Week 8 Day 4

Some of the greatest discoveries, inventions and break throughs came from the failure of another goal or persuit.     How do you define success?

I used to dread the scale.  It never had anything good to say.  Now I look foward to seeing it almost daily.   It is amazing how things can change.   Today was another great day.  I jogged a mile in both my morning and afternoon workout.  My times are slowly creeping down.   My fasted time was today at 12:18.  This is edging out 12:30 from Tuesday.   Success tastes so much better than failure.

Meals today were normal and followed what I have been doing.  Dinner tonight was a bit of a wild card.  I stopped and picked up some middle eastern veggies with white rice.  I have noticed a pound or two swing when eating from this place but I did a few things differently this time.  I passed on the bread.  I like it and is amazing hot out of the oven, but I don’t need the extra carbs.  I also plit my meal with my wife and we put it over a salad.  I used to eat the entire meal myself and the whole piece of bread and a rice pudding after.  Not so today.   The veggies were yellow lentils, chick peas,  and some peppers and i’m sure what else mixed in.  All very tasty.  I am luck because they did not have my favorite, Chicken Haleem.   There would not have been any sharing of that!  Just kidding, but it is my favorite.   These veggies tend to be good for my digestive system, though my wife, our cat and my co-workers (tomorrow)  may not appreciate the veggies.    Hey it is all natural and a body’s got to do what a body got to do.   My total calories for the day are 2,277 calories.    I can live with that.

I almost forgot to add in the weight workout from this afternoon!  I can’t do that.

After the mile warm up We started with leg extensions. 

150lbs-10,10

170-10

190-10

Assisted pull-ups

+200lbs-6

+180-5

+170-4 1/2

neutral grip pull-ups

180-6

200-6

Hack squat machine

150-7,7,7

leg presses

180-10

270-10

360-10

 Triceps cable curls

150-10,10

135-10,10

overhead triceps cable curls using rope attachment

90-8

80-8

70-10

Dip press machine

165-10,10

195-10

210-6

Curls with the ez-curl bar

+50lbs-10,10,10

That brought us to exhaustion and ended the workout.  See I told you another great day!

On a side not I was given notice a job at another location would be starting soon and I am going to be on it.  It is a longer commute and will drasticly change my workout schedule.   I have some things in place to assist me and will need to explore some other options as well.  I worked too hard at my gains and will continue one way or another.  My gym time may get changed to once a day and be 1.5 hours plus  with jogging though my neighborhoods outside in the am before work.  I still have to work so Ineed to go with it, but I will look to see what I can do to make the best of these 6+ weeks.

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