Well, I got most of what I needed to get done completed. I didn’t finish the homework from Electricity, but I’ll have time to finish that up on Tuesday. I know that I simply played too much with Solidworks on Saturday - because I like it. Not that I needed to spend that much time with it.

So, other than my laundry, I’m done for the day. It should be out of the dryer soon, and that’s me to bed. Food was a little unbalanced today. We finished the last of the big steaks (so a larger portion) and since I bought mushrooms on Friday we added them to the dinner as well. However, it was a good dinner. Well worth being kind of ravenous in the hour before.

Food for the day:

Total: 2192 (24% fat, 36% carbs, 40% protein)

Breakfast: two fried eggs, honey oat bread, jam, orange (368)
AM Snack: none (0)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, grilled pork tenderloin, mustard, lettuce, celery, apple (478)
PWO Snack: protein shake, sour cherries (281)
PM Snack: none (0)
Dinner: sirloin steak, corn, mushrooms, butter, salad w/dressing (782)
Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad (284)

I did a 15-min walk on the treadmill, followed by:

A: Deadlift - 80/15, 85/15
B1: Barbell Shoulder Press - 65t/15, 65t/15
B2: Barbell Pullover - 45e/15, 45e/15
C1: Lunge - 30e/15, 30e/15
C2: Swiss-ball Crunch - 8, 8

The barbell made a big difference, much less likely to cause pain in the elbow. What I did though was keep the weight fairly light on the pullovers. Since I’m a little afraid of dropping the bar on my head. I was actually thinking I might be better off figuring something out with the pull-up bar. I think about it for next week.

I’ve been doing low reps for so long that I forgot how much the 15 rep stuff takes it out of me. I keep thinking that I’m more fit, and lighter, so it shouldn’t be this hard.

From the HR monitor:

40 mins, 289 cals, Max HR: 163 (92%), Avg HR: 131 (74%)

This morning’s weigh-in was 238.6, which is 2.2 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 13.4lbs (1.49/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 16 on plan with food.

I finally feel like I’m back in control of myself. The drop this week was nice, but some of that may be getting back to regular workouts. I’ll see how I’m doing in a couple of weeks to decide if the calorie levels are good.

Next week’s plan is:

Continue on with The New Rules of Lifting for Women, 3 days a week. Cardio if I feel like it. For March at least that I’ll do 1900 on non-workout days and 2200 on lifting days and see how that goes.