Again, I’m not sure what I accomplished today, but it’s past my bedtime so I’ll just add in my food for the day. I did get the meat sliced up and in the freezer. My mother had some for lunch and confirmed that it was quite tasty. We’re pretty much set for lunch stuff now (3 kinds of meat, 2 kinds of soup) past the point where I’m on Christmas break so I might just take it easy until then and plan lots of cooking for that period.

Food for the day:

Total: 2298 (28% fat, 31% carbs, 39% protein)

Breakfast: egg/egg white omelet with cheese, honey oatmeal bread, jam (370)
AM Snack: zucchini spice cake (171)
Lunch: whole wheat tortillas, bbq pork, cheese, apple (515)
PM Snack: protein shake, fruit salad (306)
Dinner: sirloin steak, corn, butter, salad w/dressing (683)
Late Snack: fruit salad, whole wheat tortilla, cheese (253)

I started off with 3 mins cardio (walking/jogging on the spot), the prescribed warm-ups, and then did:

Power Training - Strength Training (weeks 4-6)
Workout A2 (3 of 10)

1: Clean High Pull - 80t/3, 80t/3, 80t/3, 85t/3
2: Clean-grip Deadlift - 130t/6, 130t/4, 135t/3, 140t/2
3: Single-leg Romanian Deadlift - 55t/6, 55t/4, 55t/3, 55t/2
4: Push-ups (incline) - 6, 4, 3, 2
5: Bent-over Dumbbell Alternating Row - 45e/6, 45e/4, 47.5e/3, 47.5e/2
6: Push Press - 80t/6, 80t/4, 80t/3, 85t/2
7: Pullovers, alternating - 25e/6, 25e/4, 25e/3, 25e/2
8: Windshield Wipers - 8, 8, 8, 8
9: Four-point Plank - 30sec, 45sec, 45sec, 45sec

Total time: 70 mins
HR monitor: 388 cals, Max: 156(88%), Avg: 115 (65%)

For the first time since I started doing them with a barbell I actually feel I’m getting a handle on the SRDLs. On the sets with 4, 3 and 2 I managed to do them without falling over. Still couldn’t do 6 in a row that way though. Maybe next time. I was feeling very strong on the deadlifts though. I had only planned on going up to 135 on the third set, but went another 5 for the last set (as it’s only 2 reps). All around a pretty decent workout.

The Sunday to Sunday loss this week is 3.2lbs. I’m a little surprised at that since I really haven’t done any regular exercise since Sunday, although I always adjust my calories down if I skip a workout. I’ve also felt generally without energy all week. I attributed some of this to an exceptionally heavy period so that may also explain the weight loss. I’ve also got a pretty nasty bruise on the one knee that I really don’t remember doing anything that would cause it. Oh well, I’ll just be happy with the loss and hope that I don’t find next week is a low one. The 9-week loss is 19.4lbs (2.16/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider the maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So, since I started keeping track this is day 296 on plan with food.

I also feel I should at least acknowledge that I passed a milestone this week. I started back to my weight loss on December 7th of last year at 358.2 pounds. A depressing number as the first time I lost weight I had gone well past that point. So as of this week I’m 100.2 pounds below that point, a little earlier than I expected. I thought I would be happy if I hit that amount lost in a year, and here I am having hit it a full 6 weeks earlier than that. So… why am I not happy? I find with each milestone that I tend to end up more depressed than happy. I’m not really sure why. I can’t simply focus on the achievements. I tend to focus too much on the negatives. ie. I’m still considered morbidly obese, I still have a hell of a long way to go, etc. I’m not looking for validation on the positives (really, I’m not) I just can’t seem to shake the negatives away.

Anyway, this week’s chart: