This week's goals

I think I've mentioned it a couple times already, but I've been super busy lo these past couple weeks. It's like that around here...free time galore for months, and then all of a sudden the world explodes in work. The hills are alive with the sound of work. Work, work, everywhere and not a minute to spare. A break, a break, my kingdom for a break. Etc. At any rate, I've got a few minutes before my restore job is done, so let's get to some goals, shall we?

Food

Yyyeah...this is my sore spot. Even though my workouts were light last week, the main reason I didn't lose anything was because I ate like a fiend 5 days out of 7. This has led me to a couple changes in the plan...

1. I can't do free weekends anymore. I don't necessarily have to count every bite on my days off, but some kind of restraint is definitely in order. What I've decided is that I'm going to have free Saturdays, because I have been starting my Saturdays lately by burning over 1000 calories. Whatever indiscretions I have with the eating later in the day, they balance out. I will be watching my calories on Sundays now, trying to only eat when I'm hungry and as cleanly as I can.

2. I need to stay under 1000 calories before 6 pm. Sounds weird, kind of flying in the face of the traditional "don't eat at night" doctrine. However, the facts are that the meal planning is working for breakfast and lunch but not so much for dinner. I have not felt like cooking in the slightest all week, so we've been eating out a lot. I think if I plan everything until I get home, and just plan on winging it for dinner (within reason, of course), it will keep my overall calories lower. I'm shooting for 1500-1700 again this week. Protein, water, fiber are all the same (75g, 2L, 25g, respectively).

Exercise

Again basically the same, but going a little more specific.

1 walk/run interval workout (3 miles)
2 elliptical interval workouts (45 minutes each)
1 K@thy Smith upper body workout
1 K@thy Smith lower body workout
1 K@thy Smith abs workout
1 set of abs on my own
1 45ish-mile ride (I don't know the exact mileage, since I didn't finish last week because of the $%#&! flat)
1 15-mile ride OR 5-mile walk (these both work out to about 1:15-1:30 total time)

I'm also going to TRY to do my weights workouts in the morning, so that I'm not tempted to skip them.

At my current speeds, this should come out to be...7.5-8 hours? That'll be enough to burn off a pound, I should think. Anything I get from restricting my food will just be gravy.

Mmm...gravy.