State of my Weight
Well, hrm.
I’ve not been doing well with motivation to eat healthily. I had done two six-day diets (here and here), and had good short-term results. But, of course, once I resumed my normal eating routine, the weight came back. The last week and a half have involved birthday cake, ice cream, pizza, Indian buffet, plus my normal unhealthy lunches.
Today I weighed in at 199 with 17.5% body fat, which is around what it was prior to the second round of that six-day diet. That’s as high as I’ve seen the fat percentage in the last few weeks, so hopefully that’s a bit of an outlying data point. Still, this isn’t what I’m looking for.
This morning, I tried out the P90x chest and back workout for the first time. I muddled my way through it, using some of their suggested “cheats” for some of the pull-ups. It was definitely a good routine. My arms are fatigued, and as a bonus my shoulder is still feeling okay. I also did the 16-minute ab routine, or at least as much of it as I could. That one is pretty brutal.
I haven’t decided how much my slightly-squishy body is bothering me relative to my inherent laziness. My current primary fitness goal is definitely improving my upper body strength. After 20 months of shoulder problems, I really want to strengthen that area. So this means that weight management falls behind strength training. Perhaps I should save my mental energy for doing a near-daily P90x routine so that I make sure I am working towards my primary goal. I know that I need to make substantive permanent changes to my diet in order to see much progress, and I don’t think I’m quite ready to commit to that in addition to the nine hours per week of martial arts classes (plus the time spent getting there, getting home, showering, etc) and the maybe 2 hours per week I’ve been spending on fitness outside of the dojang.
It’d be nice if fighting my weight wasn’t a lifelong struggle.