Food & Exercise -- 3/20/2004

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Chris Braun - 21 Mar 2004 05:27 GMT

Food:

9:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese

10:00 (home): 6 little chocolate cat cookies (7 calories each)

1:00 (home): 3 f/f beef hot dogs w/ 3 slices melted f/f cheese; 1 cup
red grapes

3:00 (home): creatine

5:00 (in the car on the way to a concert): ready-to-drink protein
shake

7:00 (at concert -- Tom Rush -- in a sort of dinner club that serves
bar food): 1 cup chili w/ 1/4 oz. shredded cheese; 1/2 piece chocolate
cake w/ 1 scoop vanilla ice cream; 10 oz. wine

Totals: 1619 calories, 29g fat (16%), 190g carbs (47%), 97g protein
(24%)

Averages for the week: 1500 calories, 21% fat, 44% carbs, 33% protein
{The weekly average calories is exactly at my goal, which is kind of a
fluke :-) .}

Exercise: Not a bit. Lazed around web surfing, TiVo surfing, and
magazine browsing, then went off to the Tom Rush concert. I first
heard Tom Rush perform in 1966, have probably heard him 30 times
since, and am still in love with him :-).

Chris
262/157/ (holding in 152-165 weight class)

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Dally - 23 Mar 2004 04:45 GMT

> Averages for the week: 1500 calories, 21% fat, 44% carbs, 33% protein
> {The weekly average calories is exactly at my goal, which is kind of a
> fluke :-) .}

A curious fluke: your weight loss is slowing, your calories are rising,
then you buy a TiVo.... it looks like I might catch you after all!

> Exercise: Not a bit. Lazed around web surfing, TiVo surfing, and
> magazine browsing, then went off to the Tom Rush concert.

Sounds heavenly. I wore my workout bra and yesterday's underpants under
my work clothes all day thinking I was going to get a chance to run out
weight-lifting any minute now... just as soon as I return the next phone
call, etc. But I ended up working straight through with only about two
20 minute breaks from 9 am to 9 pm. TMI, I know, but I kept thinking
for some reason that I'd fit in a workout somewhere. I'm rather mad at
myself actually for not!

BTW, my workouts these days are really, really brief. Like, 45 minutes
including changing, warm-up and shower. I rush to the gym (two blocks
away) and warm up with half mile run then squat, deadlift, bench press
and do chins and leave. My mantra is "squat something, push something,
pull something and out."

Dally

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Chris Braun - 23 Mar 2004 05:19 GMT

>A curious fluke: your weight loss is slowing, your calories are rising,
>then you buy a TiVo.... it looks like I might catch you after all!

Well, if you want to get this low perhaps you will; I didn't think you
did, particularly. Right now I'm trying to maintain my current weight
and perhaps gain a pound or two before the meet. It is
disadvantageous to be toward the lower end of one's weight class --
best to be right at the top, though I'm too cautious to do that.
(Actually, my weight loss rate has been roughly 4 lbs. a month for the
last year, including these last few months. Looking at my graph, I'm
157 now, 161 four weeks ago, 166 four weeks before that.)

After the meet I need to make a decision about what I want to do.
Ahmed feels rather strongly that I should stay where I am, but I'm
inclined to want to get a bit lower -- maybe 145-150 -- one weight
class down from where I am now. Tom thinks I'm fine where I am -- at
a healthy weight, that is -- but wouldn't object if I wanted to lose a
little more. At any rate, I'm feeling like I'm in a sort of end game,
fine-tuning stage at this point.

We've had the TiVo for about a year, btw :-).

>Sounds heavenly. I wore my workout bra and yesterday's underpants under
>my work clothes all day thinking I was going to get a chance to run out
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>for some reason that I'd fit in a workout somewhere. I'm rather mad at
>myself actually for not!

These things happen -- don't beat yourself up over it. I skipped
cardio tonight and am not worrying about it. I'll be cutting back on
cardio this week and next anyway to conserve energy for the meet.

>BTW, my workouts these days are really, really brief. Like, 45 minutes
>including changing, warm-up and shower. I rush to the gym (two blocks
>away) and warm up with half mile run then squat, deadlift, bench press
>and do chins and leave. My mantra is "squat something, push something,
>pull something and out."

I think it's great that you do this much when you're so busy!

Chris

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