Almost there...

So spent last weekend up in CO with my pal and his family. Roadtrips are usually the bane of healthy eating for me, with a little planning ahead (and a trip to Sprouts), I was able to completely avoid cinnamon bears/chips/cheeseburger/soda/etc. And because CS has turned into a complete despot and has banned everyone in the household from ever tasting anything they enjoy ever again, it was a piece of cake to stay clean there, too (though the cupcakes that Gramita made smelled delicious all weekend). I even limited my beer intake to one (1!) on the whole weekend, though I had a total of 3 to give. Didn't even have one at the Rapids game on Sunday. Though we didn't get in anything resembling a workout either day, food-wise everything went pretty damned swimmingly...except. We stopped for eats on the way back from the game. Went for BBQ since good old American meat is totally legit according to the rules. Ordered my beef ribs and iced tea, but forgot to tell them not to put any sauce on them. And while I didn't add any extra sauce, it was there and I ate it, sugar and all. 

We've got about 4 days left of this little journey, and I can only shake my head when I think that my lone stumble on food for the entire freakin' show may turn out to have been a tablespoon or so of barbeque sauce on the last weekend.

FOODS:

All clean, all the time, less a smear of ketchup & molasses

EFFORTS:

Made WODs from M-F (went the extra day because I knew I'd be missing while on the road)

Vegas is in sight!

My poor family

As a result of me eating clean, or at least damn close to clean every day, by consequence my family is also eating clean.  It's not like I prepare a chicken dinner for me and a bowl of pasta for them.  On Taco Tuesdays when I have the taco salad, they of course get the shell and cheese, but for the most part they eat what I eat.  I'm killing them!  The little one is in the 20th percentile on her weight for her age as of her physical about two weeks ago.  The boy, he's getting slower in each of his Landshark running races.  I've got to blame it on the eats...my kids need more carbs, which means I should probably start eating more as well.

I think the biggest component to eating healthy is planning your meals.  When you plan them and prep for them, it's easy to eat healthy.  Not planning leads to "what's for dinner?"  which leads to Wendy's or something quick (which is hardly ever healthy).  Just saying.

As for this weekend?  We'll do fine.  A couple beers watching college games on Saturday and maybe a beer at the game on Sunday should be all we need.  We can also stick to eating lots of meat...always delicious. 

So when do we start our PP training?  Is that going to be our next challenge? A weekly total miles x weekly pounds lost - penalty points for exceeding ? calories - 12 points for every beer over 2 per week divided by number of chicks you dated in HS.

Probably should check myself before I wreck myself

So I've cooled off a bit since Monday's debacle. I remembered that I had my suspicions that the scale that did my baseline weigh-in on was a bit dodgy, even mentioned it once or twice in a couple of early posts. I never went back and entered a different number from another scale, which had suggested that my first number should probably have been about 10 pounds higher. Not asking for a modification this far into the game, just reassuring myself that there probably has been progress, just not as much as I'd hoped.

As for CS, however, you're killing it! Fifteen pounds in 4 weeks is no joke. That's fantastic! You're dropping more than a pound every two days, and you are beating yourself up over not working out enough?! Keep up the awesome work. I've got someone to live up to.

Things here have been steady. One more workout to get my 4th day straight. All clean food, but trying to mix in more veggie carbs. Partly because of some of the things CS was mentioning, partly because I could tell that my protein v carb balance is a bit out of whack. We'll see how I do going forward.

This weekend, however, is going to be a test. Road trip, good pals, and sporting events. CS is right, this is as good as anytime to kill the rest of beer ration (mmmm, chopp....).

Trick will be stopping there. And behaving with everything else, too.

Chopp

I've got ten days and four beers to drink, may I suggest that you and I take care of our remaining allotment this weekend? I see no reason not to...just saying.

So last week the wifey and I bought 5 dozen eggs at Costco.  This weekend her mom comes up to hot the mega store and buys eggs as well.  Only she forgets them here.  I am eating lots of eggs.  Yesterday and today I had a coconut milk, banana and apple smoothie for breakfast and eggs, sausage and peppers or lunch.  Not much changes in my life.  I even had a bunless fast-food burger these two days as well.

No workout however.  Boooooo!

Calma calma...

...with the added hand motions from my father.  I'm sure you're doing better. Part of NM's issue is the same issue I've had in the past with Paleo (and other restrictive eating plans); that I simply plateau at which point nothing else happens.  I'm not sure how much of this is our age, a nutrition factor or simply that we suck and God had commanded us to be the two fat guys in marathons/Pikes Peak?  This is partly while I've gotten a few zeros as of late for clean eating, I've had some (very little and well within moderation) "other" foods but have continued to drop some weight.  Every clean eating diet I have tried has worked out similarly in that I drop a bunch at first and then run smack into the wall. 
I'm curious how you would do if for the next ten days you/we were not as restrictive but tried a calorie counting plan or a one carb a day plan and see if that shakes things up enough in your body to start something.  Additionally a change in plan will allow your body to adapt o that you don't have the shits nonstop in Vegas after that first piece of pizza.

