- Ladle one serving of delicious, hot, prepared steel-cut oats into a microwave safe bowl.

- Add one scoop of vanilla whey protein powder and mix until dissolved.

- Take one bite of the proatmeal concoction.

- Gag. :crazy:

- Gag. :crazy:

- Gag. :crazy:

- Look desperately for a waste receptacle into which you can expel the mouthful of unimaginable vileness. :yuck:

- Lose all desire to eat for the next 4 hours because you didn’t pack a toothbrush in your work/school bag and the taste of Chemical Plaster of Proatmeal with Super Duper Rotten Dairy Aroma still lingers in your mouth.

- Cry softly to self over waste of perfectly good ingredients.

I had the hardest time getting up today, probably because I stayed up until midnight playing Guitar Hero 2. My left hand still feels cramped up from holding the controller and hitting the fret buttons on my mini-guitar for over 3 hours straight.

Anyway, I just had TT intervals today. I decided to try it on the treadmill instead of the stationary bike at the gym and ran:

Warm up: 5 min @ 4.0 mph and 5% incline

Intervals @ 0% incline (1 min/2 min):
8.5 mph/4.0 mph
9.0 mph/4.0 mph
9.5 mph/4.0 mph
9.5 mph/4.0 mph
9.5 mph/4.0 mph
10 mph/4.0 mph

Cooldown: 5 min @ 4.0 mph and 0% incline

My first two sets were slow because I was still trying to determine my level 9 intensity, but next time around I will just jump into 10 mph as my sprint speed. 9.5 mph is challenging, but I’m capable of doing 10 mph without falling off the back of the machine, so why slack off?

Today’s Planned Eats:
1: 1 c. shredded wheat cereal and 4 egg whites
2: Kashi crispy treat protein bar
3: 4 oz. homemade baked chicken fingers w/WW breading, 1 c. broccoli, 1 c. pad thai rice noodles and veggies
4: 1 rice cake, 1/2 T. ANPB, 1/2 c. plain FF yogurt, 2 T. SF blackberry preserves
5: 4 oz. baked chicken fingers, 3 c. spinach/Romaine/tomato/green pepper salad, 2 T. Kraft Free Zesty Italian dressing
6: 2 whole egg/4 egg white omelette with 1 c. spinach and 2 T. salsa

Water: 16 cups
Supplements: 3 capsules Digest-All, 3 capsules fish oil, 1 multivitamin, 1 calcium 600 + D
Calories: ~ 1600-1700 (40% carb/40% pro/20% fat)

I’m continuing with my daily 25 minute/1.5 mile walk before lunch just because I have a feeling that without it, the number of steps I actually walk per day would be under 1000, and that is just sad. One day I will actually get the battery in my pedometer replaced and log the steps I take on a non-cardio work day just to see how sedentary my life would be without exercise. I bet the figure is pathetically low.

I’m also scheduled for a 30 minute YF workout which will most likely be flexibility focused. After that, I’m picking my mini-guitar back up and conquering Heart’s Crazy On You!

…so rocks my world. :love:

And cripples my wrist and fingers.

I’ve beaten the first 25 songs on medium difficulty with either four or five stars out of five (mostly with five stars because I’m a perfectionist) since I liberated the game out of its lovely packaging 2.5 hours ago.

Yes, I got GH2 a day earlier than street date because I pre-ordered directly from RedOctane.com, and their shipper UPS was a bit speedier than expected. :claphigh:

Now I am going to go bed and hope that my hands have recovered by 6 am so I can get my fingers to grip a toothbrush properly again. Currently they refuse to uncurl from my brand new cherry red Guitar Hero SG controller.

:crazy:

Perhaps just one more song then…