Exercise: 90 mins treadmill, 30 mins strength training

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2589 calories (28% fat, 41% carbs, 30% protein)

Breakfast: egg white/egg omelet with cheese, pecan cherry bread, jam, orange (442)

AM Snack: almonds (164)

Lunch: lentil soup, smoked turkey, apple (462)

PM Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, soy nuts (382)

Dinner: baked pasta with meat sauce and cheese, salad w/dressing (758)

Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, biscotti (354)

I like to think I’m flexible about meals, but finding out that dinner needs to change 20 mins before we usually eat is not good.  My mother wasn’t feeling like a hamburger, a meal I only make because she likes it.  She waited until I had the barbecue lit to tell me.  So she had soup and crackers, and I made myself another dinner.  This is where I love Fitday PC.  I picked what I wanted (meat sauce with pasta) and went to the computer and copied tonight’s dinner to tomorrow.  Then I played with the amount of pasta, cheese, and my evening snack until the day’s total was back where it needed to be.  The only thing is that tomorrow’s lamb curry will now be reheated for Sunday’s dinner.  Since I was also trimming the lamb and cutting it into stew pieces for the crock pot tomorrow.  Okay, I’m flexible (grrr).

And I’m tired out tonight.  So glad that tomorrow and Sunday will be rest days from exercise.  I’ve already got my list of chores for tomorrow.  I’ll make lamb curry, lamb stock, fruit salad, and biscotti.  Hmmm… that doesn’t sound like a rest day.  I could do laundry as well, but I think I’ll leave that until Sunday. 

The morning was 1 x 60-min session on the treadmill. It wasn’t planned that way, but I got up late, and didn’t get breakfast right away. Let’s just say it was after 12 before I got on the treadmill. So it pretty much had to be all 60 minutes at once. 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. It’s still the pullovers that I’m having the most trouble with. I did manage to do the second set with 15 pound dumbbells, but it was a real struggle. I suspect next week when I go to three sets that I’ll be okay, but not so able to push the weights up so fast. What I’ve done for most of the routines up to now is to use the top weight from the last set, then try adding weight for the second set. This was done because I was doing three sets for each level. I knew I couldn’t keep upping the weight too fast. I figure as long as I end each attempt with a higher total weight then I’m hopefully improving.

Again, I find these ‘B’ sets harder than the ‘A’ sets. I don’t feel quite so wiped out when they’re finished. I was still feeling the effects from Wednesday’s ‘A’ sets this morning.  All in all though, I’m kind of looking forward to my Sat/Sun rest days.