Born Again Gym Rat: The Facts and I Don't Always Agree

Duck bacon in background

This past weekend was rather busy with Cub Scouts Rocket Night at Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday (where I stuffed myself with a cheeseburger, hotdog, lots of different pasta salad, bean salad, half a red velvet donut and a whole lemon creme donut) and Sunday when my son and I skipped out on Father's Day (my hubby wanted to have a quiet day actually getting work done because he's constantly putting out other people's fires at his office) and took the train into NYC to meet up with ex-coworkers for a late brunch down in NoHo. We ate at a weird little restaurant called Jack's Wife Freda which is extremely popular. New York prices of course, but the food was really tasty. I had the Madame Freda, an open face sandwich composed of duck prosciutto, gruyere cheese, a cheddar bechamel sauce and fried egg, topped with arugula and slivers of red onion. My son had rosewater waffles topped with a honey sauce, fresh berries and Lebanese yogurt so creamy I thought it was whipped cream. We also shared an order of duck bacon. Yum!

When we got home, my husband asked me to make another sardine-avocado sandwich. It's our all-time favorite thing to eat lately, ever since we saw it on the Alton Brown's Good Eats episode where he explains how he lost 50 lbs. It's very simple and probably one of the best sandwiches I've ever made myself. We did tweak the recipe though, using cilantro instead of parsley, and finding limes interchangeable with lemons. I bought rosemary olive oil bread and it toasts nicely. We also aren't going to quibble over brislings. Plain ol' sardines in olive oil work fine. It's really tasty and extremely satisfying.

today's selfie

My gym workout started off kind of slow today. I'm mostly over my vertigo but my head still hurts when I turn too quickly. Worse yet, my right front delt felt twingey so that put a damper on my benching. I got one set of 8 reps at 115 lbs but I felt as if I was babying the shoulder, and favoring your strong side only leads to problems. So I finished up with just one 20-repper at 95 lbs because even that was bothering my shoulder. I didn't have the same issue with the Inclined Bench though, and my workout thereafter was fairly routine.

What was kind of odd was that the gym scale read 112.6 lbs, usually light for me after a weekend of pigging out. I'm usually closer to 115 lbs on Mondays. But I'll take progress where ever it comes. I didn't eat my oatmeal this morning. Could that make the difference? I doubt it. The blueberries I put in it made it taste very green and I tossed my cereal. Instead, I mixed up a glass of lactose-free milk with a scoop of protein powder (mocha flavored) and drank that. By the time I got home from the gym, I wanted to eat my arm though. I made more oatmeal, tossed in an egg and a banana. Oh well...

Monday Workout

Exercise Name

1RM

Lifting Logs

Elliptical Training

N/A

Calorie : 98 CAL
Distance: 2.2 mile
Speed : 6.54 mph
Lap/Rep : --
Duration : 00:20:00

Barbell Bench Press

158.33

Set 1 : 45x12
Set 2 : 95x12
Set 3 : 115x8
Set 4 : 95x20

Barbell Incline Bench Press

119

Set 1 : 45x12
Set 2 : 65x12
Set 3 : 85x12
Set 4 : 85x12
Set 5 : 85x12