What? No loss over the weekend? What happened??
This weekend was a rare and appropriate deviation from the plan. Every year some of my oldest friends and I go to the Barrett Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale and relax, catch up and watch other people spend millions on cars they don’t need and will likely never drive. It’s a good time, but it’s also a bad, bad, BAD diet buster.
Friday night Claire and I went out and tied on one. 3 whiskeys later I was home and waiting for Abby when they all finally hit, and boy did they hit hard! It wasn’t the best sleep I’d had and then dawn came, that bitch! There was the sun, I had a lot to do that morning and I needed to be out the door by 10am. Saturday I was up only .9 lbs and I think most of that was water retention and the fact that I hadn’t had a nice sit down for a couple days.
Saturday afternoon is what really proved to be the coup de gras to my weight loss plan for the time being . Beer, polish sausage and bad whiskey coupled with tons of water and 12 thousand steps all culminated to be a another pound and half to being me back over 260,.. 261.5 actually! A complete undoing of the last week on the plan. It’s amazing how fast it happens when you aren’t paying specific attention. I think our bodies are fighting us, struggling to hold the weight while it thinks we are somehow dying or something. Saturday was over, old friends were on their way home and I was back on the plan Sunday morning.
Sunday I had some time to myself actually. Which I used to clean house, not figuratively but literally. My house had become less than presentable and a friend was on his way over to use the drill press, so I had to get to it and that’s what I did.
Back on the eating plan, it was oatmeal for breakfast with a banana and some walnuts which is turning out to be a favorite. That pretty much held me until I returned from my mountain bike ride when Claire helped prep a lot of salad makings and we ate the remainder of my soup experiment from a couple days back . It’s great having a lot of salad makings prepped because then having a big bucket of greens doesn’t seem like such a trouble. 260.5 lbs on the scale that morning,. so back in the right direction.
Monday morning came and I was back at the oatmeal. I’ve started measuring the amount of oatmeal to one cup cooked and then adding some walnuts and a banana along with a tiny bit of maple syrup and a splash of almond milk. Then lunch as a big salad and some pinto beans Claire made with a whole chopped jalapeno and some garlic mixed in. Delish! Took a short ride on trail 100 near dusk and didn’t have lights so I cut it shorter than I’d like.
I keep pretty good track of my heart rate (HR) while I ride. Always have and likely always will. At 49 and using the standard equation of 220 – age = max HR my max HR should be 171. Yesterday I saw a a pretty easy 173, which Garmin said was a max recorded. I’m trying to measure how quickly my HR stabilizes after a hard push like a climb and I watch it come down a LOT faster than it was and my recovery seems to yield a newfound burst of energy each time. I find this to be a stark difference in how long recovery took in the past and how much energy I had post recovery previously. If this is what a healthy diet leads to performance wise on the bike and how quickly I can expect results, I’m in! There’s a long way to go, but if this is the road it’s damn fun.
Today is January 21, 2020 and I woke to the scale reading exactly what it did on Friday. So, one bad day took two to compensate for what I’d done. That’s good to know because life isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being real. And reality is that I’m not always going to be perfect on the plan, or with exercise. Is anyone? Is that even possible? I’ll do the best I can and stay on the plan. The plan that I like more is to eat a big salad and some type of legume at lunch, a big salad and a smaller portion of legume at dinner and a breakfast of oatmeal and fruit each morning. That’s starting to feel normal but does require a lot of prep to keep the food volume up. Waiting to see what the rest of the month brings. I hope for 5 pounds more this month to bring the total to 20, or more if that’s how it works out.
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