Another great day! I started at the gym with 20 minutes of the stair master. This really gets me breathing heavy and sweating. Next I did an upright exercise bike that also has the upper body attachment. I did 15 minutes then moved to the lower body cross trainer/eliptical machine for 25 minutes. I felt good after one hour of cardio.
Meals were all packed for today. This really is the way for me to go. When I don’t have bad choices in front of me while hungry and making food choices, I don’t make bad choices. I had some hard boiled eggs, turkey sausage patties, an apple and some ricotta cheese. This was healthy and felt satisfying to eat. I had other fruit and yogurt to eat today as well as tuna salad for a snack. Lunch was a salad with a ground turkey chili on top plus some red wine vinegar as a salad dressing.
Today’s afternoon workout was a low weight high rep routine. We did the smith presses with the adjustable bench. After cycling through the 8 positions we did not feel the need to do a second go through even though we were only using 95 lbs. Last week we did this routine with 185lbs followed by 135lbs. Today felt more difficult. Funny how that is, but I guess we pushed more reps into muscle failure than when we did the heaveir weights. Next we did lat pull downs and chinup pull downs with light weight weight then moving to a machine that is an overhead pulldown motion that has pads under your arms, and that is where you press downward to cycle a repitition. We ended the day with 15 minutes on the treadmill. I am walking at incline gradually increasing the incline and speed. I can’t wait for tomorrow to do more cardio!
I was hungry on the way home and had a banana. Once home my wife and I decided to go with a middle eastern themed dinner. We used ground turkey and combined it with Amy’s organic black bean vegitable soup. We also had some goya chick peas, frozen spinach and white rice. We heavily seasoned the meal with Garlic, onion, cilantro and cumin. The chick peas get mostly mashed up. The meal was great. My wife even went back for seconds and that never happens.
This was a heavier, denser meal that what I am looking for, but it was one I feel my body was craving. Tomorrow will most likely be a chcken over salad night so I do not feel bad about enjoying what we had tonight. In the future I will need to have a salad first then have some of this meal to better balance what I think I should be doing. I will get on the scale tomorrow just to see if I did dinner wrong. Until tomorrow!
