Let’s see, let’s see … the day started out with the best of food intentions, as you could probably glean from earlier posts this week. The bf wanted waffles for breakfast, so I planned on having one. Then I had another. And the 2/3 batch made 5, not 6, meaning that each waffle was more calories than I had planned. I similarly planned on having an almost-completely protein lunch (with only 1/3 cup rice instead of 1/2) to make up for transferring the potatoes from yesterday to today, and then the bf wanted corned beef for birthday dinner, so that was planned. Except, I really didn’t like the corned beef, so I had the left-over chicken. Which I moved to tomorrow’s meal plan. We also had a slice of cake in the late afternoon, and then another as dessert … so I moved the second piece to tomorrow’s plan. Again, hence the big ol’ asterisk on the calories for today, and the high carbs.
Now, with respect to exercise, that’s a different issue. We had 30 tons (not exaggerating) of recycled asphalt delivered in order to re-cover the driveway (which is ≈160 ft long, ≈12–14 ft wide, and is uphill by 30 ft). The first truck did well in spreading it from the base to half-way up. We only spent about a half hour in the morning evening it out. The second truck was five hours late and made a big ol’ dump in the middle, and spread it about 1/3 of the way up the driveway from that. So, this is now a multi-day job of raking, shoveling, and moving with a wheelbarrow probably about 8–10 tons of recycled asphalt 50 ft, uphill about 15 ft. We spent nearly an hour and a half working on it yesterday afternoon before both of us were too tired to move much more. On my watch, since it doesn’t have “yard work” as an exercise, I counted the morning session as a “core exercise” for purposes of my tracking, and the afternoon session as “functional weight lifting.” Since, it’s kinda both: Raking away or towards me, or shoveling, or wheeling, is clearly working out the same muscles as when weight lifting, while it also exercises the core for stability, and raking across works the abs and obliques. Evidenced by being very sore there tomorrow (I’m writing this Saturday morning and they HURT!).
Oh, and that’s why there’s no cardio on here … my heart rate averaged 130 for the ≈2 hours of working on the driveway.
Finally, I’ll note that my new Apple Watch Challenge for April 2022 is something I’ll likely get within a week or two: Do 11 exercises of at least 15 minutes. Already, two done.
So, it was a mixed day: Good for exercise, bad for food. It should even out, though.
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