The First Week

2.5 down 42.5 to go

First things first, I did get an appointment at Fitness Together on Monday. After a brief tour and discussing the rates, I came to a conclusion that the asking price was reasonable and if I strapped myself financially I might be able to afford the place. Moreover a commitment of this magnitude was really needed to make a difference. For January I am taking two sessions a week to see if my body can hold up to the rigorous workout and if I am doing good at the end of the month I will go for three a week. I am supposed to do a cardio workout by myself couple of times a week for 30 minutes, but that was not possible this week because the fitness room in my apartments is shut down till February for repairs. That means I have to stop by FT for my cardio too.

Weight loss wise, this has been an interesting first week. After touching a low of 210.5 lbs in Saturday morning, I settled back to a healthy loss of 2.5 lbs. I realized that I was starving myself by the end of Friday and that was not helping me in my workout. In the Friday FT session I almost passed out 30 minutes into the session and I also had a glass of chocolate milk before the session which really obstructed my breathing. So two important lessons I have learned this week in regards to diet. First is to have a healthy diet and second is to have dry food an hour before the workout. I ordered 12 cans of almonds on Amazon so that I can have a snack of almonds and grapes an hour before every workout.

One of the objectives of last week were to have Soup/Salad for dinner. This was never going to work for me as I get really hungry by dinner time and soup/salad just wouldn't do it. I have to think of something for the dinner time. So here are some new objectives for the next week:

1. Have instant oatmeal for breakfast.
2. Have a dry snack at least an hour before workout.
3. Do a cardio workout on all the other days when I am not having a session at FT.
4. Come up with a healthy food choice for regular dinner.

	Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Other Stuff	Exercise
Monday	nothing	Subway Veggie patties 6" sub on wheat	Turkey Club Sandwich from Andoro's	1 cup coffee	none
Tuesday	nothing	Subway Veggie patties 6" sub on wheat One small bag Lay's baked chips	Ramen Noodle soup with veggies	1 cup coffee and chocolate drink	45 minute session at FT
Wednesday	nothing	Steamed White Rice with Thai Yellow Curry with Tofu	1/4 Large thin crust three topping pizza at Imo's	2 cups Coffee	none
Thursday	Ramen Noodle soup with veggies	White Rice Shrimp Curry Potato Curry Yogurt	nothing	1 glass Vanilla Milk Shake without whipped cream 1/2 bottle energy drink Two Chicken Tenders	none
Friday	nothing	Subway Veggie patties 6" sub on wheat One small bag Lay's baked chips	nothing	1 cup coffee 1 small bottle chocolate milk	1 mile walk/run 45 minute session at FT
Saturday	2 dry English muffins 1 tbsp grape jam Tri Athlete Omlette Potato Fries side 2 cups cofee with 2tbsps sugar and half and half One small orange juice	Ramen Noodle soup with veggies	White Rice Okra Masala 2 cubes of Lamb with lamb curry	Small snack of vegetable crisps	none
Sunday	nothing	Meat loaf Creamed Spinach Mashed Potatoes with Gravy	Fried Rice Potato Curry 1/2 cup cranberry juice	One bottle sweetened ice tea One Cup tea with milk and sugar	none