Here I am, on the road again
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Good day so far. I am off work today and tomorrow and I took today off from housework as well.
Used (some of) the free time to sign up at Fitday and start logging. I'll link to it later and see if I can cram it into my sig.
But it does emphasize the one thing I do not like about my current diet.* I don't mind healthy food, but having to pack it away constantly and nearly break my neck to hit enough healthy cals is disgusting sometimes.
And from what I'm seeing today on Fitday the fat profile of healthy AND calorie dense food is often bad so you cannot lean on them too much (nut butters would be a good example).
Does anyone else feel the same? Does it get tiring to have to juggle 3 full meals and 2-3 snacks to get enough fuel? Note: I would go for 3 bigger meals but my stomach triggers satiety before I can get enough down.
* diet as in what I eat, not a modified eating plan I am "on"
e.g. the panda has a diet of bamboo and water (or whatever)
Used (some of) the free time to sign up at Fitday and start logging. I'll link to it later and see if I can cram it into my sig.
But it does emphasize the one thing I do not like about my current diet.* I don't mind healthy food, but having to pack it away constantly and nearly break my neck to hit enough healthy cals is disgusting sometimes.
And from what I'm seeing today on Fitday the fat profile of healthy AND calorie dense food is often bad so you cannot lean on them too much (nut butters would be a good example).
Does anyone else feel the same? Does it get tiring to have to juggle 3 full meals and 2-3 snacks to get enough fuel? Note: I would go for 3 bigger meals but my stomach triggers satiety before I can get enough down.
* diet as in what I eat, not a modified eating plan I am "on"
e.g. the panda has a diet of bamboo and water (or whatever)
2,226 calories
184.7 grams of carbs
93.6 grams of fat
There we go, yesterday's food. Not perfect but aside from too much sat. fat and not enough dietary fiber I think I did okay. According to several calculators I have checked my RMR is around 2000. Numbers on my BMR vary. 3-4 sessions a week at 30-45 minutes each produces results from 2700-3000.
Anyways, I made a deficit happen, got a better look at my food and really saw why too much red meat and cheese are bad. Awful fat profiles those. I'm not even sure I lost this week either, but I feel I am moving in the right direction.
184.7 grams of carbs
93.6 grams of fat
There we go, yesterday's food. Not perfect but aside from too much sat. fat and not enough dietary fiber I think I did okay. According to several calculators I have checked my RMR is around 2000. Numbers on my BMR vary. 3-4 sessions a week at 30-45 minutes each produces results from 2700-3000.
Anyways, I made a deficit happen, got a better look at my food and really saw why too much red meat and cheese are bad. Awful fat profiles those. I'm not even sure I lost this week either, but I feel I am moving in the right direction.
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Up a pound to 202 lbs and 26% BF this morning. I am extra glad now that I signed back up for Fitday. I am sure most of the problem is incorrect calories estimations (sometimes I do overestimate as well as under).Also, I got a heart rate monitor as my old crappy RadioShack one was no longer working. So I traded up to a Polar RS 100
I actually got it last week, but today was the 1st field run with it.
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5 min warmup (walking uphill)
35 minutes of walk/jog intervals of :45 to 2:00. Pretty much 1/2 of this was jogging (for a change)
4:45 cooldown (walking in parking lot)
target HR zone (rather arbitrary) of 125-163
36:33 in zone, 2:34 over and 7:05 below
avg hr of 145, peak of 168, "582" kcals burned (40 percent from fat)
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Have not updated FitDay yet today. I made chili last night and cannot gauge how m any bowls yet, so I cannot divide the total numbers into single portions correctly
Breakfast was a bowl of chicken chili
snack of 1/2 c. cottage cheese with 1/2 c. pineapple chunks
lunch of a grilled meal at KFC (grilled wing, grilled breast, biscuit with pack of honey, mac n' cheese, sweet tea)
just finished jogging, PWR and dinner to come.
If I don't lose next week the tape measure is coming out!!
Hi! The walk/jog intervals are looking good, and the diet looks good too.
I don't have the trouble you mention about getting enough calories just through eating clean, but one thing fitday has shown me is just how quickly fat calories add up. I rarely log under 30%. I remember when the heart health experts were recommending 10% -- that seems almost impossible.
