Start back to schoo' tomorrow. i've made a li'l headway in this last week. After that last post on sat. i went climbing, and things went much better than they did two days prior. i at least pulled down some v3s, and i sent several 5.10s on the autobelays. So there's a light at the end of the tunnel i've dug straight down into the ground. i've been making a point to exercise in at least some form every day, and on a few days i've squished in two workouts. Don't know if i'll be able to keep that up so easily with this next quarter coming, but i'm gonna try. Today (sun) i got in to the irongym for back/abs again. i felt better than i did a few days ago when i tried it, but i have lost a lot of strength. Wasn't pretty; but it was progress under the circumstances.
And my integrity with the diet has been tested the last couple of days too. Last night we went to a party for a friend, and they made burritos and nachos. That was painful to avoid the cheese and beans. But i found the bowl of shredded lettuce for garnishing, took 2/3 of it for a salad, and dumped tomatoes and taco meat on it. Today we went to the bro-in-law's and had steak and some good greens. But then they made homemade ice cream with some kind of pralines and amaretto in. That hurt a little bit too. i have been craving carbs like a dope fiend craves crack. So i've had a couple of bananas, couple of apples, a peach, and a grapefruit today. If i set back the fat burning 'cuz i ate too much fruit, then them's the breaks: i'm trying to whittle out a lifestyle here--not just lose a bunch of weight in a month. Plus, i think that's been a problem with my workouts. The glycogen stores have been a hair low. And i have no interest in losing weight Adkins style: don't wanna go pseudo-DKA, and i don't just want to pee off a bunch of water. i'm going to try to get up and swim tomorrow if i can force my butt outta bed. Ooo, and the gym rings supposedly shipped, so we'll see if i can design a cool-guy workout with those bad boys. There's an interesting workout brewing in my imagination.
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You're an inspiration to me and probably at least one other person somewhere. Seriously, though. Sounds like you're fighting the good fight. I'm hoping to be joining you soon.
i'll tell you what, bro: if you sidled in to the gym after a long, sloth-like (and mostly poisonous) layoff, and found that you couldn't push a single for 300, then went back a while later and dropped 250 on the rack, you, too would find yerself highly motivated to fix what's broken.
i'd love to see you on the wagon with me though. i really do feel a ton better. How much of it is due to the diet, and how much due to working out fairly religiously (and how much due to what's not on the diet) i can't say. But i do feel like i'm healing faster than i was before. And i'm thinking more clearly, and don't have quite the hairpin trigger i've had with the kids. Jump on it baby. It's just liquor and sugary crap. You already eat the meat quota.
Oh, and i got that swim in today. 1100m, and it didn't even hurt too bad.
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