Feb 05 2012: Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Stayed up and did some work last night. When I say “stayed up”, I mean 11:30 rather than the 3 or 4am that would have once meant. Slept right through until 4:15 this morning with no obvious sign of having a restless night (i.e. didn’t wake up at 1am or 3am as before). Got out of bed straight away, shoulders stiff and sore.

Food:

Breakfast: 1 cup of cereal (Just Right), skim milk (pre walk) 2 slices of toast with vegemite and extra light Bega cheese

Mid-morning: 1 piece of toast, orange marmalade

Lunch: Cold skinless chicken, sweetcorn (off the cob), pumpkin sliced and lightly fried.

Mid-afternoon: Bad bad bad Gary. Tempted by the delights of a few hard-boiled sweets. Decided it’s best to see this as a reward for being so good all week 🙂

Dinner: Hungry Jacks takeaway – Tender Crisp Asian Salad.

Drink:

Plain, filtered water: 2400ml

1 small glass orange juice

1 can Coke zero

1 glass milk

Activity:

Usual walk with dog, completed in 16m 31s (a sign of a general recovery in progress)

Pre-walk I’ve started doing a few light warm-up exercises. These include a few push-ups, which were hard going as my shoulders complained at every attempt to move them.

Been at my home desk a lot today, been making an effort to get up and walk around regularly. If nothing else to stop the muscles from locking up!

Physical, Mood etc.:

Physically the soreness is there – still nothing unexpected, and a sign that things are happening.

Mentally 100% – possibly a small dip in spirits yesterday afternoon (on reflection) however I definitely woke up with attitude meter back to 100%

Ending the day on a high – looking forward to doing it all again from 4am tomorrow…

Notes:

No sign of the “cold” – no sneezing, no sweating… it was just the body trying to force itself back to the old way of doing things 🙂

Kian wanted “chippies” for lunch, I was quite pleased with the alternative version using pumpkin. Not sure Kian was entirely convinced though lol