November 12, 2008

Day 42 - 323 Days Remaining

Training continues apace. I had to skip my workout yesterday because the left half of my face was numb from a visit to the dentist to have a crown done.

Last week's experiment to increase the weight I use for my circuit training workout by five pounds was a success! On Monday I went from three circuits with 25 pounds to two circuits with 30 pounds. My arms get a much nicer workout and the leg exercises are harder, but still doable. Oddly, two circuits isn't as satisfying as doing three circuits was. I think I'm going to contining training with 30 pound dumbbells until I can get back up to three circuits and then add five more pounds, repeat.

My diet took a severe hit this week. Two nights eating out at Chinese buffets. I had a disastrous day on Monday where I tried to eat snacks instead of meals to make up for my poor dinner choices over the weekend but ended up very hungry Monday night and ate several non-Zone (and non-healthy) things. Lesson learned, stick to regular meals even after making poor decisions on previous days. It would have been better in my mind to stick with the Zone meals and just have eaten too much on other days than eating Zone snacks, but eating bad food later that night.

As an aside, it was possible to eat in the Zone at the two Chinese buffets I went to, I just made a few bad choices with the menu and ate too much.