Cutting The Fat

Having just passed into month three of this workout and diet routine, I must admit I am clearly in the difficult part of staying on track.  There’s some saying that most people quite just short of having actually achieved their goals and I feel it completely.

This past week I had a cold that kept me out of the gym most of the week.  I got about 3 workouts in.  On top of that, I had a family dinner on Wednesday night and a family wedding on Saturday night.  I took both those nights off from ‘eating clean’ and basically at everything that crossed the path of my face.

The end result of missing workouts due to a cold and eating carelessly, has left me with about a 5 lb weight gain this past week.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that this fast a gain has to be mostly water (or other things my body has yet to waste) so as always I will not panick, but I will say I am not proud.  I am still searching for that compromise between fully on the wagon and fully off.  I did enjoy myself at both occasions so I will not get too upset but I am trying to remember that typically you are either moving towards your goal or moving away from it, and right now I fear I have lost site.

This coming week I am doing my best to be back on track so I will be writing down and logging meals again.  I am actually fasting until dinner but starting then will be writing everything out.  I am traveling on Thursday and will be out of town until Sunday so I fear this only gets harder this week until that trip is over.  I am committing to getting in 3-4 workouts before I leave and also packing clothes to workout while away.  I’m most worried about food but will try to realize that even if I can’t find optimal food, it doesn’t mean I have to give up entirely.

So this AM’s workout was a bit tough after getting over being sick.  It looked much easier on the white board than it actually was, and I quit a bit early but here’s where I got:

Warmup

• pass throughs
• partner assisted pullups, as many as possible in 30 seconds
• 10 supermans
• 10 situps

Workout

• 7 rounds of
  • 10 medicine ball cleans
  • 10 medicine ball thrusters
  • completed only 6 rounds, 14:06
• 40 minutes of 10 seconds work, 20 seconds rest of:
  • l-sits

I quit at 5 rounds of the med ball work and then did another because everyone else who’d quit had resumed.  This workout was kinda hard mostly because in my head I thought it was going to be super easy.  I should have done a 7th round but I excused myself due to getting over being sick.  In retrospect, there really shouldn’t be any excuses.

So wish me luck this week staying on track, and leveling back out to the weight I’d be holding steady for a few weeks.