Food 10/03/2007

Today I have eaten so far:

• Apex Banana Nut Breakfast Square, 9:00 AM
  
• 5 Ounces of Penne Pasta and 6 Ounces of Tomato Sauce, Multivitamin and Calcium Pills, 11:30 AM
• Power Crunch French Vanilla Cream, 2:00 PM. This thing is a candy bar, a cookie candy bar. It reads healthy (though the site has higher fat and calorie totals than the package), but it tastes not healthy at all.
  

Workout 10/3/2007

Today I worked out at the 24-Hour Fitness near my home, in Pacific Beach. This location is pretty shabby, and the equipment is all older. I guess that makes sense as I usually go to a brand new location. Anyhow, I also forgot to do a couple exercises, and I was slow getting moving becuse there was no hurry. I should have been more eager, though, it's definitely a constant struggle to stay motivated, even with the gains I have made.

Today was lower body day:

• Warmup on recumbent bike, 7 minutes
• Leg Presses (hamstrings/glutes/quads) at 240/240/240
• Hip Abductors, 130/130/130
• Hip Adductors, 130/130/130
• Quads, 120/120/120
• Hamstrings, 105/105/105
• Tricep Pushdowns, 70/70/70, this was much better today, I must be fatiguing them earlier in the upper-body workout, since I do them at the end.
• Cable Seated Row, 105/105/105
• Recumbent Bike, 11 minutes, plus a minute on the cooldown cycle

I wanted to do Triceps to see if, as it was suggested, I was fatiguing the muscles early in the workout. I wanted to do the rows because I felt some muscle tension up in the upper back and I wanted to try and pull through it.

Their calf machine is a standing one where you push up on the weights, and that hurt my shoulders too much, so I didn't do more than a couple, and just did three sets of standing toe rises.

We'll see if I get a chance to work out while I am on vacation.

Food 10/02/2007

Today I ate:

• Apex Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Square, coffee with sugar and half-and-half, 9:00 AM
• Subway 6-inch Turkey Sub (no cheese), 12:00 PM
• Maximum Protein meal-replacement shake, 2:30 PM
• Maximum Protein meal-replacement shake, 5:00 PM
• Subway 6-inch Turkey Sub (no cheese), small glass of Skim Milk, handful of Peanuts, 7:30 PM

Yes, I had the same thing for lunch and supper. All I could think of to eat was that sub as I was driving home.

Workout 10/02/2007

I forgot to set my alarm last night, but I woke up on my own at 6:15, my target time to leave. I ended up on the road at 6:38. Today was upper body day:

• Warmup on recumbent bike, 7 minutes, less "distance" than usual, and my heart rate didn't get into the 120s as fast.
• Lat Pulldowns, Cybex Machine, 90/90/90
• Chest Presses, Cybex machine, 70/70/70, the last set was tough but I got through it fine, maybe it was because I did these toward the beginning of the workout...
• Barbell Curls, 45/45/50 (using the "fixed-weight" barbells).
• Dumbbell exercise for rotator cuffs I can't find online, 10/10/10
• Seated Rear lateral Dumbbell Raises, 10/10/10, my form was worse today.
• Dumbbell Lateral Raises, 12.5/12.5/12.5, form is still not great.
• Dumbbell Front Raises, 15/15/15 (alternating arms)
• Dumbbell Shoulder Press, 20/20/20
• Tricep Pushdowns, 70/70/70/60, these were awful today, why is this getting harder? Damn it's frustrating! I guess I'll got to 60s for a while, but it's depressing.
• Cable Seated Row, 90/90/105
• Recumbent Bike, 11 minutes plus 1 minute cooldown, this was a bit more taxing today than yesterday.

Overall today was kind of tough: I definitely felt like I was dragging, and I'm really frustrated with my backsliding on the triceps.

Food 10/1/2007

Yesterday I ate:

• Apex Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Square, coffee with sugar and half-and-half, 9:00 AM
• Subway 6-inch Turkey Sub (no cheese), Diet Pepsi, 12:30 PM
• Maximum Protein meal-replacement shake, 3:20 PM
• Four Shrimp Spring Rolls, small amount of peanut sauce, 5:45 PM
• Apex Fix Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar, 8:00 PM

Got a little off-schedule there.

Workout 10/01/2007

I worked out today, I was about 5 minutes behind where I wanted to be, but 10 minutes ahead of previous mornings:

• Warmup on recumbent bike, 7 minutes
• Leg Presses (hamstrings/glutes/quads) at 240/240/240
• Calves, 220/220/220/220
• Floor Bridges, 3 sets of 10
• Hip Abductors, 130/130/130
• Hip Adductors, 160/160/160
• Quads, 110/110/110
• Hamstrings, 105/105/105
• Recumbent Bike, 11 minutes, plus a minute on the cooldown cycle

Ten Pounds!!

Today was the weekly weigh in: I have lost another ten pounds!! I weighed just under 466 last Monday, today I weigh just under 456 pounds!!! The funny thing is that while I am very psyched, the five pounds last week was almost more exciting, just because it was the first concrete proof of weight loss I had experienced in years. So far I have lost 15 pounds, or 3.2% of my total peak weight.

I would like to be down around 220, or a waist of 36-38. I was 180 in college, with a waist of 34, but I was very very slim, and I'd like more muscle mass. So I have lost 6.8% of my target weight loss in two weeks. It will probably stay brisk for a bit then slow down, as my body gets into a pattern. I doubt I will be losing 10 pounds a week when I weigh 250, for example, though I did maintain that pace in my youth...

This week will be tough, visiting my parents, being on vacation. I definitely have a few places I want to go eat, and a few beers I miss and want to sample, so I'll have to be sure to exercise and be careful not to eat too much. I also have looked into local gyms, but I'm not sure I want to diminish my time with my family; of course, dying young will further diminish my time with my family (now there's a cheery thought)...

(EDIT: I had my numbers wrong earlier, was thinking about my 220 goal and wrote my current weight starting with a 2 instead of a 4... The power of positive thinking, right?)