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Steady as She Goes

Not a ton of time, but here's my last four weigh-ins:

306.4
304.8
305.2
305.2

Eating has been killer, and I've picked my activity level back up, as well. We went to the park to play some basketball and toss a football, and I gave my toe a good test...it failed. It's still pretty sore this morning. So, I need to find a better way to get my heart rate up. Running and jumping are both out of the picture for now.

Anyway, still plugging away.

Hovering

That's a hovercraft. See where I'm going with this?

Yesterday was a perfect eating day, yet I went up from 306 to 306.4. I had jumped to 309 for a day after a late-night carb binge. Not BAD food, just too much of it. I dropped to 308, then 306, and now I'm back up. My carbs were light, and my calories were around 1750, so I'm not sure why I got the jump.

My toe is worse, too. I did some push ups, and the stress I put on it pissed it off, so it's been pretty tender and sore for a couple days.

In other news, Beck and I are trying desperately to find the funds to allow us to go HERE for three months. They are a gym strictly for fight training, and fight fitness. No treadmills, no Nautalis systems. Here, you get kettlebells, you carry heavy bags on short sprints, you flip huge tires...as they put it, it's "warrior training." How freaking cool is that? "Warrior training." It just sounds bad ass.

I'd love to get into a place like that and start learning/doing some things I've never done. I can imagine the results I'd see going there 2-3 times weekly, while following a solid diet, and doing some extra things on my own.

Guess we'll see how it all works out.

Anyway, my goal is to be back under 300 by the time I go to a meeting on Wednesday of next week. So, off I go...

No clue what that image is for. I googled "holding steady" and I got that.

Anyway, I went up .2, but I was just hoping to get through the weekend without any major screw-ups, which I did.

A few good things to report...

> My broken toe is almost at 100%, which means the ability to get more active.
> My brother wants to train to hike a 14er, which means he'll start getting active with us.
> I'm getting better at making myself get on the PPU to do a few sets.

Now, with the PPU, I will admit that I'm not nearly as strong as I'd like to be. I can't do a real pull up to save my life, so I'm working on the Australian Pull Up. I'm only doing 5-6 per set, and my short-term goal is to get to 10 per set, obviously.

Anyway, just a quickie post to check in.

Thanks to those who have left comments. I appreciate it.

This is Me

Me on the nose.

I've managed to stay put weight-wise, but when you're supposed to be LOSING weight, holding steady ain't quite good enough.

I can list all sorts of "reasons" I haven't been focusing in the last week. Stress, which I use a lot. Time, which I truly don't have a ton of. Focus, which I struggle to keep...but the truth is, my biggest issue is motivation.

In the mud that is weight loss, I'm only driving with 2-wheel-drive. I have 4-wheel, but I haven't turned it on. I just need to find that magic button, or the special potion...something that gets the fire burning, or the wheels churning, again.

I'm also going to adjust my goals. I don't know that I can hit some of those, even with everything working like it should.

Anyway, if I can make it through the weekend, that'll be a big step in the right direction. So, here we go.

Come on, Antcliff!

Man, I just let myself go WAY too easily. One week, I'm backing out of the 300s, the next, I need to lose 7 pounds just to get BACK to 300. We ate out a LOT last week for lack of time and food in the house. No excuses, I know. We just made a lot of bad food decisions.

So, here I sit at 305.8, down from 307.0 yesterday - my heaviest since May 5, 2007, almost two years.

So, no rant today, no excuses, just getting back on the horse and riding.

I'm working with the Perfect Pull Up, which I dig, and doing my push ups. We're also going to try to get back to walks, and randomly hitting the field to toss the football, etc. Just like we used to do. I'm nursing a broken toe right now, but it should be much better in a few days, and we can get back to this full-force.

Goals...

3.6.09: 303
3.13.09: 299
3.20.09: 295
3.27.09: 289

We'll figure the rest out after that.

Freaking Stress

It's killing me.

I'm not happy in my life. I love my kids, and there are days when I love being able to stay home with them. But, at my core, I'm a guy who needs to be out there making a living, making an impact, and making a difference.

I don't feel like I get to do that watching Sesame Street, and Imagination Movers, then doing laundry and changing a diaper. Or two. Or 10.

The stress makes it so, on one day I eat like crap, on the other, I barely eat at all. I haven't worked out. I haven't weighed myself. I'm just kind of muddling through. I just feel like my energy level is so low that I can barely get myself off the couch for any real length of time.

I feel like, if just a couple of things would look up for us as a family, I could get over this hump, and get back to what I need to do. Until then, I keep hunting for the job I need, and hoping the stress can drop...at least a little.