“That’s ludicrous, ludicrous I say”!
Look at the scale, how can that be?
a little more weight lost by me.
Where did it go? I don’t really care
do not return, here or there!
I was happy to see the numbers drop some more on the scale. Sometimes it really surprizes me as there can be a pound or more gone in a day. I am working out with good effort, and I am eating well. This is great. Sometimes I wonder why didn’t I do this sooner? I guess I was not ready. You need to make that conscious decision to make changes. What ever it was that caused the light bulb to switch on in my brain is an unknown to me. I just felt like I need to do this, and I am.
My morning workout did not involve jogging today. What? you say. I know I need to keep mixing in othere things to keep my muscles guessing. I did 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer and 30 minutes on the stair stepper. Both got me sweating, neither as intensely as jogging though. I had planned to jog this afternoon to keep the jogging daily going but there not any open treadmills when I was ready to jog after work. I decided to do 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer in its place. The gym has been geting pretty warn in the afternoons and that helps with the sweating. I like a good sweat. Others enjoy a good sweat too. Unfortunately people do not like the smells of eachother sweating. I have seen people move to different machines. I have done it myself. I also have seen people move away from me especially after a hard day of work. It goes with the territory. If you don’t want to sweat, don’t push it too hard. That defeats the purpose though, doesn’t it?
Not only did I have 2 good cardio workouts today I also ate very well today.
Breakfast:
3 hard boiled egg whites
2 morningstar meatless sausages
4 mini pancakes (10 equal around 260 calories)
1 orange
and a few baby carrots because I really felt like having some carrots!
451 calories
My morning break and lunch were salads with steak, red pepper, onions, portobello mushrooms, white rice, black olives and canned tomatoes on top. I also used some vinegar as my dressing. The break meal included an apple and lunch included a yogurt. Both meals were about 450 calories each. (I did not plan it that way, it just worked out that way)
My afternoon snack was a yogurt and a banana, 205 calories.
I had an large apple on the drive home , 130 calories.
Here is a picture of my dinner tonight.
It was a chicken breast, brussle sprouts, white rice mixed with red beans, peach salsa and black olives, and not pictured a mixed greens salad. After I ate I had 1/2 seving of almonds and a pretzel rod. Dinner was about 590 calories.
My daily total was 2,380 calories. Slightly higher than what I was hoping for (curse you pretzel rod and almonds!) but plenty ok with me. I worked out hard and had lost weight this week already, I can’t be mad when I am under 2,500 calories in a day. 2,200 is better for me though.
I am already looking foward to tomorrow and some jogging. Plus more weight lifting tomorrow! YES! Ludicrous indeed