The This Is Why You're Fat website is shocking. I saw a special on hot dogs last week on the food channel. They showed a restaurant that deep fried two kinds of sausage (four sausages in all), then deepfried onions, potatoes, peppers, and then stuffed the entire thing into a loaf of bread. That would be a good candidate for the website.
I don't have the trouble you mention about getting enough calories just through eating clean, but one thing fitday has shown me is just how quickly fat calories add up. I rarely log under 30%. I remember when the heart health experts were recommending 10% -- that seems almost impossible.
The This Is Why You're Fat website is shocking. I saw a special on hot dogs last week on the food channel. They showed a restaurant that deep fried two kinds of sausage (four sausages in all), then deepfried onions, potatoes, peppers, and then stuffed the entire thing into a loaf of bread. That would be a good candidate for the website.
RAWR. Shiny new toys always help my focus, what about you? Ever buy a new pair of sneaks or workout clothes and cannot wait to get em beatdown?
It's cause yer a girl, silly. =P Honestly, I feel like it's almost a fair tradeoff for testosterone that we have to eat twice as many cals or more.
Fat buildup itself wasn't the shocker for me, it was the saturated fat buildup.
10% does seem low, maybe even unhealthy. I get 80 g a day from what I've been reading, and that usually puts me around 30 or 35% cals from fat. Current recommendations were for 25% I think, which seems doable.
: purge: : ralf and : hurl: Jesus, I bet it was somewhere stateside too, wasn't it? We eat crap like baconaise and that garbage you listed and then wonder why we're 1/3rd fat and another 1/3rd obese.
We keep it up in this vein and I may never eat junk again.
Crazy day today, so no weights. I'll pray I can double down at some point this week to get at least two sessions in.
Ate lunch (my breakfast) out with my mom at a nice german place. I had the pistachio-crusted grouper with a cucumber salad and warm potato salad. Also, sweet tea (my anti-coke for now) and a slice of black forest cake. Delightful. Oh yeah, two small (fresh from the oven) slices of dark pumpernickel bread.
Went conservative the rest of the day. A scoop of whey in milk, some carrots, and then a sweet tea and big, fat bowl of chili for dinner tonight. Aside from some pizza cravings I wasn't really that hungry until the end of the night and I was 30 minutes from chili by then and.....erm....gutted it out.
Managed to not have a slice of pizza tonight, but lord did I want some. The shift runner put up a crew pie early on. A 6 cheese and pepperoni that I cut. So tasty, and so fresh. Right there in my face for an hour. Begging me to grab two greasy, warm, happy slices and a can of bird vomit....er soda....and pig out.
I had the whey shake instead. Then at end of shift my shift runner asked me if I wanted a pizza. Apparently they are hurting on the food margin and about to suspend our free food privies for a bit. It happens. So he was offering me a custom made and fresh from the oven pie to myself as a last fling.
So I went to Publix instead and got some marinade supplies, broccoli, nanners, and some salmon for tomorrow. I am determined to kick the fat to the curb by god, and I will not give up or fail. I'll just babble with all the new energy instead. It'll drive people around me even crazier, but I will feel wonderful and maybe spread my "witness" to people and make some converts. Maybe I'll even start a church, the Church of The Ex Fat Bastards.
AMEN!
Ate lunch (my breakfast) out with my mom at a nice german place. I had the pistachio-crusted grouper with a cucumber salad and warm potato salad. Also, sweet tea (my anti-coke for now) and a slice of black forest cake. Delightful. Oh yeah, two small (fresh from the oven) slices of dark pumpernickel bread.
Went conservative the rest of the day. A scoop of whey in milk, some carrots, and then a sweet tea and big, fat bowl of chili for dinner tonight. Aside from some pizza cravings I wasn't really that hungry until the end of the night and I was 30 minutes from chili by then and.....erm....gutted it out.
Managed to not have a slice of pizza tonight, but lord did I want some. The shift runner put up a crew pie early on. A 6 cheese and pepperoni that I cut. So tasty, and so fresh. Right there in my face for an hour. Begging me to grab two greasy, warm, happy slices and a can of bird vomit....er soda....and pig out.
I had the whey shake instead. Then at end of shift my shift runner asked me if I wanted a pizza. Apparently they are hurting on the food margin and about to suspend our free food privies for a bit. It happens. So he was offering me a custom made and fresh from the oven pie to myself as a last fling.
