Day 12: Meal 1 ~ Brunch

Backlog done!

I said I wouldn't do it anymore, but I did it again yesterday.  Oops.

Here's my sugar-rushed breakfast eaten from Sugar Rush Cafe!  Found this place through the help of yelp! I love french toast... and this place is known for it.

Breakfast:  4 pieces of french toast with raisins, covered in bananas and strawberries.  No idea what type of sugar syrup it is... but it's good.

Food:  3 pieces of french toast (~500 kcal)?, 1/2 banana (53 kcal), 2 strawberries (5 kcal), 3 tbsp syrup (~160 kcal?)

Calories:  718 kcal

WHOA.  Starting my day off big.  I'm guessing?  I might be over-doing it with the french toast calories... but hmm.  not sure.  Better to over-estimate than underestimate right?

It's been 4 hours since I ate this... and I'm still full.  Must be a lot of calories!

At least it's lots of energy.  Cardio Power & Resistance today!

Day 11: Meal 3 ~ Dinner

I was on empty right before dinner.

The night before I was craving pasta also.  Carbs!!!  I need you!

So off to Spaghetti Eddie's Italian Restaurant!

Last time I ate here, I had the most delicious seafood linguini.  Today I had a delicious angel hair pasta!  It hit the spot perfectly.

Sorry the photos are so dark... you know Italian restaurants and romantic dim-lit ambiance...

Dinner:  Garlic puffs, Italian wedding soup, angel hair pasta with wine/olive oil dressing? + tomatoes/asparagus/potatoes (didn't eat any potatoes), and tiramisu.

Food:  3 garlic puffs (240 kcal?), 8 oz soup (146 kcal), 4 oz pasta (420 kcal?), 2 tbsp tiramisu (50 kcal?)

Calories:  856 kcal?

This Italian wedding soup was the best!!!

So delicious.  I could eat bowls and bowls of this.  Yum.

If I had just the garlic puffs (pizza dough baked with garlic and olive oil), I would have been totally cool with it.

This was awesome!  I wish I had more asparagus in the pasta.  I didn't eat any of the potatoes... not in a potato mood...

The pasta was light and so was the sauce.  A wine with olive oil?  I don't remember, but I picked out all the asparagus and ate maybe 1/4 the amount of pasta here.  Still looked like a full serving when I was done.

Oh well, lunch!

The entire time we were there, they kept apologizing because their computers all went down.

It didn't affect us at all actually, but!

Before we left they offered a complimentary dessert!  I choose the tiramisu because yum, it's tiramisu!

I took this pic at home.

I ate a little bit off one edge with a fork to taste it.  It was delicious.  Tomorrow's meal!

Day 11: Cardio Recovery + Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Abs

Ahhh ~ cardio recovery!

This is a nice workout... mostly because it isn't insane like the other workouts!  I still was sweating like crazy.  Metabolism and body just start sweating!  It was dripping down my face.  Here's quick breakdown of what happened today.

Stretching, isometrics, slow movements

The toughest part was after completing 16 squats, then "holding" the position.  Killer part!  Once the pulsing started, then it wasn't bad... isometrics!  *dies*  It repeats again with the lunges...

Which to note is a little confusing in the DVD.  He keeps switching up the words "squat" and "lunge"... they are back to back in the progression, but he'll use them interchangeable ~ must be an accident.

P.S. I hate table-top plank position.  My triceps are going through some serious hypertrophy right now... *dies* I should probably watch my diet from now on... but just gotta tighten it up!

After the workout, I felt a little unsatisfied... so I turned on the "Time Warner Cable's On Demand" and did a quick 10-minute abdominal workout with traditional crunches/bicycles/switchkicks/etc.

It was from Jay Johnson's Boot Camp Fitness.  Prior to Insanity, I did his cardio boot camp workouts on the television when I wanted something different.  One of his mottos is "Crawl, Walk, Run." which I really like.  It's like Insanity, always give your 100% and do what you can.

The 10-minute abdominal workout was what I needed.  I wanted to go running a bit after working out, but got a call for dinner... so... that was that!  Realized also after the call that I was hungry!

Off to shower then dinner.