| Weight | 206.6 | -24.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Fat | 27.4% | -11.9% |
Meals: 1216 kcal
Exercise: Treadmill 29 min
Pictures: Main/Flex
If you've come to the site in March, April or May, you may have gotten the idea that I'd given up, failed or forgotten about this site or even losing weight entirely. Fortunately, nothing is further from the truth. I've continued to not only lose weight, but I've kept careful track of my daily progress, knowing that I'd get back to updating the site again. What I didn't take into account is that I would get quite so backlogged, so until I'm caught up, I'm going to post a week's worth of updates every day with minimal blogging. I've made notes every now and then to record milestones, comment on changes to my plan, or just random thoughts. I'll summarize those with links to each post as I play catchup.
As I mentioned yesterday, getting sleep has been an issue for me for some time (and is part of the reason I've been working to lose weight). Yesterday I wasn't awake during the day so that I could run, today I was and got in my 29 minutes on my own treadmill. The bad news is, I was up for the better part of the night. You can see just how exhausted I am in those photos.
In retrospect (I'm writing this almost 3 months after the fact) I recognize this is the reason the run was so very difficult. I'd been up for a very long time and sleep plays a very big role in my performance. As such, today really felt like I'd hit a wall. I'd been struggling a bit with the change to level 7, in part no doubt because the incline went up for the first time since level 5, and of course because it's 0.5 mph faster than level 6. The top speed of 7.0 is that much faster than 6.5, and the bottom end of 5.0 isn't nearly as recuperating as 4.5 was.
Basically, for the first time since I'd started I seriously had to consider that I might indeed be 'topping out' as far as my running goes. And this was true in the respect that I could no longer make progress nearly as quickly as before when I wasn't working very hard. As such I made the decision to slow down on my speed increases. Instead of increasing my time by 1 minute every day, I decided to increase it every third day. This has the added advantage of synching up with a planned mini-vacation Easter weekend; when we leave the house I should be between levels and won't feel like I'm interupting my routine nearly as much.
Catchup Week 1
Day 1 - Updating Again
Day 2 - Goodbye Level 5
Day 3 - Hello Level 6
Day 4 - Another Day
Day 5 - Twenty Pounds
Day 6 - March Begins
Day 7 - Week 7
Catchup Week 2
Day 1 - Picture Uploads
Day 2 - Nothing Special
Day 3 - 30 Minutes at Level 6
Day 4 - More Catchup
Day 5 - Almost 3 Pound Drop
Day 6 - Goodbye Level 6
Day 7 - Week 8
Catchup Week 3
Day 1 - Layout Tweaks
Day 2 - Swiss Ball
Day 3 - Yet More Catchup
Day 4 - Ten Percent Fat Loss
Day 5 - Twenty Five Pounds
Day 6 - Ides of March
Day 7 - Week 9
