Today started with an adventure! My wife asked if we could jog some hills. I mentally plotted a course through our neighborhood that hit 5 good hills and two small gradual hills. It kicked my butt! We did 4.2 miles in 58 minutes. Not fast but not bad with the hills. I was soaked all the way down to my sox.
I ate well again but did eat some heavier foods today. Lunch included left overs of the tortellini, chicken , asparagus and vodka sauce mix and dinner was steak, corn on the cob and potatoes cooked in the frying pan. I added white onion and red pepper to the potatoes and portobello mushrooms to the steak. I try not to do heavy meals back to back days but I just did not feel like salad and steak tonight. I was saving the potatoes to make mashed potatoes this weekend but this meal really needed something more than steak and corn.
Before dinner I went to Bally’s again for a cardio workout. I got on the scale to see where I was at and BAM! I lost some more weight.
I see so much more of my feet in the picture now. That is a lot of weight gone. But hey I got a long way to go still.
My afternoon workout was 30 minutes on the elliptical machine. I started on level 18 for 3 minutes, then level 17 for 3 minutes, then level 16 for for the balance of the time. I did sweat a bunch but my heart rate never got much above 120 except for the 3 15 second sprints I did in the last 3 minutes where I got the machine up to 13.4 mph and 16.1 mph. I checked my heart rate then and it took a while to get the reading but when I did it was at 140 bpm. I guess I need to start doing silly fast sprints when I use the elliptical trainers now to get more out of the cardio time.
The weekend is here and I am sure there will be some interesting things going on. Maybe some urban mall hiking? Definately some real hiking is the weather allows. And time to catch up on sleep! I already staerted that today. when I got home from work I took a 45 minute nap. I was soo tired I did not want to go to the gym. The 45 minutes got me back in the game. It is 9:20 and I am ready for bed. Unti
