Rough week

Weight: 245 (+2, -7 total)

Sorry for the delay between posts. Last weekend was a crazy weekend and I just kind of ran out of time. Anyway, before everyone gets all bent out of shape over the +2, I must say that I actually feel lucky it isn't worse. Two weeks ago when I reached -9 lbs I was feeling really good. I continued that following week with eating well and increasing my exercise. I even motivated myself to get back to the gym and do some work on the weights. I felt like I had turned a corner. But then I had a setback. If this was a medical blog I'd go into more details, but for our purposes here I'll just say that I have been dealing with a very uncomfortable and painful issue which has made it difficult to do absolutely anything at all. The good news is that while I am certainly not feeling back to normal yet, I am feeling like I can resume some physical activity. I'm going to at least give it a go, and I look forward to getting back into a regular routine this week.

I have seven weeks to go until the warrior dash. I'm not exactly where I was hoping to be at this point in my training. I feel like my cardio is good and I won't have trouble with the running part. I still need to improve my strength and I'd really like to lose some significant weight, quickly if possible. Kathy and I made more of a commitment to eating not only better and healthier, but also to purchasing a lot more of our groceries from the organic department. So far we've been doing a pretty good job. Kathy has especially been doing well. I still have too many times where I give in to temptation, but I'm working at that.

So that's really about it. I don't have much to add today. I'm very frustrated in regards to the last 10 days. I haven't gotten any exercise at all. I've been eating okay, save for a rather disastrous evening at a Phillies game the other night. My exercise plan for the week is this:

Sunday: a brisk walk/light jog just to ease back into exercising, softball game
Monday: 40 mins. eliptical, weights
Tuesday: basketball (or 30 min. jog)
Wednesday: 40 mins. eliptical, weights
Thursday: off
Friday: whatever I can squeeze in between work and a t-ball trip to the Reading Phillies
Sat: run 30 mins.

I am going to register for a 5K this week too, just to keep giving me a target/goal for my Warrior Dash training. Kathy is running Broad Street next week, so I'll look for a race the following Saturday.

Thanks for reading. Since things have not gone so well the last 7-10 days I will post an update on Wednesday to document and progress.