i guess we will see. However because I wanted to I started some kind of cardio i am walking on the treadmill. This is my own decision. I know I dont have to, but it makes me feel better and gets me in the right frame of mind. Not to mention that I felt so weird not doing anything until this Friday when i meet with my trainer and he shows me and walks me through my workout routine.

But overall I feel good! I will check back now in about a week and see how i feel then.And to let you know about what rob tells me I will be doing for my exercise routine!

Thanks for reading!