Week 15 Day 4

Time keeps on slipping,  into the future……Do, Do do…Do Do do,  Fly like an eagle….

Today was a very satisfying day.  I had 2 good workouts,  I at well and work went OK.  My working hard and not sleeping enough has caught up to me today and I crashed when I got home.  I fell asleep for 45 minutes.  It felt good!   I hope I can manage a good night sleep tonight and make it through Friday with no issues.

(In a deep announcer’s voice)  Now back to our regularly scheduled blog entry.

My morning workout was 20 minutes jogging and 30 minutes on the elliptical machine.  I had planned to jog more but I was feeling beat so I shortened the time some.  Hey this is real life and things don’t always go as planned.

I went back to the house, took a quick shower and got busy making some breakfast.  I switched things up and started with some cut up banana and an apple.  I also ate a yoplait light yogurt.  That was not enough so I ate 2 hard boiled eggs and 2 turkey sausages.   That ended up being 490 calories.  Not bad but closer to 400 is better.  I packed fruit and special K bars for snacks at work and I had a hearty salad for lunch.  I added the leftovers of ground beef, black eyed peas and salsa over the salad.  I also added 1/2 an avocado and some light sour cream.  It was tasty and fueled me trough the day.  I also enjoyed a tart grapefruit as dessert.  This was a 630 calorie lunch, and that might be too big on a normal day but I have been working like a dog and did not feel bad eating it.  If I skipped the grapefruit I would have been close to 500 calories and that would be fine.   Dinner also turned out to a bigger meal.  I was really hungry for some reason and had 2 salad bowls for dinner.  Here is what the toppings to the salad looked like.

STEAK!   I like steak.  I don’t eat it as much as I used to but boy do I enjoy it when I do.

Pan roasted red potatoes, red pepper, onion, garlic cloves, and asparagus made up this tasty dish.  With the second bowl I ended up eating a 725 calorie dinner.  I used some balsamic vinegar as the dressing.   The old me would have drowned this creation in 3 or 4 servings of blue cheese dressing and push this meal into the 1,200 +  calorie territory.  Really there is no need to do that.

I decided on a garage weight lifting routine today instead of going to the gym. This was an easy choice since I did take a nap and the gyms would have been packed like yesterday.  Here is what I did:

Squats

70lbs-10
90-10
110-10
138-10
167-10

overhead presses starting at the floor
90-5,5,5

overhead presses from shoulders
90-8,8

bent over rows
90-5
110-5
138-5
167-5

dead lifts
167-5,5,5

That did it for me and brought me to dinner. It is late and I need some rest, so good night for now. One parting thought,  soar  like an eagle or laugh like a Joker?

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