Five completed weeks, what a success! My weigh in was 252 and my belly is 46.25", all good numbers. I was all excited to try out my new toys that arrived on Thurs. to see how my body fat percentage plays out as I continue to monitor all my measurements. I had my wife take some pictures of me to see if I can see a difference 5 weeks complete. I'll cover my thoughts of the measurements and pictures on another post... my wheels have been spinning in my head all day about these two topics.
My work outs both lifting and cardio went relatively well. I have been posting on http://www.bodyforlife.com/ and I mentioned in a post that I have been following the program but added additional cardio on my lifting days. After my workouts I added a 20 minute HIIT on the cycle. My opinion was asked if I had done this the last time I followed BFL ten years ago and what I thought about a topic of "cardio trap" and it got me to thinking on Thurs. with my lower body workout. Maybe I am overworking myself. Maybe I'm actually letting my body eat away at muscle, when I need to focus on growing muscle to help burn the fat. Up to this point it's worked, but maybe it's time to go all in with the program and only do the three HIIT cardio days as in the plan. Before I worked out that night, I was going to stop the extra cardio, but as I warmed up I convinced myself to finish this week 5 cycle as I have been doing and start fresh eliminating the extra cardio starting week 6. I had an off day Sat. I don't know if it was lack of sleep, food, getting burned out, but I started strong with chest and shoulders, but fell hard when I went to my max weight on 6 reps for the remainder of the workout. This only helped encourage me to drop the extra cardio starting my next week beginning tomorrow.
My food intake has been good, but my weaknesses since I started my transition is cheese and mayo. I know, I haven't mentioned this to date, but I'm coming to terms with it now. I don't over indulge on the mayo, but it's usually a quick 1" dot on each side of my bread. Cheese, mostly Mexican style cheeses... Chihuahua, Fresco, and then mozerella, another achilles heal. I also need to make sure to incorpate more green vegetables, as I don't feel I am fulfilling my two servings per day that is required in the program.
This week I didn't really have a craving develop, but my mother in law came over one night and had my wife help her bake 5 dozen sugar cookies... my wife's recipe, that I just LOVE. By the time they were decorated and all, they sat in my kitchen on cookie sheets and all I did was stare at them... I'm laughing about this again, as I took pictures of them. I really wanted one, so I had to share (take) one of my three year old sons. I explained to him that it was my special treat for "working out". Cookies don't help me build muscle, but I waited until today to eat one. He actually understood, it was cute. When I bit into it, it was like... this is what I waited for all week? It really wasn't all that, but good thing they were picked up Friday, because I wanted more, but in all honesty it was just in my mind. If they were there I may have gorged, I guess we'll never know. ;)
The family made the trek to a family style local Greek restaurant where I indulged in a breakfast skillet, bacon, sausage, ham, mushrooms, sunny side up eggs, potatoes, cheese, and served with a side of pancakes. It was good, made me full and had a little of many things I would normally feast on but have severely limited to cheat days. I then finished the day with a Portillo's cheesy beef, large cheese fry, and a diet coke as in good measure lol... I actually was addicted to Diet Coke, more on that some other time. I convinced my son he wanted a shake, so we hit Sonic on the way home for a Cherry Creamie Slushie we split. One thing I realized this morning is that I need to still eat my six meals every two- three hours even on cheat days. I missed breakfast and adjusted for all my meals later in the day, but the realization is that I should still drink my protein shakes, and just use my actual meals as my cheats. Could be up to three separate cravings if I really needed it, but I seriously think that the progress and nutrional changes are changing my taste buds. The bad stuff still tastes good, but not as good as I thought I remembered it.
| Week | Date | Weight | Chest | Arms | Waist | Calves | Hips | Shoulders | Neck | Thighs | Forearms | BF% Omron Monitor | Lean Mass | Fat |
| START | 11/14/11 | 265 | 53.00 | 35.00% | 172.25 | 92.75 | ||||||||
| 1 | 11/21/11 | 262 | NA | NA | NA | |||||||||
| 2 | 11/28/11 | 262 | 50.25 | NA | NA | NA | ||||||||
| 3 | 12/05/11 | 260 | 49.50 | NA | NA | NA | ||||||||
| 4 | 12/11/11 | 255 | 47.5 | 15.75 | 48.25 | 17.00 | 43.50 | 52.00 | 18.50 | 25.00 | 12.00 | NA | NA | NA |
| 5 | 12/18/11 | 252 | 47.25 | 14.75 | 46.25 | 17.50 | 41.00 | 52.50 | 17.00 | 25.25 | 12.25 | 29.50% | 177.66 | 74.34 |
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