To Eat or Not to Eat

Well I did the Get Ripped 1000 DVD last night....I burned almost 300 calories.  Not bad, but certainly not the 1000 she advertises in the title.  Not even half of that!  Granted, I did a lot of the cardio modifications, and took a couple rests (*cough*70 push-ups*cough*), so that could be a reason my calories burned was a tiny bit low.  And boy did I sweat like a disgusting man!

I really enjoyed it.  The hour went by fast!  Tonight I plan on doing Cathe's Low Impact Circuit - probably one of the cardio premixes.  I'm looking forward to that one - I love the music.

I'd really like to be able to workout 2 times a day....that will really up my calorie burn.  But I went to the apartment gym last night just to see if the treadmills were working.  Nope.  Grrrr....I'm paying money for this place, which I chose because of their gym, and I've barely been able to use it!!  I'm starting to not like this place.

I spent some time yesterday researching the idea of eating back your exercise calories.  So many different viewpoints on it....no wonder it's so confusing for us common folk!  I did all that research, and I still don't know if I should eat back my exercise calories.  I guess just listen to my body?  But a lot of times my body tells me - "You're stressed/bored/tired - FEED ME!"  So that may not be a good idea for me right now.    :-\

I'm pretty tired today.  The boyfriend is working a second job and didn't get home until about 11:30 last night.  Then he took a shower, ate, and all that jazz....we didn't end up going to bed until about 12:30.  Then he began hitting the snooze button at about 6:00.  Sigh.  I was so tired and just wanted to sleep!  But I know he's really tired too, so I didn't yell at him.  Poor guy has to work again tonight after his first job....same for tomorrow!