Day 3 - Sat Apr 17

Today was also a bit of a busy one - that seems, so far, to be the presiding condition for the culminating activity.

In any case, I had planned on going to the beach with my children and let them play while I work out. When I went out to grab a coffee in the morning, it was so cold I could see my breath; the beach was out. Instead, I knew I would be going in to Toronto for an errand, and so planned a side trip to the Oakville Y for a workout. That happened. This is what I did:

10 minute run
then three rounds of:
bench flies (35 lbs x 8 reps)
presses
KB snatches (50 x 8 reps)

then three rounds of:
hinge rotations (good for therapy inside the shoulder, so I am told) (12lbs x 10)
behind the head tricep extension (30lbs x 10)
KB snatch pyramid (50, 55, 60lbs x 10 reps each round)

then finish with a 10 minute run.

I'm thinking that was an awful lot of snatches; I just like them; full body compound movements; which means everything gets moving. Lots of muscles working.

In any case, my diet these days is not very good. Breakfast, as mentioned, was from Timmy Ho's. Lunch was a good one; I made a few veggie and chicken wraps before going out to meet up with my family and get their nails done. Those were good, but as I was putting them together, I wondered about how much gluten I was eating:

wrap (x 3 ... I was hungry)
roasted chicken from a chicken I bought earlier in the week)
yellow peppers
mustard
Lemon Dill hummus (to make the wrap stick together ... yummiest "glue" ever)

In reading the nutrition Info label for the wrap, for each wrap it was about a hundred calories. 300 Calories, just for the wraps themselves. That's a fair amount. Might have been better (not neater) had I just eaten this off of a plate. Meh, I was on the run and ate in the van. Putting this on a plate was not an option. Gluten was more than likely in the wrap and the mustard. Weird, no? I read that gluten is a "fixative" - something that helps products like mustard, ketchup and other condiments stay the same.

I got back later than expected from running a few errands - I got rid of three or four old computer parts here, I picked up a film here and ran around to see what was going on here. I attended an impomtu meeting about a clinic I am organizing for May 15th; should be a cool thing. I got home and was immediately ordered to pick up a family meal at Swiss Chalet. Again. Uughh.

I had the quarter chicken dinner with a salad and did not eat the bun or the gravy. I went easy on the ketchup, but my kids gave me a lot of their fries. Oh, and some onion rings. They are yummy, but they irritate my stomach. Something to take note of, that.

I did do some lurking around the Organic Garage website; there isn't much there, I'm sorry to say. I did make some new friends on facebook; a nutritionist and blogger; I'm pretty sure I've gotten her link/blog on this blog here. I also did a couple of iTunes searches for Apps and podcasts; I'll load them up tomorrow.

All in all, not an awesome day in terms of progress being made, but at least I'm not standing still.

On a technological note, I am so glad that Blogger backs everything up every few minutes. I nearly lost this post twice! Phew! Back up your hard drive!