Day 20 - Update

After a great weekend hiking in Seneca Rocks, WV I'm ready to go again. My knees have had plenty of rest and held up well during the long hikes up and down the trails. My workouts have suffered and I can only blame laziness. With the weather turning cold and frosty I need to switch my morning workout location to the YMCA. That will involve some drive time so I need to start getting up earlier. Tomorrow will mark the beginning of my new morning routine. Since I skipped my circuit training workout last night I'll make it up tonight and then plow through it again tomorrow night to get back on schedule.

My diet has held up well except for some noted exceptions involving chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers while camping. I've been relying too much on eyeballing my food portions this past week, I'm wondering how that will pan out come measurement day this Thursday. I noticed that I was getting hungry over the weekend from not eating properly balanced meals; making a fast food menu healthy isn't one of my skills just yet. Eating a Zone dinner last night made a big difference and the hunger pangs and cravings promptly went away.

Breakfast
1 whole egg and 2 egg whites [2P]
1/4 cup fat free cheese [1P]
1/2 cup 1% milk [0.5P/0.5C/0.5F]
1 apple [2C]
2/3 tsp. extra virgin olive oil [2F]
3 whole almonds [1F]

Lunch
3 1/2 ounces grilled chicken breast [3.5P]
2/3 cup applesauce [2C]
3/4 apple [1.5C]
10 1/2 whole almonds [3.5F]

Afternoon Snack
1 stick low fat string cheese [1P/1F]
1 peach fruit cup in light syrup, rinsed to remove the syrup [1C]

Dinner
3 1/2 ounces grilled chicken breast [3.5P]
1 1/4 cup broccoli [1C]
3/4 cup pineapple chunks [1.5C]
1/3 cup applesauce [1C]
10 1/2 whole almonds [3.5F]

Evening Snack
1 stick low fat string cheese [1P/1F]
1 clementine orange [1C]

My evening circuit training workout was a good one. Mentally, going outside into the cold was the most difficult part. After three sets of 100 skip rope, it didn't feel quite so bad though. Getting started and going to the gym is definitely the hardest part of working out. Once you're there, you might as well do a workout, right?