{"id":2004,"date":"2016-01-07T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T04:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2016-09-17T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:24:34","slug":"my-fitness-journey-day-3-wednesday-06-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"My Fitness Journey &#8211; Day 6 (Wednesday, 06 January 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So another day, another entry. In some ways I am a bit lucky this week because it is a short work week which means I have had more opportunity to go to the gym. I also get to cook more which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a super stressful day at work, and for awhile I had a craving for something sweet or a glass of wine. But I managed to work through those cravings. I have also had a bit of a head cold for the past 2 days, but I haven&#8217;t slowed my workout or changed my eating habits.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of exercise today I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Absolution &#8211; a 30 minute online offering from my gym. Good thing I did that at home&#8230;.I did really poorly and it showed a clear need to work on my core.<\/li>\n<li>Body pump &#8211; a great session, even if it embarassingly reminded me that I have essentially lost all of the arm strength I gained in the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In terms of food I ate:<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Omlette with asparagus and mushroom, a glass of tomato juice, and coffee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lunch<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken Capri (the last one), oven roasted veggies, and South Beach mashed &#8216;potatoes &#8216; (leftovers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dinner<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 South Beach turkey roll ups, half an avocado, and lime jello. Note here that I am not particularly proud of my dinner today. The stress of work today was exhausting so I slept during the early evening hours (6pm-10pm) and I wanted to give my body some type of quick fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another thing I will mention here. I have a FitBit Aria wireless scale. I weigh myself every 1-2 days. One of the measurements I like is the Lean vs Fat measurement, which attempts to show you how much of your weight is muscle vs fat. My percentages have gotten worse Sunday. I think it is a bit too early to be concerned, but if the percentage of muscle keeps on dropping compared to fat, then I have to re-think how I eat. I am assuming this is happening because of Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some &#8216;good&#8217; news today from a food perspective. By chance I googled &#8220;South Beach Diet Updates&#8221; and was happy to find out that they added milk, yoghurt, and tomatoes to Phase 1 (my book was one of the first editions back in 2003). In a previous journal entry I said how much I would miss milk in Phase 1. Now I don&#8217;t have to \ud83d\ude42 And tomatoes in any quantity means better soups and salads. I am a happy guy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So another day, another entry. In some ways I am a bit lucky this week because it is a short work week which means I have had more opportunity to go to the gym. I also get to cook more which is a good thing. Today was a super stressful day at work, and for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=2004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Fitness Journey &#8211; Day 6 (Wednesday, 06 January 2016)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}