Last entry was on Tuesday before I went off to watch one of the worst performances by the Washington Capitals in recent memory. I mean really… 28th on the PK and couldn’t score more than twice? We made Dwayne Roloson look like frickin Marty Brodeur. Anyways. I behaved myself and had nothing other than a $4 bottle of Dasani at the arena and a glass of water at Bar Louie. I got home rather late but still ate the rest of the salad sitting in the fridge and some club crackers. I know it’s breaking one of my rules but eating late is far worse than not eating at all.
Wednesday
I got up and despite my mind telling to get my ass up, I didn’t. I slept in and decided to go to the gym after work. I did my day, had another turkey burger salad and a clif bar, went to the gym, did 40 on the elliptical (42 to be exact which=exactly 2 episodes of Scrubs), did upper body the best I could (the place was swamped at 6pm… I guess I should have known) and got home just in time for some turkey pastrami wrapped in a tomato basil wrap with mustard (late AGAIN. Its mighty tough to eat before 9pm). I did also try the Bally’s smoothie station and had the fairly unknowledgeable girl behind the counter fix me up a dreamsicle type protein shake. Not bad. It even had soy milk in it (YUCK) but tasted… well… dreamy.
Oh ya and the Caps beat the shit out of the Pens in Pittsburgh. AO had two goals. I spent a good amount of time yelling at the TV… so that should count for some exercise as well.
For good measure:
Thursday
I wanted to get up early enough to make the 6am spinning class but ya… that didn’t happen. Went the gym (later than normal) and pounded out 10 minutes of intense cardio on the elliptical, did about 30 min on the lower body weights and then got another shake. This time there was a uber nutritionist behind the counter that fixed me up a $7 shake that was going to last me until a late lunch. The thing had oatmeal, bananas, soy milk, vanilla protein whey and for good measure a dollop of peanut butter. Weird but mighty tasty. I don’t think I’ll keep that habit up though… its too damn expensive.
The three things I did learn from her that I will have to remember are:
-Try to eat every 3 hours.
-When you eat, strive for about a fist full of protein and an open palm worth of carbs.
-When you're out in the cold you burn calories considerably faster as your body is attempting to keep itself warm.
Of course I wont live them to the letter but still nice guidelines.
Now back to me…
Spent a good amount of the morning running around outside in the windy 20 degree day making sure an event for an important donor didn’t overwhelm our parking lot. Once that was done I took a couple of hours off to go get lunch and a movie with my dad who had the day off. We went up to the Rockville Regal and went to Giuseppe's where I had a salad with steak and onions on top. Very tasty stuff but the salad was really plain. Pretty much just a bed of lettuce.
We saw Grand Torino which was fantastic. Not the best movie I’ve ever seen but Clint Eastwood is still SOOOOO good. He’s way more versatile than a lot of people give him credit for. It wont let me embed this clip but it was classic. Check out this link
Got back to work and remember snacking on something but cant remember what. At 6pm I was out of the office and back outside for an art reception that was supposed to be huge but ended up being 4 of us directing cars and about…. 50 cars. Did I mention my fingers fell off? Ya well they didn’t but sure as hell felt like they did. What a waste of time. My boss approved for my kids I hired to get time-and-a-half… too bad I’m salaried. BAH.
Got home and Megan met me at the curb. She sure is a sweetie when she wants to be… and even sometimes when she doesn’t. Went in and smell the wonderful aroma of my dad’s spaghetti sauce. As I was still frozen to the bone, the hell if I was going to have another cold wrap or salad, so I had the worst meal of the diet up to date, a bowl of tri-color pasta with a couple of spoonfuls of meat sauce. No cheese tho. I got that going for me… which is nice. Oh and hey… I ate before nine. Go me!
Fell asleep watching TV and woke up at 3am. Whoops!
Friday
Got up and went to the gym. Still later than I would like as I only had time to get in my 42 minutes on the elliptical. I guess I’ll do weights after my spinning class tomorrow. I’ve also started doing the traditional push-up right before my shower as a test of progress I suppose. I did about 10 pushups before calling it quits (they weren’t full either… only about ¾ of the way to the floor). We’ll see how much better I am in 3 weeks.
Don’t know what imma gonna do for lunch yet but I think we may be going to take our assistant out for lunch. She gave her two weeks and her last day is Wednesday. Hope its someplace calorie friendly as the fam (including my uncle from Australia) is meeting at the Chinese place tonight for dinner and I think it’ll be much harder to behave there.
And for your moment of Scrubs zen…
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