Today was a holiday! It was great I was off from work… well well you are unemployed like I am every day is a holiday!
I was still feeling the soreness in my knees and ankles so I took it easier this morning for my workout. I jogged 1 mile, then 25 minutes each on the stair stepper and the elliptical machine. I did not have a great sweat going but my body did not suffer with higher impact jogging for long.
My pm workout was low impact too. I pushed on the elliptical machine for 45 minutes. Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing some of the Crossfit games on TV. It was cool to see. Those folks are athletes! I need to do more research and see how I can incorporate some of their workouts into my workouts. Some of it is really intense and high impact, but you can’t argue with the results. The have many men and women knocking out pull-ups, dips and other normal type exercises after training for a while. I would like to get there.
I did ok with food today. My featured meal of the day was eggplant lasagna. I sliced the eggplant thin after I skinned it. I used the eggplant as a layer in place of a layer of pasta. That helps it be lower carb and still incredible. I do not use meat in my lasagna. I mix some shredded mozzarella, part skin ricotta, and low fat cottage cheese together with an egg as my cheese filling. I pick two related pasta sauces to give the meal some flavor dimension. I used a hearty garden pasta sauce in one layer and a tomato basil in the others. If I really wanted to cut down on the carbs I would have sliced the eggplant thicker and only used 1 layer of pasta noodles. The only downside to making this meal is that I make a big pan of it and I find it difficult to only eat a
