Wednesday, 4 May 2005
Do normal people munch on slices of raw yellow squash and zucchini like they are chips?
Tonight was deli sandwiches, Pringles, apples, bananas, and a veggie platter at work for dinner. I brought in my own dinner (Turkey veggie chili with rice) and chips are absolutely forbidden during this challenge, so my only options were raw veggies and fruit. I snagged a banana and apple for tomorrow, and a plate of nice, authorized, fibrous veggies of negligible caloric impact to snack on until my 7:30 chili break arrives. I just chomped my way through half a cup of raw squash without even thinking about it. This makes me think that I am not so much addicted to chips and Kashi as I am to simply chewing any old thang that is sitting next to me at a computer keyboard.
I don’t even have any veggie dip–I’m eating the stuff plain. I think I just enjoy chewing or something. :bite:
This is handy to know in case I get the munchies at night when I work on the desktop with the Wacom tablet for an hour or two before bed. I was dreading the 10:30 pm munchies I’d have to face through July after last night’s attack of the late evening craving critter. I’ll just have to keep my fridge stocked with a mini veggie platter and sugar free Jello.
On my last walkthrough of the kitchen, there were still 2 bananas, 3/4 of a bag of apples, and a huge pile of veggies left on the table. Guess what’s coming home with me tonight? :cyclops:
On a related note, I have to admit I am extremely relieved that I have a resistance training workout tonight. One thing I’m noticing about 50/30/20 is that 2000 squeaky clean calories at those ratios yield quite a lot of energy-producing carbs. I feel like I can lift a Mack truck and carry it on a 5k run at the moment, and I still have one more CC and fruit meal left. I bet tomorrow’s workouts will be pretty good, too. I think I will do some treadmill HIIT first thing in the morning and follow up immediately (once I can breathe again) with the scheduled Yoga X workout. Two solid hours of exercise…just like the old days of HIIT, Tai Chi class, and extra LISS! :wig:
I also have a Jungle Jam update. Yes, believe it or not, I still do not have this apparatus in my possession yet even though I ordered it on March 31 and have contacted customer service no less than six times in the month of April. I finally resorted to emailing Beachbody.com’s Director of CRM Amber Otto with my long and convoluted tale of customer service woe, from the discovery that I had been shipped the wrong pull-up bar to the reshipment of the Jungle Jam that wound up being returned to the Torrance, CA warehouse on April 26 last week due to damage. The helpful and efficient Ms. Otto got back to me within an hour by email. She cracked the whip on the warehouse guys, and I will theoretically have my Jungle Jam by tomorrow afternoon via Fed Ex Overnight. I even have a much-coveted tracking number. :claplow:
I’m glad the thing is finally on its way, but really, what does this say about their fulfillment staff? When you ship something out, and it gets returned by the shipping company as damaged, shouldn’t it be standard operating procedure to send out a new, undamaged item of the same model IMMEDIATELY and contact the customer to let them know that their order will be delayed by a week or so due to the snafu? In my view, you do not simply sign for the damaged item, throw it somewhere out back, and hope that the customer will forget that they ordered a $54 piece of sporting equipment that never arrived. 
I do enjoy the Beachbody P90X workout program I purchased, and I’m sure the Jungle Jam will be great once it arrives. (I’m going to take a bunch of pictures of it when it does get here. I shall call it the PITA Bar for short in all future posts, because it truly was a pain in the ass to get it to my doorstep.) Beachbody sells some great products; I just hope that my Jungle Jam debacle was simply a rare case of bad luck and not a commonplace customer experience.