So I went to Publix instead and got some marinade supplies, broccoli, nanners, and some salmon for tomorrow. I am determined to kick the fat to the curb by god, and I will not give up or fail. I'll just babble with all the new energy instead. It'll drive people around me even crazier, but I will feel wonderful and maybe spread my "witness" to people and make some converts. Maybe I'll even start a church, the Church of The Ex Fat Bastards.
AMEN!
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Got up today, had a pint glass with 1/2 OJ and 1/2 water in it, and went for a run.
50:28 total
5 minute warmup walk, 42 minutes at dead 1/2 and 1/2 walk/jog, 3 minute walking cooldown
avg hr at 142, doohickey says 609 cals (45% from fat)
Followed that up with a chocolate milk. Then I cooked. Ate 4 oz of grilled chicken breast with 1/2 a slice of thin swiss cheese and around 80% of a WW bun, around 1/2 c. of my brocolli and cream cheese mash, and a few nibbles of the salmon I grilled. Also, sweet tea.
I brewed my own sweet tea last night. I had meant to put a cup of sugar in for the gallon but might have goofed and gone a 1/3rd over. Steeped some fresh mint in it too, good times.
Then I waited a bit and hit the weights. 4 sets, usual rotation with a little extra rest thrown in (maybe 3 x 2 minute sessions). Total time at 45 minutes. Will be another week or two before I can beef up the bench press methinks.
About to eat 4 oz of salmon (grilled after dry rubbing with rosemary, salt and crushed garlic and marinating in olive oil and OJ) and a nanner. Then I gotta boot scoot to my grandmother's and then off to work. Been a crazy day so far.
edit: worked stupid late. Like 3-1/2 hours longer than a late shift for this day normally runs. Sigh.
I ate a whey shake and a yogurt at work, and then closed the night off with a order of chicken wings.
50:28 total
5 minute warmup walk, 42 minutes at dead 1/2 and 1/2 walk/jog, 3 minute walking cooldown
avg hr at 142, doohickey says 609 cals (45% from fat)
Followed that up with a chocolate milk. Then I cooked. Ate 4 oz of grilled chicken breast with 1/2 a slice of thin swiss cheese and around 80% of a WW bun, around 1/2 c. of my brocolli and cream cheese mash, and a few nibbles of the salmon I grilled. Also, sweet tea.
I brewed my own sweet tea last night. I had meant to put a cup of sugar in for the gallon but might have goofed and gone a 1/3rd over. Steeped some fresh mint in it too, good times.
Then I waited a bit and hit the weights. 4 sets, usual rotation with a little extra rest thrown in (maybe 3 x 2 minute sessions). Total time at 45 minutes. Will be another week or two before I can beef up the bench press methinks.
About to eat 4 oz of salmon (grilled after dry rubbing with rosemary, salt and crushed garlic and marinating in olive oil and OJ) and a nanner. Then I gotta boot scoot to my grandmother's and then off to work. Been a crazy day so far.
edit: worked stupid late. Like 3-1/2 hours longer than a late shift for this day normally runs. Sigh.
I ate a whey shake and a yogurt at work, and then closed the night off with a order of chicken wings.
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Slightly bad with the food today. Just a little though. I decide not to run fasted but was in a rush so I had a glass of sweet tea and waited a few before heading out.
4 oz salmon and chocolate milk (15-18 oz?) for PWR
1st work snack - Japanese/apple pear. My 1st ever and it was very tasty
work meal - 2.5 oz chicken breast, 1/2 slice thin swiss, WW bun
2nd work snack - peach, big juicy sucker from the local farmer's market
final meal (home) - TV dinner, lasagna; sweet tea; Probly my daily does of sat. fat at once, but really the worst thing I did today.
edit: late night snackings. 90 cals worth of dark mint chocolate and 2 South Beach breakfast abrs.
Yesterday left me feeling beat all the way through today, but I gutted it out and jogged again. Starting HR showed as nearly 20 beats higher starting out. I was fatigued and it was hot too, so I eased off a tiny bit.
