Post of Love

I really want to go to sleep right now but I do feel compelled to post, so this is a post totally submitted out of love.

Workout

We went for about a 16 mile bike ride this morning that had a VERY strong head wind to it.  It took about 1 hour and 4 minutes.  The head wind was luckily for the ride out, so the ride back was fairly easy and we actually ended up talking about all sorts of things.  I think we are so similar in how we discuss things.  We don’t talk at night when we are laying in bed, we talk about important things when we are out on a ride or stuck in the car for a long time.  Never when we are laying in bed.  Anyway, it was a very pleasant and good ride.

Food

It seems almost easier to spilt food up into its own section.  I am not entirely sure of where my meals ended and when they began today.  And maybe I should explain that it is my time of the month.  I actually don’t have a time of the month, I have a time of the quarter thanks to the wonders of birth control.  So it is a bit more rare that I have to deal with that, but I am more than happy to admit it DRASTICALLY changes my eating habits (and I also grow horns, a tail, and a cape and some people call me Lucifer during this time, but that is a whole different story.)

Before we went for our ride, I decided to have a bit of a donut that Justin’s dad had just gone and gotten fresh (I am not the biggest donut fan).  This definitely tasted good but immediately I was reminded why I don’t like donuts–I hate the aftertaste/residue. 

1/4 of a fresh donut that was begging  to be eaten.

After the ride, I had 1/2 cup of dried oats, 1T of flax seed, 2T of wheat berries, some soy milk and half a nectarine.  On the side I had some fried potatoes (oh how good!) and a fried egg white. 

Then I showered and decided that I needed more food.  Luckily, a Texas sheet cake was hiding in the kitchen and I was able to wrangle up this piece.

(Don’t worry, you will see more of this stuff…oh yeah, and other than the TotM, I don’t really like chocolate.)

Then we ran around doing some errands getting things ready to go out on the boat for the day and also to grocery shop for the night.  Once we got home and were ready to go out on the boat, I knew I was hungry and decided that I should eat something before getting around all the snacks on the boat.

1 piece of bread with 1/2 light laughing cow wedge on 2/3rds of the bread and then about 2/3T of peanut butter on the other 1/3.  Tasty, tasty.

BOAT

On the boat, I consumed the following:

• 1 Coors Light
• Mojito (with diet 7-UP)
• Capirina
• 1/4 Coors Light (split with the mother-in-law)
• Some whole wheat tortilla chips
• 4T of homemade guacamole
• My body weight in pretzels
• 1 Bulls eye (damn, not only are they at the beach house, these things are now taunting me on the boat!!!)

Dinner

• 3 small glass of wine
• 3 ounces of beef
• 2 ounces of fish sauteed in butter (don’t ask, I am not going into this story)
• 2 small slices of zucchini
• 1 watermelon slice
• 1 ear of corn
• 3 pieces of bread
• 1/8 of Vidalia onion
• 3 Tomato slices with feta

Post Dinner

• 2 Sam Adam’s Hefeweizens
• 3 more pieces of the above Texas Sheet cake

• 1 more bull’s eye

Okay, I am heading to bed.  I will think about (deal with) the calories consumed today.  Oh yes, and I am putting on a bikini again tomorrow, so I definitely will have to deal with the bloat of today.  Bike ride planned again in the morning.  I am so glad to be in bed before 11, this is such a treat!!

Friday night travels

Today blew by again.  I was so busy that I didn’t have enough time to pay attention to the clock, which is always very nice.  I am typing to you right now laying in my bed at the beach house with the windows open in the room and it is almost chilly with the off-shore breeze.  All sorts of lovely outside, beach noises going on.  I will sleep like a baby tonight, I can tell!

Workout #1
I lifted today over lunch and hopefully I won’t be as sore in my lower back (okay butt) as I was last time.

Exercise	Weight	Reps/Sets
Incline Bench Press	65lbs	6/6
Military Should Press	30lb d.b.	6/6
Bicep Curl	30 lb d.b	6/6
Dead Lifts	30 lb d.b.	6/6
Scull Crushers	30 lb d.b.	6/6
Mizfit’s pushups with ball		10/3
Squats	5lbs	6/6
Walking Lunges	2 5lb weights	???
Calf Raises	2 5 lb weights	10/2

Time: about 45 minutes

My legs felt better this week and I thought my lunges looked a little more normal.  Hopefully that muscles is getting built back up!

Workout #2
After work, I headed back to the gym to swim.

Drill	Time
Warm-up: 4 X 50 m	rest 0:10
4 X 50m drill: kick & single arms	rest 0:10
3 X 100m freestyle	Aim for under 2:00, rest 0:15
3 X 100m freestyle	Aim for under 2:00, rest 0:20
2 X 100m freestyle	Aim for under 2:00, rest 0:15
2 X 100m freestyle	Aim for under 2:00, rest 0:20
100m swim	rest 0:20
100m cooldown
Total: 1600m
Time: 40 minutes

I called Justin on the way home from the gym to find out what the game plan was this evening and he didn’t answer.  I made it all the way home and still no Justin.  I was STARVING.  So I started by having a carrot with some peanut butter (mmmm.)

And then I started packing up some foods to bring with us.  While doing this, I managed to snack on about 30 meringues, 20 grapes and a skinny cow ice cream.  What can I say, it was taking Justin too long and after all this working out I was famished!!! 

On his way home, he stopped at Crisp and Juicy and got me a 1/4 white chicken breast with some fried yuca.  SO GOOD!

I hate most of the chicken (took off all the skin though), half of the roll and about half of the yuca.  I gave the rest to Justin.  I did dip all of this in this yummy,yummy spicy mayo-like sauce they give you.

This also came with a small side salad, which I did finish.

Then we left for the beach after finally getting them all situated on the car.  On the way here, we stopped and I had a MAJOR sweet tooth, so I grabbed some Reese’s pieces (I honestly don’t know the last time I had these…years!) and I hate maybe 1/3 of them.  (Sorry no photo.)

Once we got to the beach house, I had a small glass of wine and a bull’s eye.  They always have them at the beach house and they are definitely a weakness of mine!

Time for bed.   Bike ride in the morning.