It is truely amazing how the weight has been coming off. I am slightly behind where I need to be to make my 100 pounds lost in 26 weeks. I am going to see if I can pick up the pace some and get back to 4+ pounds a week lost. If it takes me an extra week I will not be devastated, but I will have missed my “goal”. My goal is also to be healthier and a normal weight so if I do miss my self imposed deadline, so be it. But I will try to make up the pounds if I can.
Today started with me going to the gym and jogging for 25 minutes at 5.1 mph. This has become my slow comfortable jog but still produces a good sweat. I then did 20 minutes on the elliptical machine and 15 minutes on the bike. Since I was already sweating these other two cardio choices kept the sweat going. It seems if I start out with either of these I never break a good sweat like with jogging. So it was time to go home, shower and eat some food!
This morning I decided I needed to eat some of the chicken I cooked last night. We bought one of the super sized chicken breast packages with the intentions of freezing half of it. Well we never did freeze half so I cooked it all last night. It was alot of chicken. So chicken for breakfast! I cut up a large apple and added some lettuce and cherry tomatoes to a bowl. I then chopped up the chicken and mixed it with some light mayo and added it to the salad bowl. I made enough for breakfast and lunch. It was good and different for breakfast and kept me to about 400 calories. The apple was a great addition. It acted as filler and gave me some carbs to go with the chicken protein. Had it just been chicken the calories would have been higher. I got to enjoy this at lunch time too. I ate well all day again. Dinner was great tonight.
I added some BBQ sauce to the chopped up chicken. I also cooked a portobello mushroom and added it to the bbq mix. I had corn on the cob and broccolini as my veggies. I should have stopped there but I did go heavier on calories at dinner time by eating some ground turkey with peach salsa. This additon added about 400 calories and I should have passed it up and had some fruit instead. Too late now as I enjoyed it. I finished the day at 2,457 calories consumed. This was a bit high but I am working harder during my work day than I have had to for a while so it is OK as I am burning more calories at work now. I also did 30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical machine as a bonus to keep things moving the right way on the scale. I feel good about today andlook forward to tomorrow. I hope to do a long jog either tomorrow morning or friday morning just to push my limits some.
