A day late and a dollar short

Well actually a week and three days late and no money short but...

Life can be frustrating sometimes, you crash your new mustang that you have not even had for a year and total it, then you drop your replacement Samsung Galaxy S4 that you have only had for two months in the parking lot of work and crack the screen, to top it all your weight loss has plateaued.

How do you deal with it all?

don't GIVE UP!

I bet most of you did not see the don't.

For the last two weeks or so I have been hoovering between 212 and 215 lbs depending on the time of day and food and water consumption. This has been aggravating because up to this point I had been losing pretty consistently.

FRIDAY MORNING!

I woke up and sprung a leak just like I do everyday then blindly pulled the scale away from the wall and stepped on...

211.8 lbs

Hooah!

Bell hop... down please!

As the day progressed even with eating and drinking regularly I dropped off another 2 lbs ending the day at 209.8.

WHAT?

The next day I weighed in between 210 and 209.9 so my month old scale is working just fine.

However

I would like this scale or one similar to it

Working hard or hardly working

Both - I work hard I push my weight lifting, my run my diet while staying in a safe zone.

leg day used to kill me I would not be able to get in and out of my car; yes my 2008 Ford Mustang sat a lot lower to the ground the my moms Avalon does but still... with out my legs completely killing me. No matter what workout I do, no matter how much weight I lift my legs do not hurt. Same with my arms and chest in the upper body portion. I have only felt one day of core and repeating that exercise routine did not make me feel it again.

I have tried changing my routine to make it so my body does not get bored or complacent or what ever it is that people say happens when your routine does not change. I even tried using some recommendations from the Director of Fitness at the Naval Special Warfare Center and I did not feel that either.

I am not exactly sure what I should do to remedy this:

• Move up to more sets
• Push heavier weights
• Just keep working and build resistance

One thing I know I want to do is buy a weight vest, ankle weights, a medicine ball, and elevation training mask... But I can not afford them.

To add some comedy to an already annoying situation - We maxed out the weight on three machines and almost maxed out two more... I asked my friend what to do next and hes said "Go to another gym" - Stupid year contract.

Final Note:

I am trying to make these posts more interesting and more interactive but I am not exactly sure how. I wanted to make it a video post instead of just a diary entry but I do not have the time to edit the video or equipment that can record good quality HD Video.

Always a Button! Never the Finger!

Whoa! What?

Don't get all catawampus!

It means "Always Depressed! Never the Depressor!"

Your mind is still askew? That's okay I still love you!

The last couple of days have been bad my weight loss has slowed and I am really sore from working out and my feet still hurt from work.

All of this had been making me depressed; but its nothing to worry about I am not going to go all Lizzy Borden and take an ax to my family or commit the hara-kiri even though I do have a very dull set of katana.

What it did mean is that I was not quite as motivated to do push-up or sit-ups or push myself on the most horrible self-torture device ever made! THE ELLIPTICAL MACHINE! Mine is especially horrible because it creaks on the right legs down stroke.

Before the last two days I was able to push myself to go 30 minutes on the elliptical machine without stopping and that was SUPER FUN since one day I forgot to point a fan at me or get a water bottle and my house was at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. I was sweating like a pig on a spit.

I did a few push-ups both days but nothing serious I did not push my-self to do the extra 10 or an extra set. I did not do sit-ups at all and I only did 15 minutes on the elliptical. I think this should have depressed me more since I know I should have been pushing myself but I also know I am not normal I do not do or feel the things normal people do or feel.

Today I was fan-wait-for-it-tastic.

I still only did 15 minutes on the elliptical but I also jumped rope for five minutes and swam for over an hour. I went to the gym in the evening and did ten minutes on a tread mill starting at a slow pace and running my last minute at a 7.5 minute mile. Then I did a bunch of upper body work including assisted pull-ups, bench presses, some kind of weird lift that I do not know what it is called, body weight rows, push-ups, and the most horrible sit-ups I have ever done in my life. I still owe myself 30 push-ups before bed and I may do another 30 sit-ups to put the burn back in my abs; I never feel the burn after a half-hour or so.
I hope my friend has time to go to the gym with me again tomorrow before I have to be at work. If he does then tomorrow is the ever dreaded LEG DAY!

Love you all!

"Don't let anybody poop on your ice-cream!" ~Thomas Gould
That means yourself too.