Goodmorning!!

Well..I got up at 6am this morning..I usually don't get up until after 7 because I am lazy and don't want to get out of bed! So i got up at 6 and did some turbojam to start my day!! I am still sitting at 300 well by my scale at home I am..yesterday morning i weighed. Well i feel like i have probably gained but my scale isn't showing it..so anyways..once again i have stopped drinking the pop..which is my biggest weakness..i LOVE pepsi!! I am trying to drink my 8 cups of water a day and have tried now for 2 days and haven't been able to do it..but still working on it. I am eating some fruit for breakfast..if it doesn't fill me up then i grab some oatmeal or something thats not to bad. But its been awhile since I have posted on here..so I thought before I woke the kids up and started their day..I'd sit and stop sweating and post on here. I am planning on tonight to either go and walk..or get my kids in bed and do 40mins of turbojam. So we will see..I hope that everyone has a good day..by the way.. Is it true when you work out in the morning you will burn more calories through the day? I have heard that..was just curious..usually i do all my working out at night..maybe thats the problem

HI Stacey! I read many reports/studies that claim that you do burn more in the morning, but I am not living proof of that....LOL.  My workouts for the previous 20+ years, faithful and challenging, have not done much for my weight. I used to run 5-6 miles before work up a gigantic hill. I would cap that off with weekends urban hikes to the tune of like 5 hours on a Saturday morning.  Beleive it or not, I would still gain weight on a yo-yo basis. My body keeps every calorie I ingest. I have come to beleive that a calorie is the same in the morning as it is at night - whether we eat it or try to burn it.   If a person ate one snickers bar a day (no other food or drink), no matter when she ate it, day or night,  it still has the same level of calories. She would gain weight only if/when she ate too many caloires for her body for that time period.  I think that what is meant when people say don't eat after 7 pm, for example, it is assumed it is mainly because you have probably eaten enough all day and you are dangerously close to eating more calories than you need.  If you ate all your food after 7 pm for some reason, for example, your body does not store it more readily. It still processes the same - assimilates vitamins, stores glycogen for muscles so that your liver is ready when you need it. 

I don't think it matters as long as you do it! By the way, kudos for you for doing TurboJam for 40 minutes because that is a WORKOUT!