Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Let's Do Month Two

February 1, 2012
Day 30

Okay, that's one month in the books. Review post coming separately, I think.

Today's goal is to hopefully get a little bit of a start on some kind of exercise program. When I had my most successful weight loss many years ago, I had a health club membership. I would go after work, walk a mile, maybe do a little random weight lifting -- on machines, just a few things I remembered from high school like bench, military and leg presses -- and most importantly go up to the gym and shoot a basketball until I was tired. I managed to get in quite a bit of exercise that way and it wasn't drudgery.

I don't really have that option today. I live in a different state. The local YMCA is expensive, busy and crowded. I can't really afford it. Even if I could, I wouldn't have access to the open gym time to just shoot until tired. So I have to come up with something else. For lack of better ideas, it has to be walking. This is a good week to start, the weather will be favorable. We'll see what happens. Ideally I can back it up with a good night's sleep since I only got about 5.5 hours last night.

Breakfast: ~ 2-3 oz ham

I'm obviously going to finish what I bought this week but I'm still a little mad at myself for not doing my homework.

Note: Wrote the above on 2/1, had to add the rest on 2/2 for reasons which will become obvious.

Lunch: 3 homemade meatballs, same dressing as last two days, 2 slices sharp cheddar

"Dinner": ~ 1.5 oz Meijer hot n spicy peanuts

Oops. Had a snack, stretched out to relax and read the paper before fixing dinner, and boom, out like a light. I hardly even fought it. So no dinner.

I must have needed the sleep, as I didn't wake up for a long time. Ended up with almost 10 hours of good sleep, plus a couple more of lazing about. The exercise plan gets delayed and might end up pushed back to the weekend depending on how things go today (Thurs) and Fri.

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