Memorial Day

Memorial day was rough too. We had a party with many of our closest friends, but I ate about 69 WW points for dinner. Too much. Anyway, I ate lightly in the morning and at noon and I did journal, so I guess that I did MTBC in that regard.

Gallowalking

I was doing some thinking today and I realized that the time in my life when I was healthiest was when I was running and lifting regularly. I have been lifting now, but not running. I decided to work back in slowly using the Gallowalking approach. I went for a whole 12 minutes tonight. :D

5/24-Rough Day

I started the day well. I ate my standard oatmeal for breakfast, and an egg sandwich and a banana for dinner. I skipped Sundae Sunday at church, knowing that we were going to have to go to two parties today. At the first, I had a bunch of "cinnamon tortillas" which were really pretty amazing. At the second, I had some enchiladas, 2 tacos, and 3 pieces of cake. That was worse. Oh well. I am going to bike over to the video store now, hopefully to burn off some cals.

Strong Lifts 5x5-Day 1

I have mentioned this program in the past. I am going to give it a concerted effort the next 3 months and see where I get. I will post periodic photos, so that others can see my progress too. The program looks as such--3 days a week alternating the following lifts:

Day 1
5x5 Squat
5x5 bench press
5x5 bent rows
3xfailure pushups
3x12 reverse crunches

Day 2
5x5 squat
5x5 overhead press
1x5 deadlift
3xfailure pullup/chinup
3x30 seconds prone bridges

I currently use a Smith rack, which is a program "no-no" but I hope to eventually make a homemade power rack, to increase my versatility.

Day 1:
5x5 bench=50 pounds
5x5 squat=50 pounds
5x5 rows=55 pounds
total pushups=30
total crunches=27

And away we go!

Recommittment

I was talking with a good friend of mine last night (yvralfredo) and he was asking what was keeping me from committing to get back on track with regard to weight loss. I don't know, but I am going to make a concerted effort over the next 3 months to see what sorts of changes I can make. I will talk about them here and post some occasional pics. Here is where I am starting from: 248.4 as of this morning. As you can see, it is much different than the person in the banner.