Weight: 220.0 (-11.2)
Fat: 34.0% (-5.3%)
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Exercise: Cardio (Treadmill 26:00 WL5 - 333 calories, 1.86 miles)
Pictures: Front/Side/Back/Flex
Opinions will no doubt vary, but I find flexibility to be far more important than rigidity. Some rigidity is helpful; it gives you discipline to commit to working out every day or other, similar goals. When I've put my weight change plans at a low priority in the past, I tended to give up on them more easily. Forcing myself to stick to a plan without deviation has made me stick to it better than I might have otherwise.
That being said, being too rigid means that when other priorities come up, and inevitably life will throw you curve balls now and again, you have to be prepared to deal with them. By building flexibility into your plans, you can adjust to circumstances and not simply abandon your plans. I suppose there's an analogy in here about oak trees vs. willow trees in the wind.
I've focused on diet mostly in terms of flexibility. The idea that I can adjust my fast to another day if I have plans for a particular day means a lot. Social occasions are not part of my fasting schedule and giving up meals with family and friends to lose a bit of weight would make it much more difficult to keep up my plan. I need to be able to enjoy meals out, I need to be able to eat birthday cake, I need to be able to go out on a dinner date. In this case being able to adjust means not simply give up for a week, a month, a year or indefinitely.
Ironically, today I adjusted my schedule to shift my workout to another day. An opportunity came up and spending an extra half hour plus to lift weights would have either reduced or spoiled the opportunity entirely. But I commited to three days a week of weight lifting so instead of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I'm going to push my last two workouts back by a day. I still lift three days this week, but instead of a two day break over the weekend, I take it in the middle of the week.
I still got on the treadmill, there are limits to how much I'll give up in a day. Moving my strength training made a world of difference though.
