cheat day

Current Weight: 312.6 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 116.4 lbs.

Not back to the 309 I hit a couple weeks ago but I'm still good with it.  Been working out with the kettlebell regulary and my diet is strictly 4HB diet and PAGG.  Feeling great!  Muscles are no longer super-sore in the morning after a workout.  Maybe that just means I need to increase the intensity, I think it's time to purchase that 24kg Dragon Door bell.  I haven't been walking as much as I was last month but I think the KB workouts more than make up for it.

Cheat day again on saturday.  I skipped last weekend so I'm definitely doing this one.  Probably pizza and Ben & Jerry's again.  Need to ask the local pizza place if they have a whole wheat option.

Yesterday was another cheat day, a bigger one than I usually do.  I'm up 4 lbs from yesterday, oof!  The damage:

• 2 Donuts
• 2 Snickers Bars
• 1 Medium Pepperoni Pizza (Yea, the entire thing)
• 2 Nestle Drumsticks

Yesterday was also the day of the local kettlebell meetup.  I have barely touched my bell in a month and I paid for it.  During the last part of the workout I was using a very light bell and still ended up wrecked. I'm gonna have to force myself to get some swings in several times a week, getups too.

My morning walks have been going great.  The last 3 walks I did this week I was able to complete under an hour with no jogging or running, my pace is getting faster. What I listen to also really helps, if I listen to podcasts it adds another 10 minutes to my time but something with a fast beat I get it done quickly.  Lately my album of choice has been Lady Gaga's Born This Way, there are several songs which seem tailor-made for keeping you motivated while exercising - Highway Unicorn and The Edge of Glory especially.

Current Weight: 327.8 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 101.2 lbs.

It's all downhill from here.

I had a rockin' cheat day on Saturday and managed not to dip under the 100 lbs lost mark.

• Breakfast - 4 eggs w/ 3 slices toast
• Lunch - 2 chili cheeseburgers, french fries, 12 oz A&W Root Beer
• Snackage - Reese's Klondike Bar, Snickers Bar

For a while I've started to question whether or not I'll be able to make my goal of running a 5k, I walk it nearly every morning but at best I've only been able to jog in short bursts.  Today, I decided to haul ass and RUN.  It felt great!  There's much less stress on my joints when I run instead of jog.  I was still only able to do it in short bursts but I was able to take my 1:15:00 walk and get it down to 59:00!  First time under an hour.  I can do this.  I'm going to do it!

When I was getting tired I kept thinking of this post-it note I saw on Tumblr last week.  Posting it here on the right, it kept me going!

Current Weight: 332.4 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 96.6 lbs.

Cheat day/Birthday has knocked me several pounds back under 100, I'll be back soon enough.

Great cheat day!  Only up 0.8 lbs, Damage Control ftw.  Cheat day meals were:

• On Waking - Protein Shake (1 scoop), small handful of almonds.
• Breakfast - 3 eggs, 3 slices thick bacon, buttered toast w/cinnamon.
• King Size Snickers (I refuse to call it by its new name, "2 to Go")
• Lunch - 3 Slices Medium Cheese Pizza
• Dinner - 3 Slices Medium Cheese Pizza

Walked my 5k before breakfast.  Lunch and Dinner were all eaten while playing D&D with friends.  Before each mean I took PAGG, Cissus and a large swig of grapefruit juice.  In the evening I had a pitifully short kettlebell workout.  I thought for sure with all the pizza I ate I'd be up several lbs today.  w00!

Fixed the problem I had with my shoes.  Had to crumple up some paper and place them inside for my heel to rest on, raising it a couple centimeters.  That easy!

Video Sharing Time!  This video by c0nc0rdance on HFCS is excellent.

Current Weight: 337.2 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 91.8 lbs.

I've been waking up earlier and earlier every day lately, usually I try to go back to bed and get a couple more hours sleep. Today I woke up around 5:30am and I decided to embrace it, used the time to start what will hopefully become a daily routine - Drank my protein shake and a liter of ice water then walked around my neighborhood for 1.5 hours totalling 5k.

Last week when I was walking I got fed up with the upper back pain I was experiencing so I asked Dr. Google what was going on and it turned out my posture was suffering from "Forward Head".  Basically I just needed to straighten up and keep my head from drooping forward.  Today there was a lot less pain and tightness between my shoulder blades and was able to walk twice as far as usual.  Doc Google ftw!

One of my goals is to run a 5k before the year ends.  Well, I've walked it now, so phase one complete! Soon I need to add some jogging into the mix. For now I'm gonna try to get the walking time down to below 1 hr.  I'm a slow walker.

Today's my cheat day, I was good the entire week so I totally deserve it!  But I'm not eating any junky food today, just good stuff that's normally banned.  Breakfast started out with a few ounces of OJ, 3 eggs, 2 pieces of toasted bread w/butter, 3 thick slices of bacon.  Followed it all with a bag of microwave popcorn.  Lunch will either be grilled cheese or tuna sammiches.

In the afternoon I'll try to get a good KB session in.

Current Weight: 343 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 86 lbs.

As promised, I did some bad, bad things on yesterdays cheat day!

• Breakfast - 3 Chocolate Bar Donuts & Glass of Milk
• Snack - King-Size Snickers Bar & Bag of Microwave Popcorn (Popcorn & Snickers are the ultimate combo!)
• Lunch - Steak & 3 Eggs, 2 toasted, buttered pieces of sheepherder's bread.
• 2nd King-Size Snickers Bar
• Dinner - Entire Box of Kraft Cheese & Macaroni

I did several things to help minimize the damage so in the end I only gained 2.8 lbs compared to the previous day.

• PAGG & Cissus before each meal
• Simple exercises before and after each meal
• Except for the 1 glass of milk I stuck with water the entire day.  No soda.
• No food after 5 pm
• A short kettlebell workout in the evening to shake off sluggishness and burn some of that food.
• An hour of ice packs before bed.

Started out today with steak & 4 eggs and will probably fast til tomorrow morning.  If I get hungry I'll drink protein shakes. I'm beginning to think I'm not getting enough protein in my diet and need to step it up some.  I've been working with a 40lb bell for quite a while and except for the swing I haven't felt the need to upgrade to a bigger bell.  I'm worried that my diet's causing me to burn more muscle than I should be.