I had a pretty good day off today. I think I’m getting a little more organized as well. I did my walking in the morning, 1h15m so I can have Saturday free to do yard work. I’m actually planning to go to a local walking trail tomorrow to do my 45mins of walking (assuming the weather holds). I can do the indoor gym when the weather gets worse.

I did my math homework in the afternoon and had a lovely swim. My workout gear is packed up, my water bottles in the freezer (I fill them partway and freeze them the night before), my morning snack sitting beside my lunch bag. Last week I seemed to be rushing around to do all those things. Tomorrow morning I’ll get up early and do my lifting before I head off to school.

From the HR monitor:

Food for the day:

Total: 2153 (30% fat, 34% carbs, 31% protein)

Breakfast: two fried eggs, honey oatmeal bread, jam, nectarine (377)
AM Snack: chocolate zucchini cake (156)
Lunch: beef mushroom barley soup, 12-grain crackers, peach (402)
PM Snack: hummus, carrots, pisco sour (269)
Dinner: homemade hamburgers(2), condiments, edamame, salad w/dressing (692)
Late Snack: protein shake, peach (257)

I don’t plan to watch it, but last night was the premiere of The Biggest Loser. I’m thinking that these people are single-handedly making pretty much everyone trying to lose weight feel like a failure. I mean, if they don’t step on that scale and lose 10+ pounds a week, just watch the tears flow. It’s a fiasco one week when someone loses only a pound.

Anyway, that’s not why I got on the kick about it today. I was flipping the time shift channels last night and caught a few minutes of it. It must have been during the BodyBugg plug part of the show. They were reminding people to download their information and enter their food. So the guy at the computer has burned about 3500 calories, and his food entries total 250 or something close. Jillian leans over his shoulder and points out that he only needs to burn a few hundred more calories to lose that first pound.

Umm, excuse me. He’s eaten 250 calories for the day and you’re not going to point out that this could be dangerous? No, lets go out and exercise more. There was little to no chance I was going to watch it this season anyway, however, that’s the moment I changed the channel.

I heard from someone else that’s decided to turn it off this season that the prize is now called the Jello $250,000 prize. I know some people find the show inspirational but I’m beginning to find it repulsive.