Day 11: Working Around an Insane Schedule

Once again, no lunchtime walk--this week is particularly difficult for that because of other things going on. Today was the once-a-year day where my work friend Lisa and I deliver donated backpacks to the Durham Public School System and go out to lunch in downtown Durham. We traditionally go to Toast, which is very much a farm to table kind of place. I had a great salad and some straccitella, which is this Italian egg drop soup normally served with bread crumbs. I got it without the bread crumbs, but it contained a handful of forbidden peas. Really though, if peas are my only dietary violation on a lunch out, that's not too bad.

The abs challenge I am doing is seriously ramping up--I have to do it in sets now, but I can tell that I am getting stronger, which is gratifying. Zumba continues to be fun. I realized that I will miss Friday afternoon Zumba because we are driving to my mom's house for the weekend. It's going to be real work not to let that utterly derail everything!

A word on the leaderboard: I am on the board this week for Cary, in 8th place. The person in first place has lost 14.9 pounds, 4.17% of her body weight. The person who is nationally in first place has lost 38.8 pounds in a week and 3 days. I sincerely hope that person is under the care of a doctor and not just a trainer--I just do not see a healthy way to lost that much weight that fast. I am working hard, and I am trying to keep my caloric intake high enough to avoid messing with my metabolism. I want to lose weight, but I truly want to do it in a healthy way without long term ill effects. This is why winning is not so much my goal as is setting up new, healthier habits and sticking to them.

Today's Log:

Exercise:

• Day 11 of the 30 Day Abs Challenge (55 sit ups, 65 crunches, 33 leg raises, 42 second plank)
• Zumba at the Cary gym with Tiffany

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: hot tea with 2% milk and 1/2 tsp raw sugar, tomato, avocado, and turkey bacon omelet with parmesan
• Lunch: from Toast in Durham: HUGE mixed greens salad with red wine vinaigrette, grana padano cheese, and roasted chicken, a cup of stracciatella soup
• Dinner:cucumbers, turkey roll-ups, and a mozerella Babybel
• Snacks: hot tea with 2% milk and 1/2 tsp raw sugar

Stats:

• Steps:11647
• Calories: 1136 consumed, 838 burned
• Weight: completely forgot to weigh this morning--oops!