Well, here I am, back to early evening posting. For the next little while, bedtime will be no later than 10pm (earlier on Tues/Thu if possible). I need to get myself back into some kind of a routine for school. I had planned on doing this a couple of days before going back, but decided that lazing around in bed these past few mornings were a better choice.

Today was a cardio day, but I substituted shoveling snow. It was fairly light snow, and I moved around a fair bit of it. I just made a point to stay outside for around an hour (and definitely burned as many calories). Other than that it was a quiet day. I did a little laundry, scanned more recipes, etc. Oh, and got my stuff ready for tomorrow morning.

Day: 15 / 84

Exercise: Cardio - Yes (shoveled snow)
Warm-up: Yes

Recovery: Yes

Food (2100 max): 2094 - Yes
Macros (40P, 25F, 35C): 40.3P, 25.2F, 34.5C - Yes

Water (4L min): Yes

Weight (AM): 249.8
Weight (Day 1): 256.8
Change: -7.0

Overall - 100%

This morning’s weigh-in was 249.8, which is 2.2 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 5.4lbs (0.60/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 15 on plan with food.

The second week of OPT went well. I was off with the macros on Tuesday, so I ended with 98% compliance for the week. I’m changing stuff around for next week, mainly just so I can do a rest day on Saturday. I’m not sure that an early morning and a full day of school really qualifies as a rest day (what my Wed will look like).

Next week’s plan is:

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

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