I’m a Loser 04.20.09

OK, OK, I get it.  I must get my diet back on track.  I got on the scales this morning and got so pissed I almost had a stroke.  Maybe I'm finally angry enough to find the will power required to do what I know I need to be doing.  I was doing so well for awhile,  and then I just let it go to hell.  I have another body composition on Friday, and I wanted to lose ten pounds before I got it, but it looks like I screwed it up.  I don't think I can healthily drop 5 pounds by Friday.  Dammit.

I haven't been slacking on the exercise though.  That's the only reason I lost any weight this week.  Monday was rough.  I think I had a 24-hour virus because I got to the gym and was drowning after 20 laps.  I just didn't have the energy to get my head above the water.  I went home, called in sick, and slept all day.  I felt better Tuesday, but I worked my upper body light and easy because my shoulder and back were still stiff and sore.  I lifted legs hard on Thursday, and I lifted full body hard and heavy on Saturday.  I hiked at Mountwood twice and walked to work twice. (It would have been more, but I don't walk to work in the rain.)

Even though I said I was going to wait until I dropped more weight, I couldn't resist the urge when I was at Moutwood on Friday.  I ran on as much of the trail as I could.  It nearly killed me; I'm still hacking chunky shit up out of my lungs.  I think it's the first time I've ran since 2006.  In all honesty,  it wasn't as hard on me as I expected, if you overlook the fact that on Sunday I was walking like a  90-year-old man with a cheese grater shoved up his ass.

Best of all - and I won't even try to be modest on this one, because I'm damned proud - on Wednesday, for the very first time, I swam a full mile!  I didn't switch strokes, and I did it in under a minute per lap!

Weight 04-13-09: 288.6
Weight 04-20-09: 288.2

Week 6 Average Daily Diet: 3300 Calories Per Day

Weekly Exercise Log:

• Monday: 22 laps in 21 minutes 50 seconds
• Tuesday: Upper body 1 hour 40 minutes; light weight, more reps
• Wednesday: 44 laps in 40 minutes 55 seconds; abs
• Thursday: lower body, upper arms 1 hour 35 minutes
• Friday: 22 laps in 21 minutes 52 seconds
• Saturday: full body; 18 laps in 19 minutes 39 seconds;   3 hours 45 minutes total workout time
• Walked to work and back 2 days (2.8 miles total.)
• One lap around Mountwood Lake: approximately 2 miles
• Mountwood Trip to the Moon in 35 minutes (approximately 3 miles)