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.