46:20 total : 5 min warmup walk up steep grade, 37 min intervals- aprox. 20:30 walking and 16:30 jogging, rest was cooldown walk on flat surface
86 min HR, 166 max, 142 avg. Doohickey says 557 cals (45% from fat)
I read in someone else's log that during their cardiac stress test session the medics said recovery time to 120 beats per minute was important and they liked to see it under 5 minutes. Last two sessions were 4:45 recovery but today was only 3:15.
Feeling good and feeling mad at the fat, I'm going to hound it out of existence ladies and gents. Every hill I bound my tubby backside up is a round of ammo for me and I am going to build a stockpile. Hmph!!
4 oz salmon and chocolate milk (15-18 oz?) for PWR
1st work snack - Japanese/apple pear. My 1st ever and it was very tasty
work meal - 2.5 oz chicken breast, 1/2 slice thin swiss, WW bun
2nd work snack - peach, big juicy sucker from the local farmer's market
final meal (home) - TV dinner, lasagna; sweet tea; Probly my daily does of sat. fat at once, but really the worst thing I did today.
edit: late night snackings. 90 cals worth of dark mint chocolate and 2 South Beach breakfast abrs.
Yesterday left me feeling beat all the way through today, but I gutted it out and jogged again. Starting HR showed as nearly 20 beats higher starting out. I was fatigued and it was hot too, so I eased off a tiny bit.
46:20 total : 5 min warmup walk up steep grade, 37 min intervals- aprox. 20:30 walking and 16:30 jogging, rest was cooldown walk on flat surface
86 min HR, 166 max, 142 avg. Doohickey says 557 cals (45% from fat)
I read in someone else's log that during their cardiac stress test session the medics said recovery time to 120 beats per minute was important and they liked to see it under 5 minutes. Last two sessions were 4:45 recovery but today was only 3:15.
Feeling good and feeling mad at the fat, I'm going to hound it out of existence ladies and gents. Every hill I bound my tubby backside up is a round of ammo for me and I am going to build a stockpile. Hmph!!
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Ah, the work week ends and I could not be any happier about it. I am feeling run ragged right now. 4 of my 5 shifts this week ran long, most by 3 or 4 hours. I worked out twice that one day and managed to move some weight around this evening.
Granted it was after 9 and I didn't really want to at 1st, and I didn't really get a pre-workout meal/snack like I would have liked, but it was a nice session. 4 full sets, nice form, not much increase on the chest yet, some increase on bis. Did not require the full 45 minutes to complete, and rest breaks were short and once per set the way I like.
Food was pretty meh today, owing to a late start and a nasty work day.
2 Hardee's sausage biscuits for breakfast
Snacked on 20 grams of shelled walnut bits and a portion of baby carrots
Ate a 5 dollar fill up at KFC for lunch (grilled breast, grilled drum, green beans, glass of tea-1/2 sweet only, biscuit, honey)
And then I had a bowl of chili, a glass of whey, and a glass of sweet tea.
I updated FitDay as best I could for the week. It seems to think I should be okay, burning something like 900 cals a day over my intake after factoring in everything. Now I need to stay watchful and keep cutting the sat fat and get the carbs back down, they are kinda high for the week.
Edit: late night snackings of two South Beach bars puts me at a very small deficit for the day, but not over and certainly not as unhealthy as I started the day off.
Granted it was after 9 and I didn't really want to at 1st, and I didn't really get a pre-workout meal/snack like I would have liked, but it was a nice session. 4 full sets, nice form, not much increase on the chest yet, some increase on bis. Did not require the full 45 minutes to complete, and rest breaks were short and once per set the way I like.
Food was pretty meh today, owing to a late start and a nasty work day.
2 Hardee's sausage biscuits for breakfast
Snacked on 20 grams of shelled walnut bits and a portion of baby carrots
Ate a 5 dollar fill up at KFC for lunch (grilled breast, grilled drum, green beans, glass of tea-1/2 sweet only, biscuit, honey)
And then I had a bowl of chili, a glass of whey, and a glass of sweet tea.
I updated FitDay as best I could for the week. It seems to think I should be okay, burning something like 900 cals a day over my intake after factoring in everything. Now I need to stay watchful and keep cutting the sat fat and get the carbs back down, they are kinda high for the week.
Edit: late night snackings of two South Beach bars puts me at a very small deficit for the day, but not over and certainly not as unhealthy as I started the day off.
