Tuesday, 2/23/2010

Little bit of fatigue today.  Hard to get through the full workout.  Had to take more breaks than normal.  I think I can live around 1400-1500 calories, but when I have 800-1200 Cal workouts, I do feel the drain.  SLIGHTLY increasing my calories might give me that little bit of energy that I can take into the gym and burn off.

Also - I weighed myself yesterday before workout - 262 (despite basically doing NOTHING over the weekend and eating a little extra).  And today before the workout was 260.  I really want to get around 258 this week.  That would be about 3# for last week and 3# for this week (even though when I weighed in last week the scale showed +0.6).  Also, I think if I can keep up 700-2,000 calories burned in the gym, 6 days a week, then I can continue to lose 3 pounds a week.  That is my personal goal, since I have so much weight to lose.

I am noticing that I am getting a little bit weaker.  I KNOW I am losing a little lean mass (muscle) as well as fat.  I think on ONE of my 'off-days' I need to lift weights as well as walk/jog.  That is something I really want to bring up with Nick, Tom and Courtney.

Meal #1
Granola bar = 100
Coffee = 60

Meal #2
Roast Beef and Cheese sandwich = 500 Cal

Snack
Smoothie - banana, strawberries, yogurt, protein (1/2 scoop), flax seed (no juice this time, i made it with water and it tasted the same, but saved 100 Cal) = 275 Cal

Meal #3
Chicken, roast veggies (broccoli, fennel, leeks, potatoes, mushrooms) - ~600 Cal

Snack
kids mashed potatoes - 300 Cal

Total - 1835 Cal - a bit high because of the two snacks and bigger lunch and dinner.  Also, I felt like I was allowing myself to eat more tonight, to try and refill the tank for the rest of the week.  Gotta tighten the belt the rest of the week though!

Exercise
1300 Cal between Courtney and long cooldown - I warmed up with about 20 minutes of basketball with Dad.  I did not start my watch then though.  He got about 200 Cal, so I probably got a little more.  That's not included in the 1300, but I only wanted to record the numbers that are on the watch.