Back to Basics

I sat in my dentist's office today and picked up Sports Illustrated's Baseball Preview. Since I've decided to seriously follow the Orioles this season, I wanted to see how SI thought the Birds would fare this season (hint: not well). I was pleased to see that manager Dave Trembley and President Andy MacPhail were intent on not only the team's first mission statement (a must for everyone, in my opinion), but also a desire to master the fundamentals. This might account for the Orioles' 5-1 start this season. :)

Getting back to basics can help anyone, from a Major League ball club to a Fortune 500 company to someone in a rut in their weight loss program. Today was a BTB day for me. I started the day with a 45 minute run on the treadmill at increasing speed/incline intervals, chugging a bottle of water as I went. It felt good to sweat that hard again after running outside for so long. The rest of the day went as follows:

• Breakfast: low fat granola with fruit in skim milk and a Fiber One bar
• Snack: one mini bag of popcorn
• Lunch: SmartOnes chicken fettuccine alfredo and mixed fruit with a second bottle of water
• Dinner: two slices of plain cheese pizza
• Snack: two scoops of 1/2 the fat ice cream

Given that many of my meals over the past couple of weeks have included McDonalds, Wendy's, or Chick-Fil-A, this wasn't bad at all. I still need more veggies in my diet and more water. That will be tomorrow's goal. I plan to do a core workout tomorrow morning and 20 pushups and plank exercises several times throughout the day.

Onward...