Still going.

I haven't been posting as often as I used to, but that doesn't mean I've quit. I also haven't been working out with any regularity recently. I'm feeling mentally and physically drained recently. I've decided to take the week off from the draining workouts I've been doing and take it easy. I'm going to focus instead on my eating habits this week. I still struggle with that and I know controlling what I'm putting into my body is key to losing this stubborn weight around my middle.

Posts may be less frequent for a week or so.

Plyo is tough.

I think that might be the first time I've done plyo in quite a while. There may have been a subconscious reason why that was a workout I didn't have time for. That bitch is tough. I struggled to say the least, but I put my hands on my knees, let the sweat drip off my face and pushed as hard as I could. Still plenty of room for improvement but a good starting workout for this reboot.

Only myself to blame.

I've had many more bad days than good days recently, and it's not hard to understand why. I've missed a day here, and a day there, on their own they don't seem to bad. But add them all up and now I'm pushing less weight and less reps and struggling just to get through workouts. I'm rededicating myself and getting back to work on this and on eating better. I've been lax on that as well recently eating out with friends and the what not.

So this is me putting me on notice. I had some nice results and now I'm losing them by getting lazy and being satisfied with what I've accomplished so far. No more!

Here's a picture from today. You can look back to day 1 to see the difference between the two. Marginal improvement. I'm pretty disappointed in myself. Time to use that and burn it as fuel. Reboot.

Like a rollercoaster.

Yesterday was a great workout day where I accomplished some new feats and felt really great. Today was the exact opposite. I felt like crap from the moment I woke up, thanks Kara for eating a chicken bone so that I had to stay up all night and make sure you weren't choking it up or crapping blood, and my workout went rather poorly.

The good thing these ups and downs have been pretty common place throughout this whole process and I'm learning to stay pretty even keel over it.

Yoga day!

Once again almost talked myself out of today's workout. It's been tough doing these workouts recently. I'm so glad I did yoga today though. I did moves today that I never thought I'd be able to do and that I've always struggled with. Crane and Wheel. When I got up in wheel today I was shocked, like "wow I just did that". It felt really great. I'm at about 1/3 of the way through this 90 day program so I thought I'd post weight and picture updates. The pics I got were taken by myself so they were pretty crappy, so I'll post pictures later tonight when Amanda gets home to take the pictures. My weight has been going all over the place the last couple of days, between 187 and 190. So the low I've hit is 187, I was at 197 when I started this program so that's a loss of 10 lbs in roughly 30 days. I was at 209/210 at Christmas so thats 22-23 lbs lost since then!

I'm actually more psyched about being able to do the new yoga moves then the weight loss numbers. I'm actually beginning to see how much stronger my body is in what I can accomplish athletically.

Tough day!

I wasn't feeling well and did not workout yesterday. I still haven't had a significant bowel movement since I did that fruit fast over the weekend. I've forced out some little poos but I haven't had that "have to go" sensation yet. Which seems totally backward to me. I figured I'd have explosive diarrhea, or be "throwing mud" as my friend Jason calls it. I almost had myself talked out of doing today's workout as well, but I gave myself a virtual slap in the ass and got down stairs and did it.

Today's workout was bicep and back, so a lot of curls and pull ups. The way it targeted the biceps was really tough for me. I was struggling to get up any weight near the end, particularly with my left arm. The ab workout went really well though, I'm getting closer and closer to doing all of the moves in the workout. Now to enjoy a turkey sandwich on whole grain wheat bread w/ some lettuce and tomato and maybe some tomato soup as well.

Phase 2

Last day of the fruit fast, first day of the new phase. Today's workout was chest, triceps and shoulders. It targeted those muscles hard and I definitely felt it. Also I think I felt the fact that all I've eaten is fruit. No doubt my body is missing some protein etc. Felt a lot of fatigue, but I got through most of the workout. Eating some grapes now. Starting new lighter eating habits tomorrow. Already planning my meals. I think I'll have some oatmeal for breakfast and some hard boiled egg whites.