Day 2

Some jerk laid out a bunch of donuts and pastries about ten feet from my desk.  I just had an apple but the craving/habit is yelling at me to have a donut and coffee... have two!  Argh.

Anyway, strength training with Randy this morning was good.  I'm not sure why I was thinking it would be easier than kickboxing... in some ways it was, but the muscle isolation and the resulting burn is pretty intense.  We were concentrating on form today so using light bands, I did wind up banding up to a green for a later triceps exercise since my triceps are pretty developed already.  I have a hard time just getting my body into the right position for some of the exercises just from my bulk.  Lunges were extremely difficult for me to balance and do, especially with my bum left big toe.  If I had martial arts shoes that would help a lot I think.  Jillian helped with my lunge form when class was done which was good, but then of course I do two of them and my quads are on fire and quitting on me anyway.

Overall, good day 2.  :-)

Yesterday afternoon was rough... I'm still in the 'South Beach' food mindset so what I had for snacks and lunch yesterday was lo/no carb... and yesterday afternoon I was absolutely wiped out.  Today I brought in bananas and apples and a sandwich and I'm hoping they help me out more, also hoping bumping up my carb intake will make tomorrow morning's kickboxing go better.  The irony is that if I'm feeling better, I should just work harder so I still go to failure anyway.  It's an interesting mindset.

I don't think I was more than level 8 today, maybe 9 yesterday.

We have health screenings here at work tomorrow so I guess I'll be getting a weight update before the 1-week point as was my plan.