Started our personal training session yesterday, oh my god
 

Since we're moving to a hotter place, we want to be ready for it unlike the sweater-weather around here, this means geting into shape.

So, we show up at 9 in the morning, and the guy (who's a good trainer IMO) does all his calculations and interview stuff. Everything is going good so far -

He brings us out to the floor, and has us do these yoga deals (!!!), being a dude,this is like 100% awkward (which the guy told me would be for a bit).

He says we gotta do these yoga-type excersises twice a day and come to the gym every day 4-5 times a week.

At the gym, we have to do the stairs thing for 60 minutes, and about 30 pull-ups and 30 squats.

Then he tells us the diet - a 2 week boot camp to even out our blood sugar levels. OMG

check this out:
Breakfast:
Oatmeal/milk
banana

snack:
unflavored rice cake or granola bar

Lunch:
Turkey or tuna sandwich, wheat bread.
One veg
one fruit

snack:
unflavored rice cake or granola bar

Dinner:
3 oz. of fish
one veg.
brown rice

Only water or Arizona diet green tea

and that's IT!!!

I was so hungry and sore last night, it was unvbelievable, had a splitting headache and them yoga excersises.... they are really HARD.

But, on the flip side - supposedly we're supposed to be losing about a pound a day for the first 30 days.

that diet is similiar to the one i was put on from my personal trainer (except I have can either a chicken breasts boiled in water with veggies or fish with veggies).

and he put me on this intense workout plan (5-6 days a week at the gym):
30 mins of cardio-30 mins of (planned out) weight training-30 mins of more cardio-stomach crunches......and then every other day, i have to add in Water Resistance Training (swimming a mile, then water weights while walking laps).

All i gotta say is that THANK GOD for whirlpools!!!!! LOL I've been sore as FUCK the past 3 weeks :Oh crap

But i feel great :thumbsup

How much have you lost in 3 weeks Baba?

Not to bad, did he tell your skim, 1%, 2%, or whole milk?

Um, I would start questioning his dietary education about now.

Turkey or tuna (no special prep listed?) and only turkey or tuna? there are alot of better or as good choices. Getting even more doubtfull though with one fruit one veg.

Ok he would of lost me now. Granola bars are pure dietary evil. Often one granola bar will be almost as much calories as most of your entire meals if not more, then he gives you a choice of either that or a unflavored rice cake which is at other end of spectrum.

Not a bad serving size of fish, though should have a few other choices.
One veg? ok with your total diet your are certainly not geting enough veggies or fruits.
Brown rice, well ummm I know what he is doing. You joined a recurring program didnt you?
Water or Arizona diet green tea? Why not home made green tea? Why Arizona?

just shy of 10 pds

my p.t. never told me to eat brown rice, just said to eat chicken (boiled in water) or fish, 1 veggie side & 1 fruit (an apple or plum or bannana)

one pound a day seems a little excessive, and the diet seems stupid too. you need variety. instead of telling you exactly what to eat he should have taught you how to pick out stuff to eat and whats good/bad for you. i've never tried losing weight because i dont need to, but i think no matter what if you're hungry you should eat. as long as you're eating the right stuff and drinking plenty of water.

Fungi, thanks for the feedback, certainly got some q's to ask him now....

The milk - my stomach can't handle anything other than 2%, but he did say skim, or less 2% to compensate.

About the recuring training prog - that I do not know... we purchased 5 sessions each.

About the Arizona - he said green tea, and since I'm lazy, the big Arizona jugs work for me :)

The granola bar confuses me too.

The turkey/tuna can be with tomatoes, lettuce etc.

Also, remember this is a 2 week boot-camp type prog. The diet will change after the first 2 weeks.

yea, thats what my pt told me too, he just gave me a guideline of what to eat. i switch it up all the time though. the main thing is to eat several SMALL meals a day, keep your metabolism going, never over eat, and take in a lot of water or water-based drinks (sometimes i'll drink either water or sugar-less iced tea).

and 30 pds in 30 days is really bad for your body actually. my goal is lose the 40 pds i gained last year and my trainer told me that its going to take a while but if it stick to the working out and change the foods i eat, that it'll start come off probably within a year. nothing is a quick fix, its a LIFESTYLE.

once you get back to the size you want, you wont need to go workout 4-5 days a week anymore, just 2-3 times a week will keep you in shape and the pds off.

Well, appearantly the idea is to work out 3 times a day 5 days a week and 2 x a day the other two, all cardio-based, minimal weight training.

I think it's possible and not unhealthy in the first month.

3 times a DAY for 5 days??????? holy shit!!!!!! thats alot of fuckin workin out! :Oh crap :Oh crap :Oh crap

i work out for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and im sore as hell from that! lol

I asked about the recurring as if the gym has a set length near impossible to get out of contract.

Curious about the tuna, guessing he means actual fresh tuna and not tunafish *added mayo and so on.

No, the sessions are not on contract whatsoever, it's basically pay-as-you-go

We told him we have about 5-8 weeks to meet our goals and this is the plan he came up with to make those goals possible.