Clothing OPTional--90% More Salacious!

[scribess]

Weigh in: 148.2 Although it's sure to go up again tomorrow from resistance training tonight.

Sleep: 5:45 I blame the thunderstorms and yesterday's larger-than-usual deficit.

Stats for Thursday, June 18
Cals burned: 2815
Cals consumed: 1498 (145.5p/137.6c/42.7f; 39%/36/25)
Deficit: 1317

Activity

• 2 15-min walks at work
• 3ish hours archiving at work (which consists of carrying paper and paper-filled boxes short distances and much muttering about stupid people who can't organize our foul copy properly)
• 50 min on elliptical, 70% MHR

Today's our company picnic. Wish me well in making good choices; the only source of protein-dense food may very well be fried chicken. And we call ourselves Coloradans. Who live near Boulder, to boot.

[poppypixie]

Good luck with the picnic. Will there be veggies there for you to fill up on?

[Deserve]

Drink a lot of water. That always helped me keep that good full feeling.

[scribess]

Originally Posted by poppypixie

Good luck with the picnic. Will there be veggies there for you to fill up on?

Depends. Company's providing the meat and drinks, but sides are up to the employees. I brought grapes.

Originally Posted by Deserve

Drink a lot of water. That always helped me keep that good full feeling.

Oh, I plan to. I've been drinking at least 1 gal 16oz a day, but still wake up thirsty. Won't hurt me to drink 1 gal 32 oz, I don't think. After all, I'm already mentally preparing for an increase on the scale in the morning.

But honestly, I'm not really going in with the mentality that "I can't eat x." I am trying to go in with the mentality that if I eat x, it had better be worth the calories (e.g., grocery store cookies and/or cake are rarely worth it to me. Upscale bakery versions may be. Homemade depends on who brought it).

[Willie]

Originally Posted by scribess

Depends. Company's providing the meat and drinks, but sides are up to the employees. I brought grapes.

But honestly, I'm not really going in with the mentality that "I can't eat x." I am trying to go in with the mentality that if I eat x, it had better be worth the calories (e.g., grocery store cookies and/or cake are rarely worth it to me. Upscale bakery versions may be. Homemade depends on who brought it).

YAY for grapes!

I think this way ^^ too. I am clean 95%of the time, but when I'm not, I make sure it is absolutely worth it. Homemade, baked items only. Why bother with a candy bar or a crappy cookie? Totally not worth it.

Good luck!

[scribess]

Originally Posted by Willie

YAY for grapes!

I think this way ^^ too. I am clean 95%of the time, but when I'm not, I make sure it is absolutely worth it. Homemade, baked items only. Why bother with a candy bar or a crappy cookie? Totally not worth it.

Good luck!

Yup, I very much appreciate the grape idea! Still have to wash them, but they're cut up into little individual bunches.

I totally agree re: making the calories worth it. We had a birthday in the office yesterday with a store-bought, grocery cake. People kept saying "Oh, you're so good" when I didn't have a piece, but seriously. I could've gotten the same "taste sensation" by eating raw sugar and powdered chocolate substitute, with a bit of trans fat nastiness (which I don't keep in my kitchen--I read labels) thrown in for ostensible flavor. What's the point?

[kimikaw]

Originally Posted by scribess

• Guy doing curls with 5lb weights. Tried to remind myself I don't know his story. Maybe he's rehabbing. Maybe he was just warming up. Maybe he somehow misread the label and has an inner ear issue so that he couldn't detect the small gravitational pull of the 5lbs and thought it was at least 15. But I still had a moment of internal snickering.

Have to say, I just had a moment of external snickering....

[scribess]

OPT A1

3s, 10r all.

Wide stance DB deadlifts
30

Swiss ball bridge
BW

Swiss ball Flys
10

Neut. Grip shoulder press
12.5

Prone supermans
BW

Wood chops
17.5

Plank
84/62/54

Random comments/stats

• Flies killed during rest times: 3
• Flies killed earlier in the week: 4 (I'm starting to think one laid eggs somewhere in my apartment. Blurgh.)
• Increased weight on deadlifts, flys (DB kind, not flying-pestilence kind), and woodchops
• Increased time by 4 sec on first plank, but the other two were shorter, did indeed make me want to cry, and brought down the average time for all three to lower than my average for the previous WO. Hoping I was just more tired from increasing weights in other exercises.

Now I've got a question. Regarding the diet, I'm wondering if the fat is too low for me. I'm starting to get breakouts of eczema, which I used to associate with "evil demon carbs." But I ate a lot more carbs back when I was doing my reset thingummy based on R.E.P.A.I.R. and had no problems--it's just that my dietary fat was higher also. Worst bit of it (right now, at least) is that I'm getting a rash around where I wear my GoWear Fit.

I'm taking a break from wearing it this evening and all night, I think, but I definitely prefer to wear it as much as possible. Plus I just hate dealing with eczema. It and I have an unpleasant history. So I'm debating about possibly increasing fat, though I hate to modify Leigh's program. Thoughts, anyone?

