augette's Journal

Protein: 26%

The kids decided that tonight would be our dinner out and their meal of choice - Chinese. For once they agreed on where to go so we headed to the Chinese buffet. Now you know why I'm seeing red in my analysis. I made pretty good choices -  a bowl of egg drop soup and lots of vegetables but I did allow myself to have my faves as well. Only this time instead of filling 1/2 my plate with them  (and having 2-3 very full plates) I took only 1/2 a spoon or so. I was able to enjoy them without going overboard. That is a step in the right direction. I ended up having about 1 1/2 plates plus the soup and the second plate only had a small amount and some melon for dessert. Progress!

I had to guess on the calories and just picked things that were close since I'm not real sure on some of the dishes but as always when eating out at a restaurant that doesn't have nutrition info available I tend to log on the high side just in case. So I was happy to see a nice size deficit even before I did my bike ride this evening. 

I got up early and did a ride (15 min) and then after work DH and I went for our walk (37 min) while Son was at basketball practice. Daughter didn't join us tonight - she wanted to sit and read.  Then after logging I convinced myself that I needed to get back on the bike and did another 20 minutes before heading to watch NCIS (I love this show!). During a commercial break I did some planks and bent knee pushups. 3 minutes was all I could take. I had started out doing wall "pushups" and have moved to doing them against the counter (I can now do 32 without stopping) so I wanted to see if I could do the bent knee ones. I was surprised that I could do 10. It wasn't long ago that I couldn't do more than 1 or 2! I know I need to work on my form but I figure anything is better than nothing and my upper body definitely needs some strength work.