Excercise on Phase one of the diet.

Friday night, my boys stayed with my parents.   As a good 40-something, I took the opportunity to 1. Go shopping for groceries and garden stuff with my wife 2. clean up the home office some and 3. spend my morning planting flowers.

Planting these was a lot more difficult than it actually looks, because we left the underlying layer of gravel in place when we added the mulch last year, and under the gravel is a layer of burlap to keep the weeds down (although it's at least 10 years old and doesn't do a very good job). 

Doing this level of exercise (about 3 hours work) in the hot sun with no carbs . . . well let's just say you can get a little light headed.   We took a little over an hour at lunchtime to relax and recover, and we put off the vegetable seeds we've purchased for another day.

I did manage to cut the grass after we finished the flowers, but within an hour of when I finished that, everyone in the house except me was asleep.  I lasted until about 9:30 before I dozed off in my chair (good thing I was recording the NASCAR race).

Looking forward to tomorrow, when I'll have an official weight loss total for the first week, and of course we'll be halfway to adding back a few carbs.