it's a beautiful morning, 1 march 2008 - Mike

well, at the end of the week, i can look back with joy. class is over! it makes me so excited to think about that i just blush. anyway, with the end of class also comes weapons training. which, as i'm sure you both are aware, means i get to walk around all day with a ruck, weapon and TA-50. which is acutally proving to be quite the workout. i was having a conversation with my room mate the other day about how much of a difference we have noticed in our health. carrying all that junk around is like working out all day long. So i am still hitting 8~12 miles a week during pt, as well as carrying around my TA-50. so i feel like my workouts are doing pretty good. However, i haven't had any time in the pool. mostly because i don't think the people here know what water is, so i haven't bothered to ask anyone where to go. anyway, here's how my diet is breaking down over the last week:
Breakfast: two hard boiled eggs, water, 2 strips of bacon, an english muffin with grape jelly, and either corn pops or cheerios. i gave up on the total, it started to get bland; only took 2 1/2 years.
Lunch: approx. 1 cup of cottage cheese with a cherry tomato or 2, sometimes a PBJ, and sometimes another bowl of cereal, but not both. also, another glass of water, and often times a glass of milk.
Dinner: a meat, a starch, and a vegetable. whatever is served at the DFAC that day. sometimes it's chicken, and sometimes it's roast beef. but it's always not that good. unless they have spaghetti. i eat the spaghetti for the morning runs.
Snacks: cashews, peanut snack bars, and a crap ton of gatorade (2 32 oz. bottles at the px for a dollar, i stocked up)
Indulgences for the week: Buffalo Wild Wings on tuesday night, i ate 8 wings (4 honey bbq and 4 parmesian garlic) and drank 3 root beers. Last night i went to San Angelo's only sushi bar. it was okay, but i think they tried to hide their lack of fresh product with lots of cream cheese, avacado, and fruit; plus the wait was over an hour after we ordered our rolls. and then "marble slab" ice cream after. (i thought to myself, marble slab? must be a Cold Stone knock-off, but my room mate, who is from texas, says it's the other way around. who knows?
the good news is that i got my computer back so now i'll be able to blog every day!