Thoughts: It’s food free day again!

Unfortunately, I’m probably going to be too cheap to pay extra for bad food when I have so much good stuff already around! The pool party/BBQ at my apartment complex has been cancelled, so my planned free junkfood lunch has been nixed. Maybe I’ll have some full-blown, unauthorized Chinese or Italian food instead. I might have enough ingredients around to make something. Alternately, I might save free day for tomorrow when I visit my parents. I’m sure they’ll have several things I’ll want to gorge on at the house.

I did my HIIT cardio on the treadmill at the gym this morning, then decided to read more of the Tom Venuto ebook on my PDA while pedaling on the recumbent bike for 30 minutes at a moderate pace. That really wasn’t so bad. Then I went upstairs to the chick floor to try out the Smith machine and figure out my weights for squats. I have no idea how much the bar itself weighs (probably a good thing), but I think I should be able to do my next LBWO with close stance and sumo squats with plates totaling 20, 30, 40, and 50 lbs (not counting the bar weight, which I just read is usually either 15-20 lbs).

Trainer Bob at the gym also gave me a big sheaf of photocopied information on how to properly do all kinds of deadlifts as well as a training routine involving a LOT of squats (10 sets of 10 each, 4 seconds to lower the body, 2 seconds to raise it), followed by lunges and deadlifts (can’t remember how many of these I’m supposed to do…maybe just BFL pyramid sets?), with 60-90 seconds between sets. I might try this on Wednesday, but I have the feeling that it will kick my ass. 10 sets of 10!

I had a rather funny moment today, too. I took a pair of denim shorts (size 11) with me to the gym to change into after my shower, as well as a size medium Army PT shirt. Both of these items were loose on me before, but not too bad. Well, today, the shorts were HUGE…I had them zipped and buttoned, and could STILL pull them off, and the shirt was flapping in the wind. I don’t want to spend money on new clothes right now when I’m still in the middle of my program, but I’m running out of things that will stay on my hips without gaping. I think it’s time to flip through my sewing pattern collection, bring down the box of fabrics, and sew up some new duds.

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Nutrition (1200-1400 low zig-zag day with free meal)
1: 1/2 c. skim milk with 3/4 c. cereal; 2×1 veggie omelette
2: Kung Pao chicken and brown rice (Free meal-extra rice and canned fish with black beans)
3: Cottage cheese and grapes
4: Strawberry raisin walnut bar
5: Chicken pizza
6: Chocolate mousse

Supplements:
Multivitamin with iron
Calcium 500 + D
1 t. safflower oil with meal5
1 T. flax seed oil
1 serving of GNC Creastack (5 g creatine, 2 g l-glutamine, plus phosphates)

Calories eaten and deficit for yesterday = 1437/ -565 (target -337)
Water: 10 cups
Ratios: 41% carb / 38% protein /21% fat

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Workout:
9 am Cardio at the gym

Treadmill HIIT at 4 mph/5% incline (warmup), 4.5, 6.2, 6.7, and 7.2 mph intervals, 8.2 mph high, and 4 mph cooldown

Recumbent bike - levels 3 and 4, 83-85 rpm for 30 minutes

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The Awful Truth:
1. Had about 1/2 c. of unauthorized Honey Bunches of Oats with Almond cereal

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Brownie Points:
1. Did a little bit of moderate intensity steady-state cardio today for fun and read Chapter 4 of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle at the same time.
2. Still 100% on workouts!

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Short-term Goals (same as yesterday):
1. Get some more tuna from the grocery store in case Hurricane Ivan hits my part of Florida.
2. Do the laundry.
3. Plan out new store area for my gallery site.
4. Enter most frequently-used meals into BodyAdvance BFL tracker software for my PDA.
5. Mess around with and save new menus and recipes from eDiets and In2nutrition.