The New Year - Day 1 - Chest and Back

It's a new year and life has settled down quite a bit since I last blogged. I had several false starts and a couple of real starts in the last few months, but I never made it through the whole program. Once the holidays hit, I kept up with my workouts about 50% of the time, but my diet went to hell. Now that the calendar has clicked over to 2010 (I pronounce it twenty-ten) I need to start giving it my all again. I have considered going back to my BRE diet, which consisted mainly of chicken or fish coupled with brown rice and broccoli. On that diet, I LOST WEIGHT and GAINED MUSCLE. It was boring and I had to take in extra fat in the form of flax seed oil to meet my minimum fat requirement, but it was easy and it was brainless. Part of what gets me in to trouble is not being prepared. When you just try to eat well as a whole, you sometimes run out of stuff that's easy to prepare or you just don't want to take the time to prepare it and you end up eating something bad. When you have chicken and rice and a green leafy on hand all the time, temptation is much less of an issue. I also found that on the BRE diet, I was never hungry and the only time I had cravings for junk is if I (for any reason other than a craving) had some junk first. It perpetuates itself.

So anyway, I woke up this morning and had my egg/fat free cheese/wheat toast sandwich and a glass of milk with a Costco kids chewable dino vitamin chaser for breakfast. At lunch, I went to do the chicken thing and discovered the only chicken breasts I had ready were old. When I cut open the pouch, it smelled sulfurous like bad eggs. They went into a ziplock and into the trash. I dug around a little more and found some frozen salmon. It was in individual serving pouches. Perfect! I perforated the pouch with a fork and nuked it for three minutes and voila, salmon. A cup of brown rice and some Sriracha finished it off. While I was wolfing it down, I commented to Steph that I had no idea why I stopped eating like this. It was freaking delicious. It is perhaps one of my favorite meals. I ate this in front of my laptop while I worked by the fireplace. Heaven.

After lunch, I informed my teammates at work that I would be "going to the gym." I went to the frigid basement and did my P90X Chest and Back. I have had two weeks mostly off of working out, so I got a little dizzy when I was pushing to my max reps, but I made it through and felt much better afterward. A protein shake topped off the workout and let me know that I am almost out of creatine as well. I don't have anything else scheduled other than abs - which will not be Ab RipperX, but instead, The Truth About Six Pack Abs - Level 5 - but I hope to squeeze in some hill sprints. It depends on how I feel later on. I don't want to overdo it on the first day of my new commitment.