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MARCH WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE - DAY #17
Totals:  Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Eileen - Day #254 - Tuesday
 Daily intake goals::  20-35g carbs / 64+ oz. water
Total net carb grams today:  25.3
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Yeah I was gonna put in two hours of exercise this evening and I started off well.  I put in 30 minutes on the exercise bike and then since I was all hot and sweaty I thought it would be fun to go for a ride on my real bike.  By myself.  After dark.  There was a cool breeze and my muscles were warmed up already so I felt strong and healthy and alive!  I rode up the hill (on my street) and then took a cruise through our little historic downtown area and then came back to my street.  I coasted to the bottom of the hill and then raced to the top - then coasted to the bottom and raced back up to the top.  I did this five times!  Though I was only out there for a half-hour, it felt like more of a workout than anything I could do inside!

So it was my intention to jump on the elliptical and put in two thirty-minute sessions - but I found myself limping!  I don’t know exactly when I did it, but I apparently put a bit too much stress on my injured knee.  That’s it!  Anytime and every time I feel even a twinge from that knee, I stop.  So no more exercise tonight.

But I really felt great about the exercise I did get!  I felt like a contestant on The Biggest Loser, doing a challenge, riding my bike up and down that hill as fast as I could handle it!  What’s cool is that when I first started riding my bike, I couldn’t make it up that hill.  Not even close.  If I wanted to get to the top I had to get off my bike about 2/3 of the way up and walk, panting, trying to catch my breath. 

I am a freakin’ warrior now!  Ha!!

I had a lunch appointment today at a Bahama Breeze restaurant.  There’s only 21 of these restaurants in the whole U.S. so I don’t expect a lot of you have ever heard of them, but OMG the food is amazing.  The server was so cool, he really went the extra mile to make sure that my meal was low-carb and delicious even though the stuff that I ordered was not exactly one of the selections off the menu.  I had sliced jerk chicken and broccoli in a bowl with a side of parmesan-herb cream sauce and a romaine salad with italian dressing on the side.  The lady I was meeting for lunch hadn’t seen me in about four months and she said she really noticed a difference, so that made me feel good.  =D

I’m still not weighing in.  It feels really weird but I’m kinda liking it.  Kinda.  LOL this is a harder addiction to kick than the carb addiction was!

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One last thing:  janthea offered to host an April Challenge on her blog!  YAY!  I have some big work things coming up in April so it would be very cool to “do” the challenge as a participant rather than as a host!  Thank you janthea!!!

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