One man's opinion

So I had a chance to read my pal's catch-up posts and had mixed feelings. I'm glad to see that I'm maintaining some lead on him because of the WOD's that have been kicking my arse over the last week plus. It's still way too early for me to get complacent and start thinking about that free ribeye awaiting the winner of this thing. A bad day or two and CS will be all over me. Like him, I didn't get good news from the scale this week, but we've been here before. It may take a week or two for everything to kick in and start moving the direction we want. Until then, it's important that we keep eating smart and breaking a sweat when possible. Which brings me to the things concerning me about both of our efforts.

I'm still not having a real breakfast each morning. I might grab a piece of fruit or two on my way out the door, but that means after going 8+ hours with no eats, I'm hitting my gut with a sugar bomb and little else. No protein, no good carbs, no fats, no good. It's been pretty well established that putting the body through a feast/famine cycle causes it to clamp down and hold as many calories as possible because it doesn't know when/if it'll be fed again, making weight loss even more difficult. Going forward, I need to get steadier, good calories in me throughout the day, starting first thing in the morning.

CS looks like he may be doing something similar. Can't tell when he's eating, but it actually doesn't look like he's eating enough. The three days of postings that CS just got caught up with all include good foods (aside from brownies; I miss brownies...), but not nearly enough of them to do this the right (and more importantly, sustainable) way.

We've shown that we can avoid the bad stuff for a week plus now. The trick now is to not throw the baby out with the bath water and get the good stuff back in there, and at the right times. The rest will take care of itself at that point.

LOAD
2 slices red chile jerky
1 apple
1 1/2 hands of grapes
3 baby cucumbers
1 bowl of lamb stew
1/2 hand raisins
2 hot link sausages
2 celery stalks w/almond butter
1 hand pistachios
1 nectarine

UNLOAD
W/U: 250m row, 7 TGU's w/25# kettlebell
Lift: 5x2 hang power clean + 1 jerk at 60-70% 1RM (115#)
WOD: 3rds: 250m row, 12 (6/leg) front rack lunges (95#)