Running the Gauntlet

I had a really good day today. I went to the gym nice and early this morning and cranked up the usual cardio workout. I went really hard and managed to get through 800 calories fairly easily. This is a good sign for the new workout, which I am a bit worried will push me pretty hard. I have been feeling a bit sore from the last workout with the trainer, so I am going to start the new regime tomorrow morning. Wish me luck! It should pretty hard, but I am looking forward to it.

After the workout my partner and I decided to go and see the newish flick "Children of Men" with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine. My partner and I enjoyed it very much, I had read the P D James novel that it is based on a few years ago and was interested to see what they had done with it. I thought that it was a very strange novel for her to have written, and while outside her usual genre, it was fairly interesting. The changes that were made for the film were an improvement overall I felt. It was nice to get out and about and take in a film, we haven't been to one for a fair while now...

The theatre that we went to was in a shopping mall that is about three levels high. It is quite large and as we were walking to the movie theatre - from the ground floor all the way to the top we were struck by the opportunities presented to us to consume extremely sweet and fatty food at almost every turn. There was 'gourmet' pop corn featuring such flavours as chocomellow and triple butter caramel, there was a cookie shop that had about 40 different types of cookie on sale. There were ice creams, chocolatiers, frozen yogurt, muffins, and fudge. You name it, it was there if it was bad.

The unhealthy food options that were like a gauntlet around the movie theatre. Not once, not twice, but thrice we were stricken by having to move through an area of almost unlimited opportunities to massive increase our calorie intake for the day. It was hard not to be tempted, but the opportunity was resisted. A massive cup of coke zero was our choice of treat for the film - not the most healthy thing around, but probably only had about 5 calories in the entire cup. I mean, you have to have something watching a movie and of all the choices there, that and water were the only ones that tempted us - and I refuse to pay $5 for water.

So all in all we had a good weekend, bit of a relax, and a workout or two. I'm looking forward to this week, undoubtedly there will be some good workouts coming up and some very trying cardio sessions. Bring it on!