Monday, 1/11/2010

Still pretty sick today.  It's just a cold, but I'm all headachey and stufy and it's not too fun.
I didn't get a workout in over the weekend and I did a poor job tracking my Calories.  The good news is that I don't think I made too many poor diet choices.  We'll see when I get to the scale tomorrow.

Today's plan:
BREAKFAST:
Small coffee with cream and sugar - 100 Cal
Protein Bar: 280 Cal

LUNCH:
Salad with Chicken, Blue Cheese (no dressing) 400 Cal

DINNER:
Hot Dog, many veggies (no fries): 500 Cal

SNACK
Turkey Chili with Salsa: 400 Cal

Exercise - unlikely, unless the dog convinces me to take him for a walk.

I was thinking about what happens when you fall off the wagon with diet and exercise.  Many times I get pretty fatalistic about it.  I stop working out, then I feel defeated and embarrassed and I don't really start up again.  Same thing with the diet.  I have a bad day and that leads to two or three or 5 weeks.  Well, that was the way it happened before.  Now I have a very different opinion about fitness.
#1 - Fitness is not binary.  It is not 100% or 0%.  There is no all or nothing.  It is totally a spectrum.  You don't skip from 310# to 180# and poof! - - - you're FIT!  Fitness moves subtly.
#2 - Fitness is graded on 2 items - health and time.  The one that I am always forgetting is TIME.  You can't get skinny and fit and then say, "whew! That's over - bring on the ice cream!".  There is NO FINISH LINE.  The goal of getting fit is BEING FIT!  The journey from #310 to #190 (which is my goal) is all about the destination.  The path is where I learn everything I need to know about being healthy, and learning all those good behaviors.  However, once I am at my goal, the journey continues.  I will always have to work at exercise.  I will always have to make good diet choices.  ALWAYS.  Even when I'm "done", I'm not done!

So there is no wagon to fall off of.  The program never ends.  When you have a bad day, or bad weekend, it's just part of the journey, but the journey lasts your whole life whether you want to be on it or not.  So, since we're going to have these bodies anyway, we might as well take care of them!

UPDATE - Starting to feel a little better.  Hopefully, i'll be well enough by tomorrow to get to the gym!