Day 17

by Jess on February 19th, 2010 in Month 1 & 2

The Daily Bite: Chicken, Spinach & Mushroom Alfredo

So I cheated and went on the scale. The new one. I bought a new Omron HBF-514C. It comes equipped with memory storage for 4 different people and allows you to input your age, height and gender, which the scale uses to calculate your BMI, body fat percentage, muscle percentage, BMR, body age, and visceral fat. I’ll look into visceral fat later. No clue what that is. Anyway, with a new scale, and hopefully it’s accurate, comes a new weight. And unfortunately, it’s only gone up to 214. So that’s ten pounds heavier. I did step on the old scale today too, to see if I’d gained on that, but still the same: 204. So I think it’s safe to say that the old scale is off by 10. Well damn. That means I was at 223 when I started. I didn’t think I’d let myself get THAT out of control but seems to be the case. This will just be inspiration to work harder to get out of the 200′s. I hate being in the 200′s.

Consumption: 1538 calories, 13.5g of fat.

Lunch was yet again my ham turkey cheese melt. I have pictures this time though! For dinner, I made fat free alfredo with chicken, spinach & mushrooms. It was so good. The garlic was the key ingredient though. And the flour/roux. Recipe later. I tried looking for low-fat or fat-free Mozzarella cheese to no avail. It’s just not worth it for a tiny bit of cheese that basically has no nutritional worth to be 8g of fat for a tablespoon. Sorry, I’d rather eat more pasta or chicken.

Workout: Elliptical. Treadmill. Biceps. Triceps.

I ran a 10:42 mile! I’m sure that sounds slow but for me, that’s a big improvement. I’m aiming for a ten-minute mile by the end of February so that gives me about another week. I finally did biceps and triceps, and realized how weak my triceps are which is probably why my biceps haven’t been building and getting stronger. Can’t have big biceps with weak triceps. I did cross-training on the elliptical instead of intervals and instead of doing all cardio first and then weights, I decided to do my run first, then weights, then back to cardio. Mix things up and also semi-testing out this glycogen workout theory that I’ve heard about. Personally, I don’t think it makes a difference the order in which you do weights or cardio but then again, I didn’t major in fitness or nutrition.