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)