January 27:
Went to the gym by myself today, since Mike's son's birthday party is today (which I will attend at 1pm. I don't have kids of my own, so I spoil other people's kids.) Still had a really satisfying workout--worked traps and back, ended the workout with pullups on the gravity machine thingy. (I can barely do one pullup unassisted, but the gravitron--or whatever it's called--takes as much of your bodyweight as you want so that it's possible to do pullups or dips or the like.) Then did half an hour on the bike.
Food:
The Usual Breakfast, then a protein shake when I got home from the gym. 1/4 of a ham sandwich on wheat bread at the birthday party, then two small flounder filets at home. Ugh, those were nasty. I simply can't cook. Around 4pm I was starting to feel really wiped out--not good since I had to leave for a detail in about an hour--so I had two pieces of potato bread toast with peanut butter. At my detail I had a banana and a soy bar.
January 26:
Slept in this morning (which for me was 7am!) Met Mike at the gym at 12:30 and worked shoulders and triceps today. Felt good to be back in the gym, and great to feel rested too. After we finished weight training I did half an hour on the bike. I'd planned on running this afternoon with the academy, but Mike asked me to work the Walmart detail for him this evening, and since my American Express bill came yesterday--complete with all of my xmas charges on it!--I couldn't really turn him down. Hence the bike instead.
Food:
Two eggs with one whole diced chicken breast scrambled in. I'm becoming addicted to that big protein kick as a day-starter. Soy bar before going to the gym and protein shake when I got home. Chicken breast and sliced carrots. Will most likely have another protein shake when I get home from my detail.
January 25:
Another 12-hour shift. Hectic, busy and exhausting. Spent way too much time trying to get paperwork done while one of my arrestees was being a royal pain in the ass. No workout today.
Food:
One thing about keeping an online food diary is that it really makes me think before I eat something, knowing that I'll have to tell everyone what I ate. But today was aggravating enough that I don't care...LOL My milk was sour, so no protein shake, I was almost out of fake eggs, so my eggs w/ cheese & chicken was rather sparse, I got tied up with the damn warrants on some idiots for quite a while so I scarfed down my chicken breast and a soy bar when I finally got free from the office. And when I got home I had a can of chicken noodle soup and 2 glasses of wine. I may just have a third, too. So there. (Don't worry, this is not a normal pattern for me. My ex-husband can testify to the fact that I am not a drinker. But I am way too wound up right now, and too damn tired to workout.)
January 24:
Worked a 12-hour shift today, so no workout today. I'm whupped enough as it is! Today was one of those non-stop go straight from one call to another kind of days. Mike and I have already discussed the fact that when we're on our two weeks of daywatch, we're not going to be able to fit in as many workouts, especially in our long week when we work Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat, and Sun--all 12 hour shifts. Squeezing exercise in there is going to be tough, so we just go harder when we're on nights. I'll probably do some cardio tomorrow after work, but tonight I'm going to be a slug.
Food:
Fake eggs w/2%cheese and chicken, Protein shake, two soy bars, 1 1/2 chicken breasts, one can of Campbells Chicken Noodle Soup (actually surprisingly low in calories and fat!) and another protein shake. Dunno what time all of those various foods were eaten--most of it was in the car while driving to another call. (Except the soup. That was after I got home after work. I don't think I could drive, talk on the radio, manipulate the touch-pad mouse on the laptop, talk on the phone, look at the map, AND eat soup. Even I have my limits.)
January 23:
Met Mike at the gym at 2:30--did a very heavy and intense leg workout, with emphasis on hams and glutes. No cardio today. I can't even think about doing cardio on leg day.
Food:
7am Fake eggs (equiv of 2 eggs) scrambled with 2% cheddar cheese and 1/2 chicken breast. Really, it's not as nauseating as it sounds. If you shop around a bit you can find fake eggs that are pretty tolerable. Personally, I find Scramblers and Egg Beaters to be nasty, but the Second Nature Egg stuff I buy is decent. The Kraft 2% cheddar cheese is actually Darn Tasty. The totally fake (fat free) cheese is impossible to find anymore, probably because it's so gross that no one wanted to buy it and they stopped making it.
