tolewfo’s Bodyblog of Change

I am now 2 weeks in to my journey to under 200 lbs.  I have had some really good days and some ****ty days as well. 

To start off, here are the good days:  I hit the gym on Monday, as everyone on the board calls it, the dedicated Chest and Biceps day.  I went through my workout and realized that I truly was starting over.  After looking at my old charts, I saw a major decrease of strength.  But, I didn’t let it get me down.  I moved forward and wrote down my new numbers since I own them now.  Tuesday, the dreaded leg day… I got to the gym and I was quickly reminded on the day hated by many lifters.   Here is a link to a great thread started in the OV35 forum.    http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=118685751   So, I powered through the day and I felt the jelliness immedidately after the workout.  It wasn’t until Saturday did I feel the effect wear off almost completely.  Wednesday, an off day, I would say that this is when I get in trouble.  I will tend to eat a lot more on my off days then on the days I work out.  Thursday, shoulders, I went back to the gym with a totally different walk from Tuesday’s workout.  I always feel like I get through my shoulder workout fast.  It felt like time has just flied by.  I went back later that night to do some cardio.  Because, I continued eating okay until, I was invited to go out to dinner with a friend, I ate like a pig.  Again, due to leg day, I was walking funny on the treadmill and it put a little strain on my knees.  This is when I realized how important a good pair of shoes really are.  I think one of the reasons I stopped working out in the past was because of my shoes.  I know how lame that sounds but I think it is true.  I didn’t look forward to going to the gym because I was getting blisters on my small toes and the nasty tearing of the back of my heel.  My socks were all bloody and gross.  I went through this because I didn’t want to spend more money on a pair of good shoes.  Well, I let it happen again with the same pair of shoes.  I am taking care of it today.  I am going to be less stingy and buy a decent pair in which I can do some decent cardio and push it a little harder.  I let this get the best of me and the rest of my workout for the remainder of the week.  I also went to celbrate a birthday at a pretty decent resturaunt and ate horribly again.  So, eventhough, I am still down from my first week, I am not where I was planning on being.  I will have to push it much harder this week to see some really good gains…..

With all of this said, I am going to go out and find a good pair of shoes.

I am now one week in to a journey that I have taken before.  I have to remember to take it with its peaks and valleys as well as its’ plateaus. 

I am doing well on my diet with only one semi-cheat meal.  It was this morning, which I planned. I went out to breakfast with my folks and their neighbor.  I still was relatively "clean".  I had a 3 egg omelete w/ avacado and no cheese, hash browns, dry wheat toast and one root beer.  I think that this will be my "once a week" cheat meal.  I am going to start taking Whey protien this week for my after workout drink.

My cardio is obviously going to start slow again.  I have walked on the treadmill this week doing various settings.  I do the hill setting and also the manual setting the most.  I have walked close to 28 miles.  I forgot all about the walkers rash between the thighs.  I have to get some sort of rash guard or stock up on some vasaline (gross)…

I am starting my weight training tomorrow (start of week 2)… I am going to do the push pull…:     M - Chest and Biceps   T - Legs   W - Abs   Th. - Shoulders   F - Back and Triceps   S - Abs   Su. - off….     I have to remember that I can’t do the same weight that I was doing just a little over a year ago.  But, I want to still be intense and get a good pump. 

I have also remembered to record my advances on my little flip camera and may post them here sometime…. only when I feel comfortable to do so.  I don’t like the way I look on it.  Maybe on week 5 or 10 I’ll post them.

So, here it is Aug. 2009 and I am back for round two.  I have lost a lot of weight in round one but I ended up gaining 50 lbs. of it back.  I am up around 270 right now and I am disappointed in myself.  I was one of those guys that thought I could keep this up and then I failed.  I don’t want to be fat!!!  I want to be lean again.  So I am going to hit the gym and feel good again.  Not just physically but mentally as well.  I started to avoid this site because I didn’t want to reveal how bad things have gotten for me.  I felt that I lost control and couldn’t face the people here that were giving me hope and praises.  I just couldn’t let them down.  But, I did… But, most of all, I let me down.  So with all of that said, I hope that I can start again and be accepted here once again.  Thanks for reading this and lets hope that there is no round three.