Day 7

What a great day! Of course it started great after my weigh-in. :) Now, I have to clarify... remember the 5 lbs I lost last week...I had gained back 4 of those lbs when I started on Day 1. So, now I'm down those 4 lbs plus 2 more.

So the day started great because I got such a good nights sleep. I felt good and I made it to the gym. Today I did 40 minutes on the Step Mill. The Step Mill is not like a stair master where you have two pedals that you step on. Instead it is a big machine with revolving stairs, of all the cardio equipment, I find this one to be the hardest. Normally, I do 20 minutes on there followed by 20 minutes on the bike or treadmill. One thing I noticed that was different today...usually, after 10 minutes, I have to pause and stretch cause my lower back starts to bother me. Today, I didn't have to pause at all and I was able to complete the full workout without any discomfort. I followed that with lunges and a little bit of stretching. Polar watch Stats: 55 mins, 411 calories, 40% fat, Max 158, ave 133.
In comparison, my stats for the bike workout - which I forgot to list on that post -
53 minutes, 396 calories, 40% fat, 157 max, 134 average...I guess this was just as hard, very similar stats.

Very regular day, food wise. Shake in the morning along with a sm piece of butternut squash.
Lunch was 1/2 cup lentils, 1 apple, 1 orange, 1/2 yam, and a piece of butternut squash. I ran out of the cut veggies so none for lunch today.

After my Chiro appointment, I went shopping at Sprouts and confirmed that not all the produce is Organic. In fact, their organic produce is very limited compared to the rest of their produce. So all last week I thought I was eating organic celery and carrots and zucchini...nope. This time I did buy more organic veggies and re-loaded on my Pure Spring Water.
Dinner was a spinach salad with cucumber, carrot, zucchini, celery, kiwi and the apple cider vinagrette. I followed the salad with a shake with strawberries, blueberries and 1/2 banana.

So far so good.