Some time off…
So August was a busy month for me with traveling and visiting family so basically I ended up taking a break from my diet, about 3 weeks if I counted correctly. During that time/those days, I either didn’t track my diet at all or I tracked it just to see what amount of calories I was eating when allowing myself as much as I wanted. Mostly it seems I like eating around 2400-2500 calories, no surprise to me really cause I’ve been tracking my diet for YEARS now. Some days, days I ate WAY too much JUNK FOOD, my calories were as high as 3660!!! WOW!! Anyway, so as far as I can tell there was about 25 days, so just over 3 weeks that I wasn’t watching what I ate over this last month and a half, (since August 1st). Out of that time, there was 2 weeks when I also didn’t weight train, the two weeks that was spent traveling and/or visiting with family. That brings me up to now…
Today I put myself back on an 1850 calorie meal plan (160P/112C/86F) to get rid of the extra pudge that I can feel around my lower abs/belly button area, ick. It seems like that’s where all the extra calories went, heh. Cause oddly enough, I still have my quad separation (when I flex) and that really surprises me since my lower body is where I carry most of my fat and it’s always the hardest to get rid of fat there while being the first place I put it back on, but apparently not this time around. I probably shouldn’t even worry about it since winter is fast approaching but I just can’t stand feeling and seeing that extra pudge that wasn’t there before.
The break I took from my diet (and the two weeks off training) really did me good though because I am definitely, without a doubt, stronger than I was prior to the break. I am putting up an extra 5 lbs on most of my lifts at the SAME REP RANGE now!! Woohoo!! I am also back to what seems to be my normal weight, my body ALWAYS seems to want to settle around 140 lbs (give or take 2 lbs) and in the past it’s the weight I’ve always been the strongest at. So there are advantages to being a bit pudgier, lol. So anyway, prior to all the traveling and visiting with family, I was weighing in at 137-138 lbs, now I have been consistently weighing in at 141.5 lbs. Back on a meal plan I go, it’s the only way I can keep my weight down and my physique where I want it.
And that’s what’s going on with me, thought I’d go ahead and write this update to let those interested/curious, know. 
