The Slippery Slope

Today has been an odd day. I am fighting my old foe, fatigue. I have wanted to get a swim workout in either yesterday or today. After a longer run on Monday, I have just been tired the last couple days and when you combine that with the pool schedule not matching up very well with my life, I've chosen to let it go. That means I'll be one swim workout short this week. Not a huge deal, but I'll need to plan better for swimming. My YMCA seems to have early morning, mid-day, and late evening times open for swimming. I think I will need to use the mornings because lunch time isn't very practical and going in to swim at 7:30 in the evening just isn't happening yet. It will be important tomorrow to find 30 minutes in the pool.

Exercise update: As mentioned I didn't get to the pool today. But it wasn't a completely lost day. I took the opportunity to get Jake out for an hour plus walk. Not cardio or swim training, but good movement. It will be very important to get back to the pool tomorrow. I have an overnight prior to an all day meeting in Madison on Friday. That means lots of car time and sitting at a meeting. Not a formula for success, so I need to do the work here. I'm hoping for good weather this weekend so I can get out on my bike.

Nutrition update: Food is the reason for the title of today's blog entry. All I can say is that eating crap leads to eating more crap if one isn't very, very diligent. I let myself wait too long for lunch today and found myself standing in the lobby at McDonald's. Although this sounds a tad dramatic (and oddly pathetic), I turned and walked out while standing in line.

This sounds like triumph right? Well... I went from there to Taco John's, you know because they don't have french fries. They do however have grilled burritos and Potato Oles. Many of you won't be surprised to find out that when you run the nutritional information on that meal, you might wish you'd opted for the quarter pounder with cheese:(... I of course was quite surprised when I plugged it into myfooddiary.com

I guess I file it under lessons learned. And of course, I'm going to be more mindful for a while. My diet seems to be in a subtle decline for the last week or so (a slippery slope so to speak). All beginning with my visit to my old friend Ronald M....

There is no such thing as a "farewell to fat" meal. The truth is that crap begats crap.

So endeth today's sermon.