On the plus side I've been a great exerciser and a decent dieter, at least by the calorie count. I'm a pound below my goal of 220 lbs by January 29th; weighed in at 219.0 lbs this morning. This was despite eating a $4 movie theatre box of Mike n' Ikes candy and a Zone bar for dinner last night. Proof that weight loss really is all about calories. Or possibly that I took 2 days off from exercise to recuperate from a long week full of exercise and recovered well. Probably both.
Not that I regularly sub junkfood for a real meal, but there are still bits of it left in my diet. Downed a cake donut for a snack today because I still haven't stocked my cubicle corner with healthy snacks. The calories are not so heinous that's it's impossible to end the day on 1750 calories, but I think we can all agree it would be better to eat something else, even for an engineer.
In other news, the interval training really seems to work. My cardio game is out-freaking-standing right now, if I can toot my own shiny brass horn. I can feel my heart rate recovering VERY quickly after exertion. This ought to feel downright amazing 40 lbs south of here.
This weekend is the 5k run I've been training for since Thanksgiving. It's not a long distance in the scheme of things but will be a milestone that I worked towards and hope to look back on fondly in the future. Enough sappiness. Time to crash.
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