A few websites...

Sorry, I'm probably getting annoying by posting so much lately, but I found a few websites I thought I'd share with you. The first is the Home Body fat test... (if you want to see what you are). Like I said before, I ended up being 26% body fat with this test, which seemed more accurate then the 35% at the gym on their scale.

www.healthcentral.com/cholesterol/home-body-fat-test-2774-143.html

The other is to do a Metabolic typing test.

www.naturalhealthyellowpages.com/metabolic/self_test.html

I've been doing some research on a few things, health related, and have found some interesting facts. Both online, different places, and I've talked to my brother a lot (Who has a degree in Exercise Science, and worked as a Manager for Personal Training at Gold's Gym for quite awhile.) He is now going to PA school, but I emailed him a few days ago, and he sent me some good information. First, he said to find out my "metabolic type" so I know what kind of foods to eat more of. (protein or carbs). A lot of time this is just a trial and error thing, but I am going to start off by doing what my test results said, and go from there. I also learned that I am probably not eating ENOUGH food. Crazy huh?! I've been working out a TON and have been cutting calories, which has probably been doing more harm than good. Apparently, if you aren't eating enough calories, your body will go into "Starvation Mode". (This is when your body holds onto all the fat in your body becuase it thinks it might be starving, so it won't let break down any of the fats you are trying to get rid of!) Interesting huh? Now....this doesn't mean I need to pig out, but instead of counting calories I should be more interested in eating the RIGHT kinds of foods (raw nuts, whole eggs, 1-ingredient foods such as fruits, sweet potatoes, veggies, meat, etc), and cutting out the bad kinds of foods, ( pasta's,-even whole wheat pastas and bread aren't great for you,- processed foods/ packaged snacks, *granola bars are one of my weaknesses*, health bars, crackers, sugar, vegetable/canola oils, margarine, substitute butters, etc.).

Anyway, I'm going to stick with my test results this week, and try to follow it a little better (with the food guidelines) and we'll see how I do! Good luck this week girls!