Despite a bad two weeks in weight loss, I woke up
today feeling positive about everything.
Now I try not to vain, but it definitely helped yesterday that half a
dozen people came up to me and asked if I had been working out or something
because I was looking in better shape (This was of course at the reception
after I had taken off the long black robe.)
As I said not to be vain, let’s face it I’m no Sly Stallone, but at
least all the hard work feels worth it, if there is something different about
me.
With new energy I was able to hit it early this
morning and power through circuit training, completing all the weight reps and
even passing the 21 pushup mark, and no those are still not consecutive. Although I can push through 6 – 7 consecutive
pushups now, considering I am still lifting 300 plus pounds, and could only do
1 or 2 in a row when I started this is pretty amazing to me.
After the workout, the day was a full one with
teaching, work at my radio station, and work in the garden. Eventually with my wife at a wedding shower,
and my son at his grandparents. I
couldn’t bring myself to cook for just myself, so I headed out to Subway. As always the meatball sub looks amazing, but
I went with chicken on wheat with spinach and black olives. This is becoming my new favorite sub. Although you get some pretty serious carbs
with the bread, it does claim to be whole wheat so they are better carbs then I
have been eating.
Here’s a look at my Food Journal for the day:
Post Workout:
Protein Drink (1 scoop protein powder, 8 oz skim milk ) (220 Calories)
Breakfast: Kashi cereal,
milk, (275 Calories)
Lunch: Salad (Mixed Greens, ¼ cup Cheese,
Croutons, Bacon Bits, mushrooms, 2.5 oz Turkey Light 3 cheese ranch dressing) (393 Calories)
Afternoon Snack: String Cheese (60 Calories)
Dinner:
Subway - Oven
Roasted Chicken Breast Sandwich on Wheat Bread With Light Mayo and Provolone,
Spinach, Olives 12 inch
(830 Calories)
Evening Snack: String Cheese (60 Calories)
Also as
promised, my upcoming challenge group. I’m
not sure if I mentioned it, but I did not come upon Beachbody on my own. Its true an infomercial inspired me, but I
never would have watched it if not for my good friend Randy Barton. Randy is a Beachbody coach and runs thing at
Extreme Faith and Fitness (http://www.extremefaithandfitness.com/). I say all this to say that he is forming a
Summer Challenge Group for 5 people using Beach Body programs and
supplements. I have decided to join this
group starting July 2nd. This
means July 2 I will start a new 90 day challenge. However since I won’t be stopping in-between,
what I’ll be doing now is a personal 120 day challenge. I will continue to show weekly and monthly
results and will do a big write up of my experience at 90 days, as well as 120
days. Hopefully I will lose some more
weight in the next 97 days and not end up looking like the Big Show…
Tomorrow
is Cardio and Abs so I’ll have more to tell you then…
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