4XLT

First off: kudos to you bloggers who have kept up blogging on a regular basis for months (and years for a few of ya). I don’t see how you all keep it up!

It’s been a frustrating two weeks. My weight seems to be plateauing and fluctuating to a crazy level. For example, last week, I did my lifting routine on Wednesday and then trucked over to the hospital to weigh in. 414lbs.

The very next day, I have breakfast and meet my friend Ben at the hospital around 10:30 to weigh in. Less than twenty four hours later (granted, with breakfast in my gut and without coming fresh from the gym), the numbers bump up. 418lbs.

I’ve been busting my butt at the gym (twice a day HIIT on the ellipticals with a ten minute row on cardio days) for the past week, trying to bust through my plateau, and when I went to weigh in at the gym yesterday (Monday), I was still at 418.

It would be really easy for me to get pissed and frustrated and otherwise discouraged, but I can’t let it get to me. It’s easy enough for me to understand why I’m not cranking in any lighter – my nutrition is still sucking. So, yesterday I went to Safeway and stocked up on some good food and precooked a bunch of turkey and chicken. That way, I have no excuse for wanting a Wendy’s quick fix, when I can eat just as quickly by throwing the tuperwared food into the microwave and diving in. I also picked up some Safeway-generic Lean Cuisine meals to eat – four for eleven bucks! What a deal! Too bad that when I looked that the caloric counts, they run from just 230 to 300ish. We’ll see how they work out.

Goal One

So, this leaves me looking at Goal One. Nineteen days to go and about nineteen pounds to loose. I am not going to miss my goal.

I’ve been roughly aiming for 2500 calories a day, split evenly between five meals. Without touching on the body’s starvation mode or anything, I’m going to stick to my food rules like an evil fascist the rest of this week and keep up with dominating the gym and see how my weigh in is on Friday. The key, I think, to the food is recording everything I eat. I’ve had some health sheets designed that log both my workouts and my food intake, but I’ve been less than consistent in using them.

So, I went to Kinko’s today and had a set of 27 of them spiral bound for this month. The notebook’s going with me wherever I go. And with it all together, hopefully it will help me track my eating habits.

Time to get the food right and burst through this wall into my goal.