Weigh In: 331.5Five Day Average: 330.4
Sometimes when you want something so much, you look at it as if your eyes are a pair of binoculars. You focus as hard as you can. When that happens, you may be great at seeing the details, but you fail to see the big picture.
Exhibit A: I think it's been maybe a week and a half - maybe two weeks - since I skipped a day in the gym. I've worked my ass off, and can't think of a time in my life that I've worked this hard to live a healthy lifestyle. It's working great. I've been eating right, working out daily, my weight-training is improving, I'm moving to new cardio techniques, my trainer is the freaking man, and I've been doing great.
The problem is with the scale.
On January 31st I hit 330.5 for the first time. Not the 'average', but I got a result on the scale. It was my "lowest yet!". So, I march into February feeling confidant that I could repeat my 15 pound weight-loss goal this month.
Twelve days later, I've been staring at the same number. For the past four days, my weigh-ins have been 330, 330, 330.5, and 330. Pretty damn consistant. So, all I have to do is step on the scale today, and keep it going. I step up, and 331.5 stares me in the face. Now, with the five-day average, my average still drops, down to 330.4. That's down 1.3 pounds from this time last week, and we say that a 1.5 average is still pretty good, and is a healthy weight loss. I've been pretty happy about the way things are going, and I'm starting to understand the "slowly but surely" approach.
But, if I'm being honest, this kind of pisses me off. I know it's only a pound, and I know everything that we've been saying, doing and acting on, and I know that over-reacting to a single pound is foolish. I completely understand that.
But how damn long am I going to be over the 330 point? It's like my body is saying, "screw you, I LIKE being fat".
So, the fight continues. Josh and I are going to look at the food intake a bit closer, and we're going to change it around again. There's no possible way that I can continue in the gym 7 days a week, eat healthy, and not lose weight. It'll happen. I don't doubt that for a second.
But today, I vent. I'm pissed off about it, and when that happens, results follow.
7 comments:
when you focus on the positive, it all makes sense...
On January 31st I hit 330.5 ....
my "lowest yet!"
I think it's been maybe a week and a half - maybe two weeks - since I skipped a day in the gym
I could repeat my 15 pound weight-loss goal this month.
look at the food intake a bit closer
results follow.
just remember...muscle weighs more than fat! Don't beat yourself up. It'll happen!
With all the new muscle, it makes sense that you would weigh more, but instead you've lost.
Yup, it can be annoying. And yeah, your body DOES want to stay fat. Consider taking some time off of the gym, for some inexplicable reason that helps me sometimes. Remember the Great Flatlands Plateau. It happens to all of us, and it's just part of the game. Nothing you're doing wrong.
Your body is saying, "Screw you i want to be fat!". It does. we will keep fighting, and billy is right on; it might be time for a day off. its recommended to keep your cardio down to about 5 days per week, and atleast one day completely off. we will win the war and most of the battles, but we have to outsmart the enemy sometimes, not just pound him. my guess, honestly, you aren't eating enough. we've cut your calories and increased your expenditure both...dramatically. the body will try to buck the system. we have to find just the right amount. i will most likely never ask you to count calories, that's my job. we'll get it pimpin. and riddle me this, what's the one thing you have really deprived yourself of food wise that you miss the most?
You know, it's strange. There's not something I'm REALLY craving because I have tried to not look at it as a diet.
As for a cheat meal (I can read your mind now), I haven't really been 'desiring' it.. but who knows.
Damn, you're good.
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