Herrrrre's Johnny!!!!

I have returned and I am beat like a red-headed step child. I think I will need a few days to recoup now. I didn't get hardly any sleep and there were some long boring days.

Nutrisystem Update : Today is Day 52 of Week 8. I was 99.9% good to NS the last 10 days. I ran out of food and though I still stuck to a 1800 calorie or less eating schedule, I did have one bad meal. Everyone went to a burger place and I did get a burger. But in a way I was glad I did..... it was terrible. Not because the place was bad, they are well known for great burgers. But, with each bite I became more and more aware of the sodium in the burger. I didn't think NS was low sodium, but I must have become accustomed to eating a lot less sodium because I felt like I ate a salt-burger. Even the fries didn't taste good, I could taste the cooking oil or whatever trans-fat they cooked the things in. And afterwards I was physically ill. It just taught me to stay on plan and eat good food. That was my only bad meal.

I was able to work out in the gym a bit, and I have the sore muscles to prove it. It's amazing at how fast your body can lose any conditioning you have built up. Just 4 months ago I was doing 40 minutes on the treadmill and about 9 different upper body weight machines. Just getting 20 minutes on the treadmill was a workout and I had to cut the weights on my circuit by about 40% just to make it through three sets of 15 on each machine. It's hell to get old!!!

Anyways, I can now get back to my NS foods and I will do the gym 4-5 nights a week. Hopefully it won't take too long to get back to where I was.