Weighed in a little late this week (Tuesday), and I came in at 230.4. As I publish this on a Tuesday night, I'm having an issue with late-night eating. Otherwise I've been really good with keeping to a decent diet.
Right now I'm just craving
something, after having dinner at 6:30. I had a Jimmy John's
Pepe (c) "unwich," where the sub bread is replaced with a leaf of lettuce. This greatly cut's down on the carbs (53 g with the french bread vs. 8 g with a lettuce wrap) and cuts almost 250 calories (631 vs. 389). I'll admit with the lettuce wrap it tasted like it needed some kind of dressing, but that would just about defeat the purpose of getting a lettuce wrap to begin with.
Tangent: If Jimmy John's is thought full enough to put a lettuce wrap on the menu, why can you not get a low-fat mayonnaise? It's not like I would have a taste issue with it, as the standard at my house is Hellman's light mayo. But playing with the sandwich customizer on Jimmy John's website, which also includes the nutrition facts of any sub you could put together, I found that normal Hellman's mayo adds 21 g of fat (189 calories) to the sub. However, if that mayo were replaced with the same amount of light mayo (2 Tbsp), it would cut the fat grams down to 7 g, saving 126 calories, and cutting the calorie count on the Unwich all the way down to 263.
Speaking of stringently counting calories, I had my most productive running workout since I started working out. Over the course of approximately 38 min (35 + 3 cool down), I ran 4.04 miles (9:25 pace), and according to the treadmill, burned more than 700 calories. I know this will have to keep increasing either in time run or mile pace, but I don't think I've ever run 4 miles at one time without stopping.
The pipe dream goal I've had was to get down to a 8:00 pace (7.5 mph) over the course of a 30-40 min workout, and I still want to get there, but I think a 9:00 pace is much more attainable and I can put a reasonable due date on it. A 9:00-minute mile represents an average speed of 6.67 mph, and considering the 4.04 mi/38 min gives me an average speed of 6.38 mph, the 9-minute pace is quite reasonable. So I'm gonna make it my goal that by the end of the month, I'm going to get to that 9-minute pace, and I'll use my scheduled run on the 31st as the official measuring stick.
Overall, I've fallen into a lifting MWF/cardio TR kind of a schedule, and after my third and final personal training session, I'll have a distinct workout for each lifting day. On my own I plan to add a few sets of ab workout at the end of each workout, since that's the part of my body that when I look in the mirror, looks the "flabbiest."
