Day 18 (AG): The Road

 



🖤 Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤





"If you don't like the road you're

walking, start paving another one."

~ Dolly Parton ~





It's day 18 AG (after goal) and day 950 of Nutrisystem. The day I signed up for Nutrisystem was the day I started paving a new road for myself. This road only goes in one direction: forward ! There will be no going back to my former 300 pound self. It sounds terrible (to me) but I left her behind. I had no choice. It was either move forward to something better and new or stay on that old road and die fat, unhappy and full of regret. I also won't go back into the credit card hole that I dug myself out of. After years of struggling to pay my bills it's nice to have money left over once they're paid now. The road to financial security is a one way trip as well ! Same goes for fitness. I have veered off course when it comes to the Total Gym but I'll fit that back into my day eventually. I'm thinking that starting in mid-September (after vacation) I will reduce the treadmill workouts to 2 per day at least twice a week and use the extra time for the Total Gym. This will be contingent on continuing to maintain my weight. Three simple goals and a lot of hard work and a new road stretching out in front of me. What more can you ask for ?


Breakfast was pancakes with sugar free syrup and a strawberry cheesecake yogurt. Morning snack was a chocolate shake with peanut butter powder. Lunch was a pepperoni pizza melt and a chef salad. Afternoon snack was 1/2 cup cottage cheese and 2 Alyssa's oatmeal cookies. Dinner was a meatloaf sandwich and roasted veggies. Evening snack was toffee crunch cookies. My breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening snack were all Nutrisystem products. 


My workout day started in Tahiti with iFit trainer Hannah Eden. Then it was off to Easter Island with iFit guide Dr Dale Simpson. Last up was a quick jaunt in New Zealand with iFit Guide Jed Brophy. I logged 85 minutes, 4.8 miles and 577 calories. Fitbit says I did over 14,000 steps.





It was another hot summer day and I worked out on the front porch until about 3 pm. With the temp over 90 on the porch it was time to head inside to my air conditioned office ! Work was super busy but I was not as productive as I'd hoped to be. I'll try again tomorrow ! A quick thunderstorm blew through around 7:30 pm but didn't bring cooler temps. It's supposed to be near 90 again tomorrow ! On that note I'm going to fire up the air conditioning in my bedroom, grab a shower and then head for bed.


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