Food and exercise log - 2-8-12 - day 1

Today was the start of the food and exercise change over.

Food :

• Awesome breakfast as stated here
• Big salad for lunch with assorted greens, carrots, cucumbers, baby corn, broccoli, red and green peppers, sunflower seeds and pepper
• Dinner: pizza.

I know what you're thinking. Pizza? Awesome dairy free crust, we put some meat substitutes on here and a very conservative amount of cheese alternative. It was nice. Plus, it's not like I ate a whole one like I used to.

Thanks to school work I didn't get to hit the gym until almost 9.

Workout : 

• 25 minutes on the elliptical. It's was the most my knee could handle.
• leg lifts/crunches/back extensions/curls on the matrix machines
• 6 lengths of the pool.

All of that took me just over an hour.

It was a good day. I completely forgot to weigh myself. I will get that tomorrow.

Tomorrow is yoga day followed by 30 minutes in the cardio theater.

I started eating a good breakfast again...

I'm on day one of the "make my body better so I am around longer" plan.

Those who know me are familiar with me never eating breakfast. I am quite the zombie in the morning. Yesterday I even left the house without my glasses only to notice ten minutes after I left the house.

I'm following a plan that has me eating a lot less processed foods.

One of the things I read and saw was a interesting cereal mix. It contained four different whole grain cereals, ground flaxseed meal, walnuts, almond milk, and fruit. I opted for a banana. I might put kiwi in as well tomorrow for a little bit of a bite.

It was pretty good. It is kind of odd not having any added sugar in my cereal (Lucky Charms are amazing) and it tasted good.

Lunch is going to be a salad. I think I'm doing some sort of pizza for dinner.

After that, time to hit the gym. Upright cardio on the elliptical followed by a few laps in the pool.

I'll update later with the start weight of this adventure. Pictures will follow at the start of each month in a sort of timeline fashion to show any changes.

note: I've had some doubters about my new journey here. I'm doing this for health. As I get older, I want to be around for the people I love, see them grow up, get old, and have great experiences with them. I can't do that from six feet under.