Unleash The Animal

Things have been hectic around here, and they’ve finally slowed down enough to stop in and say hi

Last week wasn’t a good week.  I haven’t been to the gym since Tuesday for various reasons, but they’re irrelevant.  I didn’t go…period.  No excuses.  Still, The Animal has kept me eating right, and that led to another two pounds and 1% body fat gone for the week.  Not the week I wish I’d have had, but I’ll take it.

I’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and it makes it hard to focus on stuff here.  That completely sucks, since this place helps keep me trigger my inner desire to be fit and healthy.  However, that desire hasn’t left me in the least.  Luckily, I’m still fired up and motivated…and this week should be a bit easier on the old family unit so hitting the gym all the required times shouldn’t be an issue

Unfortunately, at this moment, I have no great pearls of wisdom to share…but I’m sure I’ll come up with something sooner or later

Yep.  I said Sunday I’d give my body another day or so to see what it did with the weight, and sure enough, another couple of pounds gone!  Apparently, the sodium was holding in a fair amount (mental note…no more pizza ).  It’s either that, or adding back the cardio really works.  I seriously doubt that’s it, so it has to be loss that would have occured last week had I not been retaining so much fluid.

I really needed those two pounds too.  After the funk I was in, thankfully for only a short time, I needed something positive.  My great workout yesteday helped a whole lot, but today’s weigh-in helped me realize that I am moving in the right direction.  Yeah, I know I wrote a blog about how I didn’t care…and at that moment, I didn’t.  I felt so good that I just didn’t care about the weight.  However, that’s not where I’m at now, and I really need the results to help me push myself.

On a related note, I’ve discontinued using Lipo 6.  Frankly, I wasn’t losing weight for the last couple of weeks, while taking it religiously.  But last week, I was spotty on taking it, and that didn’t seem to make a hill of a difference.  In fact, I seemed to lose better when I wasn’t really taking it.  So, I’m going to step away from fat burners for a bit.  My body seems to be doing just fine without them

That will leave me taking my Animal Pak, for BCAAs and multivitamin, and my protein powder.  I’ll finish off this cycle of my Animal Stak 2, and then step away from that for a while as well.  The Lipo 6 isn’t helping apparently, and the Animal Stak 2 seems to really be geared toward different goals than what I have right now.  Come January, I’m planning on trying a quick bulk to see what I can do, and I’ll give the Animal Stak 2 a try again.  Until then though, it’s the Pak and Protein for me

OK, so another week as come and gone, and while I’m not impressed with my body weight, but body fat seems to have gone down, so I’m good.   Still, I think I’m going to go back to a bit of cardio before my workout.  I seemed to have gotten a bit better results that way.  I don’t care what anyone says, I’m not backing off of the weights, since they’re what keeps my butt going into the gym.

The thing is, I love this lifestyle.  I feel better and stronger than I have in a long, long time.  I honestly feel like crap after eating crap, and I don’t want to go back to that.  It’s entirely possible that my body still hasn’t recovered from the cheat meal, so time will tell on that one.  I’ll monitor my weight for the next couple of days and see what it does.  It’s entirely possible that I’m still retaining water from high sodium in that stuff.  If so, I’ll know in the next couple of days.  If not, then I honestly don’t know.  However, body fat seems to be dropping, so I’m good with that.