Feb 14 2012: Valentine’s Day Massacre

“Violets are blue,

Roses are red

I was down at the gym

When normal people were still in bed…”

Happy Valentines Day everyone – or as I call it, “Weightloss Challenge Day 2”. I think that’s a more romantic name overall…

Food:

Breakfast: 1 slice dry toast with vegemite (pre-gym) 2 multigrain weetbix with skim milk

Mid-morning: 1 large banana

Lunch: Salad bowl (chicken, cheese, egg, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, cucumber, gherkins, carrot)

Mid-afternoon: 1 banana

Dinner: Beef curry, brown rice and daal

Drink:

Plain, filtered water: 3500ml

1 glass orange juice (200ml)

2 long macchiato – no sugar

Glass milk

Activity:

Gym (details below)

Short walk with Marble

1.5km walk from bus stop to office

Down stairs level 8 to ground x 4

Up stairs level 1 to level 8 x 3

Step count: 10770

**Gym:

**5 minute warm up on bike

600m row – 3m 51s

10 push-ups, 10 fitball squats, stretching

800m row – 5m 14s

stretching

600m row – 3m 28s

stretching

I had woken up at 3:45am today, so I had a bit of time spare at the end of the gym session and threw in some walking on the treadmill. 1km in 11 minutes.

Physical, Mood etc.:

**Morning – **Woke up at 3:45am, having woken a few times in the night, minor aching, keen to get on with it.

**Lunch – **Alive and kicking!

**Night – **Not overly tired, energy levels pretty good. Felt great.

Notes:

Adding meditation to the routine is working fine so far – I’ve downloaded a half hour meditation audio and that fits neatly into the bus trip into Perth.