Two Doughnuts
I had two large cinnamon roll doughnuts for lunch yesterday while I was working at my fathers house. This probably slowed me down quite a bit during practice today. I just didn’t feel like I could go fast. Usually Monday isn’t my best practice, so the doughnuts might not be the problem.
Last week dinner was a salad almost every night except Wednesday. Wednesday we had some ravioli, and Thursday felt like a very good practice. I might need to rethink my eating schedule. Eating a large breakfast is great, and I need to continue with that, but adding a few calories to dinner in the form of carbs might be a good idea.
There is the possibility that I just was not getting enough calories overall. I find this hard to believe, since I have not lost weight, and I was not hungry after dinner.
Going forward, dinner and lunch are going to be closer in calories than they are now. There is a big difference between my 1100-1200 calorie breakfast postworkout and my old 400-500 calorie breakfast, I am not starving at 10am, and I can do work before lunch.
Next week is the cruise. I think the plan is for less french toast and working out twice a day at sea or once a day in port. I am not really worried about gaining weight on the cruise. If you are working out while at sea, or doing so other form of physical activity for a couple hours, that offsets a decent amount of eating.
Breakfast isn’t a problem for me, I only want to eat six pieces of French Toast on the first day, and I will probably just have one piece and some eggs. Breakfast is a real problem for breakfast lovers, since there are eggs, sausage, biscuits, gravy, frech toast, omlettes, waffles, pancakes, fruit, oatmeal, juices, bacon and even some foreign foods like blood pudding. I left off half a dozen things, but if you have had it for breakfast before, most of its availible buffet style. Steak and eggs will probably require a trip to a formal dining room. Not saying any names, but I might be rooming with someone who has a breakfast addiction. Lunch is usally not too bad because in the middle of the day you are trying to fit lunch in. If you make lunch an event, then you have a problem, because lunch isn’t healthy on the ship unless you make a strong effort. Dinner isn’t bad since is it four or five courses, and the portions are more toward the gourmet size. The problem is when you order two souffles every night they have a souffle. Souffles will be served three or four nights, and the are hefty for a desert. After two souffles, you need to spend 4 hours on the treadmill. I enjoy a souffle, but bring me two courses of rack of lamb. You have seen rack of lamb, there isn’t much to it, so two courses of lamb is about the same as the steak. If I can get a decent running program going, I think I can loose weight on the cruise. Otherwise I expect to break even.