let's see...since Friday- I ate like crap over the long weekend. Was holding my own weight-wise until today. I was 217 yesterday AM but hit 220 this evening somehow. And I even ate right today. On the bright side I can do 35 straight standard pushups followed by 15 declined; so I have that going for me. See where I stand weight-wise after a couple days of eating clean again. I think my biggest problem is I have been slacking on the bike.
Wednesday Feb 20 recap Breakfast- pot of coffee 35 level pushups off to work Lunch: grilled chicken strips home from work early dinner: peel and eat shrimp and a tuna steak 15 decline pushups and 30 incline pushups 3 sets of 25# dumbbell curls + triceps extensions to exhaustion snack of 2 eggs and some bacon This morning's pre-coffee weigh-in: 216 I have to travel to San Francisco for work on Friday-Tuesday. Assuming I don't get arrested by the Thought Police the second I step off the plane; this weekend is going to be tough. Only good thing about San Fran is the restaurants. I'll have to try to stick to seafood. My short term goal is to get under 210 by the end of next week. If I can do that I stand a chance of getting close to 200 even by the end of the month. A small chance, but a chance.
Thursday Feb 21 recap breakfast: 3 eggs and 3 strips of bacon off to work no lunch home dinner- ground turkey with minced garlic (kind of a cheat but plain ground turkey is way too bland) and peel/eat shrimp no work out tonight, I'll hit the bike in the AM. Flight leaves in the afternoon. Not looking forward to this trip. Timing sucks, for a lot of reasons. But that's for the Rant thread.
Friday recap- not worth talking about. Let's call it a cheat day due to travel. Involved beer. Not proud of myself. Saturday recap- scrambled eggs and hotel bacon for breakfast travel/work plans changed; was able to catch a flight home yesterday that was supposed to start at 5pm PT but was delayed almost 3 hours. Ended up getting home at 3am CT. Airport lunch: Peruvian rotisserie chicken and some greens with lime juice and vinegar. Actually the best airport meal I've ever had. If that place was franchised by my house I'd eat it 3-4x per week it; was that good. 3am "dinner" Ate a salad w/ grilled chicken breast. Not a carnivore day but still paleo. Not going to weigh myself until tomorrow. Friday is still in my system.
so today marks the end of the 30 day trip, but not the journey. I didn't keep up with the thread towards the end, but except for another cheat day Friday March 1 (bosses retirement party) I did pretty good on the diet. The only other times I messed up I was traveling. End weight was 214. Net loss of 6lbs in 30 days. I haven't taken my BP today because it was a rough day at work and when I got home I lifted and did pushups/situps so I'm sure it's whacked. A few takeaways- it's probably my age more than anything, but this diet alone is not enough to burn much weight anymore. I did not hit the bike nearly as much as I should have. Maybe 2x per week? I did do a lot of pushups/situps and that definitely made me stronger and gain some upper body mass/definition. I'll save you all from the pics. Suffice to say I can now do 30 decline pushups without a pause. As of today I am doing 3 sets of 20 per day. Every 3 days I do a max effort to check gains, then bump up 5 on my reps. Really good way to get quick gains. I also do 25lb dumbbell curls to exhaustion every other day. Nothing crazy, just concentrate on good form and full extension to get the triceps as well. I don't even know what my max is, something like 40. As for the diet itself, I really didn't crave anything except fresh veggies and occasionally peanut butter, which is my only sweets weakness. And beer. I also didn't have any negative health effects at all. No scurvy. No rickets. No digestive issues. (In fact that was probably better.) I did notice my sinuses were better this month but that could have been from reduced alcohol intake. Maybe a slight increase in overall energy, and maybe better sleep but that's probably due to the sinuses being clearer. I fly down to help my wife drive back home March 20. I'll give the diet until then, keep doing strength training and try to get on the bike more like 4x per week. See if my strength gains and weight losses keep heading towards positive. Keep you posted a couple times per week with progress...or setbacks. Pretty confident more progress than setbacks.
