Happy Sunday!

Last night, KJ and I had a couple friends over for a game of Monopoly, and of course that meant wine and snacks. After a sensible day of eating, and only a short 1 km walk in the afternoon, I didn't want to overdo it so I had some pretzels and an unknown amount of red wine (let's be honest...measuring wine is not something I will ever do).

Today, on the other hand, we had oatmeal for breakfast and went to the gym. What an awesome workout that was! I could only manage 5 minutes on the rowing machine before my knee started giving me some trouble, but altogether:

• 15 minutes on the recumbent bike
• 17 minutes on the Arc Trainer elliptical
• 6 minutes walking @ 2.5 mph
• Full circuit on the weight machines
• 12 reps on the ab glider (I'll be feeling that tomorrow...)

According to SparkPeople.com, my total calories burned for all of the above (including my pathetic 5 minutes of rowing), I burned over 700 calories. I think it's overestimating, so rather than eat to the top end of my daily intake limit, I'm just going to stick with what I would have eaten had I only burned 400.

Tomorrow, we're starting Dr. Mike Moreno's 17 Day Diet. Since I want to lose such a large amount of weight, and KJ wants to lose only 20 lbs or so, this is a good way to kick start my metabolism while getting him to where he wants to be. He's being such a solid support system in this, I can't help but grin when I see him being excited that we're doing this together.

Now, if only the temperatures would climb so we could go be active outdoors for once...