Exercise - none, planned rest day

Water - 18 cups

Food - 2030 calories (21% fat, 49% carbs, 26% protein)

Breakfast - 12-grain toast, apricot jam, 3 clementines (245)

Lunch - whole wheat tortilla, mustard, smoked back bacon, cheese blend, roasted veggies with balsamic vinegar, apple, fruit salad (604)

Dinner - sirloin steak, corn, beans, snow peas, butter, salad, salad dressing (624)

Snacks - protein shake(x2), apple, fruit salad, biscotti, nacho crispers (620)

I’ll tell you something, I’m kind of glad that I’m on my last bag of the crispers. I think there are another couple of bags of the crispy tortillas and an open bag of the crispy minis. I think they just play into my desire to mindlessly snack. I usually measure these out just after dinner, so I don’t let my hunger increase the amount. They’re still 30-40% fat, and I’m not sure they’re really breaking any bad habits. I think in the end I’ll stick with the pita crisps/salsa and the cheese spread/rice crisp options. I seem to leave those until later in the evening, just using them to stem hunger. The higher flavoured snack foods tend to still tempt me to graze. I think I finished the crispers tonight less than 15 minutes after dinner, before I’d even had my salad. I’m not sure I was really hungry either.

Anyway, I enjoyed my rest day quite well. It’s also really nice that I didn’t have any real pain from my push-ups/lunges/squats from yesterday. I think for now I’ll try to do the DVD on both Wednesday and Saturday. I know that I’m definitely breaking a sweat with it, or maybe I’m just trying to avoid working with the weights!

It’s been raining here most of the day. This has left lots of standing water - trapped by the snow. Our crawl space, which is used for storage, started taking on a little water this afternoon. Nothing major though, it’s actually happened once before in almost the same circumstances. It’s a concrete floor, so no harm done. There’s also nothing stored directly on the floor so it was just a case of putting a few towels down (mainly so the cats didn’t try doing something stupid like drinking it). It’s actually really good that I cleaned up in the morning as I happened to lift a couple of cardboard boxes off the floor onto the shelves.

I didn’t get all of my tasks done for the day, the most important one missed was the hair colouring. I realized in the afternoon that I didn’t have enough time to get it done (and dried) before I had to go outside to cook the steak. Tomorrow I’ll make something that cooks inside for dinner, although I’ll have to work the colouring in around my exercising. This could probably be solved by simply getting up at a reasonable hour… nah. It’s our new ‘Family Day’ holiday, which means nothing to those of us not working. My mother feels it’s still a holiday as she can’t go out and shop. Although I understand that her plan is to clean the bar. One of those take every bottle off the shelves and clean them. We’ll see how far we both get with our plans.

It’s weigh-in day as well tomorrow, which I actually feel reasonably good about. Well, unless I gain a couple of pounds from not exercising today. I seem to remember I was going to cut my cals back on days I didn’t exercises. Oops, forgot about that completely. I haven’t had the apple, the biscotti and the half serving of fruit salad…. but I think I’m still going to have them. Next week what I’ll do is cut the protein shake out in the afternoon. It’s something I added in once I went back to the daily exercising, so I don’t really need it on the rest day. Of course, that’s only a 90 calorie cut. Oh well, I’ll worry about that next week.