Exercise: 90 mins treadmill, 30 mins strength training

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2600 calories (32% fat, 35% carbs, 32% protein)

Breakfast: egg/egg white omelet with cheese, 12-grain bread, orange (474)

AM Snack: protein shake, almonds (299)

Lunch: lentil soup, smoked turkey, apple (431)

PM Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, soy nuts (420)

Dinner: corned beef, cabbage with tomato, butter, salad w/dressing (546)

Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, biscotti, soy nuts (431)

Well, I’m on cat fight alert tonight. One of the cats (big one-Gus) has taken to sleeping on an old piece of furniture in the crawlspace. I think it’s got cushions on it for patio furniture we no longer own. It’s behind a set of shelves, and not easy to get in to. He’s slept there before, but not for a while. Lately he spends most evenings in there, and his little brother (Shadow) really doesn’t like it. Usually before I go to bed I shake the cat treat bag and lure him out. Tonight about 10:30 Shadow must have decided that he wasn’t going to wait for his big brother to come out. A few minutes later complete with hissing, growling and knocked over canned goods there really getting into it. They both go flying upstairs to the kitchen level where I found Gus stalking around with his fur all puffed up. He was okay with being lifted so I settled him down a little and brought him downstairs with me. Shadow was hiding under the couch, but seemed fine. Ten minutes later Shadow is mewling (kind of crying) because Gus is downstairs with me. The little bugger wants to keep fighting I think. Gus of course is pretty much over it, and just wants to go to sleep. I’ll keep an eye on them for a little bit and hope they don’t continue it at 3am or some such hour.

This is why they go to the vets together now. I thought it would be easier taking them one at a time this summer. Gus went on his own and that worked fine. The day I took Shadow on his own Gus decided to attack him when I brought him back. We spent two days trying to keep them apart. Gus spent a lot of time locked up in the downstairs bathroom. Once Gus was better he found out that his little brother held a grudge as Shadow spent at least a week hissing at him any time he moved too fast. I’m hoping this is just a little spat, which will pass soon. Kind of hard to believe that this is them, isn’t it?

Shadow is the one at the front.  Gus is at the back.  Two little angels who seemed to want to kill each other tonight. 

The morning was 2 x 30-min sessions on the treadmill. In the afternoon I did a 15-min warm-up on the treadmill, followed by:

Where there is a single number that confirms that I did the number of reps called for. Where there are two numbers the first is the amount of weight I used, followed by reps.

And I followed with another 15 mins on the treadmill.  Today, once again, I wasn’t sure I could do those last 15 mins but I did manage it.  I felt a pain in my right hamstring doing the lunges, but the walk out afterwards seems to have taken most of that away.  So, I’m back to the usual sore knee.  The only good thing about it is that it’s something I can live with, and will be a little better in the morning.  I see the sun shining and the snow is melting so I just keep thinking about the possible pool opening.  It seems to keep me going.  Of course with warmer weather comes cutting back the berry bushes, planting a few new ones in the bed I prepared last fall.  As well as cleaning out the pots and getting them ready to plant.  With such a long winter though I think I’m even looking forward to that kind of stuff.

Oh, I changed the notation slightly.  I realized that I’ve been putting the total weight for the dumbbells, instead of how much each one weighs, so I thought I’d change that now.  The pullover is the one I’m having the most trouble with.  Yes, even with the pain today during the lunges, I still found the pullovers the toughest.  We’ll see how I do with them next week, but I feel like I’m at the maximum weight with them at the moment.