Good morning, Fatsecret!
Happy Easter - or, as it's know in my part of town - Zombie Jesus Day!
Yesterday went well. It was generally a pretty good day. I stayed occupied, and I once more had a day where I literally didn't feel that I was missing out on anything at 600 calories per day.
I still feel NO fatigue. No tiredness. Nothing.
I went to the gym yesterday morning, and I did the usual rounds. I did have ONE machine that I needed to lower my weights on, but this one is always rough on me. Other than that I was no more or less exhausted than I usually am.
The rest of the day was spent working and coming home to relax a bit before bed. Oh, and some cooking. I will get back to that in a little bit.
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So, Easter is upon us. This is a challenge. There will be no work to distract me. There will be lots of TV watching. There will be little to nothing much to do. All stores are closed, except for Saturday.
So, this is the time where I would usually be happily munching away all day, every day.
Well, not this time. I come prepared. I will maintain a 600 calorie RDI through the days, except for Saturday or Sunday, where I'll have my Indulgence Day.
I'm gonna knock this one out of the park.
Yesterday evening, I made tomato soup. Tons of it. 10 lbs to be exact. I LOVE tomato soup, and this will be my secret weapon.
My logic is simple: If I want to succeed in 600 calorie days, then I need food that is SUPER low in calories. 300 grams of tomato soup is 75 calories. Nothing. This will be great for lunch, for example, and it will give me the option to have something better and nicer for both breakfast or dinner.
OR: I could go with soup for breakfast and lunch, have good dinner AND maybe some fruit throughout the day.
Point is, it gives me a lot more options to have something like this. It's tasty, fulfillling, healthy, and everything inbetween.
The soup is made with tomatoes, mushrooms, cabbage, bell pepper, onions, garlic, and a ton of spices. Not bad, huh?
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Today, I have also arranged with my friend that we'll meet at 10 am for a walk. We're gonna go do at least 5 kilometers, to waste some time and to burn some extra calories.
Normally I stand up at work – even if I have a desk job – and I burn a few hundred extra calories doing this. However, this is taken away from me for the next 5 days, so I need to do other things. Obviously, I'm gonna go hit the gym some of the days – something like every other day (maybe more), and this should help me keeping going. I also have my stationary bike for any spontaneous spurts of energy, but honestly I don't see myself using it much. I think and hope that gym and walks will be sufficient, along with the strict food regime.
Quite some time will be spent playing bass too. I have a lot of practicing to do. We now have 10 songs in our setlist for Burnin' Live, and I got some Peanut stuff to practice too. There's plenty of work.
Another little musical project: The first Wednesday of every month there is a jam session thing going on a few towns over. We're gonna go again this month, my drummer Jack and I, along with our new singer. We were asked if we wanted to jam ”It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock'n'roll” by AC/DC. A young kid with a guitar needed a backing band. The curious thing about this song is that it also has bagpipes on the original recording, and this dude found a bagpipe player who's gonna join us! How fun is THAT!? I can't wait to see how this goes.
I'm definitely gonna try to get a video camera on this and have it covered. If the recording is any good, I'll be happy to show here.
So, the plan for today: Breakfast, walk, lunch, tv, tv, bass, tv, bass, dinner, tv, relax, bed. Sound accomplishable. I just need to be focused on fun stuff, occupy my time.
And the weight? The Fat%? How about that?
Well, I am up a pound this morning, with a one percent drop in fat to go with it. It's just a fluctuation, no biggie.
It does annoy me though - I was hoping for something better, I'd like to weigh a little less, but a drop in fat is always good.
I am now at 87 kilos with 6.1% on the body fat. I am perfectly content with this.
Today, I am thankful for:
- Easter break!
- Well prepared. I'm having my first scoop of tomato soup for breakfast today, saving my calories for later in the day. My first portion is slightly smaller than what I have packed for the other meals - this is the last one that didn't really fill the bag - and it's 69 calories. I could have 9 more of these through the day! lol.
- Morning coffee.
- The outlook to a nice walk in 4½ hours.
- ...the fact that I am seriously contemplating hitting the gym in a few hours too. :)
Happy Zombie Jesus Day! Life is good!