This was actually written on the 2nd…

In the interest of full disclosure yesterday wasn’t a good day, at least as far as compliance goes. Some of it was my own fault (a skipped morning snack while in the kitchen baking). So it started with a few dried cherries, a few sunflower seeds. I’m usually pretty good at not picking when I’m cooking (the exception might be tasting a sauce for spices). It moved on to a piece of cheese, a couple of biscuits. All in all by bed time it was only maybe 300 calories over. Not a huge deal, but annoying all the same.

Then at 3am, still not asleep it became a lost cause, with some type of fuck it all attitude that seems to come over me when I’m off planned eating. Definitely wasn’t pretty, and shows that I can easily overeat on nutritious items (whole grain tortillas, reduced fat cheese blends, etc.). I think I captured what most of it was, understanding that there was little weighing/measuring going on, and ended up about 1400 cals above where I should have been. Yikes.

So today is day 1 of compliance, and I’m thinking that this week’s weigh-in will not be pretty either (we’ll see). I still think a maintenance break is needed. Mentally I’m having a tough time with continuous dieting. I need to think of something to do when I come off that maintenance week. I have the basics down well enough that I could probably do set meals/snacks except for dinner. I’ve done that before with some success. It tends to make me feel a little more normal, however, there’s a chance with all the lovely fresh fruit that will be coming in the next few months that I’ll just overeat on that stuff.

We’ll see how it goes, and what comes next. Today I’m making chili (but staying out of the kitchen) and waiting for the pool guy to show up. We’re about to find out if the repairs the pool needs are minor or major. If they’re major we think we’re willing to live with a bypassed return system for a while. Now, since it’s about the right time, I’m off for my morning snack!

I wouldn’t have said I was tired until I started yawning a few minutes ago.  So I think I’ll head to bed, hoping that it’s dry in the morning.  The plan at the moment is to bake snack cakes for the freezer (probably just chocolate zucchini) and make chili, as we used up the last of the chili tonight for dinner.  If I get ambitious (probably not) I might make some pizza crusts (again, for the freezer) as I’ve been in a pizza mood lately.  I suspect the pizza won’t get made until the next rainy day.  That should be Thurs, or Fri. 

Food for the day:

Total: 2276 calories (24% fat, 30% protein, 46% carbs)

Breakfast: egg white omelet with salsa, citrus bread, jam, orange (265)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, smoked turkey, lettuce, mustard, nectarine, cherries (438)
PWO Snack: protein shake with cherry concentrate (269)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (231)
Dinner: chili with cheese, multi-grain tostidos, salad w/dressing (704)

Evening Snack: fruit salad, chocolate zucchini cake (174)

Fat Loss II - B5

I did a 5-min cardio warm-up outside, followed by a few inside warm-ups, then did:

A1: Snatch-grip Deadlift - 85t/8, 85t/8, 85t/8
A2: Push-ups (regular, not T) - 8, 8, 8
B1: Bulgarian Split Squat with Overhead Press - 5e/8, 5e/8, 5e/8
B2: Assisted Chin-up - 8, 8, 8
C1: Romanian Deadlift / Bent-over Row - 85t/8, 85t/8, 85t/8
C2: Lower Body Russian Twist - 8, 8, 8

Then warm-up, 4 rounds intervals (1m high, 2m moderate) and cool-down.

52 mins, 407 cals, Max HR: 172 (97%), Avg HR: 133 (75%)

The weather is still sucky. Kind of raining off and on, and even a little cool when it’s overcast. I managed to get my walk in this morning with only a couple of drops of rain. I even managed to get some shopping done (and unloaded) before it rained buckets. Yet when I started to do my workout it was clear enough that I could do the cardio outside, which was good.

I’m so not going to miss that overhead press with the Split Squat. I see in Fat Loss III you still do a split squat, but thankfully not with the press. Although I’ll probably whine about it even then. :p

Well, did some work in the garden in the morning (after my morning walk), and luckily got a swim in before lunch. Since at that point it pretty much thundered and rained off and on. I caught up on a few things inside, although tomorrow I really should do some cooking and/or baking if the weather forecast is correct.

