Day 320



B - 6 oz ff yogurt
Exercise: 22 minutes on treadmill: 6.0 incline at 3.9 mph - no hands. Got HR into 140's, 34 minutes on Precor 546. level 10, ramp 12, 4 intervals(2-4 minutes in duration) on ramp 20, L12, got HR just over 150. 280 calories on the trm and 480 on the precor if I remember correctly.
Snack - Grande, non-fat gingerbread latte.
Lunch - 7 piece sushi
Snack - 2 Trail Mix bagels from Panera's. Hold on while I look up these bad boys caloric and nutritional specs....holy shit! I knew something this good couldn't be low cal. Well, maybe I found a great power bagel before a long run.
Dinner - breaded cod fillet -fried in olive oil, snap peas, fried calamari. Dessert: 5 Hershey Kisses, 2 double chocolate Milanos.
(Update 2/16 )Late night - bowl of Puffins cereal. there was probably more but I can't remember.

I am thankful for my ability to get my ass into the gym the past 5 days. This, considering how bad the late night evening eating has been. I need to pull it together. I know I will. When it will happen, I can't tell you. It was hard to even post about the past 3 days this evening. I didn't want to. It's not the kind of posting people need to read; not inspiring or motivating. It's my dark side - a part I wish I could bury and forget about.

I have to be thankful for the things that do go right during my day. Family responsibilities executed, kids and wife taken care of, chores and tasks done to make wife's weekend easy, eating well during the days (except Sunday) and keeping with the exercising.

The stretching before and after my exercising must be helping - no sore leg/calf muscles - even after Saturday's leg workouts. Keeping a 30 minute limit per cardio activity is helping too.

Walking around today in the shopping plaza's parking lot as opposed to moving the car in front of each store front was nice. Nice to know I preferred the brisk walk in the winter air as a way of getting more steps into the day. Not that it may take away from the late night damage, mind you, just because it is healthy and because it feels good -both mentally and physically. Although it seem I take several steps backwards, I need to realize the huge strides that have gotten me this far - including the little strides such as in the parking lot today.

Posted: Mon - February 14, 2005 at 08:52 PM            

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