Also had a protein shake. Normally I wouldn't cram so much food in at once, except that I had a 6-hour detail today at the welfare office, where there's really no chance to eat. And since I'm supposed to be enforcing the "No Food Or Drink" policy as well, I can't exactly chow down while I'm there.
12pm Hah. I did manage to sneak a soy bar during a lull when the waiting room was empty.
2pm Ate another soy bar on the way from the welfare office to the gym.
5pm 2 chicken breasts and half a can of spinach.
Okay, so I got to wondering what the exact caloric and protein etc values were for today:
Shake: Made with milk and using some nesquick sugar-free chocolate milk mix to enhance flavor, Protein 33g, Carbs 19g, total calories 210
Eggs w/cheese & chicken: Protein 27g, Carbs 3.5g, total calories 215
Soy-Sations Crunchy Peanut bar: Protein 15g, Carbs 23g, total calories 170
Soy-Sations Lemon Cake bar: Protein 15g, Carbs 23g, total calories 180
2 Chicken breasts (Tyson Honey Mustard): Protein 34g, Carbs 6g, total calories 260
1/2 can spinach: Protein 1g, Carbs 2g, total calories 15 (But it's so very good for you!)
Totals for the day (so far): Protein 125g, Carbs 76.5, total calories 1050. And I will most likely have another shake before the end of the day as well.
January 22:
Managed to drag my ass out of bed at 11ish since I was supposed to meet Mike at the gym at noon. He called me right before I left and told me he was running a bit late and to make it 12:30 instead, so I got involved in answering some email and almost ended up late myself. Made it there at about 12:29. Worked chest and biceps--very intense workout.
Went running at the Academy at 4pm--slightly over 3 miles. The weather was totally perfect for it. A bit cold, not humid, and I felt like I could run forever.
Food:
11am-ish Chicken omelet (just like the one on the 21st)
2:30pm Protein shake--no peanut butter, with milk. Took the advice of female bodybuilder in the gym and tried adding sugar-free chocolate milk mix to improve taste. Definitely helped. Had to add more milk though to keep it from being a protein sludge.
7pm Waited way too long to eat, but running tends to put my appetite into stasis. Ate 1 1/2 chicken breasts and half a can of spinach. Was still hungry. Waited half an hour and was still hungry, so I ate two pieces of potato bread toast with just a faint smear of peanut butter on them so that they weren't dry and plain. I don't think I ate enough today.
January 21:
I try very hard to weigh and measure myself only once a week (to avoid getting discouraged at not seeing quick progress), and since I'm probably going to be using Sunday as my Day Of Rest, I'll use that as my weigh/measure day. I also had Mom take some more pictures of me, and even though I'm going to consider these to be my "before" pictures, I also consider them my "in-progress" pictures. You'll see what I mean when I finally get access to a scanner (Monday, hopefully!) and will post not only the pics taken today, but also a pic taken early last summer. It was gratifying to compare the two pics and see that I really have made improvements since last year--and that was with a lot of quitting and slacking off! I can't wait to see how I do when I don't give up or slack off.
But, for the purpose of this dare, I'll call this a starting point.
Weight 149
Hips 40 1/2"
Waist 27"
Chest 39"
Thighs 23 3/4"
Arms 12 1/2"
Calves 14 1/2"
Food today (and consequently part of Monday since I worked all night):
Woke up around 11--could not get back to sleep, so got up and made an omelet w/2 eggs, some milk, 2% cheddar, and half a chicken breast diced.
2:30pm went to Subway with Mom and I ordered a foot long turkey sub (no cheese!) on wheat bread with just mustard, lettuce, pickles and vinegar. Darn tasty. Only ate half.
6:30pm Ate a Soy-Sation Peanut Crunch protein bar on my way to a domestic.
10:30pm Starving, but this was the first chance I had to stop and park and eat the other half of my Sub.
2:00am Ate a Soy-Sation Lemon Cake protein bar on the way to a 911.
5:00am Stomach is trying to gnaw on backbone. Ate a banana on the way home.
I always get really hungry when working nights--I figure it's because the body needs extra energy to keep awake and functional. I try to drink lots of water when I get hungry, but that has another side-effect, which can be a pain when you have to remove all of your duty gear (and then replace said duty gear) to attend to it.