It is kind of frightening when you can’t remember what you’ve ordered online.

I just got another huge box today at work, and couldn’t think of what it might contain since I got all of my Dell components yesterday.

It turns out that today’s mega-package is my super-size order of slightly expired EAS Myoplex Lite bars and Atkins cereal from Vitaglo.com. Before you jump on me for buying Atkins stuff, let me just point out that I am a cereal addict, so if I’m going to munch on the stuff anyway (and use it as a crunchy ingredient in my homemade bars), it helps if it’s a bit lower in carbs than the real thing.

Anyway, select flavors of Myoplex Lite and Luna bars are on sale at Vitaglo for $5.00 a box.
That’s about the same price as homemade bars, so I went for it.

You can check out the deals here: http://www.vitaglo.com/specialvalues.html

I also want to rave about my new favorite food: Roman Meal Carb Aware Whole Wheat bread.

This stuff is $2.19 a loaf at my local Publix grocery store, and is a very nice 50 calories, 7 g carb, 7 g protein, and 1 g fat per slice. Do you know why this is so great? Let me tell ya…I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast this morning, and it was nearly BFL-AUTHORIZED. Two slices of toasted Roman Meal bread, 1 T. natural peanut butter, 1 T. low sugar strawberry preserves, and half a scoop of chocolate caramel whey with water.

Heaven.

Still in pain from Monday’s LBWO. Damn you, Oxygen!

I got out of work so late last night that I decided to drive my three big Dell boxes home to the apartment instead of taking a risk and leaving my three babies in the car at the gym while I spent an hour trying to get into the Max-OT groove for the first time. By the time I lugged my boxes up to my third floor apartment, all thoughts of hitting the gym pretty much disappeared. I snarfed down meal 6 and fell (creakily) into bed instead.

That’s right…I didn’t even set up my new computer!

Can you believe it?

Anyhow, missing abs and arms yesterday meant that I would have to either a) make it up on Sunday (boo!), or b) go with a different training split. I went with option b and am now going to try the following schedule instead of the original 5 day lifting routine:

Monday: Back, biceps, forearms; 50 minutes moderate cardio
Tuesday: 20 minute HIIT run, 60 minutes tai chi class, 30 minutes moderate cardio
Wednesday: Chest, shoulders, triceps; 50 minutes moderate cardio
Thursday: 20 minute HIIT run, 60 minutes tai chi class, 30 minutes moderate cardio
Friday: Legs, calves, abs; 50 minutes moderate cardio
Saturday: 20 minute HIIT run, 30 minutes moderate cardio, 45-60 minutes yoga or tai chi DVD
Sunday: Rest

This is closer to my familiar BFL schedule and should be easier to maintain given my rather rough work hours. I’ll try out the 5 day split during my vacation week before Christmas and see if it’s workable for me.

I did complete my first Max-OT workout this morning (chest, shoulders, triceps). I’m not sure what to think about it yet. BFL workouts leave my arms feeling more exhausted and pumped, but there is no disputing that I could lift much heavier weights on old exercises like side raises and military presses when I knew that I’d only have to squeeze out 4-6 reps for 2-3 sets instead of blowing my arms out early with high rep/low weight warm ups. I also did some bench presses for the first time with the Smith machine today. I’ve only done dbell bench presses prior to today, so it was kind of fun to see how much weight I could handle. It turns out that the answer is “not much”! I did my heavy set at only 115 lbs.

Hey, it’s a start.