No workout this AM because I had to take photos of DH lying on patches of dead lawn and weeds outside the house for use as reference for a mini-game interface I’m working on today. He got a kick out of posing as an injured soldier in his camouflage paintball pants (formerly MY authentic summer weight camo BDU pants before he appropriated them for himself).

Weigh-in was 140.4 lbs after 3 days of perfect SGX eats at around 1550 calories/day and only one missed interval workout session. Bike sprints, another interval run, and HHA Total Body Burn, Hips/Buns/Thighs, or Forza to follow after work.

I am feeling a bit more sluggish on day 4 of SGX, and since I got in between 7-8 hours of sleep last night, I know it’s not due to lack of rest. I’m hoping that a combination of coffee in my two protein shake snacks today, massive quantities of green tea, and random bursts of bodyweight squats, jump squats, and push-ups on my breaks will pep me up. I’m sure that part of my drowsiness is due to the lack of AM workout.

Speaking of workouts, Chris got back on the P90X wagon this week. He’s giving the new P90X+ program a try using the P90X+ “Classic” schedule. To encourage him to keep up with daily exercise, I printed out a combined workout calendar for the next 12 weeks with both his program and mine on it and stuck it on the fridge along with some metallic foil star stickers so we can keep track of our completed workouts. I also moved the Powerblocks to the living room for easy access and showed him where all four levels of resistance bands are stored.

The next sneaky step is to create a weekly menu of healthy, faux Mexican and Asian meals for him to heat up for himself when I’m not at home to get him to eat clean without actually realizing that he’s doing so. He’s one of those laid-back people who doesn’t possess enough vanity or competitive drive to motivate him to put effort into a regimented, self-directed eating plan, and as a natural ectomorph whose weight never shifts more than 3-4 pounds from his baseline of 150 lbs no matter what he eats or how much he slacks off, he just isn’t that interested in the nuts and bolts of clean eating.

Basically, if you cook it (healthy or not) and put it in front of him, he will eat it, and that’s the end of it. He’s more likely to absentmindedly forget to eat than to overdo it.

(I know…I can’t understand it either.)

Fortunately, 99% of the food shopping in the household is done by me, so I’d estimate that 80% of his meals are pretty clean by Western standards. I can’t vouch for his lunches on the road, but HE claims that he sticks to chicken salads and sandwiches most of the time.

Time to break out the Weight Watcher’s Take Out Tonight for good ethnic restaurant recipes and The Sneaky Chef for creative ways to sneak vegetables into his meals!

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WORKOUT
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- HIIT run (20 min)
- Bike sprints (15 min)
- HHA or Forza (30-40 min)

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NUTRITION
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Swolegenix non-training day menu