Tuesday, 6 Sep 2005
I am officially giving Leanness Lifestyle another run. I was planning on doing a few weeks of Body for Life anyway, but I know my mind well enough to admit that I’d never be able to get through a full challenge using just the palm-fist portion guidelines for my diet, and I know my body well enough to realize that I DO need more than 60 minutes of cardio a week to get lean, so what the heck…I’m going to do BFL turbo-style–which essentially means I’ll be doing Leanness Lifestyle once again.
(For you cheapskate health nuts or proto-health nuts out there, Shannon mentioned that you can now bid on various combinations of Leanness Lifestlye program products–book, audio program, Club Lifestyle memberships–on eBay. Check out the listings by Tracy Greenwalt, wife of LL author and coach Dave Greenwalt for some pretty fantastic bargains on the program.)
The diets for both programs are nearly identical anyway, so I don’t see this as a problem. Both programs are 40/40/20 c/p/f, and both result in a similar calorie range. Leanness Lifestyle is more regimented than BFL, but then again, so am I. I will be keeping the PWO shake and one or two SGX style meals each day, but the calorie range will follow the recommendations in the LL book. Three to four meals a day will be around 40/40/20 and 200-270 calories. Dairy will be very limited. I may still use fat free yogurt, but I’m going to ditch cheese, cottage cheese, and milk as they just don’t agree with me. The bacteria in yogurt makes it very low in lactose, but most other low-fat and fat-free dairy products actually contain more lactose than their full-fat versions. Since I can’t afford the calories or fat grams in the lower lactose dairy foods, and the higher lactose, lower-fat dairy products make me blow up like a Mylar birthday balloon, it is time to bid adieu to the dairy aisle at Albertson’s.
Resistance training will take place on M/W/F with a variety of routines–BFL, P90X, SGX, and others gleaned from the Club Lifestyle Muscle Professor program. I’m not overly concerned here either, since I’ve been doing this for over a year now.
Cardio…well…I’ll be doing 300+ minutes a week at moderate to high intensity. It’s tough to do that much cardio when I hate it so very much without an outside goal, so I’ll be shooting for an improvement in my 5k time. I ran a 5k back in February in just under 27 minutes, and I’d like to see that number drop down to 25 minutes before the end of the year. This amounts to an average speed of 7.44 MPH over the 25 minute run, which doesn’t seem completely unreasonable to me.
I will have to put off actually beginning the cardio training for a day or two unfortunately. I was set to hit the treadmill today at noon, but a co-worker pointed out that the Bloodmobile vampires were in our parking lot once more soliciting donations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I’m a regular donor, and I was eligible to donate again this month, so off I went to trade in a pint of blood for a chocolate chunk cookie, a cup of cranberry juice, and a 50% off coupon to a pirate dinner show. (I didn’t eat the cookie, I swear. It’s in my freezer waiting for a splurge meal.) I figure that since my $100 of disaster relief money went to animal charities (HSUS, ASPCA, and the North Shore Animal League), the least I could do was give up some Type A+ for the two-legged victims.
I’m taking it easy with some LISS walking at 3.5 mph/10% incline and a 90 minute round of Yoga X to stretch out. I’m feeling mildly woozy at the moment, so that’s about all I feel safe to handle tonight. 
Besides, I need to finish up some laundry, file some papers, update my Palm datebook with my new workout schedule, plan a new menu, and cook up a batch of chicken and veggies.
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Nutrition: Non-Training Day Menu
(SGX nutrition details omitted by request of trainer)
1: 3×1 omelette, 3 c. Smart Pop popcorn
2: Turkey burger patty, 3 c. Smart Pop popcorn
3: Kashi Crispy bar
4: Kashi Crispy bar
5: Thai chicken pasta salad
6: 1 c. cauliflower snack
Daily Supplements: multivitamin with iron, calcium 500 + D, 1 T. flaxseed oil or natural peanut butter, 1 t. GNC Creastack
Water: 16 cups minimum
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Workout:
8:00 PM LISS Cardio - Walk (3.5 mph / 10% incline / 45 minutes)
9:00 PM P90X Yoga X
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The Awful Truth:
1. Didn’t work out on Labor Day.
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Brownie Points:
1. Donated blood during lunch.
2. Made two batches of MRP bars.
3. Updated my retirement account holdings in Money 2004.
4. Found some super cheapo deals on folders, binders, and Sharpie markers at Target.
5. Bought 3 bottles of multivitamins with minerals at CVS at 50% off.
6. Ran outdoors on Sunday morning. Yes, I said outdoors.
7. Sent out FSA direct deposit form.
8. Opened free checking account at bank to prepare for closing of current capital asset management account which will soon cost $125/year in service charges. :mad2:
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Short-term Goals:
1. Do one chapter of character modeling book.
2. Read two chapters of NASM book.
3. Send care package to sister in Boston.
4. Tidy apartment.
5. File latest batch of paperwork in brand new file box. 
