Hello everyone. Well I hope you all had a good weekend. I hope March goes out like a lamb like the old saying goes. I think it came in like a lion because we are still below in our average temperature by a long ways. Right? Not much we can do about that though. Onto my eating and exercise over the weekend. I went with a mens group from our church to an ice fishing retreat up in Grenville, SD. We had about 20 guys that showed up. Good turn out. We left at 6:00 AM (or about) I ate really really well on Friday. I had my normal breakfast before we left, had fruit and a couple 100 calorie packs for lunch and then homemade pork sandwiches for dinner with some sides. Well maybe the sides weren’t the best choice but I didn’t eat a big portion and I didn’t go for seconds! I did have a few refreshments more then normal but we did get a good workout. We had to pull our ice shacks about 3/4 of a mile through snow drifts and uphill to get back to our trucks. We were fishing on Waubay Wildlife Refuge and they don’t allow any motorized vehicles of any kind. I can tell you this, there is no way I would have been able to help pull our shack out there if I didn’t lose 28 lbs and exercised regularly for the last couple months. I doubt I would have been able to walk it without the shack. Saturday I had French Toast for breakfast with sausage. Again, only one helping which was two pieces of french toast and 3 sausages. Then had 100 calorie packs for lunch and a fruit pack, so not bad. Well fishing was very very slow on Saturday so started with a few refreshments outside in the cold. Then when we got back I heated up 3 sausages from this AM, had a brownie, a bowl of Chili…well actually I had two cups. I put cheese in the chili as I needed some dairy for my balance of food. I did have another brownie and again a few more refreshements then I should have but you know how it goes when you’re with a group of guys…we did make the same track back to the refuge so I did get good exercise again.
Sunday was two eggs, two frozen patties of hashbrowns that we cooked of course and 3 slices of bacon. Was that the right choice maybe not but when i’m in that setting I was ok with that. When I got home I had some almonds, 17 to many though )*: Then a bowl of soup for lunch. Had a couple weight watcher snacks in the afternoon watching the hockey game and then after church had 2 brats with cottage cheese and a bowl of fruit. It felt really really good to get back on track this AM with exercising on my treadmill. I went 3.42 mile and burned off over 700 calaries in my hour workout. Today we celebrate my oldest son’s 21st birthday so we have to have a beer together at the restaurant right? Of course I am. It will be his first to…yeah right. It’s also my dad’s birthday, and my sister in-laws all today so my dad will also be joining us as well. We’ll have to do a toast of somekind for sure. My sister in-law can’t join us as they live in Califiornia. Have to travel to North Dakota this week to start a training process for our field force so will be stressed out. We’ll see if I fall off the wagon a little bit or if I buck up and exercise my stress away instead of eating poorly like I have for so many years. Wish me luck! Talk to you on Wednesday.
Jason
