Day 52 - 19Jul12

This last month has been absolutely crazy.  I thought it had only been a week or two since I posted; imagine my surprise when I found out it had been a month (30 days exactly) since I last posted.

I've been doing fairly well.  My weight has fluctuated up and down some, mostly in the last week or so it has gone up due to a "flow" issue.

I've been eating very well.  Nearly every day I eat every two hours or so (generally not on weekends): where I have carrots, almonds, peanuts, sandwich or grilled chicken and a v8 or two then dinner is a fairly normal dinner.

I've been working out a little, not as much as I was.  A friend of mine wanted to workout with me and I waited for him, there were a few days that I did not workout b/c I was waiting for him.  I should have just worked out and I didn't.

The last month has been incredibly stressful and nuts with home life.

Last night I did the Insanity warm up and P90X2 Plyocide... I am definitely feeling it today.  My calves were on fire, but I feel really good.  I still have some out of breath times, but that's going away.  I now need to do Insanity for 60 days in a row and my wife will wear a costume I've picked out for a convention...Princess Ardala from the pilot of Buck Rogers - yeah, this is going to happen.

I wish I had worked out this morning so I wasn't anxious to workout.  I get anxious now if I don't workout... that's the problem with working out, it becomes addicting - I just have to make sure it doesn't take over my life.

So tonight, I will be doing Insanity followed by some P90X2 Core

Day 22 - 20Jun12

one bag of almonds
one bag of carrots
2 bags of grilled chicken
v8
20oz Coke - I wanted to see if some of the "off kilter" was from aspartame - tomorrow, I'll drink coffee for caffeine instead of Coke or Coke Zero

Day 21 - 19Jun12

I felt great today until about 230 then my body crashed.  I had eaten the 2 bags of carrots, 2 bags of almonds, the coke zero, the grilled chicken and I was done.  I fell asleep a few times at my desk... I don't think I snored.  I also had a gatorade (I don't remember why, but at the time it seemed like a good idea.)

For dinner I had some awesome zucchini and squash stuff with parmesan on top, some butternut squash and couscous.

I'm getting ready to go do P90X2 Plyometrics...then shower and relax until bedtime.

My morning weight was 268.

Old Pictures

I found these old pictures from the start of P90X in the Spring of 2010.  They don't look right at all, but I'll bet they look very similar to what I currently look like...Ok, I'm more sexy now, but the size is probably about the same.



When you think of yourself, think about how you truly see yourself.  I don't see me as the guy above.  I see me as I was when I was 18-21 and about 150-170 pounds... now nearly 100 pounds heavier is what you see above.

If you want to put some perspective on that.  If I were 18 and carried my wife around, I would weigh the same as I do now if I were to step on a scale.

Day 20 - 18Jun12

I was missing salt this weekend and ate a bunch of bugles last night -- they were yummy.

Today for food at work I brought:
2 snack bags of baby carrots
2 snack bags of almonds
1 cheese stick
1 V8
1 bag of grilled chicken
1 20oz Coke Zero
2 Gatorade
salmon salad
1 serving of bugles

I don't remember what my start weight was this morning.  Last night it was 270.4 - I assume that is because I actually ate yesterday for the first time in a week I had more food than I've eaten most of the entire week.
I did P90x2 x2 core and feel fantastic. ive been drug down the last week and my body has been feeling blah. the bugles were for the salt..which tastes fantastic. Mypersonal trainer told me that the X2 core and plyo are full of mostly total body exercises so i can do those and be ok. so im just going to do those each day and thats it until p90x is over.
i weighed in tonight at 269.0

Day 17 - 15Jun12

Today has been much better.  The second day I started under 270.  I weighed 267.2

I have peanuts, almonds, gatorade, v8, a coke zero, carrots and grilled chicken for lunch.  I will be rocking tony horton's world tonight with X2 Core

Day 16 - 14Jun12

Today was much better despite not working out.  The devastating news from the other day has not quite passed.  I know I should workout even when there is bad news; debilitating news I would concur is the exception.  The difference is that I want to work out, but have been physically unable, not didn't workout and don't want to workout.  That's a huge change in my way of thinking.

I started off the day at 269.2 in weight and ended up the day at 269.6 - this is the first time in more than 2.5 years that I've started a day less than 270.

I had a gatorade, peanuts, almonds, grilled chicken, a tiny bag of crunchy cheetos, tuna casserole, zucchini and butternut squash.  A very good day of eating (save the cheetos)