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Back again (yay!). The last few months have been a mixture of work, travel, being sick, being depressed, and more work and travel. The depression hits every year or so, at random, for a few weeks,...

Week 28 Prospectus (July 28 – August 03)

What are my goals this week? They need to be reasonable, realistic, and well-justified. Food-wise, I'm back to my calories for 220±5 lbs, so a goal of...

Weeks 13- ... (wow) ... -27 Summary

The last few weeks were ... not good? Not as bad as they could have been, but for-sure not good. It's interesting to analyze what happened based on my mindset...

When you put it that way, I guess it doesn't sound as bad as I feel about it. However, I did lose that weight in the first ~6 weeks, and since then it's been flat-lined. So, yeah, I don't feel...

Weeks 11-12 Summary

Summary: These last two weeks were not good. It somewhat worries me that all-day meetings, family visiting, and more all-day meetings mean that I revert to old habits,...

Week 10 Summary

Summary: I lost my fitness challenge to my friend (so we're 2 for 1 now, me 2 wins to his 1), but I think this week was really, really good, all things considered.

Food: After...

Two quick addendums: (1) I am also doing another fitness challenge this week against a friend of mine and he teaches but is on Spring Break this week, and while I easily won the last two, he's...

Early Week 10 Update

Well, I didn't end up exercising on Saturday, but I did Sunday and Monday (it's mid-Tuesday now). Food has been within my limits. Weight is coming back down and this morning...

Weeks 8 and 9 Summary

Summary: Am I allowed to use expletives? Let's just say, "cr-p." See Week 7's summary for why, and that this was anticipated, though it was worse than I anticipated. As a...

Week 7 Summary

Summary: Slow progress.

Food: I did end up coming in at my "revised" goal based on the ice cream, ending the week at 102% of calories, 113% of fat, but 97% of carbs and protein...

Thanks, mtnmama. It's always nice to know when others have faced the same issues, even if it's not something specifically related to fitness.

There are definitely much more accurate methods to...

Late Week 7 Update

Lower weight and bf%, lifted as planned, not done core exercises as planned, I have put in many hours for work, and cardio has suffered somewhat because of that. I also learned...

Week 6 Summary

Summary: Progress in some areas, none in others.

Food: I was slated to actually get even closer to my goal in Week 6, but Sunday threw me off, with 50 gms of stove top popcorn...

Later in Week 6 Update

What's been dominating since my last update is the DOMS. It just really sucks. I worked out Monday night, it's 74 hours later, and I can barely walk. I've been walking...

Totally agree. I try to tell myself not to weigh in every day, but it's something I want to see (if it actually is working) but don't want to see (if it isn't) so ... sigh. My trendline is still...

Thanks, and I generally agree. I'm not saying that I think there's a pouch somewhere in my body purposely holding onto a pound or so to spite me, and stress is high this week as I was just told...

Early Week 6 Update

Weight has gone up a pound since starting the week, and it's on par with last week's average (though slightly less). I understood yesterday's increase - I over-ate on Sunday. ...

Week 5 Summary

Summary: Basically, this week can be classified as "steady progress."

Food: Food was again better than last week, I came in at about 2% over in total calories. There are...

Week 4 Summary

Summary: Some steps forward, some steps back, mostly treading water with no actual improvement this week, but that's okay.

Food: Food was again slightly better this week than...

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