Monday Monday

I realized at Crossfit on Thursday that I'm actually starting to enjoy my workouts. I'm still having to drag myself to the gym kicking and screaming, but then I enjoy it while I'm there. Hopefully eventually I will even look forward to going.

I'm a mathematician so I do everything in numbers and even though Dean said stay off the scale, I just have to. Well this week I broke a mark, I now have less than 50 lbs to lose. If you go back to the weight I was last May, then I'm now a quarter of the way to my goal. A whole 25%. And I've lost most of that weight in the last few weeks thanks to this wonderful makeover.

The other thing I've been doing is pushing myself to get the mile under 10 minutes. I some reason can't even jog the whole half mile (or sometimes quarter mile) outside on the pavement, but on the treadmill, I've been steadily going faster on the mile. Tonight I "ran" the mile in 11.26 minutes. I started at not even being able to make the mile, and the first time I did it was about 15 minutes. I think I've come a long way in just a few short weeks.

I'm actually amazed also at how much I like this diet. I'm going to turn in my food log tomorrow and see what the trainer at Crossfit has to say about it, but I find it easier and I feel like I'm eating healthy. A lot of diets involve their prepackaged food and you kind of look at the sodium and don't know. Others have these complicated lists of what you can and can't eat. This ones just simple, lean meat, veggies, nuts, and some fruits.

Speaking of diets, I've been reading Loren Cordain's books and I've learned a few things. You should keep nuts under 4oz a day if you're trying to lose weight, but should eat more than that if you're just maintaining weight. No more than 7 eggs a week, but you want lots of eggs because they're packed with viatamins. And free range, grass-fed is not just ethically better but also healthier.

This weekend my girlfriend had one of the best "date days" we have had in a long time. We went to the farmers market and spent several hours picking out veggies and fruits, planning our meals, comparing prices, and barganing. We also got some grass-fed steak and porkchops. The steak was really good and I don't even like beef! I can't wait to try the pork chops, you should have seen how nicely they cooked. Cantelope is definitly not a good breakfast food for work, too juicy. I eat mini cucumbers like they're candy. (Can you eat too many mini cucumbers? And why do the mini ones taste so much better than the regular ones?) Anyways, after the farmers market we came home and my girlfriend cooked on the grill while I cut up fruits and veggies and we had a wonderful relaxful dinner. Oh yeah and it was healthy too!