I still feel like a truck has run over me. I think the up/down the stairs with the pots on Saturday took more out of me that I thought. I’ve been up since 6am (not on purpose) but didn’t get started in the garden until about 11 as I made a shopping trip first. I spent the rest of the day planting (with breaks for lunch and a swim). Then it was garbage night, so collected and got everything to the curb. I had pretty much planned to skip the planned workout, which I did. Tomorrow morning we won’t walk as we both still have a lot of planting left to do. I think if I really work at it tomorrow I can get it done, although I’ll have to get some mulch and tidy up a few spots afterwards.

Food for the day:

Total: 1989 calories (27% fat, 35% protein, 38% carbs)

Breakfast: breakfast bake, cracked wheat oatmeal bread, jam, orange (364)
AM Snack: beef jerky (108)
Lunch: multi-grain tortilla, mustard, eye of round, lettuce, apple (438)
PM Snack: hummus, flatbread (164)
Dinner: sirloin steak, corn, butter, salad w/dressing (708)
Evening Snack: fruit salad, chocolate zucchini cake (206)

A real quickie post, as I need to go start planting!

This morning’s weigh-in was 245.6, which is 2.0 pounds down from last week. The 9-week gain, however, is 10.6lbs (1.18/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 a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 26 on plan with food.

Scary how quickly my weight went up, isn’t it? The quick drop appears to be over. I suppose I’d hoped that it would last another week or so, although I’m in the middle of my period at the moment, and my weight is often wonky around that time. I did briefly see 233.6 at the end of March, so seriously, no congratulations until then!

Next week’s plan is:

Continue the Break-in phase of New Rules of Lifting, 3 days a week. 30-45 min walks 5 days a week (with my mother), aiming for 45 mins on non-lifting days. For May at least that I’ll do 2000 on non-workout days and 2250-2300 on lifting days and see how that goes.

And the depressing little graph…