In fairness to your disclosure, let me share my month with you.  While not great, it has been a steady drop:

Sept.	1	310
Sept.	2	307.4
Sept.	3	305.6
Sept.	4	304.8
Sept.	5	302
Sept.	6	300
Sept.	7	300.8
Sept.	8	301.6
Sept.	9	300.6
Sept.	10	299.4
Sept.	11	299
Sept.	12	298.8
Sept.	13
Sept.	14
Sept.	15	301.2
Sept.	16	300.6
Sept.	17	298.8
Sept.	18	298
Sept.	19	296.4
Sept.	20	297.6
Sept.	21	297
Sept.	22	295.6
Sept.	23	295.6
Sept.	24
Sept.	25	298.8
Sept.	26	296.6
Sept.	27	295.8
Sept.	28	296.6
Sept.	29	295.4
Sept.	30	294.8

4 Weeks In: Big FAT Effing Zero

So the rah-rah, happy happy joy joy bullshite. Since my last post, I've worked out everyday but Sunday (did some stretching, but don't really feel like that counts as a workout). I'm trying to keep up a pace of 4 days on/1 day off to give myself just a bit of recovery. After today, I'm at least one day into the the third round of that cycle, so I'm going to try and keep that up until we bolt for LV. Furthermore, I've been religiously clean with the food, and made sure that I'm getting plenty of water, plenty of veggies, etc., etc. I feel like I'm getting stronger with the workouts (think I've done more burpees in the last month than at any time in my life; still hate 'em), at least most of the time. That, I guess, is the good news. Can you tell that this is about to get ugly?

About three years ago when I did a complete paleo/Crossfit crash like this, I dropped 10 pounds in the first week. At the end of the first month, I was down 20. After 6 weeks (the approximate length of this face-off), I'd shed 25. Now, I'll admit that these are fairly extraordinary results (and maybe not incredibly healthy given the speed), and should not be viewed as a normal reaction to such activity. I was eating healthier more consistently than I ever had before, and I was working out harder than I had in many, many years, maybe ever. So I was quite comfortable with the idea that I wouldn't see anything quite that dramatic this time around.

We've kind of hidden from one another where we are weight-wise as thing does on, but today's sort of begged for full disclosure. Got on the scale this morning, and I haven't budged an ounce. Even got on a second scale to confirm this wonderful news. And though I'd like to console myself with thoughts of all the fat I'm replacing with muscle, I know the scales aren't lying because I'm not feeling the difference in my clothes, either.

This is easily the closest I've come to just bagging it and grabbing mucho beer and pizza, both of whom I greatly miss. To say I'm angry and a bit demoralized would be accurate. Looks like I'm going to need every bit of that point lead I've built up. And if things continue this way, any 'victory' will be pretty frickin' lousy.

5115

Actually 51.15 =  points converted to pounds that I am behind "The machine from 12th street."  Nice job by the way.  I escaped Homecoming weekend relatively unscathed.  While I earned few points, the damage clearly could have been worse.  Friday was a teacher workday which often lends itself to lots of food being around, lunches out, and snacking.  None of which I crossed (some intentionally, some by luck) paths with.

Saturday was the big day: parade at 9:00, pancake breakfast followed, game at 1:00, kid's soccer game at 3:30, dance at 8-11:30.  Meals were at a premium, as I really only had breakfast (where I lost my point) and a quick dinner before the dance.

Sunday was the Patron Saint Feast day at church (where I lost my point, not even on purpose) and then hours of rebuilding closet shelves. Not counting a HS football game, I saw 0 downs of football this weekend.  I need to start watching so I know what the hell is going on when we get to Vegas.

Workouts:
Friday - speed walking around the neighborhood prior to walking to get the kids from school (carrying their scooters btw).  Then some more speed walking at the boy's soccer practice.  I had planned on walking for an hour at practice, but sitting in the shade watching won out.

Saturday:
Ain't no way it could have happened.  really, just no way.

Sunday:
A little 45 min bike ride followed by some squats, push-ups and jogging to get me to 60 min.

While I may be performing poorly in this little game and will surely be buying NM a $85 steak with a lobster and baby emu on top, I am mindful of what I am eating, I am not "jumping off a cliff" once I lose my point, and I am still dropping weight...slowly, but dropping.  I am 1/6 or 16.6% of the way towards my goal of...

Slipping

Had something great I wanted to post tonight. Didn't write it down. Now I've completely forgotten it.

I'm old.

GRINDING:
W/U: 500m row
Lift: 3x3 tempo dead lift (235#), 2x4 deadlift (245#)
WOD: 18min EMOM - Odds: 4x2ct front squats (115#), Evens: 30sec front leaning rest

GIRDING:
Frittata slice
hand of grapes
bowl of green chile chicken soup
hand of carrots
big salad w/peppers, mushrooms, olives, tomatoes and salmon

Got it

Finally. It took me 24 days but I finally got an AM workout (45 min) and a PM workout (45 min) complete.  Clearly I am brushing sleep aside in order to do this, but at least I lost sleep for a good reason.

Everything else (eats-wise) was pretty normal.

Today I am reffing the annual Homecoming Powder Puff game and then hopefully I can get in at least an hour in the evening.  I wish myself luck.

Pts behind: 43 pounds

Well, OK

It wasn't a particularly busy day, but I somehow never really had the time to sit down and eat much, and when I finally did, just wasn't all that hungry. I can totally live with that. May also have something to do with the workout tonight. Took a friend to the Box for the free intro class they do, and it turned out we were the only two that showed for it. And had to two trainers all to ourselves. They kicked our arses. I apparently can totally live with that, too.

Though I will admit that I wanted to smack one/both of them a couple of times during the ordeal.

COMER:
1 slice red chile jerky
Dijon pork chop
Balsamic broccoli
2 small bags of carrots
2 hands of grapes
3 stalks of celery w/almond butter

TRABAJAR:
600m run
10min Airdyne: 30sec sprint/30sec rest
21-15-9: box jumps, v-ups w/3 burpees on the minute, every minute

Points: 2.5
Total: 48.5