April 11, 2012 6:04 PM EDT

Days 51 and 52 - Canada time

So I flew into Canada yesterday morning ready to get back into the program and I feel like I went in with both feet.  

I had a very close to perfect day yesterday from a diet perspective.  I didn't get the evening egg whites in because the boiled eggs I purchased smelled off when I opened them up; lesson learned. I ended up having a banana (which I had handy) to compensate from a hunger perspective.  Not a perfect tradeoff, but still.

Walked home from the office - 30 minutes - and then had a great run in the gym for 25 minutes - matched my recent PB of 2.62 miles.

This morning I read through the "ATM" training post and realized that "paying it back" on the mat exercises is probably not the way I should go.  I am on a shoulder rehab exercise regime that I will do instead with the time.  My shoulder is still a bit sore and hasn't shown any improvement yet for any exercise that involves pushing (e.g. push ups), but it feels good on all other exercises other than tricep dips.  I am swapping the pushing exercises for pulls; today I did 100 rows instead of the 40 push ups.  I recognize that this isn't perfect but I am definitely feeling like I am losing muscle in my upper body and I want to gain it back.

So I woke up, read through the directions for the day and fired out the mat work before I even got into the shower.  It is a beautiful day here so again I plan on walking back to the hotel and then doing a treadmill run.  I am pretty close to on plan for the day from a diet perspective; lunch options were limited as I was late and the cafeteria here stinks, but I got plenty of veg in a thai curry on brown rice; no protein though.  The curry may have been a little sweeter and creamier than I would have hoped for, but the portions were real close.

I am having a really painful week here at work but the program is certainly not hurting.  If anything it is giving me some nice respite.