I wish I were talking about my stomach, but it’s my progress, or lack thereof. Coming off a good week though, I should just be happy to be sub-210:

Weight: 209.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

Alright, we’ll see what happens this next week!

Okay, this is my best week in a LONG time.  I was able to Drop 3 Pounds and lose a little more chub around the waist:

Weight: 209.2 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

I’m a little perplexed, but I’ll take a week like this anytime.  After the previous week’s effort of consuming only about 10% of my usual “surplus food” intake and working out six days, I was a little bit discouraged to say the least that I was UP 0.2 pounds.

So, this time I decided to take it a bit easier on myself.  I went back down to exercising 5 days, Monday through Friday.  I also increased my treat intake back to a respectable 50% of the previous high.

Result: drop 3 pounds and a 1/4 inch on the waist!

Hypothesis: my body is allergic to high levels of diet and exercise

Anybody else have any ideas?  What’s the deal with the lag time on results — if that’s even what’s happening.  I’m not sure what’s going on, but this week I’ll probably land somewhere in the middle with treat consumption to play it a bit safe and see where I land next Monday.

Six days of exercise and an 80% reduction in treat intake and this is my #$%! reward:

Weight: 212.2 lbs.
Waist: 39.5 inches

Not too happy about this, but I keep telling myself that I must still be better off.  Just wish the scale agreed.  My experiment last week went pretty well.  I hardly ate anything at all in the evenings and on Saturday, I decided to add another workout, just for good measure.

I’d like to believe that I’m somehow adding muscle mass at the rate I’m losing fat, but that just doesn’t seem very realistic.  Ugh.  I’ll try to keep this up again for this week and see what the results look like next Monday.

After another solid week of exercise, I’m down about half a pound:

Weight: 212 lbs.
Waist: 39.5 inches

I’d like to see that waistline shrink again, it’s been stagnant for quite a while, but maybe after another 5 pounds or so it’ll start to come down as well.

Okay, so exercise *probably* isn’t worthless, but here’s my point:

Weight: 212.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.5 inches

No change.  How annoying is that?!

I finally get myself organized and motivated to exercise FOUR times last week (yes, I WAS proud of myself).  So, this week I started out with a great workout AND shoveled the driveway before my weigh-in, but no dice.  Not even a decimal point.  Oh well.  Maybe it had something to do with those 7 cookies I ate last night.  Or maybe it was the candy and chips I had the other night… dang it.

Well, I have yet to go UP this year.  I’ll take a flat week over an up week.  If I ever have an up week, I’ll have to ground myself 100% for that week from all treats.  I should do that anyway, but I don’t want to.  I’ll see if I can control myself a bit better this week and then keep the workouts going.