Day 5

Here we go!

Workout: Went to the gym today. Only ran about 2 miles cuz the lady next to me was very annoying. "Do these things work? Mine doesn't work..." I lean over and press a button and PRESTO, it works. Man, I'm magic. :)

After the running (which, okay, was at the jog setting and I power walked it instead -- harder than it seems), I went back to the weights. More abs -- something like 150 I think on one machine. Then I moved to the rowing machine, then the trunk rotation. Afterwards I was feeling alright, but wanted to do some more. So I moved to the back of the room and stretched out my legs which I could feel cramping, then did some work with the medicine ball. I think I've pretty much decided that I'm taking my medicine ball with me when I head to camp. It was only an 8lb ball but holy crap. I did the suspended crunch position and just swung the ball from side to side. My obliques hurt so badly after a few sets. :(

The Food: Started off the day late because I slept in and just didn't go downstairs. Had a bowl of strawberries and cream instant oatmeal from Quaker (SOOO GOOD!). Then there was also a handful of baby carrots, two poached eggs on whole wheat toast w/ a slice of cheese, and a corn on the cobb. To be honest, there were also cheesy potatoes and catfish on the plate for dinner, but I just couldn't bring myself to eat more than a bite of catfish...and I just flat out wasn't hungry. Later when I put in the calories into this count my calories thing online, it only came up to like, 550-650 calories (depending on what portion size I put for the carrots and however you quantify "one nibble on a piece of seared catfish"). No good. So after the persistence of friends, I had a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Still not up to the whatever calorie mark I should be...but to be honest, I just wasn't hungry! And at the time it was when I was counting the calories, I really kinda would have been counter productive to be like, hmm, let me just eat right before bed so I can get up to my caloric intake.

I know I'm in the middle of doing cardio (to lose weight) and doing weight training (to get stronger/tone, etc), so I'm not expecting my weight to drop radically. To be honest, it's not so much the number that scares me, but the way I feel and look. If I weighed 180 lbs but was all muscle, I'd be okay with that. Well, maybe not 180, but you know what I mean...