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Senior Project Day 6- May 13th

 Day 6:


Today I started off the day strong with a brutal 4 am wakeup for a flight to Florida.


Breakfast:

-Coffee

-Pineapple

-Bacon egg and gouda sandwich


I then sat on a plane for 3 hours, deciding to watch a movie and get some hours in. I watched “Pumping Iron”, a movie about bodybuilding from the 70’s, which followed several men as they trained for two huge competitions, Mr. Olympia and and Mr. Universe. This got me an hour and a half in for my project. While I watched this I took advantage of the plane snacks.


Snacks:

-Trail mix

-Popcorners

-Swedish fish

-Protein bar


When I landed, I was starving so I got food again:


Lunch:

-Chicken teriyaki bowl with spinach, rice, crispy wontons, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage

When I got to my hotel, I went to the gym and spent half an hour stretching. I’m really trying to make this a light weekend so I’m ready to hit the ground running on Monday. I then went for a 25 minute walk with my mom. 

On the walk, we stumbled upon some sort of food festival and annihilated every free sample in sight.


Snacks:

-Cheesecake sample

-Red velvet cake sample

-Beef teriyaki sample

-Chicken teriyaki sample

-Ice cream samples


These were insanely good and helped me pack on the calories. After this, we went out to dinner.

Dinner:

-Shrimp bowl

-Half a chimichanga 

-Basket of chips 


Dessert:

-Coldstone sundae


My sundae alone was over 1,000 calories and so was my dinner.

Today was a relaxing, much needed rest day. I only burned 1,553 calories. My water intake was just under a gallon, which isn’t ideal, but I ate over 4,000 calories which was pretty good for me. 


Today's hours: 2.5

Total project hours: 30.25

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