My workouts are working

When I lift my arms my man boobs are gone now.  Another few week and they'll be gone when my arms are down too.  After that, the gut...

I love it

Tonight Infiknit Girl joined me at Goldman's Gym.  She's giving my StrongLifts 5x5 program a 2 week trial to see if she likes it.  I LOVED having her join me.  I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I married the perfect woman!

Week Eighteen

So I'm back after almost 2 weeks off.  I indulged some, I ignored some, but I didn't go totally nuts.  I'm back now, tracking my food, and last night was my first workout in 2 weeks.  It felt great.  It's so strange and foreign to me to enjoy exercising.  I'm hoping that my break in dieting and working out helps me break this plateau.  I'm ready to start dropping again.  If it doesn't happen in a quantifiable way in the next 2 weeks then I'm going to have to change up something.  

2-15  252 lbs Starting Weight

2-22  248 lbs Week one
3-1   244 lbs Week two
3-8   243 lbs Week three
3-15  244 lbs Week four
3-22  241 lbs Week five
3-29  239 lbs Week six
4-5   244 lbs Week seven
4-13  237 lbs Week eight
4-19  237 lbs Week nine
4-26  235 lbs Week ten
5-5   233 lbs Week eleven
5-10  231 lbs week twelve
5-18  231 lbs week thirteen

5-22  229 lbs week fourteen

5-31  230 lbs week fifteen

6-7   226 lbs week sixteen

6-14  --------------------

6-23  227 lbs week eighteen 

I'm back bitches!

There was no post for week 17, I was out of town and lax on the diet.  I gained two or three lbs.  This week I suspended the diet.  There was a death in the family and I Infiknit Girl and I said screw it.  I gained another few lbs.  I was on a plateau for a few weeks any way.  I needed this and it will help me get serious again.  Tomorrow I'm sleeping in but when I get up I'm not eating any of the poptarts and donuts I got for the kids (3 of the kids cousins are sleeping over), I'm making a few eggs, and I'm back to eating clean.  I'm also going back to my lifting.  I've missed it in the last week.  Time to add another 25 lbs to the 25 lbs I've lost so far.

Motivation

Sometimes I go a week or two without losing any weight even though I'm kicking ass with my diet and my workouts.  Those weeks I also seem to notice my clothes fitting better.  Next time that happens I'll just remember this.

Week Sixteen

Down four lbs.  I've lost more than 10% of my starting weight now.  This totally makes up for last week, and helps motivate me to push through stagnate weeks.  I feel guilty for missing a workout this weekend While camping.  I don't know why, it's insane.  I worked my butt off this weekend including mowing most of the lot with waist high weeds and saplings in 90 degree heat.  I'll get back to my regular work outs tonight.  I feel like at this point my food is pretty much on autopilot.  I still track everything most days but 4 months in I know what I can eat and what I can't if I want to stay on track. I also have a pretty good grasp on how to have a small splurge without going overboard and falling into a shame spiral of eating.  I'm working on focusing on small goals and not looking at the big picture.  41 lbs left to go is pretty daunting.  Instead I'm looking forward to losing 4 more lbs to take my 30 lb progress pic. The next goal after that is the half way point overall.  This weeks Thin-spiration is

2-15  252 lbs Starting Weight

2-22  248 lbs Week one
3-1   244 lbs Week two
3-8   243 lbs Week three
3-15  244 lbs Week four
3-22  241 lbs Week five
3-29  239 lbs Week six
4-5   244 lbs Week seven
4-13  237 lbs Week eight
4-19  237 lbs Week nine
4-26  235 lbs Week ten
5-5   233 lbs Week eleven
5-10  231 lbs week twelve
5-18  231 lbs week thirteen

5-22  229 lbs week fourteen

5-31  230 lbs week fifteen

6-7   226 lbs week sixteen

This week's Thin-spiration is my smoking hot wife Infiknitgirl. She's doing great at getting healthy too.  I'm so thankful that we are doing this together.  It makes all the difference.  

I'm loving my weightlifting program

Now that I've gone from unorganized weightlifting to following the Stronglifts 5x5 program I'm seeing a HUGE difference.  I've never worked out this hard in my life and I'm actually enjoying it.   I don't think I'll ever get into running but I think I can relate to the runner's high now.  I'm working on maintaining good form, this program has me ramping up the weight of my lifts pretty aggressively and I'm worried I'll injure myself if I let my form falter.

I've also started to hit the wall on recovery.  I'm lifting ever other day and I'm sore enough that I'm starting to consistently walk funny.  Today I ordered a post work out amino acid supplement to help recover faster. Danger has decided he wants to get strong like daddy.  Most nights when I work out he comes down with me.  He lifts his own weights, helps me count reps, and makes fun of me for sweating and grunting.

Ok, that's all I'm going to say about weightlifting for a while, I don't want to be like those Vegan Crossfitters that can't talk about anything else.