[realcdn]

Originally Posted by scribess

But honestly, I'm not really going in with the mentality that "I can't eat x." I am trying to go in with the mentality that if I eat x, it had better be worth the calories (e.g., grocery store cookies and/or cake are rarely worth it to me. Upscale bakery versions may be. Homemade depends on who brought it).

That's how I usually talk myself out of stuff. The mass produced stuff is really not worth the calories.

[Celestialmom]

Hai! Your log moves so fast, I can keep up but all my comments are from like three pages ago!

So you're a writer (or editor) and live near Boulder? What a small world--my sister is an author, lives in Boulder, used to post on these forums but so sad, she wasn't getting enough time to write, so she nixed us. Darn.

Anyhoo, just a hey there and hi!

[scribess]

Originally Posted by realcdn

That's how I usually talk myself out of stuff. The mass produced stuff is really not worth the calories.

Nope, it's not. And though some of my coworkers did make some truly delicious-looking foodstuffs, I just kept thinking how eating said delicious foodstuffs would do little for me nutritionally and would put me that much further from my goal. So it was a successful day at the picnic.

Originally Posted by Celestialmom

Hai! Your log moves so fast, I can keep up but all my comments are from like three pages ago!

So you're a writer (or editor) and live near Boulder? What a small world--my sister is an author, lives in Boulder, used to post on these forums but so sad, she wasn't getting enough time to write, so she nixed us. Darn.

Anyhoo, just a hey there and hi!

I miss having time to write, but right now I've accepted that my major goal is fat loss. I may be able to get some writing time in during vacation, but right now I'm okay with the idea of not writing much for another 10 weeks, at least.

[scribess]

Weigh in: 148.2 (even with my weigh-with-then-without-bottle-o-cleaning fluid trick)

Sleep: ? Don't have the GWF stats since I needed to give my arm a break. But I think it was at least 6.5 hours of actual sleep. I was in bed ostensibly trying to sleep around 8 hours.

Stats for Friday, June 20
Cals burned: 2554 (best guess using the GWF's edit off-body feature and using the cals from an evening that seemed similar)
Cals eaten: 1633
Deficit: 921

Activity

• 2 15 min walks
• OPT A1 (details listed previously)

Probably should've just saved this post till after today's session of OPT A2. Running late due to participating in service project this morning.

[scribess]

OPT A2

3s, 12r all.

Step-Ups
10

DB face pulls
12.5

Bent-over rows
15

Standing curls
15

Ball reverse extension
BW

Side Plank
R: 59, 28, 20 (felt bad for not getting very far on the second so tried to make up for it)
L: 59, 32 (started to try to get a 3rd set of at least 20 sec. Sweaty foot slipped and I decided I was done.)

Pithy Comments
Considering how unmotivated I was, it wasn't a terrible workout. Increased on step-ups, rows, and curls. Regarding the planks, same case as last time--increased time on the front end, but time suffered drastically for succeeding sets.

I'm so ready for my break day.

[Juleske]

Why so unmotivated? And how did your company lunch go?

[kimikaw]

That looks like a pretty good workout, unmotivated or not. Ezcema getting any better? Does the coming week bring a macro ratio change that may help?

[scribess]

Originally Posted by Juleske

Why so unmotivated? And how did your company lunch go?

Eh, just because the majority of my morning was spent repainting trim on a house for a service project, so I hadn't had much time to just relax.

Company picnic was fine--can't remember if I logged or not that even though coworkers had made some yummy-looking baked goods, I kept thinking how eating said yummy baked goods would just put me that much further from my goal, so I decided they wouldn't be worth it. In any case, there was some BBQ'd chicken that I ate without the roll, then lots and lots of fruit. I didn't do too badly.

Originally Posted by kimikaw

That looks like a pretty good workout, unmotivated or not. Ezcema getting any better? Does the coming week bring a macro ratio change that may help?

Eczema's more or less the same, so far. Admittedly I did decide on my own to up my fat intake a little bit--if only because I think I wasn't getting to the 25% macro anyway. Turns out I'd been overestimating how much olive oil I'd been using for cooking.

Upcoming week is actually vacation, so I'm not going to be paying incredibly strict attention to macros, just trying to get protein in.

[scribess]

Weigh in: 148.4

Sleep: ? Again didn't sleep with the GWF. I'm guessing around 6.5 hours again.

Stats for Saturday, June 21
Cals burned: 2562 (missed my bike ride due to service project in morning; this was a low burn for a Saturday)
Cals eaten: 1526
Deficit: 1036

Activity

• 3.5 hours repainting trim on house for service project. Measly caloric burn, alas
• OPT A2 (details listed previously)
• 60 min DDR

Weight is up .2 lbs, which I guess isn't bad considering I had my resistance workout yesterday AND Aunt Flo decided to visit a friggin' week early. Nice that Aunt Flo should have departed by vacation time since she was scheduled to show up while I was on the road, but this big a change does mean my hormones are still screwed up.

