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.
Okay, so after a couple weeks of exercising, I’m down half a pound. No, not even. 0.4 pounds. Good grief.
So, I thought I’d try an experiment. After dinner we get the kids ready for bed. I decided I’d get myself ready for bed at the same time, including brushing teeth. After that, I’m only allowed to drink water.
Now, this might not seem like a big deal to some of you. Maybe a lot of you already do this (i.e. don’t eat after dinner). AP on the other hand, well… he likes to snack. We’re not talking casual snacking either. Let’s put it this way, if snacking were an Olympic sport, AP would be a contender for Gold!
It’s not that I can just eat a lot of crap. I happen to have a super high tolerance for treats and snack food. Along with that tolerance, I have a strategy that keeps me going through the most intense of snack-fests. Alternate between sweet and salty. Yes, my friends, that’s the secret. Along with plenty of water, if you alternate between butter & salt popcorn (a huge bowl, the equivalent of two bags of microwave popcorn), and then about 10 mini-candybars, then back to chips and salsa, then back to a dozen cookies, then back to pretzels, then back to a pack of skittles, then… well, you get the idea.
I’d put a conservative estimate at 1,000 calories per outing. And this is after dinner, before bed. Not every night, and not always in true Olympic fashion, but let’s just say often enough and with more than enough that it’s time to put the freakin’ breaks on this snacker!
I’ll try this out for two weeks and see what the results are. I’ll keep up the same exercise routine and keep ratcheting it up slowly. We’ll see what the combo can deliver. My guess is more than 0.4 pounds in two weeks. Ugh.
Wish me luck! (although this reduction in consumption won’t do anything to help the current economic crisis — think of all the lost snack food sales! — *sigh* oh well, I’ll have to find another way to stimulate the economy that doesn’t stimulate a muffin top)
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.
