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In a trial run, I took Ruby to school and then went to the gym. My timing isn't right—I got to work late, and that's not good for me because I'm already getting there 'late' as it is. Tomorrow I will experiment with dropping her off earlier—though that's a pay service—and see whether I can still adhere to my existing schedule. On the stationary bike today I found that it wasn't AS hard as it used to be. That was HUGE for me. Instead of feeling like "I'm going to die" or "I can't make it" it's now officially "this is hard." It was at that moment that I realized that what I am building is probably STAMINA that I never had before. That's why I got tired after five minutes of play with Ruby. Now I find I can go the distance—it's just my ADD that gets in the way. But we can work on that later. When I got home and changed into my work clothes, I noticed that my jeans were definitely one size bigger. That is, they had gone from being tight to being useful for easy shoplifting. So, it was a good morning in the sense that I was way into being on the diet. But as usual, exercise makes me VERY HUNGRY. So there was almost an extra meal in there today.

Breakfast
Scrambled Eggs
Turkey Kielbasa
Tea

Snack
1 Cup Strawberries/Blueberries
6 Oz. Yoplait "Lite" Yogurt
1/4 cup mixed, unsalted nuts
1 cheese stick
1 Granny Smith Apple

Lunch
Sashimi (3 Tuna, 2 Octopus, 2 Whitefish, 2 Crab)
Salad
Miso Soup

Dinner
Cod a La Emily
Fiddleheads
Asparagus

Dessert
2 Cherries*
1 baby-spoon of mashed banana and oatmeal*

*I literally could not resist or help either of these things from going into my mouth, so I figured I had to write it down.

Whenever I'm at the gym, I thinking a lot about what I would write down about the gym if that's what my blog was about. But if the food-diary of an overweight man is sad, then his musings on what goes on at the JCC might be beyond what anyone could bear. Really, it's quite a scene in there. There are few people under 45 whenever I'm there. I always think that the young people must be there early. The admin at the desk says it gets busy from 6AM to 9AM—then it slows down. I just can't believe that people are getting there at 6AM. Maybe as I mocked exercise and diet, I might one day too find that that's the ticket for me. As it is now, I must get my iPod ready for tomorrow—it's really much harder than I expected it to be. It's really challenging to find 30 minutes of music that I both own and want to work out to. I welcome any suggestions. And then this weekend—it's real oatmeal.