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Free days are awesome. The apartment is at least 1/2 shiny now, and I do not have to lift anything heavy or shamble more than 100 yards today. I like exercise, but sometimes I like it more than my body and this week I think I hit low levels of either overtraining or overfatigue. Nothing two days of R&R won't handle though.
I haven't been up more than a couple of hours at this point and it's just been a small sweet tea and the last 4 oz of that last salmon fillet I grilled.
Going to do a little more work here then go help my grandmother with her VCR and Blu-Ray player. Sigh. Then shopping, then I clean my car's carpets. The maybe I do laundry, more housework, swing by that gas station to see if I can con that cutie into dinner yet, and then maybe I get to sit on the still too ample butt and veg out.
Hope all the other FitDayers out there are having a good day.
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My day went downhill from when I started today's post. I wanted to handle my grandmother, run an errand for a buddy, and hit a WalMart. It was 7 hours before I got back home. I expected 2 or 3 hours so I didn't pack anything. Fast food twice, so too much sodium and cholesterol even on the healthy choices I'm sure. Also, too much of my to-do list left undone.
had 4 oz of salmon (listed above) and chased it shortly thereafter with an apple
lunch- 12" WW piiza sub @ Subway: lettuce, black olive, pepperjack; 1/2 bag of baked chips, 1/2 sweet tea/ 1/2 unsweet (1 x 20 or less oz cup)
dinner- Captain D's, my grandmother chivvied me into it. Baked tilapia (1/2 portion), portion of broccoli, nibbled the rice, and tossed the over-skunked tea for water
I haven't been up more than a couple of hours at this point and it's just been a small sweet tea and the last 4 oz of that last salmon fillet I grilled.
Going to do a little more work here then go help my grandmother with her VCR and Blu-Ray player. Sigh. Then shopping, then I clean my car's carpets. The maybe I do laundry, more housework, swing by that gas station to see if I can con that cutie into dinner yet, and then maybe I get to sit on the still too ample butt and veg out.
Hope all the other FitDayers out there are having a good day.
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My day went downhill from when I started today's post. I wanted to handle my grandmother, run an errand for a buddy, and hit a WalMart. It was 7 hours before I got back home. I expected 2 or 3 hours so I didn't pack anything. Fast food twice, so too much sodium and cholesterol even on the healthy choices I'm sure. Also, too much of my to-do list left undone.
had 4 oz of salmon (listed above) and chased it shortly thereafter with an apple
lunch- 12" WW piiza sub @ Subway: lettuce, black olive, pepperjack; 1/2 bag of baked chips, 1/2 sweet tea/ 1/2 unsweet (1 x 20 or less oz cup)
dinner- Captain D's, my grandmother chivvied me into it. Baked tilapia (1/2 portion), portion of broccoli, nibbled the rice, and tossed the over-skunked tea for water
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Thursday July 30th
Dreck for the most part, with a lesson learned for sure. Off days are my enemy. Seriously. They are normally busier than my work days no matter how much I try to make it otherwise. And they are harder to plan for foodwise. For me. It seems.
Pluott (plum/apricot hybrid), chocolate milk
bananananana
KFC grilled meal, mac n chs, thigh, leg, biscuit, honey, 1 sweat tea
chicken chili w/ 1/4 c or so of cheese on top
chocolate milk, 3 homemade chocolate muffins
Friday July 31st
I had been looking forward to this morning's weigh-in. I saw someone here post how it helped her to weigh daily and mom had said the same recently, so I tried it. Been seeing a gradual decrease all week, to where I was hanging onto 200's nuts from below.
Then I weighed in at 202 again this morning. Too much sodium or something. I swear I'm going to axe the scale or move the official weigh in day or I don't know what.
Anyways, good set of weights today. 4 x 10 on the bench at 135. Wasn't even trying to max it like that, but with 2 more resistance sessions this week I feel pretty sure I can start putting up 145 next week. Slow bicep gains too.
breakfast- chicken chili, 12 oz sweet tea
snack-nanner
PWR-4 oz. grilled chicken, 1/2 slice of thin swiss, WW bun
snack-apple and roughly 20g shelled walnut bits
dinner-chicken chili and a scoop of whey in milk
edit: late night snack of 2 cups milk and 2 muffins (was gonna be one but I caved, I have GOT to take those to work next shift)
Dreck for the most part, with a lesson learned for sure. Off days are my enemy. Seriously. They are normally busier than my work days no matter how much I try to make it otherwise. And they are harder to plan for foodwise. For me. It seems.
