Mini Goal & One Terrible Workout (Day 83)

This post is for Saturday, November 7th, 2009. We got home way to late to finish this post last night.

This morning I decided to try on my old Cardillo lifting belt. When I started NS the belt wouldn't even reach all the way around my waist. Today it fit. I decided to measure the distance from the tip of the belt to the first hole in the belt and found the distance to be 9 inches. That means I've lost more than 9 inches (since the belt didn't even touch when I started).

Other than being able to fit in the belt, the rest of the day workout wise was a bust. Kim, Jumping Jack Flash and I had a nice walk around lunch. I went to the gym later in the day and it was awful. Maybe the worst exercise experience I've had in months. I began wanting to do 20 minutes of HIIT cardio on the treadmill. I only managed 16. I moved on the calves and had a nice quick 6 set workout. I returned to the treadmill planning on doing about 30 minutes of walking @ incline 12.9, speed 3.9. I managed a total of 12 minutes. It sucked. I was shaking, freezing cold. and exhausted. I thought I'd been walking about 25 minutes and checked the timer to find I'd been walking only 5. I tried to grind through it, but at 12 I was spent. Maybe it was because I was training about 5 hours later than normal, maybe because I'd already had lunch (that doesn't make any sense), maybe because I'd already walked earlier, maybe because I trained legs yesterday, I don't know. Whatever the reason, I had to give up, come home, eat a snack, and rest. I sorta salvaged the day by going on a second walk with Kim late this evening. We brought the Pug along instead of the JJF. I think I ended up with about 88 minutes of cardio on the day.

I had an "on" plan day, for the most part. Breakfast was blueberry pancakes, facon, a banana, and a slice of bread. My morning snack was a cup of yogurt. Lunch was a veggie fajita Kim prepared a couple of days ago but never ate. I had some fake chorizo and a fake grilled chicken patty with it (Kim ate a little of the fake chicken with me). My afternoon snack was a NS chocolate cake. Dinner this evening was a large salad along with rotini & meatballs, broccoli & cauliflower in cheese sauce, and a slice of bread. Dessert this evening was a chocolate crunch bar.

I'm laying off of the gym tomorrow. Maybe a walk or two around the lake is all I think I've got in me. Beyond that I'm gonna rest, watch some TV, eat my meals, and get ready for another weigh in on Monday.

Last night we went to Mr. & Mrs. K's house for "game" night. Kim loves to play board games, especially a game called "Cranium." I'm not so big on games. Video games sure, knowledge based, trivia, current events sorta questions I'm good with. Not so much with board games. I actually did pretty well, only EVERYONE else playing was to drunk to hear me when I said the answers (they were all shouting answers at the same time). We always play guys vs. gals. Sadly, guys typically loose, badly. I did however with the most important game of the night. Find Kim's missing iPhone. We realized it was missing at about 2:30 this morning (when we got home from game night). I remembered Kim dropping the Cranium box as we were getting in the car. We drove one town South on the interstate and I spotted the iPhone resting on a curb near where we parked. WOOHOO! Kim's a happy girl to have her precious phone back, & I won a game for the guys!

Start of Week 3

Today is the beginning of my third week on NS. I read somewhere once that it takes two weeks of behavior to create a habit. Following that thought I hope my new way of eating has become a habit. Week 2 was just as easy as the first with regards to following the program. I hope the results become a habit as well (13 #s lost in the first 14 days).

Monday means chest day at the gym. I added an exercise today. I didn't really mean to, I just did it before I realized I had already finished 9 sets. I began with 3 sets of bench press (8-12 reps per set @ 200, 250, 250). Next was 3 sets of incline presses (8-12 reps again @ 230) followed by 3 sets of decline presses (10-15 reps @ 272). I accidentally added 3 sets of cable flies (10-12 reps @ 80 per side). Cardio at the gym was a little more intense than usual (by design). I finished up with 30 minutes on the treadmill, incline 11.5, speed, 3.4. This evening after dinner Kim and I walked the dogs for around 30 minutes for my final bit of cardio for the day.


Today's meals began with Nutrifrosted Crunch Cereal (NS), a banana, 2 oz. sliced turkey breast, and a slice of bread. This was my first try with this cereal & as with the others it was delightful (or maybe I'm just not that particular). My morning snack was a typical one, yogurt and strawberries. Lunch today I tried something new, the chicken salad (NS) on a single slice of bread along with two servings of carrots & broccoli with cheese sauce. The chicken salad wasn't bad, added a little mustard and fake salt (which I now call "falt"). Today's afternoon snack was nacho crisps with a dash of hot sauce. Dinner tonight was a salad with peppers and olives, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce, and cajun style chicken with sausage and brown rice (NS). I was stuffed after eating all of the dinner tonight. For my evening snack I enjoyed the chocolate peanut butter bar (NS) heated in the microwave for a bit.

In addition to my goal of loosing enough weight to get back to college weight, I have some other mini goals to reach along the way. Fit into some of my non-tent sized clothes (size 36 first, then 34, and hopefully back to 32-33), and fit back into my old weight belt. I have a wonderful old leather, heavy duty Cardillo belt that used to fit like a glove. It felt like it was holding me together during all those years of heavy squats. I looked at it today and I've got a ways to go. Like about 6 inches to get to the first row of holes in the belt. More than that to get back to where I used to buckle it at. I'll be ecstatic when I can just get it buckled.