P90x Round 2, Day 26 - No workout

P90x Round 2, Day 26 - No workout
Diet :
Breakfast: 4 egg Vegetable and chicken omelette, Diet Coke
Lunch: Salad with Turkey, Cottage Cheese, Carrots and Celery
Snack: Granola Bar
Dinner: BBQ Chicken, Cauliflower and cheese
Unplanned Snack: Skinny Cow Ice Cream Bar

Summary:
Today didn't start off very well and it just sorta ebbed from there. I woke up and tried to workout. I had no interest in Core Synergistics so I tried Cardio X. I got about 10 minutes into that and realized I was just faking the motions so I quit that.

I went to eat breakfast and didn't have enough eggs, so for some reason that put me into a funk. I went to work and ate there hence the slightly raised level of eating at breakfast.

That slight binge seemed to quell the damage and I managed to get through the rest of the day on the plan.

BUT IT WASN'T ALL BAD!

I got up this morning and weighed in. 233 total puts me down 13 for the first 4 weeks. I'll probably jump on the scale on day 30 to see how it goes officially. So that worked well, somehow it wasn't enough to keep my morale really high for the morning, but hopefully I'll bounce bad and get a good run in tomorrow followed by some Yoga.

P90x Day 56 - Phase 2 Results

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.

P90x Day 27 - Yoga

Not a very good workout for me this morning. I started my Yoga workout and got about 15 minutes into it and just couldn't get it started. I had alot of guests in my house from out of town for my daughter's birthday and they were all out in the living room living it up and it was just distracting. I'm a little concerned that the last 2 yoga days I've really not had a very good workout.

I weighed in this morning. For the first phase i'm down 7.5 pounds and about .5% BF. It's not entirely what I wanted I'll admit, but I'm pleased with it. I really struggled early this morning with "all that work for only 7.5 pounds" but I'm not surprised. It's hard when you start doing well to not just set that bar higher for yourself than is reasonable. I think I'll be pretty pleased if I can keep that ratio up and lose 25 pounds or in 3 months. I'm acutally more disappointed by the .5% loss in BF, but that could be any number of reasons for that electronic measurer I have. I might weigh in again tomorrow just to see if the number changes any.

This next week I'm suppossed to add in some running a few nights a week. That'll be interesting to see how that goes and I'm sure the additional cardio will help. My conern is that my eating will either leave me energy deprived or I'm going to have to increase my intake to balance out the new calorie deficit.

Anyways, one Phase down. I'm looking forward to getting back into the weight training weeks and see what Tony has in store for me for the next month.