Exercise: none, planned rest day

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2402 (31% fat, 34% carbs, 33% protein)

Breakfast: cracked wheat oatmeal bread, jam, peanut butter, grapefruit (298)

AM Snack: almonds, protein shake (299)

Lunch: pizza (w.w. pizza shell, tomato sauce, smoked ham, cheese), apple (473)

PM Snack: protein shake, cheese spread with rice crackers (315)

Dinner: grilled lamb, broccoli, butter, salad w/dressing (612)

Late Snack: protein shake, grapes, biscotti (406)

This is part of a 4-wk report I’ve been doing for the program I’ve been following. They suggest that after 4 weeks you go back and look at progress. I’m not going to copy it all it, but this was the weight loss and measurement points for the last two 4-wk periods:

Starting Weight: 325.4
Week 4: 317.0 (-8.4)
Week 8: 309.6 (-7.4)
Total: (-15.8)

Although there’s a pound difference I don’t consider that significant at the moment. Unless it changes drastically (to a lot less) I’m not concerned.

The measurements - I did find the ones I took on day one, so I’m going to show the change to them as well. For now, I’m just going to compare the three.

Week 4: Bust (-1.0″) Waist (-1.0″) Hips (-1.0″)
Week 8: Bust (-1.5″) Waist (-2.0″) Hips (-1.5″)
Total: Bust (-2.5″) Waist (-3.0″) Hips (-2.5″)

Again, maybe when I’m further along I’ll feel like sharing the actual numbers, but not today. Because of my current weight I specifically am not eating to maintenance. I know because of that I may not see the intended results of the program, however, I think losing weight is still my primary goal for overall health. I started TNROL4W to simply give me more structure for working with weights. The workouts definitely push my comfort level, which they were meant to do.

I think a rest week is a good idea. I’ve decided that I’ll cut calories a bit at the same time and drop the treadmill for a week as well. Although I will likely try and do 30 mins of laps in the pool daily just to improve my stamina with the laps. I was considering dropping the AMRAPs (as many reps as possible), but I really would like to do them. I’ll do the A set Monday and see how I feel.

I do see some strength gains in everyday things, when I try lifting something that might have given me trouble a couple of months ago. Even the other night, lifting the dumbbells from the fireplace (lit the fire). Moving them complete (50lbs) didn’t feel as hard as the day I brought them.

I think that’s the end of my ramblings for today.

Today’s weigh-in brings me to 309.6 which is 2.2 pounds less than last week.  I’m happy with this week’s weight, although to be fair I’m pretty much happy with any weigh-in that’s down.  That’s the one thing I noticed recently, although I do have some TOM flux, it’s not as bad as it used to be.  When I started the week I had my period I was almost certainly going to be up a couple of pounds.  For whatever reason (so far) it hasn’t affected me as much.  Again, as long as the month to month trend is down, I don’t really care much about the weekly weights.  Since I started keeping track this is day 117 on plan.