Day 225

It's that time of the week again.  Day before weigh in and I'm feeling good.  It's been a good week overall with the 4th belt loop staying consistent. 
 I've been reading about visceral fat.  This is the fat that gets in around your organs and is really hard to lose.  The other thing I've read is that cardio is the way to get rid of this  stuff. It's the really bad fat that you really need to get out of your body.  So I'm cranking up the cardio.  Not only am I doing the recumbent bike intervals but I'm also doing intervals on the stair stepper.  I've only been doing the stair stepper for six minutes but I think I'm going to see if I can pump it up to 10 minutes.  I'll warm up on the treadmill for six minutes and then transfer to the stepper and then finish with the recumbent.  My time is still limited to about an hour so I may ask L about my warm up and maybe I can cut it down to get in a bit more cardio.  We'll see.  Okay here's food for the day:

Belt loop Watch: 4

Breakfast: Egg mixed with a bit of quinoa, roasted chicken, tomato, avocado, and almond butter on a skinny bun.  Banana and 20oz of cold water.

1st snack: Cherry Pie Larabar

2nd snack: Greek yogurt with almonds

Lunch: Peanut butter on a slice of low carb whole wheat bread and a spinach salad with roasted veggies, quinoa, tomato, and steak strips with salsa.

3rd snack:  Aussie Bite and a green tea

Dinner: Went out with friends from work and had dinner at a stir fry type of place.  They cooked your meal right in front of you at your table.  I had an eight piece California roll, steak, shrimp, fried rice, stir fried veggies, salad, and miso soup.  I also had a cocktail (it had juice in it but no soda) and a beer.  I had planned on not eating it all and bringing some home but the way the meal was created threw a monkey wrench in that plan.  Next time I will not order the California roll and just order the main dish.  Your meal would come in waves so you would eat a part of the meal and then watch as the chef cooked the next part of the meal.  You ended up not realizing how much you were eating.  I will say that I wasn't stuffed but also wasn't still wanting more food.  I guess that's a good thing but still ate more than I should have.  Going out with friends or co-workers is very hard when you're trying to be sensible with how much you eat. Everyone is talking and laughing and drinking and eating and before you know it you've eaten the entire portion.  Ah well that's what happens when you go out, the rules tend to get ignored.  Still I'm hoping for a nice surprise in the morning at weigh in.  Wish me luck.