5am workout?

You know that saying getting to the gym is half the battle? I'm not so sure that is true. I got myself up even though I wasn't feeling to good and dragged myself to the gym. I did my 5 min warmup on the bike and I still felt really shitty. I definitely was not going to be able to push leg day like I should so I postponed it until tomorrow and did low impact cardio instead. I did the 28 minute fat burn cycle on the eliptical plus 2 more minutes. Then I did 10 minutes on the rowing machine. And I'm still somehow dragging and not awake even though I went to bed early.

Dinner

I wasn't really hungry and the kids were pain in the butts until late so I just ate a low sugar detour bar before bed.

Preparation

What are you doing tonight? I'm making my oatmeal for breakfast and my veggies for tomorrow. Then I'm going to take out my gym clothes and pack my gym bag. If you don't prepare you don't succeed.

Snack

Muscle milk and another pbnj on ezekial muffin

Lunch and snack

About 4 oz (didn't measure) each of chicken and turkey breast (and again I don't recommend deli meat but it was in my fridge and I was lazy)
Asparagus, red bell pepper, summer squash, mushrooms, and about 2oz of sweet potato
1 tbsp evoo

I know i've been boring, I'll mix things up a little soon.  I just have these same veggies precut and they are yummy.

Wednesday 5am Upper Body Workout

warmup

5 minutes stationary bike level 5

rotator twists with 12 lbs x 12 each arm

I did this circuit 4 times, all the exercises were done 15 times each set except for the 2 abs, which I listed the reps below:

Incline Dumbbell (35 lbs, 35 lbs, 30 lbs, 25 lbs)

Push Press (20 lbs, 15 lbs, 15 lbs, 10 lbs)

Wide Grip Pull Down (50 lbs (was too light), 60 lbs, 60 lbs, 60 lbs)

Bicep Curls (15 lbs, 15 lbs, 10 lbs, 10 lbs)

Skull Crushers (40 lbs each set)

Hammer Curl & Press (15 lbs, 15 lbs, 10 lbs, 10 lbs)

Exercise Ball Crunch (30, 30, 25, 20)

Exercise Ball Pull In (6, 8, 10, 8)

1 minute rest

Breakfast

A muscle milk and a serving of steel cut oats, a few blueberries, and tbsp flax oil

Rest of yesterday

Around 5pm I had a snack in the car
2/3 cup egg whites
1/4 cup (when dry) steel cut oats, a handful of blueberries, 1 tbsp flax

When I got home at 8pm I was starving and had a low sugar detour bar, and pbnj (natural pb, fruit spread, ezekial english muffin)

Lunch

I didn't measure but I estimate
4 oz grilled chicken (cast iron grill pan)
2 oz sweet potato
Asparagus, summer squash, red bell pepper, onion, and mushrooms with about 1 tbsp evoo
YUM

Snack 1

Muscle milk, 2 fish oil capsules, orange bell pepper, onion, mushroom, asparagus (I didn't measure today) drizzled with a little evoo

Breakfast

Ezekial english muffin, 2 eggs, 2 slices applegate farms turkey bacon

Dinner

Grilled chicken, asparagus, orange bell pepper, onion, mushrooms, avocado and a little evoo drizzled on the veggies

5am workout

warmup 5 minute stationary bike at level 5

12 pushups
50 mountain climbers
45 min rest
repeat 3 times

20 Goblet Squats with 35 lbs dumbbell
20 kneeling jump squats
12 bench dips (shouldve done more but i had recently done triceps and was sore as hell)
1 minute rest
repeat 3 times

20 jump squats
15 single arm dumbbell rows with 25 lbs (that's 15 each arm)
20 dumbbell lunges (across the floor) with 15 lbs dumbbells
45 seconds rest
repeat 2 times

20 dumbbell step ups with 15 lbs
12 lat pull downs with 50 lbs
45 seconds rest
repeat 2 times

First 3 Meals

Breakfast:
1 cup of Tazo Awake Tea and splash of milk
2/3 cup egg whites, 50g mushrooms
1 Ezekial english muffin with 1.5 tbsp almond butter

Snack:
1 muscle milk
25g asparagus
25g squash
25g mushrooms
50g red peppers
.5 tbsp olive oil

Lunch
4oz boars head turkey breast (i don't recommend deli meat but my kids begged for turkey sandwiches and i was lazy)

25g asparagus
25g squash
25g mushrooms
50g red peppers
.5 tbsp olive oil
edit:  and 2oz sweet potato

New Plan

For awhile, lifting heavy and eating lower carbs helped my body lose weight quickly and easily.  Now, it is not the case anymore.  So, I'm mixing things up.  I'm eating a bit higher carbs including some starch from real whole grains.  and doing circuit training instead of just heavy lifting with breaks.  I'll try to keep a log going this time.  All foods will be clean foods.