Day 5

Morning weight:

• 210.5 lbs

Diet:

1. 2 eggs, ham, 1 multi-grain english muffin, 1 small orange, and 16oz water (11am)
2. 16oz water (11:30am)
3. coffee w/ 2% milk (12pm)
4. 1 small orange and a hand full of whole almonds (5pm)
5. pasta w/ 90-10 ground beef, yellow peppers, mushrooms, and spinach (7pm)
6. 16oz water (7pm)
7. small coffee (9pm)
8. 3 homemade cutout christmas cookies w/ frosting (9-midnight)
9. snacked on carrots, broccoli, and red peppers (9-midnight)
10. 3 8oz bottled waters (9-midnight)
11. 160z water (1am)

Activities:

• 1 hour full court basketball (moderate/intense)
• 10 min on elliptical machine
• 3 sets of a bosu ball exercise where you jump laterally from 1 ball to the other for 1 min at a time
• 3 sets of situps and lying leg raises until failure

Sleep:

• got up at 10:30, went to bed at 1:30am

Notes:

• I felt really good today. Had a basketball game at 2:30 that I played pretty good in (although I was 0 for 8 from 3 point range). I ran very hard and hustled well. On the way home I passed the gym so I decided to stop in and a get a mini workout in. I have seen these ladies using these thing called Bosu balls in aerobic workouts where they have 2 balls about 4 feet apart that they jump back and forth laterally between. It isolates each leg individually nicely. I looked like a monkey jumping on a football for a few minutes until I figured things out. Definitely helps work on your balance as well. It was a great little exercise, similar workout to jumping rope.
• Had our first Christmas party of the year. I managed to get through it without drinking, but I did indulge in some delicious homemade cookies. Damn those things were good. Last year I ate about 10 of them at this same party. I figured 3 was a major improvement.
• As I figured, my weight loss finally slowed down. I stayed at 210.5 for the second day. I knew it wasn't going to be that easy!