Week 3 - Days 2 and 3 BACK ON TRACK!!

Woo!! God DAMN I feel good! I just finished 2 hours of choreographed dancing and even threw some crunches in there at the end - aside from the amazing cardio, I worked the shit out of my arms... I'm gonna be super sore tomorrow and it's gonna feel GREAT! I can't wait!

Okay, so yesterday I didn't really do much of anything except watch football and not eat.. oddly enough. I went to the grocery store and as I was getting ready to leave I realized I was STARVING so I picked up this "Taste of Asia" stir fry stuff.. and it was AMAZING. Plus it came with brown rice so along with that, the veggies and white-meat chicken = supa healthy meal! Even though I ate the entire thing... which is meant for 2 dinners.. lol but you'll see that it affected my daily calorie count very little... on to the stats!

Day 2:

• total calories/points: 1415 / 33 - OH! I almost forgot to tell you guys - now that I've lost 4 pounds into this Challenge, my daily points went down to 33. Still 49 flex points for each week, though. Even though I already used most of those... lol
• no workout, lots of recovering from the 3 hour Wii dance extravaganza.. 
• 2 cigarettes
• 11pm bedtime
• $0 spent - groceries don't count

Day 3:

• total calories/points: 1489 / 24 (so far, although I don't think I'll be eating anything else tonight since it's almost bedtime) So, I know I said at the beginning of this that I wasn't going to count fruit/veggie calories, but I have been anyway because I like to include the fiber/protein content to see if I'm reaching my daily goals on those.. that's why sometimes I'll have a high calorie number, but a low points number, and vice versa. 
• 2 hours of dancing plus about 60 reps of 3 different ab exercises - according to Discovery Health (which factors in weight) I burned 1195 calories. According to my heart rate monitor I burned like 2200... soooo, I think that makes it pretty clear that my HR monitor SUCKS at counting calories accurately. BUT it regularly give me almost exactly twice what I would actually be burning, so maybe I can go with that then.
• 0 cigarettes - getting there... slowly.. but getting there. 
• shooting for 11pm bedtime
• $3 spent on lunch - I think I've got about $60 left in "fun" money until the 31st. Not bad at all.

I've been seriously considering no longer counting calories burned - mainly because I want to exercise because it makes me feel good and keeps me healthy, not just because I'm striving for some magical "burned" amount. Also I think sometimes it has a tendency to make me want to eat more even if I'm not hungry just because I can, 'cause I have "room" or whatever. I need to think on that a little more. 

My goal this "work" week is to get to the gym AT LEAST once to lift weights.