Gut Buster

Well, Ryan's IM chats and our mutual support over poker led to a major change. It's not a change in my weight, yet, but it is a change. I read the list of Power Foods, went out and bought them, and stuck to eating them all week. Every morning, I cooked breakfast for myself (instead of the usual McDonald's drive-through routine yielding Egg McMuffins.) While I cook four eggs on the burner, I warm up a bowl of Quaker Oats Oatmeal mixed with no-fat organic milk, to which I then add blueberries. So far, it tastes great, gives me energy, and isn't much trouble to make. Lunches... need improvement. Dinners... need improvement. But I do have the elements for progress--microwaveable brown rice, canned beans, spinach, and (as of last night) chicken breasts. Tonight I'll take advantage of Ryan's advice to have one meal in a week that has anything I want in it.

Man, am I freaking tired. But I did work out Monday and Wednesday, jogging from Lover's and the Tollway to Normandy, then to Preston, to the YMCA, working out at the Y, and then walking/jogging back to Lover's and the Tollway. I missed Friday, and I missed Tuesday and Thursday's partial workouts (for the gut only.) So there's room for progress.

Now the next step is to tame my tendancy for excess over dinners this week. Also, I need to get to yoga on Thursday and Saturday. That ought to keep a bit limber. Most important of all, I have to get up at 5am and not at 5:30 or 5:45am. That makes me late, puts everything behind, and messes up the day. Last of all, Tuesday and Thursday need some kind of activity... maybe swimming.

But all told, this week has been a major step for me. Now I need to make it last...