Exercise: 90 mins treadmill, 30 mins strength training

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2608 calories (34% fat, 35% carbs, 30% protein)

Breakfast: egg white omelet with chicken & turkey sausage and cheese, orange (363)

AM Snack: ice cream bar, pecan cherry bread (290)

Lunch: onion soup with baguette & cheese, smoked back bacon, apple (507)

PM Snack: protein shake, soy nuts, fruit salad (382)

Dinner: 2 hamburgers with condiments, 1 roll, salad w/dressing (787)

Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, biscotti (279)

That last damned ice cream bar is gone. Although I think I did well, keeping 4 bars over three weeks (which is probably a personal record), I think it’s best to just stay away from them a while longer. Oh, and the pecan cherry bread is some kind of bread starter cult I got roped into by one of the neighbours. I did end up making it with oats (whizzed up in the blender) and cut some of the sugar out of it. I made them in little loaf pans and have managed to get some of it given away (with the extra starter). I do like to bake though, so once it’s used up I might go look for some whole grain bread recipes. Better mine I suppose than purchased. It worked out to about 70 cals/oz so I’ll probably end up using it for breakfast other days. Well, with two more loaves planned for new homes tomorrow that leaves exactly half of one here. I do have a cup of starter in the fridge which I might bake into more on Sunday though.

The morning was 2 x 30-min sessions on the treadmill. In the afternoon I did a 15-min warm-up on the treadmill, followed by:

Where there is a single number that confirms that I did the number of reps called for. Where there are two numbers the first is the amount of weight I used, followed by reps.

Followed with another 15 mins on the treadmill.  I think I’ve reached a bit of a turning point today.  The workouts are tough, so much so that at times I’m not sure I can finish them.  However, I’m seeing shorter recovery times after I’m finished now.  I’m still really dragging myself to finish those last 15 minutes.  Particularly since I tend to end the prone jackknife set pretty much collapsed on the floor.  It would be so nice to just stay there for a while.  However, 30 minutes out, having had my post workout snack, I’m not feeling too bad.  So this means either I’m not working out hard enough, or I’m getting marginally better at it. 

Oh, and I manged to do the first set of the prone jackknife without falling off the ball!  I still need to work on the form, but it feels like a small victory.