Monday, 2/1/2010

So, Febuary through August is my CME (continuing medical education) time.  I spend a significant portion of every day basically catching up on all the new science in rehab medicine.  It's a lot like studying.  It's a pain in the ass, boring and time consuming.  But it's necessary. Somehow I need to squeeze this in amongst all the other things asking for my time: kids, the missus, the dog, work, marketing myself for more work, writing to improve the market for more work, working out, keeping the house in one piece (the missus is even busier than I am), and my two big hobbies: blogging and fooling around on the internet (which I assure you are different things).  Anyway, it's February 1st, so my schedule changes by about 2 hours per day of reading.  Planning ahead is the only thing that is going to keep me at the gym.  Which I did today after dropping the kids off at school.  Undoubtedly, some days I am not going to get to everything, but for the next 10 weeks, getting my workout in is one of my biggest priorities.

By the way - preworkout weight = 270.2 (gym scale), post workout weight = 267.5.  So, overall pretty good start to the program, but I'm looking for 3-4 pounds per week instead of 1 pound per week, so I really want to keep up the intensity!  Remember too that I was about 310 a year ago . . .
/looking back proudly
/looking forward defiantly

:)

Meal #1
3 pieces whole grain bread - 210 Cal
2 tbl spn jam - 120 Cal
Coffee with cream and splenda - 30 Cal
Low Cal vitamin water - 25 cal
Total - 385 Cal


Snack
Bacon, Egg and Cheese Wake-up wrap - dunkin donuts - 220 Cal

Meal #2
Subway 6 inch Turkey on wheat (bread scooped out), with 1 tea spn lite mayo - 300 Cal

Meal #3
Salmon 6 oz - 300 Cal
Sauce - 100 Cal
Salad with lite dressing - 100 Cal
Total - 500 Cal

Total for day - 1405 Cal

Wow, so way over my my personal goal, calorie-wise, but still below my Tom-determined calories.  I'm learning it's really hard for me to get 1000 Cal.  I am actually waiting until I am hungry to eat, and I think that is keeping the calories lower, by removing higher calorie snacks.  Still, where should I trim calories from the above meal?  No sauce with dinner?  2 pieces toast in the morning instead of 3?  No snack?  If I did all 3 of those things I would save about 400 Cal and would have hit my goal.  So I think I need to tighten the belt even more.