October 26th

Great workout, tons of office work. I feel good, b/c I turned in all my papers for this week, took 2 tests,  and made some posts. Tomorrow evening I need to finish my sermons and then Sunday I'll take my tests and finalize posts.

Meal:
Two eggs, E-Toast
2 Plums, 2 bananas
cup of mixed nuts
big bowl of popcorn (bad decision of the day)
several cups of tea
gallon of h2o

Workout: all treadmill
10 min warmup
5 min @ 4.2
5 min @ 4.5
5 min @ 4.8
5 min @ 5.1
5 min @ 4.8
5 min @ 4.5
5 min@ 4.0.   1.0 elevation
5 min @ 4.0.  3.0 elevation
5 min @ 4.0   1.0 elevation
5 min cool down 

October 25th Off day

I dropped the kids off at school and came home to sleep another hour. Barb and I left early for Midland. Lonnie was having surgery and we wanted to make sure Pat wasn't alone during the surgery. Then we went to see Joyce Ditto and then we shopped the rest of the day!

Meals:

1 egg & E-toast

Lunch @ midland mall: pasta & bourbon chicken

Dinner: 2 cups of FF cottage cheese

Workout:

 NADA!

October 24th

Got some posts done for Communications in Pro Settings 1st thing. Then Barb and I had lunch w/ the kids @ school. KC was really excited to see us. We ate with her 1st. Madi and Mase were next. Mase tried hard, but still was a little too cool for us. He did sit w/ us and eat all the same. Got a lot of school to do today and busy w/ Bible class tonight too. I'm filling in for Steve since he's w/ Richard in SD. Mark's dad took a turn for the worst today as well. Hard for Lucas and Mark I'm sure! I'm about to eat my soup, so I better get off here. Until then...

Meal:
9 a.m. 2 eggs on 2 E-toast
11 a.m. Cashew RAW bar (230 cal)
1 p.m. caldo chicken soup

Workout:
5 min treadmill warm up
30 min treadmill @ 4.0
5 min treadmill @ 4.8
10 min treadmill @ 5.0
5 min treadmill cool down

October 23rd

I had a good evening last night with Mase. We went to Reagan's game. I had a foot long chicken T, but the lady went CRAZY with the amount of chicken she put on the thing! Then I had a bag of popcorn at the game. I really need to be on my guard when I'm out...especially when it comes to eating! that's just killing me.

Today:
Fairly normal morning. Mark and Debbie's kids are flying to SD to be w/ the family. No word yet on anything! I started a series Sunday a.m. called "When God Calls", but I think I'll preach John 11 this Sunday. It just seems like it will be more appropiate. I've got a lot to do this week in school! Papers to write, regular posts, journaling and test, so I better sum it up and get busy!

p.s. I did jump on the scale to see if I'm coming back down, b/c over the weekend I had shot up. Looks like I'm headed in the right direction 272 lbs. My goal by this Saturday is 268, so I really need to get on it!!!

Meals:
Breakfast shake
mid morning snack: Raw "Golden Cashew" bar (230 cal)
lunch: caldo w/ carrots, squash, avocados and salsa
dinner 2 veggie burgers on 100 cal toast (2 flat bread) and FF cottage cheese.

7:30 a.m. Workout:
5 treadmill warm up
20 min treadmill @ 4.8
5 min treadmill @ 4.0
4 min treadmill @ 5.3
One last minute on treadmill @ 6.0
5 min cool down

2 p.m.
Walked treadmill for 20/30 minutes
Every 5 minutes got off to do 12 reps (pull down, curl, traps, alternating)

October 22nd rough weekend

Well, if you are paying any attention to the dates you'll notice I missed a few days! I'm back in the game and had a good look over my goals and realized I've strayed far from them. I think I'm back on track now and hope to catch back up. It's just a matter of living a little more disciplined and staying on top of my game.

Friday we were in Midland visiting Joyce and doing Barb's Dr appointment. Saturday we went to Brent and Dana's wedding most of the day in Lubbock. Yesterday was pretty rough. Richard Parker is in San Diego and not doing well. We had "back up" everything and the general mood was DOWN!!!

Today started off a little tired, but Barb was looking smoking hot. She went to prayer time while I hit the tread for a bit. Didn't get much time in, but got the ole heart rate up, so I feel pretty good about that. We had breakfast together @ subway, shopped walmart and HEB and now we are home headed to Karen's to give her lunch. We are blessed and though yesterday WAS NOT my day, today is looking a lot better!

Meals:
12" egg white, bacon and pepper jack cheese wheat sub w/ a little chipotle whatever.

Workout:
5 min warm up treadmill
20 min treadmill @ 4.5 average
a few min cool down

October 18th A little lazy

Well, Barb wanted to go back to bed after getting the kids off and it's not hard to talk me into going back to sleep :) When I got back from dropping off the kids she was already asleep. I went to sleep and woke up to a phone call at nearly 10 a.m.! Did a little homework, finished up a.m. lesson, prepared for Bible class and obviously...journaled a little!

It's great to have Barb home. Gonna watch some TV w/ the kids now. Tomorrow we will go check Barb's Thyroid in Midland and visit Joice (D'Aun's mom that broke her hip). Kids are out of school, so we should have some fun! Then Saturday we will go to Brent and Dana's wedding at Monterrey c of C. We are gonna be super busy over the next day or two, but it's all good. I get to be with my family and a little change of pace. I'll need to write a paper and take a couple of tests. Until then...

Meals:
Egg, pepper jack cheese and E-toast
shake - usual
Raw bar
6 oz steak, 3 bar b q chicken legs, sliced pineapple grilled, banana pepper stuffed w/ cheese and grilled

Workout:
10 min warm up between 3.0 and 4.0
25 min on the treadmill @ 4.7...on commercials I went up to 5.0 (a couple of times 6.5) The last minute I went up to 7.0
5 min cool down

October 17th "AWESOMENESS DAY!!!"

I meet Barb in Abilene and it was so great to see her. We ate with mom and dad @ Chili's and I had broccoli  and an amazing (not too low fat) grilled chicken sandwich. She talked all the way home telling me everything she did. It was really good to catch up. I missed her BAD!!! It was nice to have her back.

Meals:
Shake with the usual
RAW bar
grilled chicken sandwich

Workout:
5 min warmup
3 min treadmill @ 4.0
25 min treadmill moving up and down between 4.3 & 6.5
5 min cool down