Well, on Friday I weighed in and had a 1.5lb gain. It was no wonder after going out to Chilis on Tuesday night and eating 1/3 of an Awesome Blossom by myself (1/3 might not seem like much, but check out the nutritional stats here, do the math and divide by 3, and see why I nearly had a heart attack when I realized that what I ate in greasy, fried onion was almost 2/3 of my daily caloric allowance!!), then eating my meal, AND all my fries, which I generally try to avoid if at all possible. Of course some/most of my gain might have been water retention because not only did I eat like a cow, but Aunt Flo decided to visit and you know how that can be. Over the weekend I was pretty good with my food intake which made me happy and feel in control again. Usually once I blow it and eat like I did on Tuesday night, it usually avalanches into days and days of bad food choices. Saturday night we went to On The Border mexican restaurant. I only had maybe 6 chips w/salsa while we were waiting ... and I ordered the Fajita Salad as my dinner. The salad was simple, but YUMMY. It had romaine lettuce and sizzling steak & onions on top. Guac and sour cream were on the side and I didn't touch them (I'm such an angel LOL). I had a side of honey-mustard dressing, but barely ate any (couldn't even tell any was gone from the cup) by doing the dip fork method. I asked for no cheese, but they put it on anyway so i just took it off and all was good :-).

This morning I had chest/tricep workout with my trainer, then did lap swim for my cardio. Chest workout consisted of:

D.A. Chest Press 15#/15; 15#/20; 15#/20
D.A. Incline Press 10#/15 x 3 sets
Cable Fly 15#/15 x 3 sets
Seated Dip 50#/20; 55#/20; 55#/20
Hammer Strength Decline Press 10#/20 x 3 sets
Rope Pushdown 20#/20; 20#/15; 20#/15
Overhead Tricep Extension 12#/15 x 3 sets

My cardio was lap swim. I swam 42 lengths in about 25 minutes. The lap pool at the gym is 25 yards long, so 42 lengths made it 1050 yards .... or 960.12 meters ... or .596 miles. I am really loving my swim days (2-3 x a week) except that it's killing my hair. I had to get some weird chelating shampoo (rids hair of mineral deposits like chlorine) but I can only use it once a week or it will strip my hair (what happens when your hair gets stripped anyway???). Before I started swimming, my weight was going nowhere (for MONTHS!!), basically yoyo'ing up and down through the same 5 pounds or so. After starting up with lap swim again my weight finally started to move and dipped below it's previous low point. Whoo hoo !!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow I will do cardio in the evening while Katyis at karate ... and I'll probably do elliptical or maybe stairmaster. Both of those yield high sweat output LOL, which I love. Next training workout is Wednesday and we will do Back/Bicep. Friday is leg day (ugh) and weigh in day. I am hopeful to be rid of the 1.5 gain from last week ... PLUS at least 1 more pound. I'm downing extra water this week and being really careful with food. Yesterday I was way under my calories with 1,258. I aim for 1,500 daily.