I think I am getting a light cold. I’m mildly congested, and my throat is slightly sore. I’m vitamin bombing it with C and my usual multi and making sure I get plenty of fluids and sleep. With luck and care, it won’t turn into a full-blown cold.

141.0 this morning, down over 2 lbs of water from yesterday. Eats were pretty clean overall yesterday and within my calorie range, and water intake was right at 1 gallon, so go me. I also wisely passed out early last night with a sinus headache while reading in bed (”Three Bags Full”, a mystery where the detectives are a flock of sheep trying to solve the murder of their shepherd). I woke up feeling much better this morning, so the extra sleep was probably needed.

This morning’s workout was a Yourself Fitness physical challenge (I dread the 2 minute jumping jack test every time. By the last 30 seconds of the test, you are doing 1 jumping jack per second, which is insanely fast. Try it sometime.) followed by a 30 minute YF cardio workout at home. I’ve been getting bored with the cardio machines at the gym and already ran yesterday, so breaking out the YF again was a nice change of pace. I’ve done 40 out of 200 pushups for today already and plan to do 8 more sets of 20 each throughout the work day. Actually, I still need to do my diagnostic 2 minute pushup set to see how many I can knock out now before I really kick into the program. I should be able to get that in during my lunch time walk and count those reps towards my 200 for the day.

One of the games I worked on this year, Call of Duty 4 for the Nintendo DS, was released yesterday, and there is a company launch party for it tonight at a downtown Orlando bar. There will be appetizers and drinks served, but I should be okay. I don’t do alcohol, and I’ll make sure to have my dinner salad before I go to keep the snacking impulse under control.

I have only 12 more days before my Trash the Dress session, so I am officially going turbo starting tomorrow. That means 30 minutes of extra cardio on top of my baseline workout plan Mon-Sat, and strict adherence to the Phase 3 nutrition from my Body By O program which is a 1 day high, 2 days low zig zag plan with no dairy, wheat, or refined sugar. Simply put, if it’s not on the official menu, I’m not eating it. Cheat meals are down to one per week, with no cheat “item”.

And I WILL get up early enough to get all of my workouts done in the morning so I will have spare time at lunch and in the evening to study for my NASM certified personal trainer exam in January. I have already re-certified in adult CPR/AED and paid for the exam and the 3rd edition course materials, so I am committed.

Play time is over. There are only 8 weeks left in 2007, and I am going to ring in the New Year with my body composition and PT certification goals already checked off so I can focus on boosting athletic performance, increasing my net worth, improving my art skills, and teaching myself some PHP/MySQL programming.