FatBloggers.net A little push to lose the tush.

Sometimes, what you eat catches up with you. I went to work yesterday with a twinge of a gout attack; I still managed to get in my workout. Today, I went to work and, after one hour, returned home. The pain was such that I could barely think; I couldn’t concentrate and was just wasting my time there.

This has been one issue I’ve had many times in the past.  I would get a workout routine going and then have a gout attack that would take me out for a week.  Then I’m having to start all over.  Of course, most of the time, that was due to not drinking enough water.  I know now that this is not the case.  I need to eliminate sweets for a while.

What caught up with me started with Friday night’s happy hour (Cinnabon cheesecake), Saturday night’s card game with an elderly friend (Peppridge Farms cookies, banana bread, and other cookies at church), Sunday (sweet cereal and pancakes), and a few servings of soda, resulting in the aforementioned gout attack.  Ironically, today’s meeting was discussing good health habits and one of them was cutting back or eliminating sugars and alcohol. Since those are obviously big contributors to my gout (there are different primary triggers from different sufferers), I made a personal promise to cut back on the processed sugars for the next week. This means I can still have fresh fruit. The only exception will be my protein bars that I sometimes use to replace lunch after a workout.

So today was the first time I missed my workout. My exercise partner took advantage of today’s schedule to go vote at lunch. I guess I’ll be working out the rest of the week (if my gout improves tonight).

I obviously have issues with control on the weekends and I really need to work on that. It is so much easier on weekdays when I have a routine.

Still, in spite of my weekend, I extended my loss streak to four weeks. I can do better and I will.

Starting weight: 319.0 lb
Previous weight: 282.8 lb
Current weight: 282.4 lb
Current loss/gain: -0.4 lb
Total loss/gain: -36.6 lb
Distance to 50: 13.4 lb
Distance to WW Goal: 32.4 lb

Cross-posted to WebCudgel.com

Wednesday

• Breakfast (8:15am):  1/4 cup cream of wheat w/ nondairy creamer and 1 tbsp sugar, small apple.
• Mid-morning snack (10:15am): banana, 1 dark chocolate kiss.
• Exercise (11:30am): Elliptical: 8min @ Lvl6, 12min @ Lvl7; crunches: 40; leg lifts:35; benchpress: 10 reps @ 95, 10 reps @ 115, 6 reps @ 135; pull-down: 10 reps and 8 reps at 52; butterfly curls: 2 sets of 10 reps @ 40lb, tricep extensions: 2 sets of 10 reps @ 50 lb, rotator cuff: 10 reps @ 10 lbs.
• Lunch (1:00pm): 1.5 cups leftover pasta w/ ground beef and broccoli, 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce.
• (My wife got laid off today so I treated her to dinner at Saltgrass Steakhouse, but steered her away from any fried foods since she had not had lunch and had not eaten since breakfast.)
• Dinner (6:00pm):  part of the spinach/artichoke dip with chips and salsa, small caesar salad, El Paso chicken (grilled, covered in salsa and monterrey jack cheese), sauteed zucchini, squash and carrots, one slice of Shiner Bock beer bread, unsweet tea.
• Personal Success:  Avoided fried foods and dessert at the restaurant. Tripled the total weight I was successfully bench pressing only two weeks ago.

Thursday

• Breakfast (7:45am):  1/4 cup cream of wheat with sugar and one creamer.
• Mid-morning snack (10:15am): banana
• Exercise (11:30am):  Elliptical: 20 min @ Lvl7, figure 4 crunches: 40; leg lifts: 20; situps: 20; military press: 10 reps @ 81lb, 10 reps @ 90lb; curls: 10 reps @ 30lb, 10 reps @ 25lb; shrugs : 2 sets of 10 reps @ 50lb; arm lifts: 10 reps @ 25lb, 10 reps @ 20lb; lat pulldown: 10 reps @ 134lb.
• Lunch (12:50pm): Leftover chicken and veggies from last night, 100cal brownie, apple.
• Afternoon snack (2:45pm):  100cal pkg Girl Scout cookies, last 2/3 of candy bar from early this week.
• Dinner (7:00pm):  Italian Mini Meatloafs (2), green beans, carrots, 1 pita sprinkled with olive oil and salt, 1 handful of potato chips (snacking while cooking), 1 cookie.

Friday

• Breakfast (7:30am):  Taco Bueno (2 potato/egg/queso burritos, potato sticks, 32oz soda) [my one breakfast splurge for this week]
• Midmorning snack (10:00am):  100cal brownie.
• Lunch (12:00pm):  1/2 cup rice soup, Red curry fried rice (I know, but this was my one “bad” lunch of the week and I was gonna enjoy it).
• Afternoon snack (2:30pm):  100cal brownie, Butterfinger bar.Dinner (5:30pm):  Happy hour at TGI Friday’s with wife’s ex-coworkers - a small portion of the fried green beans, garlic chicken primavera, unsweet tea, Cinnabon cheesecake (I know, I know).

Saturday

• Breakfast (8:15am): two small biscuits with light butter and homemade strawberry jam, scrambled eggs, 3 turkey sausage links, 1/2 cup pineapple chunks, 16oz Whole Milk.
• Lunch (4:00pm):  Chicken salad, crackers, a small piece of sharp cheddar, barley salad, a few chips, several homemade cookies.
• Dinner (7:00pm):  On The Border takeout - chicken salsa fresca (grilled chicken, mexican rice, roasted veggies), chips and salsa, one tortilla w/ butter,  a few Peppridge Farms cookies, two slices of banana bread w/ butter, 12oz can of 7-Up.

Sunday

• Breakfast (11:15am):  bowl of sweetened cereal w/ whole milk, three small pancakes w/ peanut butter and light syrup, 1/3 apple.
• Lunch (3:00pm):  1/2 chipotle bowl (chicken, black beans, rice, hot sauce, corn salsa, 1/2 cheese, lettuce).
• Personal Success:  Slimmed down one of my favorites once again by eliminating the sour cream and fajita vegetables from my burrito bowl.

Monday

• Breakfast (7:45am):  7-11 Monterrey Jack taquitos, 1 pkg of Combos, 16oz Cran Grape drink
• Mid-morning snack (11:15am): banana, 1 Peppridge Farms cookie.
• Exercise (11:45am): Elliptical: 4min @ Lvl6, 16min @ Lvl7; crunches: 20; leg lifts:40; situps: 20; benchpress: 10 reps @ 95, 10 reps @ 115, 6 reps @ 135; lat pull-down: 2 sets of 10 reps at 120; butterfly curls: 2 sets of 10 reps @ 50lb, tricep pulldown: 2 sets of 10 reps @ 50 lb, rotator cuff: 10 reps @ 10 lbs; military press 5 reps @ 40lb.
• Lunch (1:15pm): 1/2 chipotle bowl (leftovers from yesterday), apple.
• Dinner (6:00pm): roast beef, half baked potato with nonfat sour cream, cream corn, mac n cheese
• Personal Success:  Avoided pizza ordered in for those who participated in a program at work.

Tuesday

• Breakfast (7:20am):  chocolate cream of wheat
• Mid-morning snack (10:45am): apple
• Lunch (11:30am):  chips, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, barley salad
• Dinner (6:15pm):  Applebee’s (chips w/ queso, Grilled chili-lime chicken salad w/o cheese)
• Personal Success:  Turned down dessert (even though they have a Weight-Watchers friendly chocolate cake).