Eating For Life:The Right Amounts & Wednesday Challenge #2

Eating right is all about portions! Portions, portions, portions! I completely agree with Bill Phillips that you do not need to be a calorie couter or need to monitor your carbs or grams of fat each time you eat. I tried doing this with the MyFitnessPal app. I went nuts. None of this matters if you understand the importance of portions.

Portion of Protein - roughly equal to the size of the palm of your hand
Portion of Carbohydrates - roughly equal to the size of your clenched fist
Portion of Vegetables - approximately what you can hold in the cupped palm of your hand

Bill Phillips likes to eat a portion or carbohydrates and a portion of protein in each of his 6 meals (yes! 6!) and a serving of vegetables in two of them. I try to get as many veggies in my system as possible, juicing definitely helps. When you eat the right amounts of the right foods you will not feel hungry or stuffed. You will feel satisfied.

Here is a neat chart by PTNB shared with me. It seems to go hand in hand (pun?) with the Eating for Life plan.

Finally, I want to share the good news about Wednesday Challenge #2. Remember the 100 reps of death? Squats, Push-Ups, Wall Sits, Tricep Dips and Crunches? Ugh. I had made a goal last Wednesday to beat my time of 26.48 and do 50 push-ups instead of 40.

Nailed it! And did 60 push-ups!


Goal Reached: see above - Booyah!
New Goal: finish my jar of apple, beet, carrot juice - so sick, beat my time and do 70 push-ups for the next Wednesday Challenge!