Friday, February 10, 2012

Food and exercise log - 2-10-12

Exercise: Cleaning the storage room at work - 6 hours.

Food:

Breakfast: Banana and some orange juice (ran late that day)
Lunch: my usual favorite salad.
Dinner: Veggie fried rice ad buddhist delight.
Snack: chex mix

Food and exercise log - 2-9-12


Day 2 - 2/9/2012

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: pasta with chicken substitute and minimal amount of sauce.
  • Snack: Chex mix/mint cookies
Exercise : Didn't hit the gym today. My body needed the night off as my knees are not all that great. They still burn. Today (Friday) I'm kicking it in to gear again.

Note: I get that some of you probably don't care what I'm posting here. This is for me. I need to keep track of this and it makes me feel better.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

There's a new WTII comp!

WTII Spring Sampler 2012
Shameless plugging for all our label mates!

Tomorrow you can get 12 tracks for FREE from WTII artists such as Trigger 10d, Stromkern, SMP, Stiff Valentine, Klutae, The Gothsicles, Rein[Forced], oh... and of course Am.Psych represents.

So, with it being free, you have no reason to let this one get away from you. The music is top notch and the production value is amazing as well.


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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.