I had a great time at Carrabba’s Italian Grill last night with Chris and a bunch of friends celebrating the 33rd birthday of C’s gaming buddy Ben. I didn’t have much warning about the dinner (Chris called me right at 7 pm as I was about to chow down on my M5: tilapia, brussels sprouts, and cashews), so I replaced meals 5 and 6 with the grilled chicken breast, asparagus, zucchini, house salad, and Italian bread dipped in herbed olive oil I had at the restaurant, but kept my portions under control, didn’t order any pasta ( ), and saved half of my meal for tonight’s dinner.

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Food came out to 1786 calories yesterday even with the trip to Carrabbas, and I still had a deficit of almost 500 calories. This morning’s weigh-in was a reasonable 142.4 lbs which I expect to drop back down into 141 territory by Saturday morning.

TT workout A this morning went very well due to the bread I had last night and my decision to have breakfast before lifting today. All DB split squats were done with 50 lb DBs, and managed to squeeze out all sets of low incline DB presses with 40 pounders for the first time. I realized that I was using the wrong grip on my BB rows for the past two weeks after checking the manual again and switched to the right overhand one today. Oops.

Interesting observation on the stability ball leg curls, both 2 and 1 leg versions: I have not done any weighted leg curls for over 4 months since I started using TT as my primary strength routine, so I sort of expected my strength in machine leg curls to go down a bit. However, when I performed them Tuesday as part of the circuit my personal trainer gave me, I was still able to do my seated leg curls at 105 lbs, the same weight I was using when I trained that movement with weights regularly last year, and I actually felt like I could have bumped that up at least another 7.5 pounds.

Oh, and let’s have a nice round of applause for the return of the cute clickable smileys in my comments area! I’ve missed them, but the new version of the WP-Grins plug-in by Alex King made my blog load times atrociously long, and I was too lazy to regress everything back to the old plug-in version AND make the needed manual PHP code changes to the core Wordpress editor files until yesterday.

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TODAY’S WORKOUT
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- TT Workout A
A1) DB Split Squat (3×8 @ 50 lbs)
A2) DB Low-Incline Press (3×8 @ 40 lbs)
B1) BB Row (3×8 @ 75 lbs)
B2) 1-leg Stability Ball Curl (3×8 per side)

- Oxygen/Monica Brant Shoulder Workout (20 min)
- YF Cardio (30 min)
- OARS 3&4
- TT Core A/B

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TODAY’S EATS
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1) 3 egg whites, 1 oz. raisins, 1 oz. oats
2) Pineapple protein smoothie with BCAA
3) 4 oz. tilapia, 1 c. brussels sprouts, 1 large pear
4) 3/4 c. LF cottage cheese, 3/4 c. grapes
5) 4 oz. chicken breast, 3/4 c. sauteed zucchini and asparagus, 1/2 t. olive oil, 1 oz. cashews, 1/2 slice Italian bread
6) 1 scoop protein powder, 1/2 c. sauteed spinach, 0.5 oz. walnuts

~ 1800 calories

Supplements: 1 multivitamin, 1 calcium 600+D, 2 servings BCAA, 6 fish oil capsules, 1 serving l-Glutamine