Pluott (plum/apricot hybrid), chocolate milk
bananananana
KFC grilled meal, mac n chs, thigh, leg, biscuit, honey, 1 sweat tea
chicken chili w/ 1/4 c or so of cheese on top
chocolate milk, 3 homemade chocolate muffins
Friday July 31st
I had been looking forward to this morning's weigh-in. I saw someone here post how it helped her to weigh daily and mom had said the same recently, so I tried it. Been seeing a gradual decrease all week, to where I was hanging onto 200's nuts from below.
Then I weighed in at 202 again this morning. Too much sodium or something. I swear I'm going to axe the scale or move the official weigh in day or I don't know what.
Anyways, good set of weights today. 4 x 10 on the bench at 135. Wasn't even trying to max it like that, but with 2 more resistance sessions this week I feel pretty sure I can start putting up 145 next week. Slow bicep gains too.
breakfast- chicken chili, 12 oz sweet tea
snack-nanner
PWR-4 oz. grilled chicken, 1/2 slice of thin swiss, WW bun
snack-apple and roughly 20g shelled walnut bits
dinner-chicken chili and a scoop of whey in milk
edit: late night snack of 2 cups milk and 2 muffins (was gonna be one but I caved, I have GOT to take those to work next shift)
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KaraCooks
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Hey there ... had to come return the visit from my journal and get caught up. 
One thing about weighing daily - I keep an excel spreadsheet with a graph (yes I'm a geek). It really helps me to see the overall trend on the graph and to see how the bouncing up and down is small compared to the long term.
I don't know if it works for everyone, but it really does work for me. I am *less* likely to freak out about the scale if I'm consistent with weighing.
Oh and off days are the worst. I can keep to a perfect eating plan when I'm working, but days I'm at home or running errands? So difficult.
One thing about weighing daily - I keep an excel spreadsheet with a graph (yes I'm a geek). It really helps me to see the overall trend on the graph and to see how the bouncing up and down is small compared to the long term.
I don't know if it works for everyone, but it really does work for me. I am *less* likely to freak out about the scale if I'm consistent with weighing.
Oh and off days are the worst. I can keep to a perfect eating plan when I'm working, but days I'm at home or running errands? So difficult.
LOL, much <3 for my fellow geeks. No spreadsheets here but I understand where you are coming from. Also, weighing daily helped me a lot the last week. I know I have lost and am orbiting 200, and I also see the trends that are pushing the number back higher so I can tighten things down further.
Glad I'm not alone. Whew. My problem is things always come up. I'm to the point where I'm almost afraid to leave home again with less than 6 hours worth of food. Either I work late or the errand running goes wonky.
Saturday August 1st, 2009
A little juice cut heavily with water first thing this morning. (cran grape if it matters) Then I went jogging, but changed it up some.
The jog
0:00-5:00 : Walking warmup
5:01-20:00 : Regular intervals. I ended up around 6 minutes walking and 9 jogging here.
20:01-aprx.30:00 : Here I did 4 sprints. Distance uncertain. Track is next to a soccer field here, and is slightly larger than the field or 90 steps at my normal walking stride to cross the long side. (35-50 yards maybe?) So I sprinted one long side and walked the rest of the track back to where I started. Wore me down fast, I ran out of full steam juice at around the 80% mark every time and very fatigued for the rest of my session.
30:01(?)-45:00 : I tried to go 1/2 and 1/2 from here on but was wrung dry. Managed 50% a time or two, more like jog 45 or 50 seconds and walk 90 or 120.
45:00 to end : walked to cooldown
total duration of 48:25
590 cals (45 from fat) (yadda yadda yadda, nearly 3 miles?)
42:22 in zone
47 above and 5:16 below) zone is still 125 to 163143 avg HR , 168 max
Now, the dreaded food
Breakfast- Did the light juice mix 1st thing
Lunch- Lunch with family. Was supposed to be the Cheeburger, ended up at Cracker Barrel. I ordered the grilled lemon pepper trout with fried apples, green beans, and hashbrown casserole. I ate 1/2 of everything and boxed the rest, plus ate a biscuit with butter and jelly and honey.
