Wednesday, July 7th

I have lots to do today so I’m going to make this one short and sweet and all about accountability.


Workout Journal: Wednesday

• Warm-up: We walked quickly to the gym, which is probably a little less than a mile from our apartment.  (Side note: It’s funny here in Stockholm because you actually where street shoes to the gym, leave those at the door in a little cubby, then put your gym shoes on inside the gym.  I find gyms in the US are much less picky about their floors.) I then jumped rope for about three minutes, which is a lot harder than I remember it being in grade school.
• Deadlift: 3 sets of 12 reps with the olympic bar, concentrating on form.  (Still it wasn’t too difficult or satisfying.) Waited 60 seconds between reps.
• Assisted chin-ups: 3 sets of 8 reps.  I set the machine on 16 (1 to 20, with 1 being the hardest), which is much more help that I would have liked.  Still, it was difficult for me. Waited 60 seconds between reps.
• I then went back and did one more set of 12 deadlifts, getting the bar up to about 70 lbs.  It was much more difficult and satisfying.
• After leaving the gym, I think we probably walked around for another hour, trying to figure out a boat trip to an island in the archipalego

Food Journal: Wednesday

• Breakfast: Coffee and cream. Kinda pathetic but I woke up late.
• Lunch: Salad with crayfish, salmon, and balsamic vinaigrette.  Water to drink.
• Snacks: about 1/2 cup of pistachios, before they’ve been shelled.
• Dinner: Rotisserie chicken from the store (the leg and thigh), then instead of the store-bought veggies, I bought a head of cauliflower, steamed it, and added butter, salt, and a little sour cream.  I love cauliflower.
• After dinner: This is where I fell off the wagon a bit.  I had 3 small squares of dark chocolate with almonds (not too bad) but then I also have 3 of these small dark chocolate truffles that are lying around the house (which they shouldn’t be be).  And 3 glasses of red wine as I surfed the web, talked to friends and family on Skype, and finished a wonderful, fascinating non-fiction book called The Wisdom of Whores, by Elizabeth Pisani, about the AIDS epidemic. 

I find after dinner to be the hardest time to stick with eating right.  I’m going to try to start brushing my teeth about an hour after dinner to see if that helps.  One glass of red wine is probably good for the heart, but three just loads down your liver and prevents it from burning fat.  I should know better.