Fruit Roll Up

I haven’t blogged in over a week, so it’s time to catch up and get back on a schedule.

Last week I hit MAC on Tuesday
30mins biking on cardio
Overhead Squat - just the bar X 10
Pushup X 10
Medicine Ball Raises (front and each side) X 10
5 Circuits

The OHS were a bad idea, I won’t be messing with those in a bit

Friday - Dumbarton
I don’t recall it all
15 minutes on the elliptical
Bench ladder 10 ->1(alternating 225, 185 for each weight)
Rows 135lbs 5 X 12
leg Extensions 5 X 12 80lbs
Leg Curls 5 X12 60lbs
Calf Raises 3 X 20 50lbs
I think that was most of it. I felt really good coming out of this and I think that making my legs do something besides atrophy was a very good thing.

Monday Morning Weigh-In: 236.6
:’(
I got a big old FAIL on eating clean for the first half of last week. I did okay 70%ish for the second half. This week has been very good so far. I’ve had some chocolate covered espresso bean (and not many) but that’s about it.
Really, all I have to do is eat clean but that means planning, scheduling and being prepared and that is where I am struggling.

The GOOD NEWS:
No ibuprofen since Saturday. Laura was out of town and I didn’t have anything pressing so I thought I’d just see what would happen. I was surprised that I made it all day. So I stayed off the drugs through Sunday but figured with work on Monday I would have to go back. Monday went just fine without. Now it’s Tuesday and still none. I’m very happy. I can take some if I need to but I haven’t felt that need.

Monday Morning Weigh-in:234.4

I actually did weigh myself yesterday, although I didn’t want to. I feel like I’m in a losing battle right now. That said, the 2/10 pound loss was actually a bit motivating. As my wife and I discussed, as long as I work to clean up my eating,  I seem to do ok. Last week was more clean than the previous and this new week is looking to be more clean than last week :).

Monday Morning Weigh-in: 229.0

My wife has been calling it the Cereal and Pain diet. Breakfast cereal is something that I typically scoff at, it’s not food nor is it nutritious. However, with my injury, I didn’t want to spend any more time standing at the stove making food than I had to. While I was hurting I didn’t really have any appetite, I ate when I took my ibuprofen and that was about it. So for the first half of last week, I was losing weight.

Now I have to be careful though. My appetite is returning and I’m ambulatory. So I could start eating a lot more. I’m trying to keep it reasonable. With very little training planned for the week, I’m going to try and stay below 230 but I’m not going to be crushed if I rise a little above it. Next week should include several cardio sessions, so I’m hoping it all evens out.

Monday Morning Weigh-In: 232.6

Not too bad. I hit 231.0 for my low weight of the week, on Saturday morning (when it always is). Given that Monday is usually my high for the week, the 232 is motivating. I’m at a point that even if I held steady, I could easily slide into making weight but I’m going to press on a bit. I’d like to score a Monday below 230.

I know when Scott said to push it for a couple weeks, he expected a harder push for two weeks to drop me 5 pounds then level it off with a minor addition of calories. I kinda did too. I was surprised by how tightening up my 5-day-a-week diet didn’t make an impact in my general gradual slope I have had most of the last year.

I just don’t seem to manage particularly dramatic weight loss these days, even with a perfect week and the rebound from a perfect week was ugly each and every time I managed it in that last year. I guess, sadly, I’m complacent in being an underachiever here. That’s probably awful but it doesn’t feel awful.

Monday Morning Weigh-in: 235.2

That’s what I get for going out to eat three times this weekend, very rare for me. It was darn good though :-).

Back to work, this week is a back off week on the max effort, I think I’ll do a mess of kettlebells instead.

Monday Morning Weigh in: 234.6

ok weight for the week.

In other news, I didn’t get my usual food prep done this week. Normally this is where I think “hooray, an excuse to eat sushi!” Instead I dug around and found a couple pitas and two cans of tuna. I made tuna salad at the last minute and brought that with me instead. Probably better all around.

Monday Morning Weigh In: 237.2

Drat. At first I was surprised and annoyed, I was expecting 234.X. Then, as I thought about it I realized that I gave myself a lot of free passes last week. The chick going on nutrisystem brought in donuts, I ate two. I don’t even like donuts. The same chick was fasting for good Friday so she brought in sweet cakes, again, two. I don’t really like those either. I felt a bit peckish toward the end of the day, what a great time to try out the new Burger King.

So a couple slaps on the wrist for bad behavior and back to work I go. I think I’m going to return to regular “unofficial” weigh ins too, to track my progress throughout the week and help me correct for errors.

Two months and I have to get below 230.

Monday Morning Weigh in: 235.6

Down some but not quite as much as I expect. None the less, I’m working hard on a sub 230 in the next 60 days.

Monday Morning Weigh in: 238.6

Purely academic. Next week will be more meaningful. I have my food prepped and here I go.

Interesting Read

I was waiting for a victim candidate to show up for a grilling interview on Friday. It was my job to test some claims he made.

He was late, through no fault of his own, and I was in what serves as a meeting room/library. I perused the shelves waiting for the employee to bring him. I came across The Ketogenic Diet: A Treatment for Children and Others with Epilepsy. A ketogenic diet is a low carb diet, done right. It was an incredibly interesting read.

The book I just read Bad Calories, Good Calories contained a bit of a sales job. Since the author saw it as his job to overcome the forces of evil and promote the low card diet, he didn’t give a round view, and I knew that. The Ketogenic Diet, on the other hand, is written as a guide to treatment. It doesn’t have to sell you, this is doctor prescribed. As a result, it discusses the upsides and downsides more openly. It too reports that low carb diets cause a bit of anorexia (a good thing in this context). It disagrees with Good Calories, Bad Calories and says that you can and people have gained weight on a low carb diet, although it is uncommon.

There is still a bit of a blind eye turned to the idea that this diet won’t solve all your problems. Their answer to complaints of seizures returning (remember this is not for weightloss) is that they obviously ate something not on the diet. Medicine is rarely that easy.

This book is only a couple hundred pages and actually offers meal plans and substitution lists. If anyone wants to learn about how to Low Carb diet without 600 pages of why, this is your field guide.