Work- Oh fresh pizza! You are so hot and greasy, and when I come in and cut you tonight for the 1st time, you bleed fragrant tomato sauce into my nose and make me crave. I tell you to go to hell, but your cousin will have the last laugh later. I chowed on an apple, 20g or so of walnut bits, and a 1 cup of 1/2 pineapple and 1/2 cottage cheese.
After work- Such awful cravings all night. I thought it was going to be pizza, then sure it would be Zaxbys (something I am waiting patiently for), then I ended up with a box of tacos and some queso at home. Four beef and corn shell tacos with 6-8 oz cheese dip.
On the plus side, I haven't had a soda in something like 5 days and my tea is down too, maybe 2 glasses today. And I realized I am still not getting enough veggies. It's just always been "fruits and veggies" to me, not "fruits" and "veggies". So for me to increase my input there anywhere is great, but I know better. Less sugar, same nutrients (roughly speaking) going from fruit to veg.
I swear, as much as I know and as much as I've been through and I still feel some days like keeping my food planned and organized and rotated and balanced right is beyond me. I'll keep going, but it's frustrating sometimes.
Sunday August 3, 2009
Weights today
4 full sets in 40 minutes, around 8 minutes of rest between sets. 4 x 10 @ 135 again, going to 145 next week for certain. Slow improvement on number of reps in biceps and triceps. Shoulders slow to budge, but getting a heavy working judging by how I feel after. (Not DOMs sore, just.....worked? If that feeling makes sense)
Food
Slept late, so meal times were funny
I did, however, get to grill after work and whooped up a ton of food. 1 lb of chicken in a marinade, 1 lb. of veal as sliders, 1 portion of trout, and 6 coconut shrimp
Breakfast- the rest of the other day's Cracker barrel: 1/2 portion each of grilled trout, green beans, fried apples, hashbrowns, and a biscuit
work- greek yogurt with blueberries, apple
dinner- 3 veal sliders (5-6 oz precook) in 1/2 a ww pita with yogurt and cucumber sauce, nibbled the chicken for QA-no more than an oz and maybe less, and 2 coconut shrimp
snack- 2 squares (100 cals worth) of dark mint chocolate with a mug of milk
Weight- Under 200 today, call it 199. Going to continue to weigh daily but only update the ticker once a week so I am sure that the weight I claim is stable.
Weights today
4 full sets in 40 minutes, around 8 minutes of rest between sets. 4 x 10 @ 135 again, going to 145 next week for certain. Slow improvement on number of reps in biceps and triceps. Shoulders slow to budge, but getting a heavy working judging by how I feel after. (Not DOMs sore, just.....worked? If that feeling makes sense)
Food
Slept late, so meal times were funny
I did, however, get to grill after work and whooped up a ton of food. 1 lb of chicken in a marinade, 1 lb. of veal as sliders, 1 portion of trout, and 6 coconut shrimp
Breakfast- the rest of the other day's Cracker barrel: 1/2 portion each of grilled trout, green beans, fried apples, hashbrowns, and a biscuit
work- greek yogurt with blueberries, apple
dinner- 3 veal sliders (5-6 oz precook) in 1/2 a ww pita with yogurt and cucumber sauce, nibbled the chicken for QA-no more than an oz and maybe less, and 2 coconut shrimp
snack- 2 squares (100 cals worth) of dark mint chocolate with a mug of milk
Weight- Under 200 today, call it 199. Going to continue to weigh daily but only update the ticker once a week so I am sure that the weight I claim is stable.
KaraCooks
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Yeah, that kind of stretchy good soreness. I like that feeling.
I wound up having hotdogs on the grill last night for my "free" meal this week - dogs and a handful of Tostitos, and veggies and ranch dip. Boy can I tell I ate a lot of salt last night. I'm already pushing water to help get rid of it. My fingers are puffy.
Yes'm, that feeling exactly. I also like the feeling of tackiness or stickiness my leg muscles get when I am nicely warmed up and moving well.
Slumming much? I had you pegged for crafting elaborate treat meals. Aside from increased water intake what pushes sodium bloat down? I figured it was nothing else but water or time, but I'm not afraid to ask moderately dumb questions.
