Today was one of those days where I did a lot of little things, but in the end don’t feel that I accomplished much.  I’ve got exactly one week before school starts and I really don’t feel like tackling any more big chores or anything.  I’ve really got two things that I’d like to accomplish this week.  Have dinner with a friend on Tuesday night (planned before Christmas and will go unless the weather sucks), and make the rhubarb marmalade for my mother.  I think I’ll try aiming for Wednesday for that.  Yes, that’s my official rest day. 

Day: 8 / 84

Exercise: Cardio - Yes
Warm-up: Yes

Recovery: Yes

Food (2100 max): 2091 - Yes
Macros (40P, 25F, 35C): 39.7P, 25.4F, 34.9C - Yes

Water (4L min): Yes

Weight (AM): 252.0
Weight (Day 1): 256.8
Change: -4.8

Overall - 100%

Anyway, I didn’t do a weekly wrap-up this morning. I was slow out of bed, then had other things to take care of. I did manage to get my cardio done a few minutes ago. So, on that note:

This morning’s weigh-in was 252.0, which is 4.8 pounds down from last week. It’s a combination of OPT and getting back on plan, since I know that the number last week was artificially high. We’ll see how I do next week! The 9-week loss is 4.4lbs (0.49/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. It’s going to take a while to get back to where it was. 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 this is day 8 on plan with food.

The first week of OPT went well. I couldn’t summon the enthusiasm to do the resistance on Saturday, so I ended with 95% compliance for the week. I can live with that, since I really did think I’d have a problem with six days a week of exercises. I’m not going to change the plan though. I’ll still look as it as a non-compliance if I don’t manage to do it. Trying to keep myself honest.

Next week’s 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)