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May 16, 2005
Going Back To The Gym
Do not attempt to adjust your computer screen. You read it right. I went back to the gym.
Considering that I've been saying for months that I needed to go back to the gym, you're probably wondering why I finally actually did it.
Well, last night I had a horrible nightmare. I was sitting in a doctors' office and MR and I were looking at my DEXA scans and he was crying and saying, "I don't think you're going to make it."
Now granted, it's unlikely that one could figure out that I was going to die any time really soon from a DEXA scan, but it scared me bad enough that I added going to the gym to my morning routine. It's a good thing I like to get up early because I have every minute from 4:40 am until I leave for the office at 8:30 am scheduled.
I did twenty minutes on the treadmill at 4.5 mph and an incline of 4, and I was amazed that I could do it with really no difficulty. I even skipped at 4.6 for awhile. It's been so long since I technically worked out that I expected to have lost more cardio endurance than I have. I do walk and take the stairs and such, but that doesn't take much effort. I'll increase the twenty minutes to thirty tomorrow, and today I did some push-ups so tomorrow I'll lift leg weights. I'm going to my apartment complex gym, which is small but has quite a few machines. I kinda miss my old fancy gym, but I cancelled my membership once I moved to a place that had a fitness center.
I used to really like going to the gym, even though there were long periods of time when I hated the way my body looked in workout clothes. I remember looking at myself in those mirrors that are so plentiful at the gym and hurling a whole host of negative thoughts at my body. "If I weren't so fat..." It's kinda bizarre to look in the mirror now and think to myself, "Gee, I'm one of the thin girls now!" It makes it easier to confront the mirror, that's for sure.
Of course, most of my workout clothes are too big, so I need to get new ones. I have a couple of pairs of yoga type pants that I bought before my first trip to Calgary... thinking I might freeze to death just hanging out in the house unless I had something warm and comfortable to wear, which was not that unreasonable considering that MR keeps his house so cold that I think he's engaging in slow-motion cryonics. He's started keeping it warmer when I'm there, even though it's probably taking a few seconds off his life, and I'm working on ways to adjust to being cold without *feeling* cold. I'm hoping that by next winter I'll be able to stand MR temperatures, so that he can have all the life-extending chill he wants while still enjoying my company. If that doesn't work, I could just buy a large hot rock, the kind people get for their pet snakes, and carry it around with me.
Meanwhile, back at the nutrition information, yesterday was a nice Sunday.
Food List : 5-15-05.FLS
DATE : 05/15/05
Num. Foods : 16
Food #1 : Egg, white, raw, fresh 1 cup
Food #2 : Oil 1 teaspoon olive, 1 flax
Food #3 : Yogurt, fruit, low fat, 9 grams protein per 8 ounce 130 cals
Food #4 : Dannon Light and Fit Yogurt 1 cup
Food #5 : Arugula, raw 40 g
Food #6 : Kale, raw 100 g
Food #7 : Salsa, med. chunky 2 tablespoons
Food #8 : Grape juice drink, canned 1.5 oz
Food #9 : Wheat bran, crude 5 g
Food #10 : Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, red 6 oz
Food #11 : Squash, winter, spaghetti, cooked, boiled, drained, or baked, without salt 155 ish g
Food #12 : Asparagus, raw 100 g
Food #13 : Tomato products, canned, sauce Jarred sauce: did by calories and split
into tomato sauce and olive oil
Food #14 : Oil olive oil in tomato sauce
Food #15 : Nuts, filberts or hazelnuts, dried, unblanched 10 g
Food #16 : Coffee, brewed, prepared with distilled water a lot
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 982.50__cal 49%
Protein 53.22__gm 97% RDA
Total Fat 31.99__gm 49%
Sat. Fat 6.50__gm 33%
Mono. Fat 18.05__gm 62%
Poly. Fat 5.08__gm 76%
Carbohydrate 100.13__gm 33%
Fiber 11.93__gm 40%
Cholesterol 179.94__mg 60%
Vit. A 12380.61__IU 248% RDA
Vit. B6 1.12__mg 70% RDA
Vit. B12 1.38__mcg 69% RDA
Vit. C 189.14__mg 315% RDA
Vit. E 10.85__mg 136% RDA
Thiamine 0.62__mg 56% RDA
Folacin 266.69__mcg 148% RDA
Riboflavin 2.10__mg 162% RDA
Niacin 7.89__mg 53% RDA
Panto. Acid 3.15__mg 63% SA
Calcium 1042.84__mg 87% RDA
Copper 1.36__mg 68% SA
Iron 6.99__mg 47% RDA
Magnesium 289.67__mg 103% RDA
Manganese 3.78__mg 126% SA
Phosphorus 611.43__mg 51% RDA
Potassium 3202.76__mg 160% RDA
Selenium 60.63__mcg 110% RDA
Sodium 1953.84__mg 81% SA
Zinc 4.25__mg 35% RDA
Tyrosine 3.66__gm 381% RDA
Lysine 7.62__gm 1059% RDA
Phenylalanine 4.66__gm 486% RDA
Leucine 8.14__gm 848% RDA
Valine 5.61__gm 668% RDA
Methionine 2.65__gm 884% RDA
Cystine 1.53__gm 511% RDA
Tryptophan 1.13__gm 626% RDA
Threonine 4.34__gm 904% RDA
Isoleucine 4.93__gm 685% RDA
P:C:F = 22:29:49
My mom brought over spaghetti squash with a jar of olive with olive oil spaghetti sauce and asparagi for dinner, so I ended up skipping my brewers yeast and eating a ton of the delicious sauce, which had a generous portion of olive oil... as you'll see, I entered it as calories tomato sauce and calories olive oil. I probably should have had my brewers yeast instead of so much sauce, as I was low on the usual suspects nutrition-wise, and I was also low on protein, which almost never happens anymore. Oh well, it was a very yummy dinner.
Today I'm at the office all day, and I've packed my now typical kale and arugula salad with olive oil and vinegar and a cup of plain yogurt mixed with salsa. I also have a cup of fruit yogurt, Stoneyfield farms apricot mango, and 10 g hazelnuts. I'm eating fruit yogurts in the afternoon now and they seem to keep me from getting wiggy with hunger later at night and eating something unfortunate. The hazelnuts at least slow the carb absorption and up the fat in the day. I'm a little worried that going to the gym, as well as walking yesterday, will make me hungry, but that's a chance I'm willing to take. Gotta have strong bones!
Posted by april at May 16, 2005 8:18 AM
Comments
April,
I am so glad you are going to the gym! We really are CR twins now. I go six days a week. Three days cardio and three days of resistance. I alternate the resistance days between upper body and lower body. It really makes me feel like I can do anything! Both sides of my family have a history of osteo, so I am very dedicated to the resistance training. On the calcium front, I got a new toy yesterday at Whole Foods. It is a little Italian yogurt maker that 7 little jars of yogurt from a quart of milk. I used low fat goat's milk. Very easy and very elegant in the little glass jars. I haven't tasted it yet -- later today.
Have you ever posted the recipe for MR's pancakes? I'd love to see it.
Hope you had a great workout and feel even more like Wonder Woman than usual!
Laura Leigh
Posted by: Laura at May 17, 2005 7:19 AM