I feel great today!

3:36am - the terrible sound of my alarm wakes me from a not-so-deep sleep. My bed, husband, and dogs are so warm and snuggly, I never wanna leave. But I drag my carcass out of bed anyway, and get dressed (after several snoozes, of course; the gym doesn't open until 5am on Mondays).

My bag is already packed, lunch already made, Zune charged up. I haul ass to the gym and make it there by 5am. (It's 7pm as I write this.)

I see a few people already inside workin' on their fitness. I throw my 1000-pound Burberry gym bag in a locker, grab my Zune and cell, and hit the treadmill. I decided to do a program today, because I never seem to push myself hard enough. I select weight loss, enter in 310 lbs, cautiously looking around, making sure no one around me saw that. I press start and off we go. The weight loss program took me on varied speeds and inclines. Several times, I pussied out and adjusted the speed to something a little less deadly. And then, the weirdest thing happened. I ACTUALLY JOGGED! I haven't jogged in Lord knows how long. I did it for a whole minute. Then slowed down, and let the sweat pour out of me. Then after a couple more minutes went by, I did it again! And then three more times, all one minute each! I was raining sweat and breathing like an asthmatic, but I was so proud. During my jogging spurts, I would focus really hard on either the song playing on the Zune, or the news on the TV in front of me, and just say, "You got this Schmidt, you're fine, only 30 more seconds." That 35 minutes went by so quickly. Phew. The distance was 1.7 miles and 290 cals burned.

Feeling totally elated, I decided I would work my legs next. Legs are my favorite to do, because I can do the most weight on them. Probably because they're used to carrying around this ass. I did the following moves:

Leg press: 10 resistance, 150 lbs, 3 sets of 15

Leg extension: 5 resistance, 70 lbs, 3 sets of 10

Calf extension: 5 resistance, 70 lbs, 3 sets of 15

Hip abduction: 5 resistance, 70 lbs, 3 sets of 15

Hip adduction: 5 resistance, 70 lbs, 3 sets of 15

There's another leg machine, I can't remember what it's called. I can't do that one by myself because I can't get my legs in it properly. Soon though.

Then back extension: 5 resistance, 70 lbs, 3 sets of 15

Abdominal: 5 resistance, 90 lbs, 3 sets of 15

Then I hit the showers, got ready for work, and headed out. As soon as I got to work, I rushed to boot up my PC to track my fitness activity on livestrong. Because they don't have an android app. Dislike. Of course, livestrong did not have my exact work-out pre-loaded, so I had to fudge it a little, which I actually think took my number of calories burned down a little, but that's ok. I'm really trying to be as exact as I can, and I'd rather underestimate than overestimate. This way, I don't go over my calories on accident later, thinking I burned more than I actually did. But according to livestrong, I burned 416 calories. And then I got this little guy to post on my FB, letting the world know of my endeavor and new way of life:

I felt great all day.

The granola snack I made last night was literally one of the best ideas I've ever had. It was so delectable, I could have eaten it all day. Also, the cajun seasoning on my chicken was phenom.

For some reason, carbs are still the predominant part of my diet, even though I ate a lot of veggies today. I was not aware that veggies had so many carbs. But then, according to livestrong, I've only had 40% of my carbs today. So I'm still working out the kinks, I guess. It's better than McDonald's carbs, I'm sure.

It's 7:30pm, and I can still eat 1182 calories. I will not be doing so, however. And I didn't starve myself either.

I drank nothing but water all day. I had 1 cup of toasted oats (Meijer's version of Cheerios) at 8am, my granola snack between 9:30-10am. Grilled chicken, peas, green beans, and carrots for lunch at 11:15am. One cup of peas, green beans, and carrots again at 2:30pm, pork loin, peas and carrots for dinner at 6:20pm. Hershey kisses for dessert between 7-7:30pm. All of which is tracked in the above screen shot.

And I'll do it all again tomorrow.