o, I’ve gone back and forth on whether I’ll bother with food logs or not. I think for a change I’ll just post some kind of ramble with a compliance list every night.

Day: 1 / 84

Exercise: Cardio - Yes
Warm-up: Yes

Recovery: Yes

Food (2100 max): 2094 - Yes
Macros (40P, 25F, 35C): 40.0P, 25.0F, 35.0C - Yes

Water (4L min): Yes

Weight (AM): 256.8
Change: none (day 1, right?)

Overall: 100% - good start

I added the warm-up because I know that I have a tendency to skip things like that. I added the water because I notice that when my eating goes off track so does my water. Of course, it could be that the water goes off track first and then I overeat. What was really quite funny was that I took the calories for fat and protein and divided them by the total (to get a decimal on them, which Fitday doesn’t do) and they rounded to zero). Oh, and I also did the recovery today, and can I say… hate, hate, hate the foam rolling.

So, what else did I do today?  I finished freezing the turkey soup (had some today for lunch, very nice).  Oh, and I made some chili.  That leaves me only with the stewed beef to make, but I think I’ll take a day or two off from the cooking before I do it.  I may also make some rhubarb marmalade for my mother, if I have enough empty jars.

I seem to be on a clean-up / organize kick the last couple of days.  It started with me cleaning out the desk drawer (something I probably haven’t really done in years).  I seem to simply shift stuff from point A to point B a lot.  I want to keep at least two of my books from last semester, but have nowhere really to put them.  I have quality books in a dresser drawer upstairs, and a bookcase in my bedroom that’s filled with recipe books (mine and my mothers).  Oh, and gardening books as well.

So, I’ve started putting the fancy print/scan/fax machine to good us.  I’ve been scanning in old recipe pages (looseleaf in binders).  They’re already indexed in an Access database (by title, book #, page #) and usually when I’m looking for something I’ll search, write down the info and then go upstairs to look for the actual recipe.  This should let me start to find some space on the bookcase.  I should probably just chuck them all into the recycle bin, but I can’t bring myself to do so.  You know, just in case I suddenly have a burning desire to make….

Yes, I’m a pack rat, but at least a somewhat organized one. 

And if nothing else, I’m getting some NEAT in.  I throw 10 pages in the scanner, press the button and really have to leave the desk.  Although I should be able to use the computer, if I do too much the scanner hangs.  So, I get up, walk away, and then come back.  It’s kept me from sitting at the desk too long during the day.

On that note though I think I’ll head off to my bed.  Looking at OPT, that’s one day down, 83 to go…

I still seem to be struggling, again with two days this week where my eating was out of control. It’s actually more drinking that starts it, so I think I’ll try dry for a little while. I suspect it’s lowering my inhibitions to the point where I say ‘why can’t I eat as others around me are’. The thing is that I know the answer. I also realize that I didn’t eat enough to gain four pounds this week, and it will come off in a day or two (or most of it). The 9-week loss is only 1.2lbs (0.13/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. At the moment I’m not too impressed with it, but the only thing I can do is go forward. 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 yesterday was my last bad day this is day 1 on plan with food.

I started OPT this morning, a system from Leigh Peele (I know everyone on JP Fitness knows this, but I usually cross post this to my blog as well). So for the next 12 weeks I’ll follow her plan, as well as I can, since I tend not to conform in my own little ways. I’ll do a Sun-Sat cycle, which for the first three weeks will have 3 days of cardio, 4 days resistance training, and I’ll eat 40% protein, 25% fat, 35% carbs…. yikes. I’m going to come up with some kind of daily compliance checklist, and will probably drop the detailed menus for the next 12 weeks. Wish me luck. So far (for today) I’m on track and I did my steady state cardio (had a hard time keeping my heart rate down though), so things look good. I’ll even have a shot at the recovery later in the afternoon (another thing I don’t think I ever do).

The plan is:

Sun: cardio, recovery
Mon: resistance A1, recovery
Tue: resistance A2, cardio, recovery
Wed: rest day
Thu: resistance A1, (recovery - extra?)
Fri: cardio, (recovery - extra?)
Sat: resistance A2, recovery

Calories: 2100 (40P, 25F, 35C)