My Food and Exercise Log

An ok day today.

Breakfast - Chick-Fil-A Biscuit Meal

Lunch - Stoffer’s flat Bread Pizza

Afternoon Snack - 1 cup Trail mix

Dinner - Hamburger with Baked Beans, Chips, and Watermelon

Cigarettes - 10

Exercise - Rest Day

I had a decent day for fitness.

Breakfast - 2 egg whites + 1 whole egg, 4 oz Rib eye, slice of whole wheat toast with Jam

Lunch - Turkey Sandwich with trail mix

Dinner - Asian Noodles with Chicken and mixed Vegetables

Cigarettes - 6

Exercise - 60 Push ups, and hour walk with my daughter (Approximately 3 miles)

Not a good day for fitness.

Breakfast - Breakfast Shake

Morning Snack - Granola bar

Lunch - Burrito with Shredded Beef, Onions, Bell peppers, and rice

Dinner - Philly Cheesesteak with fries

Cigarettes - 9

Exercise - Rest day

Another week and another post…

And the trials for this week…

And there you have it. A bit of a rough ending to the week. But a good week overall, despite not being able to get in (what I consider) a good workout. I’m hoping this week will be better for me and will give me better opportunity to workout and to sleep.

Fitness Goals for week of June 30, 2008:

• Cardio HIIT 30 Minutes (60 Seconds Intense: 60 Seconds Rest)
• Plank 60 Seconds
• No Weight Squats 30
• Push ups - Follow the 100 Pushup Challenge
• Reverse Crunches - 50
• Weight loss - any
• Cigarettes - No more than 6 a day

That’s it for this week. Good luck to all of you out there who are going through the journey as I am. And here’s to hoping for good numbers next week.

Had a rough couple of days, just glad that I will be able to get some sleep tonight.

Sunday

Breakfast - 1/2 Cup cereal with 1/2 cup Skim Milk

Lunch - Beef Stew with Onions, Carrots, Bell Peppers, and Potatoes

Dinner - Beef Stew with Onions, Carrots, Bell Peppers, and Potatoes

Exercise - Unable due to work being so busy

Cigarettes - (See Monday)

Monday

Breakfast - 3 Eggs, 2 Slices of Bacon, and 2 slices of toast with jam

Lunch - Turkey Bacon Sandwich

Dinner - 2 burritos with Beef, Black beans, Rice and Cheese on Whole wheat tortillas

Exercise - Fitness Trials (50 push ups, 50 Reverse Crunches, 20 Squats, 45 Second Plank, 20 Minutes Intervals)

Cigarettes - 18 (Before you think the worst let me explain. I’m counting all the cigarettes Ive had since I awoke on Sunday Morning as I’m not certain when I had which ones, and I have been awake constantly since then as well. So at 40 hours being awake I have had 18 cigarettes. I’m not proud of it, but I had a serious bit of weakness during my sleep deprivation.)

It was a good day for fitness.

Breakfast - Ham biscuit

Lunch - Arby’s Medium Roast Beef Sandwich Combo

Dinner - Roast Chicken with Brussel Sprouts and Parsnips with sun dried tomato pesto

Cigarettes - 6

Exercise - Moved a fence

I had a good day on Friday with good eating and some good exercise as well.

Breakfast - 1/2 Cup Cereal with 1/2 cup fat free milk

Lunch - BBQ pork Sandwich with Baked Beans and Potato Salad

Dinner - Personal sized pizza with Sausage, Onions, and Bell Peppers

Cigarettes - 6

Exercise - 20 Minutes of Interval Running (60 Seconds Running : 60 Seconds Walking)

Had a good day on Thursday, got a little exercise, and ate pretty healthy as well.

Breakfast - 2 egg whites + 1 whole egg, 1 cup oatmeal with blueberries

Lunch - Roasted Chicken with roasted potatoes and Green Beans, and side salad

Dinner - Ham Burger with Baked Fries

Cigarettes - 6

Exercise - 1 1/2 hour walk with daughter

It’s been a bit of a rough week. Work has been extremely busy, so I have not been able to get in a single half decent workout while there; I’ve also been sleep deprived while at work as well. So I haven’t felt anywhere near top shape this week. Amazingly I did manage to lose a little weight and I bit of width though.

Well there you have it. I still have not had time to complete my fitness trials for this week. So we are going to call them a bust for now. I will try again next week, hopefully things will go a bit smoother for me. I can’t help but feel like a failure for not finding/making more time for this somewhere along the way. Working 24 hour shifts and spending my off days watching a 2 year old just isn’t terribly conducive to a healthy lifestyle I guess. Just all the more reason for me to work even harder to try keep this up though. As I said in the video, I fear that I have plateaued in my exercise as I have been unable to break the 40 push up barrier despite trying for it for the past 2 weeks. I have to come up with a new strategy to help get myself over this hurdle.

Fitness Goals for the Week of June 23, 2008

• Push ups - 50 total using Stacked Reps (20, 15, 10, 5)
• Reverse Crunches - 50 total using Stacked Reps (20, 15, 10, 5)
• Plank - 30 seconds
• Weight Free Squats - 20
• Cardio - 30 Minutes HIIT (90 seconds High Intensity, 60 seconds rest/low intensity)
• Cigarettes - 6/day (No More)
• Weight loss - Anything so long as it is down

So real quick on the changes and additions I’ve made to my list. I changed my normal running to just straight cardio. Why? Because this way I can use the exercise bike we have at home while my daughter is taking a nap, so I don’t feel like I’m unable to get my exercise done. Planks are the starting position for a push up either with arms fully extended or elbows resting on the ground. (Extremely difficult for me to do at this time.) Squats I’ve added in to assure that I’m not falling behind on my lower body fitness. And I’ve changed my push up and crunch routines. Instead of doing a flat number all the way through I’ve decided to use more of a quasi body builder approach by doing multiple sets of the exercise with decreasing reps through out the sets. I hope that this will help me to get over the plateau I’ve been stuck on for several weeks.

As I promised for anyone interested you can find all the information you want on the 100 Push Up Challenge through their website. It is an interesting idea and given my experience over the past few months a hard one as well.

I’ve had a decent day today. Unfortunately the best day all week for exercise, which isn’t saying much.

Breakfast - 2 Bacon Biscuits

Lunch - Chick-Fil-A Sandwich Combo

Dinner - Roasted Chicken breast with roasted Potatoes and Green Beans

Cigarettes - 6

Exercise - 1 Hour walk with daughter, 50 push ups total