Day 17

Good day today

Shoulder feeling better

Ate good

Exercised good

Drank plenty of water

Cleaned the house (somewhat)

Another good day!

Day 16 Part II

Ate good today

Gymmed good today

Felt good today

Good day!

Day 16

I aggravated my shoulder a bit at some point during the night.  It’s a bit sore but it’s still notably better than in recent days.  It’s two weeks to the day since I hurt it.  It feels a ton better but I still have some weeks to go.

Diet yesterday was good as was water intake.  Exercise was a no go.  It’s one of those things that I HAVE to do the moment I get home otherwise we get buried in the duties of the evening.  It’s far easier to put those duties off for half an hour than to interrupt them.  Yes, tonight I believe we’re both going.  This is more my ‘experiment’ than hers.  Hers is coupon-mania.  Which I might add she got something like $110 worth of things for $10 (roughly).

Time to get to coding.

Day 15

I usually write my daily update at days end but not today.  Why?  Well I want to get on with it.  My weekend was good (and bad).  Good because it was pretty tame and not much happened.  Oh, well I did lose my wallet.  That sucked but everything was replaceable.  The “bad” part would fall in the realm of my diet and lack of exercise.

Diet took a hit because 1) Still sulking about my hurt shoulder a tad.  2) I am now 100% convinced that diet drinks DO increase our need/urge for sweets or at least compensation for calories which our bodies were thought to have had.  A couple of weeks ago in a coupon deal we got 5 12-packs of diet soda for something like 2 dollars.  Hell of a deal!  At least it wasn’t regular soda?  Anyhow, if anyone recalls, several months ago I went on a diet drink exodus.  It worked quite well and I felt quite well.  I suppose I need to do that again.  3) It was my birthday, so I figured “what the hell!”.

Exercise: next to none.

With that said, my youngest fell asleep on me 5 times on Saturday.  Even when she couldn’t get him to nap.  I’d take him, bounce him in my lap and a few minutes later he’s snoozing.  He slept right through my home theater stereo blasting 7.5 million pounds of space shuttle thrust into the room.  That’s skill!  Ah what a great launch.  They never get old.  It takes a couple of seconds for that bull to get rolling but after that, it hauls ass!

Ok, well all that said, I’m starting again, here on day 15 as a 30 year old man.  Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

What day is it again? 11-14?

Well my shoulder injury has completely ruined my “plan” these past several days. Ironic that a workout caused it! It is getting better, on the order of about 1-2% a day. Instead of a general overall pain in the whole shoulder it’s a central pain only when doing certain things. I take that as meaning the inflammation is going down and now the body is focusing on healing.

So the point is that soon I’ll be getting my days going again but I won’t start with Day 1 because that’s not very accurate. I want this to be part of the journey to my goal, even if it set me back a few weeks. Better late than never eh?

Day 10

Shoulder: Feeling a bit better each day.  Still stiff and painful when I exert too much force on it.  The progress is slow but it’s expected since the shoulder typically takes a long time to heal.

Cardio: Ran today actually which was good for the shoulder because it got some blood flowing to it and kept it loose.  I’m a little stiff today but I want to keep active.  The doc told me to keep the shoulder moving, just don’t stress it with weight.

Eating: Blah, I did decent but by days end I’d snacked a bit too much.  Not a blowout by any means but just not as well as I’d like to have eaten.  I’m looking for moderation, not perfection.

Day 6

Day 6 is coming to an end.  I’m very irritated by my shoulder but it will be ok.  Read previous post.  I did have a couple of shots of jaeger this evening.  wee…

Calories, I went around 2500 for the day but possible I’ve maintained a deficit, no matter I didn’t go overboard at all.  I’m done eating for the day.  Tomorrow will be a test though.  Going to a party so I gotta watch it big time.

No exercise today with it being Saturday and all.  I did manage to do a tad bit of yardword.  With my shoulder paining me I will take it very easy on workouts for a couple of days and go from there.  If nothing else, I can keep my eating strong and shore up some of my nibbling habits.

I am down a pound or so though, slow and steady makes for happy people.

Day 5

Sorry, this is actually day 6 but I’m writing about day 5!

Day 5 was great.  I did splurge on lunch and a small dessert after dinner.  I had a hamburger and baked beans at lunch and dessert was some of that double extra super mega churned icecream.  Calories were in the range of 1900 which is still a deficit for the day.

I went to the gym last night too.  I cannot remember the last time I went to the gym on Friday.  It’s been at least 2 years.  I did a killer cardio workout.  My shoulder still hurts, I think it’s a rotator cuff thing.  I’ll go easy on it for a couple more days and see how it feels.  I should probably ice it up…

Oh well, good first week.  My scale this morning said 210 but more than that I can comfortably wear some jeans I’d been avoiding for a few weeks.  They aren’t falling off yet, but it’s a great start.  Looser clothing speaks way more than numbers on a scale.  Aside from my shoulder bugging me, I feel great!

Day 4

Well I’m ending another good day.  STILL need to up my protein intake.  That’s coming though in our next grocery trip.  Going to add tuna into the mix.  Ending the day around 1700 calories.  I worked lower body today also.

I must have pulled something or aggravated something in my shoulder the other day.  It’s sore and kind of aching.  What the hell?  I’m still a week away from being 30, I’m still 29! I can’t be having aches and pains! 

So four days in and I feel great and the willpower is sticking with me.  I do, however, keep getting up at night and eating a bowl of cereal, no fear though, I add it in my count *sigh*.

Crap, I munched a couple of fries from my kids happy meal this evening, Ok so i ended at 1750 for the day!

Day 3

Summary:
Today was great.  I did feel like I was slipping a little in the evening after halving a cupcake with the wife.  I responded by mixing another half with a meal replacement.  EAT THAT!  Calories are on target.  Exercise went great too.

Eating:
Still a little carb heavy, gotta bring up the protein to balance with it but it was better than yesterday.  No I don’t do a carb restrictive diet.  They’re unhealthy and impossible to maintain.  Ended up in the realm of 1700 calories today (added some misc. calories for picking at some waffles from my kid’s breakfast…)

Exercise:
Today was cardio day.  I went really strong and had a new personal best.  The machine said something like 320 calories burned.  I do interval cardio training which is a very intense 20 minute workout.  I’ll post more about it later but it’s a great workout for the busy person.  It allows your body to pass through various phases of energy production and really taxes your system.  In short, it can be an ass kicker and not something you ever want to do 2 days in a row.  I’ll post an in depth explanation of how that method works later.  It’s interesting.

I’ll probably start talking about what motivates me more and what works for me.  I’m still pondering on the pics.  Do I post my now, NOW and do the after later or do them both, bam at the same time?  Decisions!