Well I went ahead and weighed in today. I was super reluctant to do it and expected to see a jump in weight honestly based on the rough run I've had of it in the last few weeks and some of the eating choices I made. Looking back on them the choices weren't "that bad" but I felt pretty bad at the time after indulging in them so I was just certain in my mind that they were the worst possible decisions.
Anyways, I lost another 2 pounds for this phase. 2 pounds in 4 weeks isn't really that great, but with all the things I've gone through in the last four weeks I'll take a loss of any kind as a positive.
That puts me at 8.5 pounds lost for the first 8 weeks of P90x. Not exactly where I wanted to be when I started, but I've lost a pound a week on "average" so that's well within the "healthy" range.
Surprisingly my Body Fat % hasn't really gone down much. It said today I've only lost .5% over the last 8 weeks. Now granted I know my electric hand-held BF reader can fluctuate and may not be the most accurate, but I assumed that since my clothes were fitting better and I can "see" muscle growth in the mirror that number would have moved more than it has. Who knows. Maybe at the end of the first round of P90x I'll look around and see if I can't find a place that will do the "water tank" BF reading for cheap and get a precise reading that way.
Overall I can't complain too much. I feel better than I did when I started, but this last 4 weeks has been a real burden with sickness and injury. I'm somewhat glad that I've only missed 3 workouts for far in the first 8 weeks. It's not 100%, but it's better than most.
5 more weeks remaining in Round 1 of P90x. I'm pondering going back to the pull-up bar and seeing if I can get some more results, but I might just wait and do that for round 2. I was at the park with my daughter the other day and I still can't do a pull-up on my own. It wasn't really that close either, which I'd hoped it would be. But honestly I need to lose more weight because that's the biggest thing (pun intended) holding me back.
Let's hope that I can give 110% for the next 5 weeks. My "ultimate" goal would be to lose 11.5 pounds over the next 5 weeks and make it 20 pounds for the first round of P90x. But my more realistic goal is to lose 6.5 lbs and get to 15 pounds total. Both are going to take a considerable amount of commitment and better choices than I've made in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully my valleys are behind me and I've only got peaks to look forward to.
On the running front I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'm worried that my back injury is related to my running so maybe I'm ramping up the distance to fast. I might cut it back to a mile for a week and see if that helps. I don't feel like it's too much but maybe my "infrastructure" isn't ready for the pounding that 20-30 minutes of running delivers. I definitely didn't have this issue last fall, but I also took a longer period of time to get up to the distances that I was running.
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