Week 21 Day 1

Life is good.   Work has been going well and the sun is shining bright today, even through the clouds!

I got up this morning after a restless night from all the watermelon, cantaloupe, cherries and seltzer I drank.  Seemed like every hour on the hour.  Oh Well the alarm finally rescued me from the madness.  I got up and me and the wife decided on a little jog outside today.  We did a hair under 3 miles.  That is now our standard distance run.  We did it in 34 minutes.  That is under 12 minutes miles so that is ok with me.  Of course I am now not getting at least 45 minutes of cardio in the mornings that I jog.  Today it was OK though since I did not sleep well.  I enjoyed the extra get ready for work time.

Work passed by and when I got home I was in desperate need of some sleep.  I took a hour long nap.  I could have gone longer for sure but I still needed to get to the gym to lift today.  So I did. I have been weak on my bench pressing since I have been doing the sets after multiple sets of pull-ups and dips. I decided to go light on the pull-ups then hit the bench before later returning to the dips. I was happy to see I can still press 225lbs. It is not alot for many but for me while losing weight it is fine. Also my endurance strength with 135 lbs has increased, so that is a slight trade-off as well. I believe this is functional strength and more important in the scheme of things.

 

Assisted pull-ups
+85-5
+100-5
+115-5

Bench press
135-18
185-5
225-1
185-5,5
135-12

EZ-Bar curls with 50 lbs
10,10,10,10

Assisted dips
+115-8,8,8

Leg presses
190-10,10,10

Leg extensions
110-10
130-10
150-10

I ate pretty good today.  I was feeling really hungry all day and was snacking and eating my meal at work earlier than normal.  In the end I totalled 2,311 calories.  Slightly higher than I want but not out of the ball park.Dinner was the meal that pushed me over the edge.  I had some BBQ chicken breast with horseradish on it with baked beans, potato salad on a bead of lettuce.   This was higher in carbs than it needed to be and the potato salad was high in fat but darn it if I really did not feel like eating it!  I bought more cherries for dessert but I am over my calories for the day so the sherries will have to wait until tomorrow morning and breakfast.

Now that was a hardy meal!  I ate more potato salad than what you see on the plate.   I was eating some spoonfuls while cooking.  All in all I am happy with today.

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