I am in the home stretch! I am on way to losing 100 lbs. I am 70% there and still inching along. Life is good.
I started my morning with a trip to the gym to get my cardio in. I jogged for 15 minutes, used the stair stepper for 20 minutes then the elliptical machine for 20 minutes. This was good. I got my sweat going jogging then switched to a lower impact choice to keep the sweat going.
Breakfast was something different today. I found some butterball turket bacon that is only 30 calories for two thin slices of bacon! So I had to try it out and have 4 slices, one hard boiled egg white, one piece of wheat toast with Jif peanut butter and honey on it and a bowl of chopped up apple and a light yoplait yogurt mixed in.
This breakfast was 467 calories, 23 grams of protein, 66 grams of carbs and 13 grams of fat. Not to shabby of a way to start my day out.
Work today was more challenging. there were trips up and down ladders and I was pulling cable today. My arms got some workout today. They got their money’s worth out of me for sure.
After work I hit the gym to weigh myself and get some extra cardio in. I was 2 pounds heavy from my last weigh-in so I do need to tighten up my eating and up my cardio some. I think I will need to go back to 15 minutes of cardio as warm-up on weight lifting days to get back to the calorie burning like I need to. This afternoon I hit the elliptical machine for 30 minutes and broke a sweat. The elevator was broken in the building the gym is in so I had to walk the stairs two stories up and down as a bonus activity. I was disappointed I was heavy but not really mad, I have been eating closer to 2,400 calories a night instead of the 2,200 target I have been lucky with. Tonight was no different. I totalled 2,399 calories for the day. Too much. Dinner was amazing though. 1 chicken breast chopped up and cooked with some cashews, onion, red pepper and portobello mushrooms. This meal included Chick peas cooked then mashed and white rice with grapes and honey in it. This was a super delicious meal. Here is what it looked like.
Absolutely what I wanted. Tomorrow though it is back to salads. I guess I need to do salad meals 4 or more times a week to keep the weight dropping and the calories lower. Bean meals and bean meals with rice definitely weigh me down and I have been bad back to back days. Tomorrow is another day.
