Well, I guess Sunday will be when I update... it could always be more frequent, but it will never be less frequent. How's that for a tag line? Anyway, there's really not much to report on the Quest to Lose Weight except that in terms of lifting, I'm close to being back to where I was before. If there's anything I love being able to do at the gym, it's lifting heavy. Not because it makes me any better then anyone else in the gym, because it doesn't... but putting a bunch of weight on a bar or taking the heavier set of dumbbells and having people look at you like you're nuts, then being able to lift, push or pull that weight multiple times gives one a nice sense of accomplishment. Still eating well also.
Not much else to say... baseball season is around the corner and I won't talk about the White Sox until the final roster is made. Just so it can either be a happy one (Morel @ 3B) or a sad one (MARK FUCKING TEAHEN AT 3B). I also have 4 books coming in (tomorrow!) that I'm stoked to read up on. 1 is called The Extra 2% which is about the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays and how the road they took to be able to overtake both the Red Sox and the Yankees in the AL East, from a business/financial/statistical standpoint. Another one is Ball Four which is by Jim Bouton and is basically the author recalling all the debauchery he came around while moving up in the Yankees system. The other two are advance statistics books, so I won't get into those because I don't want to start an argument, hah. Lastly, I am getting this on Tuesday (hope this works)
So until next time....
bb
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Who am I?
So this whole thing is going a bit easier then I originally expected. I have kept the meals small and frequent. I stopped eating chips (which I would essentially eat a whole bag or close to during lunch (WHAT?!) and would not be cooking my own dinner 4 or 5 days during the week. And this was something I had no problem doing before. Throwing lamb/fish in the oven or chicken/ground beef on a pan... EASY SHIT TO DO! And for whatever dumb reason, I just decided to stop doing that. I went back to drinking soda and beer, which I pretty much have to go out of my way for.
The problem is that it was this easy before. The challenge as it always is, is making this last forever. I have ideas, but there's no way to know how solid they are until I'm in the situation where I can keep it up when I want to hop off the wagon.
Anyway, at this point I really don't have a goal, no time frame, no nothing. However, I have some good friends coming up from FL at the end of the month to good ol New England. One of them threw out a goal of losing 9 pounds before they arrive. Which is (well, was) 3 weeks away. So it is about 3 pounds a week. They say you can safely lose 2 pounds a week, which I still believe, but fuck it, it's a goal, I'm taking it. Now, I don't think I have ever put a number up as to my weight. But for the sake of this goal, I'm going to have to. As of 2/28/11 I was 276. So my goal is 267 by ~4/1 (right Eric?). Anyway, hoping for the best!
Time for dinner, Whole grain pasta with meat sauce (ground turkey) and garlic bread made from whole grain bread. Lots of carbs, but with a lifting day tomorrow, it'll be worth it.
The problem is that it was this easy before. The challenge as it always is, is making this last forever. I have ideas, but there's no way to know how solid they are until I'm in the situation where I can keep it up when I want to hop off the wagon.
Anyway, at this point I really don't have a goal, no time frame, no nothing. However, I have some good friends coming up from FL at the end of the month to good ol New England. One of them threw out a goal of losing 9 pounds before they arrive. Which is (well, was) 3 weeks away. So it is about 3 pounds a week. They say you can safely lose 2 pounds a week, which I still believe, but fuck it, it's a goal, I'm taking it. Now, I don't think I have ever put a number up as to my weight. But for the sake of this goal, I'm going to have to. As of 2/28/11 I was 276. So my goal is 267 by ~4/1 (right Eric?). Anyway, hoping for the best!
Time for dinner, Whole grain pasta with meat sauce (ground turkey) and garlic bread made from whole grain bread. Lots of carbs, but with a lifting day tomorrow, it'll be worth it.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Intro 3: Electric Boogaloo.
Taking a look back, I never thought that I would take 11 months in between posts. Now, I realize I am going to writing this for an audience of like 3, but it doesn't really matter to me, I just need the forum to write to get shit down that's in my head.
But the question is, where have I been the last 10.5 months? Well the last post was April 11, 2010, talking about another 3 months of training. Which I completed but as my lack of posting can attest to, there was a lack of intensity. I got it done just to get it done. My diet started to crack and by the end I was just glad to be done. The main thing I was trying to accomplish was being able to continue doing what I had been doing after my sessions had finished. I last maybe another 2 weeks, at least diet wise before I did a swan dive off the wagon. I still went to the gym, but instead of going 5 or 6 times a week, it became 4 or 5 (Still pretty good... buuuttt) then it became 3 or 4. Then it became 2 times... then I'd go 2 times a week, then not go for a week and a half before going again. Then for about 2 months I went probably 3 times total. Needless to say, it got to the point where I pretty much just threw those first 6 months of 2010 out the window. It's been humbling and humiliating. It wasn't an outlier, it's pretty typical of me.