Food for the day:

Total: 2002 calories (31% fat, 30% protein, 39% carbs)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, citrus bread, jam, orange (367)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, sirloin steak, lettuce, mustard, peach, sweet cherries (468)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (231)
Dinner: chicken & sausage gumbo, baked brown rice, salad w/dressing (552)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, protein shake (276)

Yes, sweet cherries. They finally have the Washington state cherries around here, so it’s officially fruit season! They’ll overlap with out local cherries, followed by plums, peaches, etc. I’m not so sure that I’ll be hitting my 30% protein levels, but I did manage to hold it to 4oz of cherries and a small peach (that wasn’t worth it).

It was a quiet day here today. I vacuumed and backwashed the pool this morning. That’s unusual, since usually the pool cleaner keeps it pretty clean. I may have mentioned it here, but we were losing a lot of water in the spring. We eventually broke down and called the pool guy, who came by and gave us a temporary fix (admitting he wouldn’t be back for a month probably). He basically bypassed the returns in the pool, which did the trick. I’ve just noticed though that the pool doesn’t keep as clean (so now it gets the occasional manual vacuum). The weather here was gorgeous today. Warm without the oppressive humidity of the last couple of days. The forecast doesn’t look promising though for the next few days (cooler and rain possibly). I was hoping for lots of sun as we have a few boysenberries showing colour and a few red currants as well. I think the boysenberries will be at least a week from this point (but we’ll see).

So that’s it for the rest day… a couple of swims, a small amount of watering, dinner on the patio, and lots of doing nothing.

Food for the day:

Total: 1994 calories (24% fat, 35% protein, 41% carbs)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, citrus bread, jam, orange (367)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, smoked pork, lettuce, mustard, apple (457)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread, pisco sour (321)
Dinner: pork tenderloin w/jerk seasonings, salsa, green beans, butter, salad w/dressing (465)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, protein shake (276)

Nothing really exciting around here today.  I trimmed back a few of the trees and the grapevine, but that was about it.  Nothing needed watering, so just wandered around the house and the garden a bit.  The weather was decent enough for a lovely swim and dinner on the patio, so all in all a good day.

Food for the day:

Total: 2008 calories (23% fat, 30% protein, 47% carbs)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, citrus bread, jam, orange (367)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, smoked turkey, lettuce, mustard, apple (424)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (231)
Dinner: meat sauce, whole wheat pasta, parmesan cheese, salad w/dressing (642)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, protein shake (236)

I wandered away from the computer last night and didn’t log my food, so I’ll add it in now.

Food for the day:

Total: 2279 calories (25% fat, 34% protein, 41% carbs)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, citrus bread, jam, orange (367)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
PWO Snack: protein shake with cherry concentrate (269)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, eye of the round, lettuce, mustard, apple (438)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (164)
Dinner: beef/turkey burgers(2), whole wheat roll(1), condiments, salad w/dressing (758)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, chocolate zucchini cake (174)

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So I got rained on during my morning walk. I woke up kind of groggy and decided I couldn’t be bothered to go down to the lakeshore so I just did the neighbourhood walk instead. I was thinking maybe 30 mins was enough, but at the point where I have to decide I went for the longer walk. 35 mins in the rain started. Big honking rain drops. I considered hiding under a tree for a while but ended up continuing on. By the time I got home it had stopped raining so I hung out with some of the neighbours having a gabfest in the front (mostly dry by the time I came inside to the air conditioning).

Not really motivated to do much today. I need to restock my homemade salad dressings, so I’ll do that. I don’t think I have much to do in the garden (definitely not watering), but there might be some trimming that needs doing, so I’ll go out and check.

I walked this morning, and managed to get a workout in before lunch. Then the rain came… it poured out. I should have left the workout until later in the day as the oppressive heat is gone. This pretty much describes how I felt this afternoon:

(oops, forgot to post this yesterday…)

It was one of those run around mornings, which suck up more of your day than you plan. Still, the day was lovely even thought it was hot. The evening was nice enough again that we ate dinner outside. Tomorrow they’re calling for rain / thundershowers / possibly hail… so I’m glad we got a few nice days in a row. The pool temperature is slowly creeping up (86F today) to the point where it’s not quite refreshing. However, with a smidge of a cooler spell coming it should be okay. I’d love a summer where it’s warm enough that we could take the solar blanket off for a month or two and store it in the garage. We’ll see.

Food for the day:

Total: 1994 calories (31% fat, 31% protein, 38% carbs)

Breakfast: egg/egg white omelet, citrus bread, jam, orange (327)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, smoked pork, lettuce, mustard, apple (457)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (231)
Dinner: sun-dried tomato meatloaf, green beans, butter, salad w/dressing (595)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, protein shake (276)