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Happy Wednesday!
This week has been a struggle for me. On Sunday I overate, mostly due to almonds and cashews. I was still eating healthy but just had too much. I'm currently struggling with morning motivation to get my workouts in. It would be so easy to just lie in bed in the mornings and keep hitting the snooze button. I have been able to push myself out the door and workout but it has been a struggle.
On the workout front I moved my leg day to Monday since I have a race this Saturday. I am still increasing the weights on my main exercises but I think that will come to end shortly as it's getting more difficult. Yesterday I ran 7 miles at an average 11:30 pace. It wasn't my fastest pace but I thought it was pretty good for that distance. This morning was upper body. I really pushed myself and am feeling a little fatigued.
On the diet front I'm trying to work my vacation into a hormonal reset. I figure I've been in a caloric deficit for about 18 months and need to shake up the body a little. I've increased my calories for the week by 200 cals/day. that's basically 2 additional apples per day. Next week I'll raise it an additional 200 cals/day. For vacation I'll try to stay under 2850 cals/day. I'm still planning on the 6 week keto diet after vacation. That will be at 2250 cals/day while trying to maintain my exercise. After that I think I'll do a traditional diet with a weekly refeed.
I'll see how everything works out. Hopefully the diet changes will not cause any increase in weight. I'm just trying to prevent the drastic increase that comes with going off the diet suddenly.
I hope everyone has a great day!
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100.6 kg
Lost so far: 5.1 kg.
Still to go: 9.9 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 23 September 2015:
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2317 kcal
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Fat: 76.79g | Prot: 197.14g | Carbs: 238.34g.
Breakfast: Optimum Nutrition Performance Whey 100% Isolate, Apples, Great Value 100% Whole Grain Old Fashioned Oats, Bell Plantation PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter. Lunch: Marketside Broccoli Slaw, Prepared Good Seasons Zesty Italian Salad Dressing, Wegmans Grass Fed Beef Chuck Roast. Dinner: Apples, Great Value Mixed Vegetables, Organic Prairie Organic Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast. Snacks/Other: Oil Popped White Popcorn, Fresh & Easy Broccoli Florets, Old El Paso Fat Free Spicy Refried Beans, Wild Planet Wild Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Silver Floss Krrrrisp Kraut, Apples, Tomatoes, StarKist Foods Solid Light Tuna in Olive Oil, Fresh & Easy Broccoli Florets. more...
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2896 kcal
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Exercise:
Weight Training (moderate) - 52 minutes, Resting - 14 hours, Sleeping - 9 hours and 8 minutes. more...
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Losing 0.6 kg a Week
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 Comments
i have been motivationally challenged too I have a I don't wanna work attitude lately. I am tired of painting and working and fighting with kids and yada yada yada why I am trying to get me time daily. Hoping I get the attitude change I need and not feel like I am just plodding through as i have lately. So I understand a bit of what you are feeling but we can do this things together. Get up off our collective rear ends and move! :D
23 Sep 15 by member: Pterath
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Despite steady progress, I find that some days/weeks can just be like that (on the motivation front) for no good reason. But you're doing great to ignore and push past the urge to stay in bed and being your consistent, dependable self as the 'man with a plan' well in advance of your vacation! Nicely done!
23 Sep 15 by member: losinit1655
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Fantastic Cat! You and Northern Musician have scientific minds...great to see a loss today - nice job.
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Here's what I think. The drastic increase is due to taking in extra carbs and salt, and is actually mostly water. When you get back to your proper way of eating, you cut out the extra carbs and salt, and the water disappears. So, easy come, easy go. Also, the important thing is not really his many calories you consume, it's whether you are in calorie deficit or surplus. So if you eat more, you can offset that by extra exercise, like walking. And I think where you're going, you can do lots of walking, or running. So just do that, and don't worry about it!
23 Sep 15 by member: heidij123
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