The problem was that I basically just let it happen. I could have gone to the gym whenever I wanted to. I chose not to. I could have cooked some pork or chicken with veggies instead of calling in for a pizza. I chose not to. Hell, it didn't snow until the middle of January, I could have walked around the block or something. I chose not to. I get very apathetic and lazy, it's just "how I roll."
But the good news, I've found what I'm assuming is my 20th wind for doing this stuff. Actually, I've started to go back to the gym regularly about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm not drastically changing my diet (yet) I am just going to change the real bad habits. Going back to cooking meals myself 5 or 6 days a week. Cutting back on soda, drinking more water (and try to do the 5 meal a day thing again, that always took the most effort, believe it or not). Beer/alcohol? I don't know yet. Everyone should have a vice to keep them sane. For the time being, that will be mine. If I need to drop it in order to accomplish goals, so be it. I guess that's why it took so long for me to write this. I kinda knew by doing it, I'd be locking myself into everything I want to do, officially.
In order to make this more fun for me (blogging) I'm going to be making more posts just on random shit too. Because I'm sure you guys were just as bored reading that as I was writing. I'm a baseball fan, so I'll write about baseball once in a while. I like TV, so I'll write about that occasionally.
But the question is, where have I been the last 10.5 months? Well the last post was April 11, 2010, talking about another 3 months of training. Which I completed but as my lack of posting can attest to, there was a lack of intensity. I got it done just to get it done. My diet started to crack and by the end I was just glad to be done. The main thing I was trying to accomplish was being able to continue doing what I had been doing after my sessions had finished. I last maybe another 2 weeks, at least diet wise before I did a swan dive off the wagon. I still went to the gym, but instead of going 5 or 6 times a week, it became 4 or 5 (Still pretty good... buuuttt) then it became 3 or 4. Then it became 2 times... then I'd go 2 times a week, then not go for a week and a half before going again. Then for about 2 months I went probably 3 times total. Needless to say, it got to the point where I pretty much just threw those first 6 months of 2010 out the window. It's been humbling and humiliating. It wasn't an outlier, it's pretty typical of me.
The problem was that I basically just let it happen. I could have gone to the gym whenever I wanted to. I chose not to. I could have cooked some pork or chicken with veggies instead of calling in for a pizza. I chose not to. Hell, it didn't snow until the middle of January, I could have walked around the block or something. I chose not to. I get very apathetic and lazy, it's just "how I roll."
But the good news, I've found what I'm assuming is my 20th wind for doing this stuff. Actually, I've started to go back to the gym regularly about 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm not drastically changing my diet (yet) I am just going to change the real bad habits. Going back to cooking meals myself 5 or 6 days a week. Cutting back on soda, drinking more water (and try to do the 5 meal a day thing again, that always took the most effort, believe it or not). Beer/alcohol? I don't know yet. Everyone should have a vice to keep them sane. For the time being, that will be mine. If I need to drop it in order to accomplish goals, so be it. I guess that's why it took so long for me to write this. I kinda knew by doing it, I'd be locking myself into everything I want to do, officially.
In order to make this more fun for me (blogging) I'm going to be making more posts just on random shit too. Because I'm sure you guys were just as bored reading that as I was writing. I'm a baseball fan, so I'll write about baseball once in a while. I like TV, so I'll write about that occasionally.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The intro: Part 2
At the start of the New year, I made a promise to not go back to my old ways of being a fatty. To not care about what I eat and to start giving a damn about my appearance (again, after breaking my back, I kinda got lazy for a while). Twelve weeks I spent on a program that helped motivate me to eat right and bust my ass in the gym. The latter, I can do with ease, I love the gym, I love lifting weights and I love going on the elliptical or bike if it's a shitty day outside. The former, like I've said before, has ALWAYS been my problem. I'd eat well for 4 or 5 days, and then I'd give up and just eat shitty foods for 2 weeks. Blah blah blah, you've heard it before. But in twelve weeks, I was able to drop something in the area of 15-20 pounds (it's fluctuated) and about 4-4.5 inches off my waist (again, fluctuated). And all of this was done with the help of a guy I've never met.
