Day 3

Well...I didn't exercise today, but I'm okay with that. After work yesterday I went to the gym and played an hour and a half of pickup basketball (and I was playing pretty well, btw.) However, I did make one mistake, although it could've been a lot worse. I was jonesing for a soda after I left the gym, so I decided that I'd stop by McDonald's and not get a soda, but one of their vanilla shakes instead. I knew that I'd take a calorie hit, but I was hot, and I needed something ice cold, plus I knew that I'd just burned somewhere in the neighborhood of 600-700 calories, plus probably sweated out some water weight too. So, I wasn't too worred about the calories. After that, I went and picked my kids up from my mother-in-law's house, and headed home to enter my day into Sparkpeople. Unfortunately, that's when I found out that a medium vanilla shake from McDonald's has 740 calories...WHAT?!?!?

740 Calories? That's insane. I figured it would be around 500. I could've had a double cheeseburger and a small order of fries, and had less calories. Oh well...it was worth every calorie, and I still stayed under my calorie count for the day, thanks to the judicious application of a Subway 6" veggie delite with marinara sauce.

I'm thinking I might go to the gym this afternoon...but I'm not sure yet.