I had pizza tonight for the first time in over 2 months. And it tasted soooooo good. And I ate waaaaaaaaaaaay too much. An right now I feel sooooooooo sick. Sometimes I feel like a dog that gets kicked. No matter how many times I do this I keep coming back for more.
But I can honestly say right now I am ready for my workouts this week! Ready to run hard, lift tough, and eat right. Whenever I do this I get a head of mental steam to re-focus my efforts. I’ve noticed considerable gains in my musculature in the last week and I’m ready for more. Now if I could just get rid of my damn gut!!!
I’ve got to get my head in the right place. I’m having two issues right now: 1) major carb cravings Ever since my cheat meal I have been in a bad place with this. The lack of weight loss does make me want to say screw it and go have a bowl of cereal before bed. Then a bowl of ice cream. Then probably a sandwich of some sort. But I’ve been down that road so many times before and think I’ll hold on just a bit longer. This challenge is actually going a long way for me keeping things in perspective. 2) overworkouts. If I could fit it in right now I would probably try to lift and do a HIIT every day. I was ready to go today and when I started running my body just felt…off. I stopped and decided to take the day off. I have been in an overtrained mode before and do not want to repeat that nightmare. So my new rule will have to be no RT and CT on the same day unless I’ve got some major reason. Time to hit the sack.
I can’t seem to stay off the scale, and I guess as long as I don’t let it affect my follow through with the program I’m not going to worry about it.
I lost my perfect CE record tonight. We went out for my wife’s birthday to a mexican restaurant. Rice and corn tortillas were involved. As was a large cone from Dairy Queen. But on the bright side I’m sure it was better for me than my usual large Blizzard. I’m guessing it was about half the calories and carb, so good for me I think.
But I do feel guilty about it. I need to learn to just enjoy the times when I cheat and get back on the horse the next day. I think 3 hours out of 21 days is actually a very good ratio. It was tasty and now it’s just time to buckle down again, get back to work, and do it.
I’ve decided to start weighing only once a week unless it’s absolutely killing me. I feel better, I feel stronger, I’m enjoying my exercise more, but the weight is not “falling” off. According to by scale’s bodyfat tester I’ve lost 1% bodyfat which shows the results even while the weight number isn’t moving down. I can see results right around the bottom of my ribcage that are more motivating than the weight right now. At this rate I will be short on acheiving my PG2 of bodyfat % drop of 5% and not acheive my PG1 weight goal of weighing under 180 pounds, but weight is an arbitrary number at this point.
I’ve always enjoyed playing basketball as a form of cardio, but today I had an interesting situation arise.
I have agroup of friends who play in basketball leagues together. Right now we are in between sessions and have been playing on Sunday’s and Wednesday’s for a couple of hours to stay in the mix. I like to arrange my exercise, cardio and lifting, so that they don’t fall onthe same day as either of these days.
This was a lazy Sunday with not much going on. I lifted yesterday and the TNT book suggests 48 hours in between RT. I really felt like I should work out today before basketball. I didn’t, but just the feeling of WANTING to get a workout in is one I haven’t had in a while.
So now I need to decide if I exercise on my basketball days and/or if I can do my RT’s with less than 48 hours between. Tough decisions, but good one’s to have to make.