Dinner: Shin on the bone stew with spuds and Chinese cabbage.
What the?
For anybody starting or wanting physical change, many small but permanent changes over time are much better than a few drastic, sudden ones. Firstly people tend to give up on the latter, and secondly they can cause distress to the body, especially with older age groups. Habit is a very powerful force and if each stage of change is instigated little by little, routine takes over smoothly and imperceptibly. Unfortunately, sudden change and competitive extremes of diet and exercise are very fashionable just now. I do not think this tendency is particularly healthy, either mentally or physically.
I was just thinking about related things on my walk this morning. What I am truly trying to do in my life right
now is establish very realitic habits that I can live with for the rest of it, and I'm actually trying to get away from drastic feelings and acts regarding my body and my activity. I have fairly athletic desires in my life, such as being able to do larger day hikes on a day off from practicing (the most readily accessible one around here being something like 10 miles round-trip and about 4-5K elevation gain) without it completely wiping me out for days afterwards. So, I'm trying to just establish right now, my very basic foundation and that includes a certain acceptance that I'm kind of starting over at this point in my life, in a sense. I remember what it feels like to be in great shape, but the reality is that I'm not and I can't get back into great shape overnight, and I may never be in exactly the same kind of shape that I was during my best basketball season, for example. So, I'm just needing to refigure all of that step by step!
On that front, the past few days have been really more difficult (I've been somewhat exhausted) than they should be, I think, and I think I haven't been eating quite enough or my body is just changing enough to really feel it. Well, and I hadn't been sleeping that well (partly because I've been hungry in the middle of the night, but partly because my motor is running).
Yesterday:
Workout:
Bench: 60 lbs.
Squat: 60 lbs.
Situps: 63 total (I added a single one in each set)
This was all fairly tiring for me yesterday ... moreso than I would expect.
Food:
Breaky: Normal (300)
Lunch: Salad w/some leftover grilled pork loin and a serving of potato chips (400)
Snack: Zone bar (210) which I seemed to definitely need right on the heels of my lunch.
Other snack: Skinny cow (140)
Other snack: banana (100)
Dinner: (things began getting chaotic here) Two pieces of bread and two eggs ... some more salad (400)
Eating: Well, here I started eating potato chips somewhat freely as I became extremely hungry ... probably ate about 2 servings which is about another (300 -- I rounded up) Oh yeah, and a little chocolate (50?)
So, total: 1900 -- yesterday was a bit of a rebound day from the day before during which I really didn't eat enough, which is what I am trying to avoid! It is possible, though, that I may need a hundred or so more calories each day than what I've generally been aiming for. I'll think about it

. Cheers!