Today:

- 2 job applications

- A.M. swim — 1800 yards in 54 minutes

- laundry — two loads

- 3 hours of thesis

- errands

- lunch

- gym round 2 — 1.46 miles at 20 minutes on elliptical ; 5.01 miles at 20 minutes on stationary bike

- 3 hours contract work

- dinner — out with a friend

This song has started BOTH of my workouts today (love love love me some Fun!). It played on the radio precisely 4 minutes before pulling into the gym parking lot.  Same thing happened yesterday.  Plus it’s just an awesome running song.

A stupid calorie consumption question (you’d think after almost 2 years I would know this).  But I tend to not eat back my calories that I’ve worked off.  Myfitnesspal has the calories you are suppose to consume in a day (without workout) and then the net calories (which include your workout).  My average calorie burn sessions are 700-900 calories, of this I eat anywhere from 300-400 of these calories (so basically, I eat the 1330 that mfp tells me to, and an additional 300-400 calories.  Therefore my net is something like 2000 and I’m only eating around 1600 on these days.  

I’ve always been confused about net versus what I actually consume (especially on days like today where I burned 1600 calories with my workouts — that’s 300 MORE than what I’m suppose to eat on a daily basis to lose weight according to mfp).  I want to lose weight, but I’m afraid too much or too little calories above my daily usual will not promote healthy habits and help my body.  (The other totals — protein, fiber, carbs, calcium, and vegetables I hit at the daily suggestions if not a over).  

So today…I have consumed roughly 1700 calories, my daily allotment is 1330, and I’ve burned 1600 calories.  Am I eating enough to lose healthfully or do I need to eat more?

This week is insanely busy as it is the last full week that I’m in town between now and the end of August (ugh, really?  Totally just realized this after looking at the calendar).  Needless to say a lot of things are going on and I need to get everything done!

To do:

- GYM GYM GYM.  Oh glorious gym.

- 2 hours of contract work

-clean/reorganize thesis notes from previous 2 chapters

- 3 job applications (goal is to get 2 finalized and 1 a rough draft)

How’d I do?

- Treadmill — 1.06 miles @ 13 minutes (I wanted to go longer, but there was an electrical storm out and gym policy is switch to under 3.0 mph on treadmills because of the possibility of sudden stops.)

- Cross Ramp Elliptical — 0.65 miles @ 10 minutes (This was HARD as my legs really hurt, next time I’ll go for elliptical first but it wasn’t open)

- Stationary Bike — 4.50 miles @ 20 minutes

- Rowing Machine — 0.43 miles @ 4 minutes

- Stair Climber — 0.72 miles @ 15 minutes

^~^ I think I would say I killed it at the gym.  You agree?  (Oh!  And American men’s beach volleyball was on NBC Sports.  An alumni from my school is part of one of the US beach volleyball teams and I was hoping that he was playing.  Turned out he wasn’t, but still it was interesting enough to keep me occupied. Note: It’s tomorrow, 4-5 P.M.  Going to make sure to be at the gym then!)

- contract work — got in an hour, going to have another later

- still working on organizing thesis chapter notes, but what I wanted to do today I did so this is a total win

- only got 1 job application done.  No biggie, tomorrow there will be time for more

SOA total count for workouts (did this when I got up this morning):

 bicycle crunches — 40 in 30 seconds

 jumping jacks — 50 in 1 minute

 push-ups — 20 in 45 seconds

 burpees — cranked out 10 of them (no time)

I feel better today than I did yesterday when I made my to do lists for the week.  It’s insanely bonkers how much I have to do in a short period but I am determined to get it done and not waste my time on anything this week.

Also, goal for the gym today was not what I did.  Elliptical machine was taken so I went for the standby with the treadmill.  Next time I think I’ll jump to the bike or rower instead of treadmill because I have a feeling my legs were slightly worn out from running when I got on the elliptical.  I want fresh legs just to gauge how the elliptical and my body work together.

Winner winner chicken dinner!  Alright, so tonight I had turkey meat instead of chicken.  But my schedule was followed with the minor exception of switching gym time with job applications and thesis because of an ill-planned out snack that I knew would not bode well with a direct workout afterwards (I learned my lesson last time with cucumbers and running!).  And, after the events of said workout it was a good thing that I didn’t go right after consuming cucumbers.

So apparently the regular gaggle of daily workout people under the age of 30 decided that I was the “most inspirational” person of the week and paid for me to have a trainer for two hours today.  Umm, say whaaaa?  I did a whole bunch of weights (that I didn’t write down, but my body is sore so I know it happened) and then the trainer stuck me on cardio.  Two of the boys from the daily crew decided that they were going to join along in the cardio session for kicks and laughs…yeah I think they regret that now.  I tried to keep track of everything but that didn’t happen.  I do, however, know that each of the three puke buckets that the trainer had put aside had, um, well, bodily fluids in them after the 3rd cardio circuit. 

Workout

Weights — bench pressed 60 pounds; some arm lifts that I have no clue what they were with 30 pound weights; leg press with 150 pound weight; bicep curls with 20 pound weights; crunches with ankle weights at 10 pounds and a 20 pound weight on my stomach

Cardio Circuit 1 — some unknown amount of time on reclining bike; level 10 on elliptical for 5 minutes, treadmill at 6.5 mph for 5 minutes (got to have the treadmill fan on!!!!)

Cardio Circuit 2 — rowing machine at level 10 with 5.0 mph rowing speed for 5 minutes (my arms, oh my arms), upright stationary bike level 10 resistance for 5 minutes, treadmill at 6.5 mph with 5 incline for 5 minutes

Cardio Circuit 3 —

1 mile running non-stop at 6.5 mph with 5 incline (RWRunStreak Day 19 mile — 1.01 miles @ 13 minutes even)

Reverse elliptical — 0.25 miles @ 5 minutes

Stair Climber — 0.67 miles @ 15 minutes

And lastly….where the oh so glorious puke bucket made an appearance….

Upright bike, rolling hills course, level 10 with tension set at 20 — 6.86 miles @ 30 minutes

I have to say, out of the 3 of us on cardio I held out the longest with the puke bucket.  Apparently both of the guys that joined me don’t really do a whole lot of incline running and one stopped midway and his lunch came up.  The other finally gave it up on the stair climber because the trainer set his step rate up really high since he bragged about how he takes the stairs at work every morning.  

Somehow I survived long enough in the locker room for this photo:

And now I recover right — protein shake, fruits, compression sleeves, ice, resting, and tons of delicious protein filled foods for dinner.  And the exciting frozen grapes for snack because it is so hot! 

Or at least that is what I told myself when I was heading out the door…

Instead it looked something like this:

Treadmill Round 1 (RWRunStreak Day 9 mile):  1.01 miles @ 14 minutes

Stationary Bike (hills course): 5.30 miles @ 25 minutes

Treadmill Round 2 (played with the speed): 1.05 miles @ 13:50 minutes

Elliptical (reverse and regular): 0.33 miles @ 5 minutes

I’m a glutton for punishment.  After I finished the stationary bike I just didn’t want to go home.  I was dripping in sweat, but my mood from this morning was bugging me so I decided to take it out on the gym equipment instead of laying in front of my computer watching Netflix.  Good plan because now I feel better and got a good workout in.

Also, in the course of 2 days I’ve managed to complete half the amount of miles that I did in the full month of May.  I can’t wait to see how many total miles I get for June if I keep up this type of workout regimen.