Month 3 Week 2 Day 1

800am Recovery:Pure Pro Protein Drink
930am Breakfast: 3 egg whites, ham, spinach, mushroom, tomatoe, 1 slice of 12 grain bread
1030am Snack: 1 cup Ezekiel Cereal with 1 cup almond milk
1245am Lunch: Mikko Roll and 1 California Roll
300pm Snack: 6 prunes
6pm: 1/2 swordfish, spinach, corn, 1 slice of potatoe and small side of fusili

Because of this article: http://www.liveleantoday.com/article.cfm?id=429 and the example of Melanie losing weight afte upping her caloric intake, I am trying to eat more to see if that will help me to finally shed this excess bellyfat.

Today, it was a nice treat to have Rudy back. I again was about 15 minutes, late. Not sure what is wrong with me, but I have been getting to bed by 9 or 10pm every night... I just am sleepy, I guess. I learned the pattern of our 1 hour weight room workouts from Ava, couldn't deduce it myself, Monday AM and Friday PM= full hour in the room.

So, we speed punched, ran in place and pushed up the heck out of ourselves for warm-up. When we started the pushups, I tried to do the full pushup, but then had to go back to doing them on my knees. But it's amazing that I can do some regular style now.

We also grabbed the weights for horsestances while holding the weights at a 90 degree angle, forearms parallel to the floor. We did bicep curls and then back to the horsestance about four times.

We did alternating shoulder presses and lots of abwork. One of the newer exercises was a sideways plank with one leg and one arm in the air. We could modify it by resting out leg. I could do it 'advanced' on one side, but had to modify it once I got to the other. We did a lot of 'plank' type exercises. Slow pushups... I did about three full slow pushups, but gave in, in the end to knees. We also had to go down into a pushup and hold for a count of ten. WOW! Those KILL! I tried to do them full style, but couldn't get down into the position without falling. I only went about halfway and I heard Rudy call out a few names to "Come on!" and mine was one of them, so I had to go to my knees and hold the downward pushup position from there. That too was very challenging, even from my knees.

Did slow bicycles, slow in and out crunches, alternating toe touches while on our back, overhead toe touches... just a plethora of abs...

Since this is our last month, I want to try to go double on Tuesdays and Fridays (due to the off day that follows). I wil get myself to bed soon, read my book, say my prayers and hopefully be on time tomorrow.

Wish me luck!