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Monday August 3rd, 2009
Ramblings
Was supposed to close tonight, but ended up opening instead. Since I got off late last night and was up late cooking I didn't exercise before work, but I did pack a proper back of food for a change.
Weight this morning was 199, I think, maybe it bounced back up to 200. I'll take better note tomorrow.
I am fucking worn out. Tomorrow is weights around a double shift and then I am done for the week....sort of. Done with the job at least. Now I just need to make 35 + gas tomorrow to clear rent on time. Then I gotta clear the rest of the month's bills, scrape up for a visit to the dentist so I can get scraped, and maybe keep groceries in the fridge.
In short, financial stress is eating my ass alive. I could cry for not knowing whether or not the next week or so will end up okay. I will survive, but I hate having to borrow money and that is what it will take. Combine that with staring at one of my favorite comfort foods all day and having to say no and I feel wrung.
Edit: I have some gruesome before finally, will get them posted when things are sane enough and I am not too tired and lazy.
Food
Breakfast- bowl of chicken chili. Need to measure, but it is two full ladles, or 1.5 cups or better. Most of that is veggies, so +2-3 servings and some protein.
Snack-serving of carrots (3-4) with some of last night's cucumber and yogurt sauce. So some protein and a little extra veg for rounding portions up.
Lunch- 1/2 ww pita with 3 (5-6 oz precook total) veal sliders. More sauce and a portion of cucumbers so +protein and another serving of veggies (4-5)
snack- small, green apple (+happiness)
PWR- chocolate milk (+nutrients when my body says no, haha, stomach abuse)
dinner- 4 oz. grilled cali. style chicken and 1/2 cup brocolli with neufchatel cheese (5-6 veggies, dead on target), sweet tea
Exercise
It was like 9:00 p.m. or later by the time I got home from work. So I went and had a shitty, sloppy run. (I know, better than none) Since it was dark I had to run the neighborhood. Minimal visibility kept me out of the grass as much as possible and actually on the asphalt of the road. (I read it was better than concrete for your joints....or less bad, whatever)
Low vis also kept my eyes off the monitor and on the environment. I broke a sweat and got my heart up and worked my legs, but I am not all that thrilled with it.
Monday August 3rd, 2009
Ramblings
Was supposed to close tonight, but ended up opening instead. Since I got off late last night and was up late cooking I didn't exercise before work, but I did pack a proper back of food for a change.
Weight this morning was 199, I think, maybe it bounced back up to 200. I'll take better note tomorrow.
I am fucking worn out. Tomorrow is weights around a double shift and then I am done for the week....sort of. Done with the job at least. Now I just need to make 35 + gas tomorrow to clear rent on time. Then I gotta clear the rest of the month's bills, scrape up for a visit to the dentist so I can get scraped, and maybe keep groceries in the fridge.
In short, financial stress is eating my ass alive. I could cry for not knowing whether or not the next week or so will end up okay. I will survive, but I hate having to borrow money and that is what it will take. Combine that with staring at one of my favorite comfort foods all day and having to say no and I feel wrung.
Edit: I have some gruesome before finally, will get them posted when things are sane enough and I am not too tired and lazy.
Food
Breakfast- bowl of chicken chili. Need to measure, but it is two full ladles, or 1.5 cups or better. Most of that is veggies, so +2-3 servings and some protein.
Snack-serving of carrots (3-4) with some of last night's cucumber and yogurt sauce. So some protein and a little extra veg for rounding portions up.
Lunch- 1/2 ww pita with 3 (5-6 oz precook total) veal sliders. More sauce and a portion of cucumbers so +protein and another serving of veggies (4-5)
snack- small, green apple (+happiness)
PWR- chocolate milk (+nutrients when my body says no, haha, stomach abuse)
dinner- 4 oz. grilled cali. style chicken and 1/2 cup brocolli with neufchatel cheese (5-6 veggies, dead on target), sweet tea
Exercise
It was like 9:00 p.m. or later by the time I got home from work. So I went and had a shitty, sloppy run. (I know, better than none) Since it was dark I had to run the neighborhood. Minimal visibility kept me out of the grass as much as possible and actually on the asphalt of the road. (I read it was better than concrete for your joints....or less bad, whatever)
Low vis also kept my eyes off the monitor and on the environment. I broke a sweat and got my heart up and worked my legs, but I am not all that thrilled with it.