Strange Sources of Inspiration

This was a very balanced week.  I did well on both fronts; exercise and diet.  I’m finding the MyFitnessPal app and website to be a very useful tool to help keep my eating on track.  I’m consistently falling below the goal calorie count.  Not far below, but a noticeable amount.  I’m not starving myself, just choosing which calories to consume more wisely.  I actually snack a lot during the day, especially during the workday.  The photo below shows a variant of my usual snacks.  I eat half in the morning, after breakfast.  The other half gets eaten in the afternoon, following lunch.  They keep me from hitting the vending machines, which is a good thing!

I had one glass of Coke and one cinnamon raisin bagel this week.  That’s a big win for me.  My wife and I split a decadent dessert this weekend, but I had the calorie count to cover it, so I wasn't overly concerned with eating it.  As an example of how my numbers stack up, here's my MyFitnessPal results for Sunday.

Since I exercise on most days, I usually have a lot of "bonus" calories to burn.  For Sunday, I had 90 minutes of resistance training, followed by 60 minutes of Zumba.  We also got in more dancing this weekend, which was added to my exercise calories.

Inspiration?

I was having an issue with irritation in my armpits.  I tried switching soaps and deodorants, but neither seemed to help much.  To make it even more difficult to pin down the cause of the problem was the fact that it wasn't happening daily.  It took me a while, but I finally figured it out.  With all of the weight lifting I've been doing, my shoulders, back, arms, and chest have gotten larger.  Some of the smaller cut shirts were actually rubbing against my armpits, chafing them!  It’s probably a little strange that I was more pleased about the muscle growth than I was relieved for finding the cause of the irritation!

Nov 2013 ---------------- Aug 2014

Goals

In my last post, I mentioned that I wanted to be able to wear certain pair shorts to a picnic at the end of the month.  So, my goal was to be able to wear the shorts comfortably.  Well, I got my dates wrong.  The picnic is this coming weekend, instead of the end of the month.  I lost a week that I thought I would have.  I don't plan on making any drastic changes to my diet, so the only thing left is to add exercises and see what happens. 

Well, that's another week in the books.  I'll let you know if I meet my goal, or not, in next week's post.