BRIENMALONE's CalorieKing Blog
Almost Got Away!
Sunday, February 24th 2008
Whoo - almost let a whole day slip by without a blog... That would have been the first in a long time!
I spent nine hours working on a team paper for my systems analysis class today so I'm a bit "written out" for the moment.
Today wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly a banner day. Since I brought home that yummy cookie/ice cream dessert, I broke down at lunch and polished it off. That was 730 completely useless, empty calories on top of a 600 calorie, healthy lunch.
Afte...
Hey! That's More Like It!
Saturday, February 23rd 2008
There we go! I've lost 4 lbs over the last 2 weeks. Nice to see things moving in the right direction. All I had to do was make that one small accounting change (Polar calories burned).My targets for the week look like this
Sat 2500 cal, cardio + weight training (abs)
Sun 2500 cal, cardio
Mon 1850 cal off
Tue 1850 cal, cardio
Wed 1850 cal, cardio + weight training (lower body)
Thu 1850 cal, cardio
Fri 1850 cal, cardio + weight training (upper body)
Mmmm... Cheat Meal...
The Cottage Cheese Talk
Friday, February 22nd 2008
Cottage cheese is a fantastic source of non-meat protiein, but it comes with an achilles heel - high salt content. One serving has 450 to 650 mg sodium. I wasn't sure that there was a "low-sodium" cottage cheese, but since I eat nearly 16 oz per day (1800mg sodium) I wanted to see if there was some hope I could continue eating it.Lucerne 1% no-salt-added cottage cheese at Von's
After a LOT of digging around, I found out that Vons (grocery on the west coast) carries Lucerne no...
Another Good Day!
Thursday, February 21st 2008
A Solid Six?I sleep 7 1/2 hours a night, but never all at once. In fact, I haven't slept more than 6 hours straight in years. I don't know if I have a sleep scheudle hiccup that makes me sleep in shifts or if I only need 6 hours of sleep per night. When I was younger, I'd get 7 1/4 hours of sleep, but after I left home - I slept whenever and wherever I could. When I met my wife, I was sleeping 6 hours per night during the week but I think I was napping a lot on the weekends.
Even thou...
Round 2: Upper Body Break-In! WOOT!
Wednesday, February 20th 2008
Awake at 4:30am, oatmeal at 5:00, gym by 6am for weight training and cardio! WOOHOO! We're back on track!Burn Investigation
Having hernia surgery a few months ago forced me to ease back into the gym. The urologist said "no "impact" cardio (like running) and no weights for at least 3 months". I was really disappointed at the time, but I have noticed something now that I have started weight training again. There is a difference between the burn of cardio and the burn ...