Headaches
Today’s Weigh-In: 365.6 pounds
Days Till Goal: 6
Pounds To Go: 5.6
Well, it’s taken two days of cleaning eating to drop out of the 368 range, but things have been progressing well (again) on that front. My food intake has been top notch and my gym time has been, well, interestingly frustrating.
I don’t know why (allergies or a combination of them and water intake), but I’ve been getting very intense headaches this week any time I do something particularly strenuous. And I’m not just talking exercise here! I started hurting on Wednesday evening when I was handling the music as a small group Bible study. So, the big lifts or last set of other and especially during the hard cycles of my interval cardio work have been killing me – like a hatchet through the roof of my skull killing me.
So, I’ve been unable to really push hard at my gym time this week because these headaches are doing me in. It’s frustrating me like you wouldn’t believe! I’ve been amping up my water intake (to where it should have been all along had I not let it slip) since Tuesday and my head still got to throbbing during my first lift – bent over rows. In the middle of my dead lifts this morning, it got to the point where I had to just call off my last lift (squats) because I couldn’t handle it.
At this point, I’m pretty sure there has to be something at play with my allergies. I spent a lot of time outside in my pitiful little excuse for an apartment back yard last weekend, and ever since I’ve been having to take my Allegra – the allergy medicine I only have to use when I’m pack in Oklahoma. I wish my body would just clean up and move these allergines on along so I could get back to the routine.
At any rate, I’m officially under a week to my goal and I refuse to drop the ball like I did earlier this week with the four or five cheat meals over the course of three days. Mentally, I’m forcing myself to chase a perfect seven days (starting from yesterday) until the big goal day of next Friday rolls around and I head out of town. I have to be 360 and I’m going to work hard to make sure I hit that goal.
And even if I can’t push myself as hard as I would otherwise want to in the gym, this is all won (and loss) on the nutrition front, as I am finding to be so painfully true. If I can win consistently with my food, then the gym work will just help me along to the inevitable place of weighing 359.
But still, there headaches suuuuck.