I am back starting today!

Well it has been a long time. A lot has been going on. Since the trip to spring training life has been crazy. Work is a mile a minute, I have been sick ( I never get sick) I have been reading a novel and I got an Iphone. So while all of this has been going on I haven't been logging my food or working out but I have found that the knowledge that the body bug gave me over the first few months really help me manage my weight. Although I have not lost any weight I have no gained and I am really happy about that. Over the last five weeks I have fluctuated up and down 1-3 pounds and as we speak I am down a total of 17 pounds since Jan 1, 2009.

I plan on getting back on the complete program wearing the BB and using the food portion because I think it is so helpful.

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.