Well, it’s been a fun two months of home workouts, but I must sadly report that my time as a homie has ended. This morning I drove 35 minutes to my Dad’s house and motored over to the Winter Park Bally Total Fitness to sign up as a family member on his account.

$16.50 a month for a year was the quoted price. Not too shabby at all, considering that I’d be getting the Premier membership with access to all clubs in North America.

Whee!

I was paying $34/month at Gold’s for membership at just the Dr. Phillips location. Hrmph.

Gold’s was MTV posh, but for less than half the Gold’s membership fee I will be getting what’s really important: lots of cardio machines, multiple locations, plenty of free weights and a squat rack. My morning cardio at Bally was very good, too, thanks to an overdose of full-blown, high carb, unplanned Mueller’s spaghetti at dinner last night. I do love me some pasta!

I am still in the grips of my gardening mania. I printed, cut out, and glued together two dozen do-it-yourself seed packet envelopes last night so I can send some of my excess bounty of seeds to some friends in California and calculated my sowing and set out dates for my spring crop. I had to chuck out six of my seed starting cell units, though. Apparently soybeans do not like the bottom watering set up in my Bio Dome, because all six of the soy seeds I planted had rotted away into smelly mush.

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Nutrition: Non-Training Day Menu
(SGX nutrition details omitted by request of trainer)

1: 1/3 c. oatmeal, 1 T. raisins, 1 T. wheat bran, 1 scoop chocolate whey powder
2: 3×1 spinach omelette with pumpkin raisin muffin
3: Asian pear, 3 oz. tuna
4: 1 c. FF yogurt, 1/2 c. crushed pineapple
5: SGX meal
6: SGX meal

Daily Supplements: multivitamin with iron, calcium 500 + D, 1 T. flaxseed oil or natural peanut butter

Water: 16 cups minimum

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Workout:
8:00 AM HIIT run (4.5-9 mph / 0% incline / 15 minutes)
8:30 AM LISS walk (4.0 mph / 10% incline / 30 minutes)

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The Awful Truth:
1. Had lots of pasta last night. It was quite good. Not planned or necessarily authorized, but good nevertheless. My food guilt gene is definitely stunted, haha. :whistle:

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Brownie Points:
1. Did the laundry.
2. Signed up for Bally gym membership.
3. Drove all the way across town to meet Dad and do the above gym sign up.
4. Made a whole stack of paper seed envelopes so I can send some potential plants out to friends in Cali.
5. Calculated seed starting and seedling set out dates for all of my veggie seeds.

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Short-term Goals:
1. Update HandBase workout module.
2. Read two chapters from NASM book.
3. Bake new batch of carrot/pumpkin raisin bread.
4. Pack up most of my books, bookcases, desktop computer, peripherals, and computer desk for move this Saturday.
5. Bag, marinate, and freeze 8 lbs of chicken breast and 4 lbs of chicken legs.