I was going to call it a rest day, but it wasn’t. The weather was nice today and my plan was to swap cardio for lifting, and do the lifting tomorrow. I did get in 20 mins of walking and was doing some tree pruning when the delivery fellow showed up with the last of my barbecue parts. I collected my tools and off I went. Since I had the HRM on I decided I’d see how much energy I expended doing this. Well 90 minutes later I stopped for lunch and found out that I had burned as many calories as my usual workout would have done. So I decided that perhaps I wouldn’t truly treat it as a rest day.

I finished putting the rest of the barbecue back together, and tested the connections, and it lit! So it’s steak on Sunday, hooray. I’ve decided to order two more parts so that the back burner / rotisserie will be back in working order. In the meantime though it’s back to a working condition.

From the HR monitor:

Food for the day:

Total: 2409 (23% fat, 44% carbs, 30% protein)

Breakfast: egg/egg white omelet with cheese, cracked wheat oatmeal bread, grapefruit (445)
AM Snack: protein shake (180)
Lunch: pasta salad with veggies, chick peas, turkey sausage, with herb dressing, grapes (544)
PM Snack: soy nuts, protein shake (269)
Dinner: turkey italian sausage with whole wheat rolls (2), salad w/dressing (751)
Late Snack: berry yogurt sorbet, protein shake (265)

It may look stupid, but… there haven’t been any more cherry pits on the pool deck underneath the tree since yesterday!