TODAY, Numbers and Goals

Two work outs today and good on food back at subway and lean cuisine for dinner, but I was starving afterwards and had some 100 cal pudding.

Things have been tough this week not really sure why, I have tried to reflect on it but have not really come to any conclusions. I have been stepping on the scale almost daily and it is not looking good. Someone was nice enough to comment that they thought maybe my body was just hanging on to the weight and it would reflect this week. Well I dont think that will be the case but I am still hope full. I have lost 14 pounds since Jan. 1 which is great and I guess I should be happy with that. Since starting the bb I have lost a little over 10 and I hope I am not hitting another plateau. I really dont want to make any excuses. I related so much to the BL tonight with their 24 hours of luxury... I had 48 this weekend but I did account for all my food and drinks.

A week from Thursday I will be in a bathing suit for the first time, drinking playing golf and watching some baseball and eating terribly. So I really need to kick it in the next 9 days. The only problem is we have another "big" weekend planned. My parents are coming to town and all we really have planned is dinners. Both my parents are turning 60 and my wife and I wanted to do something special for them so I am sure it will be a blast, but I am sure it will be stressful and not to mention almost impossible to work out till they leave late Sunday night.

NUMBERS I have deficit of 8418 which equals 2.4 pounds. I am not going to say that any loss will be fine because I truly dont feel that way. When I look back at how I used to eat and how I used to "reward" my self for working out and I stayed the same weight I will be really disappointed if I gained or stayed the same this week. Well wish me luck!! Good luck to everyone else on the journey.

Monday

Good on food and good on work out all though there was only one of them. I am much better on the weekdays no temptation to drink and no temptation to eat bad.

Sunday, Back on track (kind of)

Somewhat back on track, got 40 mins in even though I didnt feel like going. Cals burned per min not where I want them to be but starting to move back up to where they were before the 25 miles or so I did last weekend. Starting to be hopefull about the scale...

Saturday, Ummm more dinner and drinks

Can you say sloth? Layed around and watched basketball all day. Really not motivated to work out still disappointed about one pound last week but determined not to go over bored with food. We were meeting a group for dinner up in frisco at a new place they have been dieing to go to and guess what it is. You guessed it sushi at a place called RA. Now this place is 40 mins from my house has a long wait and is the kind of hipster dofus place I dread. Not to sound like a snob because I am told that Dallas is snobby but this is a whole new level complete with the people that think people are fooled when guys show up in suits like they just came from work on a saturday. I guess they were all stock brokers that are working in European markets:) The women werent much better and I detected that no one was there for the food but a place to be seen. The sushi was average I ll take Blue fish which is about 10 mins from my house every day over this place.

Friday, the start of another bad food weekend

As you can tell, this is me with no work out not to mention going out to dinner with my wife. We went to Dallas Fish Market... I did well on the "food" portion but had to much wine. I had a salad and some tuna sashimi, and a spicey tuna roll.

Thursday

Got the cals burned up a little but only got one work out in. Did well with the food side but need to improve on both at the same time.

Falling behind with everything

Well here we go with multiple days posted all at once I don't like doing this but I have been busy and bad. After a disappointing weigh in. I kicked it up a little. Two work outs and not many calories burned. This is when I started to get disappointed because my calorie burned during my normal work out were starting to drop. I used to be around 14 per min and you can see here I was lucky to hit 10 and I was doing more resistance and faster. I was begging to think the tough weekend work outs were hurting me.

OH NO!!!!!!!!!

Arg! One crappy pound! And I am behind again. I am hoping that it is water weight or something, but who knows with my body. I have noticed a few things... 1) I am not burning as many calories no matter how hard i work out on my favorite machine since I did the long work outs on Sat and Sunday. 2) I am hungry all the time but making good choices. I have read a bunch of things about muscle memory and maybe I need to switch it up. So I tried that today with my bad results for the week. I get 10 cals per min on my same exercise even though I am doing more resistance and faster seeing this I moved to the stair mill and thought i was busting my tail but I was only getting to 6 cals per min. So I moved to the rowing machine and only got four cals per min.......... NOW WHAT? Is it possible that being 10 pounds lighter my body isnt working as hard? If so I now know why the "last" 15 pounds are going to be so hard. I am a little frustrated because there isn't enough time in the day to work out any more. I am already doing two work outs a day and it doesnt seem to be helping me kill myself on the weekends. I am going to continue to work out on the weekends hard because it makes me feel good but if this keeps going on I am going to drastically have to cut calories consumed or I am open to any ones advice. I am going to weigh again in the morning even though I just ate an ounce of salted almonds and hope that there was something weird going on the last few days on the scale. Well that is probably enough rambling for one night.

Tuesday, Another night before the scale

No work out today and a little upset that I didn't get one in.... We celebrate birthdays at work buy having lunch catered in and announcing every ones birthday for the month. I did pretty good at lunch even though I really wanted the chicken fried steak and biscuits. They did have a healthy option... grilled chicken. So I had grilled chicken, Salad, baked beans and Nilla Wafer banana pudding. I left work about 5 mins early thinking i would be a little traffic and get to the gym early. Well that didn't work because there was an accident on the highway. I live just far enough form work that it can take me 20 mins or three hours depending on accidents, construction or just regular bad drivers going the speed limit.

So Mr. Math what do the numbers say this week?

Total deficit "according to MY food log" is 11,904 that is obviously due to the good workouts on the weekends and nothing to do with the last two days. Mr. Science says I should lose 3.4011873456 pounds. I stepped on the scale on Sunday and it wasn't good so even though I have pretty nice deficits this week I am hoping for ANY loss.

Monday

Well after a long weekend of working out hard I was tired and a little burned out. Couldn't do anything at lunch because I had to go to the dentist. So just did a few miles in the evening and even cut that short because there were people waiting for the machines and I felt guilty. I still did 45 mins even though the sign says 20 mins, but really if people knew how little can be accomplished in 20 mins they wouldn't bother... not that 20 mins of exercises isn't worth doing I know it all adds up but for me that is only a bag of kettle cooked jalapeno chips at subway, or 4 tag a long peanut butter cookies, or 18 oz of regular coke, or 8 corn tortilla chips. Yes everything has been broken down to calories burned and if they are truly worth the time I have to put in moving around. I guess that is the thing I like the most about the BB and logging food.

Sunday, Half Marathon

Well after doing 12 miles yesterday, and reading an article in the news paper about the Fort Worth Marathon, I decided that I would see if I could do one on the elliptical. Yes it is only a mile and .2 miles further but those are big at the end of long "run." I did complete it in 1 hour and 53 min.

Saturday

So I didn't have much planned today but I did do 12 miles on the elliptical. Felt great but it really takes a toll on your body. It is amzaing what it looks like on the graph not to mention the steps. Here are the two graphs.

Friday

Not much to report, just more of the same. Lunch had shrimp and fish tacos and got a quick 4 miles in.