So today continued another poor day of diet choices, even if I decided to blast away at my exercise choices.<\/p>\n
If yesterday was a serious of unfortunate events, Day 5 was all about bad decisions for which I can only blame myself, learn from it, and move on.<\/p>\n
In terms of exercise, almost as soon as I\u00a0arrived back from the airport to my house, I headed right towards the gym to get in a cardio workout. Today should have been a weights workout, but\u00a0the gym and the weights section are so crowded that I wouldn’t have been able to work out according to my strength training plan. So I decided to move the weights to tomorrow and blast in a cardio session on the elliptical trainer. I find it hard to get bored on the elliptical, so long as I have my music, I am good. Because I can see strides per minute, calories per minute,\u00a0have various\u00a0workout settings, and other data, I tend to break down the hour into what must be achieved in 5 minute blocks, or every 100 calories, etc, etc. I find ways to keep it interesting. The other thing I am finding which is cool is that at the end of the exercise, my Fitbit Charge HR and the numbers on the machines (calories, heart rate, etc), are within 5-10% of each other (and both methods switch between providing the highest\/lowest numbers). So I go with my FitBit since it is continuously monitoring me.<\/p>\n
Again, not a day to be overly proud of myself, especially at breakfast. I just made poor choices. It was entirely possible to have a South Beach Phase 1 breakfast, but I felt like I was starving. Beyond starving. I felt I wanted – and deserved –\u00a0the things I was avoiding. I saw myself making bad choices and feeling awful about it, but not awful enough to stop. To be transparent, here is the damage I did to myself:<\/p>\n
Breakfast<\/p>\n
So let’s face the facts, I completely fucked up breakfast. I was hungry and I let myself down by giving into cravings. Lunch was only slightly better in my view…<\/p>\n
Lunch<\/p>\n
Whether the soup was a better choice than the reindeer meatballs they had on offer I don’t know.\u00a0I looked for some\u00a0nutritional information, but did not find any. In the end, I decided that the soup would be better than the meatballs.<\/p>\n
Dinner<\/p>\n
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So foodwise I feel like it was another mixed day. I am hoping that deciding the put in a really aggressive session on the elliptical trainer will blunt some of the damage, but I don’t know. I will make sure the weekend is what it is supposed to be. And I will have to extend Phase 1 for a day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So today continued another poor day of diet choices, even if I decided to blast away at my exercise choices. If yesterday was a serious of unfortunate events, Day 5 was all about bad decisions for which I can only blame myself, learn from it, and move on. Exercise In terms of exercise, almost as … Continue reading My Fitness Journey \u2013 Day 8 (Friday, 08 January 2016)<\/span>