A Milestone In Weight Loss, and...KRISPY KREME!

Yesterday (Sunday) I stepped on the scales and found I'd hit a couple of milestones in this little weight loss and fitness effort I've taken on.

As of Sunday, I had lost exactly 30 pounds since that day six weeks and six days ago, the day I woke up and found I was FAT...the day I decided I had to change some things. While I didn't officially start until two days later, on March 9, it was that Monday when I really got the sense I needed to make some changes. So, almost seven weeks ago I was 279 pounds, and Sunday, I was 249. 

That's the even, 30-pound milestone. The other milestone, of course, is dropping into the 240s. Truthfully, 249 pounds is appallingly heavy, but at this point it's felling pretty good, and 30 pounds lost is definitely motivation to keep at it.

Another motivation is yet another milestone -- I'm making another move into smaller pants. You might recall from my earlier blogs I had gone from barely fitting into my largest couple of pants to being able to wear them comfortably, then they were too large and I moved down to another couple of pairs. Well, I'm happy to report both of those are not too large, and starting this week I'm down still another size in pants. 

Good thing I have all of this motivation going, because last night, after we had the steak and corn for dinner (all still on the 30-days clean eating plan), my wife ran to the store to pick up...well, honestly, I'm not certain what she was pretending to go get. What I know she returned with was two boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts -- one jelly filled and the other chocolate iced.

Oh man, if that had happened in one of my weaker moments, who knows? But not last night, I was feeling far to good after stepping on the scales and trying on smaller clothes to even think about tasting one.

Today, however, I'm doing okay with the food, but feeling really, really wiped out. I don't know if it's the leg workout yesterday -- my legs are really stiff and sore from yesterday's working, and I'm just fatigued today. Maybe that's just going to be what happens after leg days, I don't know. I'll give it another week or two and see how it all shakes out.

My workouts today were cardio in the morning and chest/shoulders/triceps in the evening. Here's the rundown:

Cardio

Stationary Bike -- 52 minutes (10 minutes on lvl 4, the rest on lvl 5)

18 miles

770 calories

Weight training

Chest

Flat bench press

135 pounds -- 1 set, 10 reps

185 pounds -- 1 set, 8 reps

210 pounds -- 1 set, 6 reps (not really failure, but I was just too tired to push too much here)

200 pounds -- 1 set 8 reps

190 pounds -- 1 set, 8 reps

Incline barbell press

135 pounds -- 2 sets, 8 reps each

Seated machine flye

140 pounds, 2 sets, 10 reps each

Shoulders

Machine shoulder press

110 pounds -- 2 sets, 10 reps each

Seated machine side raises 

110 pounds, 2 sets, 10 reps each

Seated machine rear delt flyes

140 pounds, 2 sets, 10 reps each

Triceps

Okay, I did something different here tonight. I set up the triceps push-down with the bar on one machine and the rope on the other machine, and went back and forth between the two with NO rest. Here's the way that went:

Bar pressdown -- 150 pounds, 12 reps

Rope pressdown -- 100 pounds, 10 reps

Bar pressdown -- 150 pounds, 6 reps

Rope pressdown -- 100 pounds, 4 reps

Ab work

Seated weight crunch

125 pounds, 1 set, 10 reps

Food for the day

Breakfast

Coffee

Eggs -- 1 whole, 2 whites

Oatmeal -- 1/3 cup dry

Lunch

Lean pork -- 5 ounces

Sweet potato -- 4 ounces

Veggies - 1/2 cup

Low fat Greek yogurt

Snack

Low fat Greek yogurt (If I eat enough yogurt, maybe I'll be like Michael Weston)

First dinner

Chicken -- 5 ounces

Veggies -- 1 cup

Sesame oil -- 1 teaspoon

Teriyaki sauce -- 1 tablespoon

Second Dinner

Sirloin steak -- 4 ounces

Sweet potato -- 4 ounces

Diet butter -- 1 tablespoon

Snack

Lean pork -- 5 ounces

Totals for the day

1,500 calories

43 grams of fat

196 grams of protein

Water -- 100 ounces

Diet soda -- 24 ounces

That's all for the day. Thanks for stopping in!