Days 665-667 Weigh-In

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

I'll be frank. I f'ed up this weekend. It's easy to cop out and say, "oh, I ate bad" without going into specifics. It's specifics time. I ate an entire package of hot dogs, hot dog buns, macaroni and cheese, and a bag of Dove dark chocolates over the span of two days. Monday I ate decent until I finished the rest of the dark chocolate and ate a crap-ton of popcorn. I did my JMBR workout Monday evening. Tuesday morning I did my JMBR but blew off my afternoon run for a Little Caesars Italian Cheese bread thing and four pieces of pizza.

I could throw out excuses: I'm stressed out. My relationship sucks at the moment. My brother pissed me off. Work is stressful. I'm feeling the pinch of the Body Revolution workouts. I'm not sleeping well. I bit off more than I could chew with my car purchase in April. I'm questioning whether I'm really going to be a good trainer or not. But it seriously wasn't any of that. I just wanted to eat. I wanted all that food. Does this mean I'm not eating enough for how much I'm working out? Probably. Did my twisted head think this was a reward for working hard? Probably. Do I just really not know what the problem is? Probably.

I'm half way through Body Revolution and I'm rethinking finishing it. Or hitting it as hard as I have been. My goal weight is 150. Really at my height, 160 would be fine. If I look to 160 as the final number, I'm on my last 15-20 pounds which are notoriously hard to lose. I've been stuck in the 170's since September of last year. Now that I'm a CFT, I have no secrets to losing that last little bit. But I do know that it has to be approached differently. Going balls to the wall isn't going to make it come off; it's going to make my body hold on tighter. Remember this weigh-in? You probably don't but I do. I was in the midst of my injury and I wasn't working out like a crazy person. I was eating around 1,700 calories a day. And I lost 8 pounds in 7 days. Was all of that real weight? No. Still, that tells me something.

Also, I kind of ignored Jillian. I listen to her podcasts like crazy. I remember her telling someone Body Revolution would not work for the last 15-20 pounds, that it was too intense. I knew better, but I thought maybe she's wrong. WTH? How could I question that? Why did I question that? Seriously.

The Body Revolution workouts look like this:
Monday - Workout 7
Tuesday - Workout 8
Wednesday - Cardio
Thursday - Workout 7
Friday - Workout 8
Saturday - Cardio

That is six workouts. I've been working out about 10-11 times a week on 1,400-1,500 calories a day. If I was still in the 200's the weight would be pouring off me. But I'm not and I need to remember that. My goal isn't that far away. For the rest of Body Revolution I'm only going to do each of her workouts once a week, instead of twice. I'm going to try and hit my 2-3 runs a week and get in a bike ride once a week. Food is coming back up 1,600-1,700 calories a day, with a 2,000 calorie day on the weekend. I really don't know if this is going to help but I know that nothing has really changed for me in the past 6 weeks and I clearly need more of something and less of the other. I might wrong but if something ain't workin', you change the shit. And on that note? Here's today's ugly weigh-in.

 Starting Weight: 221
Last Weigh-In: 177.8
Today: 182.4
Week's Loss: +4.6 lbs
Total Loss: -38.6 lbs
Percentage Lost: 17.5%

Days 662-664

Friday:
Ate good. Last Body Revolution workout for weeks 5 and 6, thank goodness. Leg supersets for two weeks were not fun.

Saturday:
Food sucked. Majorly. Hot dogs, mac and cheese, chocolate icing... Bleh. No workout. But I got a bike!

Sunday:
Food was not as bad as Saturday but was still crappy. 10 mile bike ride.

Day 661

My mom is a fantastic bread baker. I go through bread baking phases myself, the last one was a couple years ago. But anyway, she sent some artisan bread down with my dad this morning and I pretty much devoured it. Water and flour, but oh so good, made with mommy love.

I ate 2 black bean burgers today. I was hangry after my workout. 

Food:
Breakfast: smoothie/ blueberries, banana, oats, yogurt, protein powder.
Lunch: black bean and corn salad, 2 eggs deviled with laughing cow.
Dinner: 2 black bean burgers, ketchup, onion. stirfry.
Snack: 4 slices artisan bread, .5 kashi banana bar.
1,653 cal, 43 fat, 219 carb, 94 protein, 36 fiber

Workout: 
2.5 mile run 30 min, 300 cal
JMBR Workout 5, 36 min, 270 cal

Day 660 - Weigh-In

I'm pretty sure I'm going to turn into a Lightlife Burger. I've been eating one everyday for that past month or so. I can't help, they're just too darn good and I'm one of those weirdos that can eat the same thing over and over and over again.

Starting Weight: 221
Last Weigh-In: 180.4
Today: 177.8
Week's Loss: -1.8 lbs
Total Loss: -43.2 lbs
Percentage Lost: 19.5%

Food:
Breakfast: smoothie/ blueberries, banana, oats, yogurt, protein powder.
Lunch: black bean and corn salad, 2 eggs deviled with laughing cow. orange.
Dinner: black bean burger, ketchup, onion. stirfry.
Snack: .5 kashi bar bar, naked blue machine juice.
1,562 cal, 36 fat, 213 carb, 79 protein, 43 fiber

Workout: 
rest day

Day 659

I meant to run this morning but it was raining. I never have time to wash my hair and dry it so while I actually love to run in the rain it's just not feasible before work. Got in an extra cardio workout, anyway. I'm feeling pretty good this week. It's nice to feel on track. I know that my planned treat meals for the weekend are helping exponentially.

Food:
Breakfast: smoothie/ blueberries, banana, oats, yogurt, protein powder.
Lunch: black bean and corn salad, 2 eggs deviled with laughing cow. orange.
Dinner: black bean burger, ketchup, onion. stirfry.
Snack: .5 kashi bar bar, naked blue machine juice.
1,546 cal, 43 fat, 213 carb, 75 protein, 38 fiber

Workout: 
JMBR Cardio 3, 33 min, 275 cal
JMBR Workout 6, 36 min, 275 cal