Update 2

Things are going slowly for me at the moment. Traveling weekends has been really hard. Being out of town and around my sister who is pregnant I'm tempted with candies and baked goods and fried foods practically every weekend. And I'm very submissive in that sense, yikes! Although I'm happy to announce I haven't gained any weight. So that's a good sign. I've been trying to work out as consistently as possible, even being out of town.

I almost always start my workout with 30-40 minutes on the treadmill. 5 minutes walking up hill level 7.0 to 9.0 at about 3.8-4.0 MPH. It gets your heart rate up and moving. Then I lower the incline back to 0 and increase the speed to about 6.2-6.4 MPH. I'm kind of sporadic about what I do during the 30 minutes but normally I'll keep the pace of 6.2-6.4 MPH and increase the incline every 10 minutes to an incline of 7-9 for about 2 minutes. I do this as an interval as many times as I can before I'm puttered out. Over time you should be able to push it farther and farther. Based on what people say about working out, this is good for your body and heart rate because you are not just doing a steady workout that your body can easily become accustomed to, you are actually pushing the limits and when your body is already at a 160-170 heart rate you then push it up to 180-200 and then back down again which will increase the calories burned during that workout. I end the work out walking up hill at an incline of about 5.0-7.0 for 5 minutes and then slow it down w/ no incline just to bring the heart rate down for another 5 minutes. What I think is great about these intervals is that you aren't constantly thinking man I have another 30 minutes, 20 minutes 15 minutes...its more like you are saying another 5 minutes til i increase and then you count down the 2 minutes and so on and so forth. Seems to make things go by a bit faster.

Normally after the treadmill I'll start working with my personal trainer. We'll do all legs one day and all arms another day. We always do moderately low weight with high reps. For instance on leg day we will do leg press starting with 45 lbs in addition to the machine 3 reps of 20 lifting the toes at the end. Sometimes if I'm having a difficult time with the weight she'll reduce it for the last set.