Lunch with the Alpha Male

A smoked chicken breast, a few sun dried tomato Wheat Thins, a piece of cheese, a bowl of Strawberries and a 32oz bottle of H2O, lunch with the Alpha Male. Just got back from my walk. A little tired today. Been exercising particularly hard this past week. Trying to get in shape for a Boy Scout Campout and Mountain Biking at Fort Custer this weekend. Hope it doesn’t rain.

Was talking to Aaron down at Strength Beyond about re-arraigning my workout schedule to accommodate my summer activity. I don’t want to stop working out, but I can’t commit four nights a week now that the boat is in the water. We talked about some options and I decided to modify to 3 workouts per week, Tuesday and Thursday nights and Sunday afternoon. Same workout rotations just spread them out. Aaron said a lot of older guys (like me over 40), go to this as it gives them more muscle recovery time. So I started into it last week. In the mean time I have been riding my bicycle as much as I can to get my butt in shape for Fort Custer.

Progress this week – 3 lbs more. I’m pleased that the Cinco de Mayo Blue Margaritas didn’t seem to hurt. An interesting thing happened Sunday. Sweetpea and I had the day to ourselves so we decided to go to breakfast at the Breakfast Place in Lawton. Everything on the menu seemed huge! I ordered a Steak Omlet and it was so big I could only eat half. It tasted good, but as I’m eating I quickly start getting this bloated feeling. I got a box and half the omelt and potatoes are sitting in the fridge at home, waiting to be a science experiment. I felt crappy until the afternoon when I went and worked out at the gym. I’m taking all this as a good sign that my healthy eating habits are taking over and pigging out on a big greasy breakfast just isn’t going to be my thing anymore. Hope I can keep it that way.

Alphaout….l8r