Alright, another good day despite a slight gain. I continued on my lower-fat quest and am getting a bit more used to it. Really the only thing that I need to do is have a little more protein per day and it needs to be very lean protein. But I'm still trying to get a good amount of monounsaturated fats and make sure the fat level doesn't get too low and of course make sure that my calorie level doesn't get too low. As it is I'm kind of struggling to get above 1000 calories, but today I got up to about 1150, so I think I can edge this up a bit day by day and eventually get back to at least the 1500 range, which, although still a bit low for me, is at least not so low that it may send me into starvation mode. I didn't get to take a walk today because I was planning on playing tennis with a coworker. But our quest to find tennis balls took too long and we had to skip the tennis - though we did get the balls, so hopefully tomorrow it will be nice out again. I did go to the gym tonight after work with the intention of doing some resistance training, but instead I tried this new thing that is recommended in the Protein Power Lifeplan to emulate the type of exercise out ancient ancestors got (and thus is most healthy for us). Basically it involved walking on the treadmill, then sprinting on it as fast as I could (I got it up to 9.5 mph, though I think I could have pushed it up a little higher) for 10-30 seconds, then slowing down and walking for a minute, and repeating this five times. It doesn't seem like a lot of exercise, but boy does that all-out running, even for short bursts, take its toll! The nice thing is that it takes a lot less time than the normal walking uphill I do for the same calorie expenditure, so I was done in just 20 minutes. They have other exercises similar to this that I have to read more about and they suggest you do one or two of these just a couple times a week and that the body really does not need much more than two cardio sessions per week and a couple of days of weight training (which they suggest a high-intensity circuit training type with only one set per machine of eight reps). I was going to do the weights after the cardio, but I was a bit tired and I didn't want to overdo it by doing both cardio and weights in one night, so I figured I'd try it tomorrow.

I guess that's about it. Tomorrow we may go out to eat for a coworker's birthday and then Thursday I'm going out with a former coworker for lunch, so these will present some new challenges in terms of figuring out something that will fit into my diet. Unfortunately our company often goes out to eat for lunch at this Vietnamese restaurant and I just can never guess as to the sauces that a dish might have and it seems most of them come with some kind of sweet sauce that I'm sure has tons of sugar! Gotta ask the waitress this time for a dish with no sweet sauce, or no sauce at all if it's possible!

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