Great day yesterday.  Had a bit more protein than I would normally just to get me on track, along with some nuts which I try not to eat very often as they aren’t always great for my weight loss.  Did 30 DS and weights.

Also played around with my excel chart on Google docs.  You can look at a sample here.  I already said how much I love numbers … this chart has them all.  If you want one for your own, all you have to do is download it …just be sure to do a “save as” after you have downloaded so you can enter your own data.

It was cold this morning … 26 degrees, but still no snow which is wonderful.  I really dread driving and walking in the snow even though I’ve dealt with it for years.  When it does get really cold (below zero) and lots of snow, I hibernate.  The good thing is that it’s hard to keep my office warm because it’s over the garage, so I am happy to get up and exercise to get the blood moving.

Speaking of exercise, I’ve got my fitbit back on and I’m really lagging in the 10,000 steps a day (which is about 5 miles).  I think I barely did 3 miles yesterday.  I “hear” people saying that it’s harder to lose weight the older you get.  For myself, I move SO much less than I did when I was younger that I don’t think it’s the age that’s the cause but the continuing to eat the same without moving the same.  And of course the not moving leads to less muscle mass which leads to less efficient calorie burning … the other side of that is that if you do start moving again, particularly if you do weight lifting, then you’ll increase your muscle mass and burn more calories.

I’m also wondering about the conventional wisdom of a rest day between lifting.  The only reason I’m wondering is that I’m not really doing that intense of a work out with lifting.  AND if you do 30 DS every day then you are working the same muscle group and that seems to be okay.  It just seems to me to be one of those things that apply to people who are working out hard-core … which is SO not me.

Time for 30 DS …