This week was a bust. Had a lot going on at work setting up new projects and traveling to Chicago area for job site walkthrough. Bought the guys lunch on Wednesday, pulled pork, potato salad and beans. While this week I do not eat any fast food, I did not make some of the most healthy choices. Mainly I did not work out or skip a meal this week. Everyday was the standard bagel, yogurt and juice. Lunches were tuna subs and dinners were complete meals. Laid off the beer this week which felt good. Thursday night watching the Brewers first playoff game i had 2 Stoli raspberry vodka and diet 7ups. Which were delicious.
Friday 10-5-18. Today I woke up and worked out again. Muscle wise I didn’t loose anything on the bench or triceps. Actually felt good putting up the reps. Lost a little steam and only walked on the treadmill this morning. Thought about running but….yeah walking counts. Looking back at my lapse of working out lately, that week and a half off was because of my knee taking a beating when I ran the week before. I have been dealing with knee soreness for a few years and think there might be a tear in around the kneecap somewhere. The kneecap moves pretty freely in the left knee. If I where a knee brace, the ones with the Velcro straps, it keeps the pain away from a workout. Not running a lot and lack of conditioning is showing my joints what it is like to be old. A little soreness and minor pain is not going to stop me. I have has my knee looked at by my nurse practitioner and she is not referring me yet to a specialist. This is because of the Shitty HMO my wife has us in. Having always had a PPO and am new to the “HMO-we don’t do shit unless your dying” spouses plan. She works for the UW system and it has a top medical hospital. My insurance for work now that I am office instead of in the field sucks too. Just cant believe how shitty of a plan you get and you have to pay in. While I am not taking on this battle and accept that this is how big insurance and pharma work.
After work me and 3 guys from work watched a few innings of the 2nd Brewer playoff game before I had to go. Nice to be able to chat and hangout while not talking shop. Got home in time to watch the last few innings and eat some delivery pizza from the local place. Brewers won! 2-0 and headed to Colorado for games 3-4. Continued drinking a bit while watching the game.
Me and the kids watched Captain America – Winter soldier tonight. It was a good time and retired fairly early. I am on Season 7 of Star Trek the Next Generation. Off and on I have been watching it for the past 3 years on Netflix and only a few episodes are left. I used to watch it every night in high school. It was on after the 10:00 news and was a warm welcome watching something so familiar. Yeah I could watch friends, Seinfeld, or 90210 but I have a little sci-fi in me. Wife came home a little tipsy from the girls night she went on after we ate the pizza. Wanted to talk when she got home but I was already coming down from the alcohol from earlier and was tired.
Diet:
- Breakfast – bagel w/ cream cheese, yogurt, orange juice
- Lunch. – Leftover chili, string cheese, gatorade
- Dinner. – 4 slices of pizza
- Snack. – 8 bud lights.
Workout:
- Bench press – 1 set 12x135lb 3 set 10x 185lb
- Tricep pulldowns – 3 sets 10x55lb
- Ab crunches. – set of 50
- treadmill. – walk 20 mins
Fit at 40 