Anyway, my trainer came back to me and offered me an additional 12 weeks at a (very) discounted rate since he wanted to try something new (it should be added his focus is on athletic training. Here's his gym - http://genesis-ap.com/ ) So I have motivated myself yet again to jump back in it. (I'll be honest, the last 2 weeks have been rather not as intense. That's changing) Especially with summer right around the corner. This program would get me finished around the middle/end of July. I don't know what my goals are going to be yet. Losing X number of pounds is silly, because that's not a completely solid answer/result. Same thing with lifting. Granted, I would like to go down in pounds on the stomach and up in pounds on the iron bar, but I don't really want to put certain numbers on it.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow, which I intent to start the new regiment. It's a bit more athletic based and not strictly lifting, which should be interesting. Also, my eating is going to change, not drastically, but enough to where I have to rethink my meal planning.
Anyway, my trainer came back to me and offered me an additional 12 weeks at a (very) discounted rate since he wanted to try something new (it should be added his focus is on athletic training. Here's his gym - http://genesis-ap.com/ ) So I have motivated myself yet again to jump back in it. (I'll be honest, the last 2 weeks have been rather not as intense. That's changing) Especially with summer right around the corner. This program would get me finished around the middle/end of July. I don't know what my goals are going to be yet. Losing X number of pounds is silly, because that's not a completely solid answer/result. Same thing with lifting. Granted, I would like to go down in pounds on the stomach and up in pounds on the iron bar, but I don't really want to put certain numbers on it.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow, which I intent to start the new regiment. It's a bit more athletic based and not strictly lifting, which should be interesting. Also, my eating is going to change, not drastically, but enough to where I have to rethink my meal planning.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Another Quick and easy update
Well, it only took 2.5 months, but I've lost 20 pounds! While I said I wasn't going to focus a whole lot on the scale, 20 pounds is a good benchmark for progress. Even if I don't see anything, I can at least look at a 20 pound dumbbell and say "I've lost THAT much weight!" Now let me shoulder press you!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Not much of an update, but... here's something
HI!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. It wasn't that I was busy or anything, I just forgot about here :(
Anyway, I am going to make this quick, then I'll be more detailed later tonight.... but, since Jan 1, 2010, I have lost in the vincinity of 18 pounds! It's probably more then that since I am lifting, but hey.... it's something!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. It wasn't that I was busy or anything, I just forgot about here :(
Anyway, I am going to make this quick, then I'll be more detailed later tonight.... but, since Jan 1, 2010, I have lost in the vincinity of 18 pounds! It's probably more then that since I am lifting, but hey.... it's something!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Max Lift Week
Hi everyone!
This week is what is known as "Max Lift Week". What this means is that each day I go to the gym, all I do is one lift and put on as much weight as I can handle for 3-5 reps. Since this is basically the mid-point, it's a good way to see how far I have progressed with the 3 major lifts (Squats, Bench Press, Deadlift). Now, before my injury, I was lifting pretty heavy for those and was VERY hesitant to go heavy since my injury, but seeing as I was progressing really well... I figured, why not? On Tuesday I did squats, and I got 315 lbs for 4 reps. That;s 3 45 pound plates on each side. I tried 335 But after 1 rep I couldn't hold it. But still, I surprised myself there!
Today I did the Bench Press and I got up 235 for 5, then about 45 seconds later I put up 245 for 3. I think I am more impressed with the squat, only because I have to use my back for the squat so it's good to feel that it can hold up. Now because of a birthday party this weekend (mine) I won't be doing Deadlifts until Monday. Now, according to my trainer, I should focus on stuffing enough weight on the bar to lift it up once. As opposed to 3-5 times with the others. This one makes me most nervous because I am worried about my grip holding up. BUT, I am going to dig in and pull up whatever I can possibly do!
This week is what is known as "Max Lift Week". What this means is that each day I go to the gym, all I do is one lift and put on as much weight as I can handle for 3-5 reps. Since this is basically the mid-point, it's a good way to see how far I have progressed with the 3 major lifts (Squats, Bench Press, Deadlift). Now, before my injury, I was lifting pretty heavy for those and was VERY hesitant to go heavy since my injury, but seeing as I was progressing really well... I figured, why not? On Tuesday I did squats, and I got 315 lbs for 4 reps. That;s 3 45 pound plates on each side. I tried 335 But after 1 rep I couldn't hold it. But still, I surprised myself there!
Today I did the Bench Press and I got up 235 for 5, then about 45 seconds later I put up 245 for 3. I think I am more impressed with the squat, only because I have to use my back for the squat so it's good to feel that it can hold up. Now because of a birthday party this weekend (mine) I won't be doing Deadlifts until Monday. Now, according to my trainer, I should focus on stuffing enough weight on the bar to lift it up once. As opposed to 3-5 times with the others. This one makes me most nervous because I am worried about my grip holding up. BUT, I am going to dig in and pull up whatever I can possibly do!
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