I expect most of these posts are boring to anyone that might be reading this blog. Let's face it, a guy telling you what he ate the day before isn't all that exciting. My goal is to use this as a means of peer pressure. I'd like to have enough people checking in and willing to beat me up if I start slacking! Also, I'd like to show that you can lose weight eating regular food.
Yesterday, I had my normal breakfast; english muffin, apple, peanut butter - 420 kcal.
For lunch, I had a turkey sandwich - 380 kcal, a cup of home-made beef vegetable soup - 106 kcal, pretzels - 160 kcal, and string cheese - 80 kcal.
For dinner, my wife made chicken enchiladas. It's a recipe she got from a Kraft foods mailer or something and it's pretty simple and really good. The only problem is that we had the wrong tortilla shells. The shells we had are 210 kcal each. Added to the filling, each enchilada was 650 kcal. However the enchilada was very large and one was more than enough. It made me realize that I still have a mental hurdle to get over. I ate the one enchilada and was satisfied. However I wanted a second. I wasn't hungry, I enjoyed the taste and wanted more. I need to start eating slower and paying attention to what my stomach is telling me, not what my eyes are telling me. Instead of seconds, I wrapped up the leftovers and put them in the freezer and had some cantelope - 80 kcal. Oh, I had some lite sour cream with the enchilada - 35 kcal.
After exercising, I was a little hungry and had a bowl of cinnamon chex with skim milk - 160kcal. This put my total at 1991 for the day.
Monday, Wednesday and Saturdays I do strength training and cardio. I stretched out for about 5 minutes, then I did 10 minutes on the treadmill at 2.0 mph to loosen up. After that, I did my strength routine. Currently I do one set of 25 reps of the following exercises: Chest press, seated row, bicep curl, lat pull down, tricep pull down, seated crunches, leg curl, leg extension, leg press and calf press. After that, I did 30 minutes on the treadmill at 2.7 mph. I know this may seem slow to some of you, but it is a workout for me. I started out at 2.3 mph and have been increasing it weekly. Once I get the speed up to 3.0 mph, I plan on adding an incline, a percent at a time.
A couple years ago, when I lost 90+ pounds, I did it by joining a gym. The trainer there, who had also set me up with the strength routine mentioned above, used to do his cardio the same time I was there working out. He would do 30 minutes on the treadmill at 4.0 mph at the steepest incline possible on the treadmill. He would do this while reading the newspaper. It amazed me that he never held on or slipped. I know if I had tried it, I would have slipped and the treadmill would have shot me across the gym!
Anyway, I've been doing the strength exercises for about 4 weeks now and in another 4 weeks, I'll switch routines. I used a website called Beeble's fitness to come up with alternate routines. The site has a large exercise library. I would search for one of the exercises in my routine and the website would show the muscle groups that were worked by the exercise. I searched for other exercises that worked the same muscle groups and was able to come up with 2 additional routines. I will have to buy a set of dumbbells and a flat bench for some of these exercises though. I can get both for around $40 each. I've also added them to my Amazon wish list if there are any people wondering what to get me for my birthday!
All it takes is patience and work
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