What are the most important things you do to boost your metabolism?
The most important thing I do to boost my metabolism is my diet plan that my trainers put me on, which is 5 small meals a day which include six ounces of protein and at least one cup of vegetables.
What is your favorite/least favorite thing to do during workout/exercise.
My favorite workout is the cardio, especially jogging. This is really going to surprise some of my former teammates who would remember me as the last person that would want to do any kind of running, but I am really embracing making my body move like it never really has. Even when I played basketball a lot as a kid I was never in really good cardio shape, so I am trying to make this a goal of mine to start walking/jogging/running as much as my body can handle.
My least favorite exercises are the stretching and minor-league yoga poses that Christine puts me through. It feels good afterwards, but holding a stretch for a minute is tough.
Have you found any new veggies you like?
My favorite veggies at this point are green peas. I am also in love with any veggie that is grilled. Cauliflower is a great veggie for me because it doesn’t have a distinct flavor and I am pretty sure I have the taste buds of a five year old. I am still working on expanding my veggie diversity. Any suggestions would be great!
What is something that you love to eat now that you never would have never wanted to eat 6 months ago?
I really love everything grilled at this point. Whenever I go out, I look for grilled veggies and grilled chicken. Six months ago I would have gone straight to fried chicken, or chicken fried steak and some french fries.
How important is accountability to the process?
To me, it is the biggest part of this process. I have tried so many times to lose weight, but I would be shy or timid about it. Doing this really hurt my ability to count on others for help and guidance, and to count on myself to maintain a diet and workout schedule. Now that I have the blog and have the food journal I have to watch everything I do
What was the hardest thing to cut out of your diet, and how did you accomplish cutting it out?
The hardest thing to cut out of my diet was all the fried food I was eating. If you ask anyone that hung out with me for long periods of time they can tell you that I ate fried foods whenever the opportunity arose. My body had a tough time adjusting to this at fist, but I fought through it and now I have no problems controlling my desire for fried foods.
I can usually keep up pretty good eating habits, but when I fall, it's hard. Question: How do you keep from doing that?
I allow myself one cheat meal a week and I take full advantage of it. I find having that meal to look forward to during the week controls my other desires to cheat. I really have found a good medium with my food and with my ability to control my old, bad eating habits. I feel one cheat meal is good right now. When I try to maintain I will increase the “cheat” meals I have, but make better choices when eating them.
What is so good about Shake n' Bake?
Besides "everything?"
Shake n' Bake is a great alternative to fried food. It tastes very similar to it, but it has way less calories/fat/sodium, etc. It also is what a dietician gave me to try when I was in high school, but of course I didn't. It comes in all kinds of flavors and I have not met a person yet who hasn’t liked it when I prepared them some.
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