Then again, they could be screwed up now due to the deficit and increased resistance training. Not planning on changing anything because of it right now, but I'll keep an eye on things and see what happens next month.

[scribess]

Have I mentioned sometimes it sucks to be a woman?

Weigh-in: 149.6
Sleep: Lying down: 8 hours; actual around 6:30 to 6:45

OPT Week 2 results
Cals burned: 17824
Cals consumed: 11049
Deficit: 6775
Expected scale loss: 1.93
Actual scale loss: +0.4 (like I said, sometimes it sucks to be a woman)

Measurements
Neck: 11.75-------->11.75 -0
Bicep: 10.25-------->10.5 +0.25
Bust: 37.375-------->37.25 -0.125
Under bust: 33------>32 -1.0
Waist: 30.625------->30 -0.625
Abdomen: 37.25---->37 -0.25
Hips: 40.625-------->40.625 -0
Thigh: 22.25-------->21.625 -0.625
Calf: 14------------->13.75 -0.25
Inches lost this week: 2.625 (That's more like it)

I also took pictures yesterday (Sundays are actually my measurement and picture day; can't force myself to get up earlier on Mondays). Haven't done actual side-by-side comparisons yet, but even just comparing in the slides show view, I noticed some differences. Nothing major, but enough to see that I am getting positive results, despite the scale weight issues. *pokes scale with spork*

Edit: please excuse the large white space below. I'd copied in measurement data from my spreadsheet, but it expanded too far, so I deleted it and reformatted as above. Only now I can't delete the "box" it was in.

[Juleske]

Set yourself down on the couch and break out the 80s movies!

[Naive]

Nicely done on the measurements! That's progress. And good job at the company picnic!

[MRMom]

Darn scale! The measurements look great though!! :-)

Michelle

[scribess]

Originally Posted by Juleske

Set yourself down on the couch and break out the 80s movies!

Alas, if only it weren't for the day job...

Originally Posted by Naive

Nicely done on the measurements! That's progress. And good job at the company picnic!

Originally Posted by MRMom

Darn scale! The measurements look great though!! :-)

Michelle

Thanks! I'm very glad I'm taking measurements--keeps me from freaking out and throwing my scale out the window. Because then it'd probably hit somebody on the head and I'd get sued. As well as, yanno, feeling guilty and stuff about causing bodily harm.

[scribess]

*watches tumbleweed drift gracefully across her log*

Boy, it gets quiet around here when I don't bring in sock puppets. Alas and alack, you must wait a bit longer.

OPT A1
3s 10r all
Wide stance DB DLs
32.5

Swiss ball bridge
BW (is it possible to do these weighted anyway? If I had plates, maybe...)

Neut. grip shoulder press
12.5

Prone supermans
BW

Low-to-high woodchops
17.5

Plank
87/66/53

Pithy comments

• Increased on the DLs
• Plan to increase on woodchops and maybe shoulder press
• Flys seemed more difficult today than last, though weight was the same
• Time on first two planks increased 3 sec each. Last down 1 sec, but there's an overall increase for the average. I think that by the time OPT is over, I might be at 120 for the first plank. This calls for a happy sock puppet.

No, I don't own this sock puppet, either.

[NYC_Native]

Originally Posted by scribess

• . This calls for a happy sock puppet.

No, I don't own this sock puppet, either.

A sock puppet has returned to your log, yay! Even if it isn't your sock puppet, it's great, LOL.

And good job on the measurements.

[stingo]

Nice job on the workout - and yay for the sock puppet.

[Willie]

I like sock puppets.

[poppypixie]

Congrats on the measurements! I too don't like the scale right now either...

[scribess]

Originally Posted by NYC_Native

A sock puppet has returned to your log, yay! Even if it isn't your sock puppet, it's great, LOL.

And good job on the measurements.

Originally Posted by stingo

Nice job on the workout - and yay for the sock puppet.

TYVM!

Originally Posted by Willie

I like sock puppets.

Don't we all?

Originally Posted by poppypixie

Congrats on the measurements! I too don't like the scale right now either...

Perhaps we should start a Coalition for the Dismemberment of Scales. Not that I'm sure how they'd be dismembered. Maybe yank off their plastic cover thingies that cover the dial or digital display.

[scribess]

Weigh in: 148.6 (still up .4 lbs from my lowest OPT weigh in. Creases on face from pillow this morning, so there's definitely still some water retention)

Sleep: 6:57

Stats for Monday, June 22
Cals burned: 2594
Cals consumed: 1434 (136.2p/104.3c/54.9f; 38%p/28%c/34%f. Since my eczema is starting to heal up a little, I'm going to start aiming for closer to OPT's macro guidelines and lower fat again.)
Deficit: 1160

Activity

• 2 15 min walks at work
• OPT A1 (details listed previously)

I've been debating what I want to do for activity this week since my dual activity day, Saturday, will be spent in the car. I've decided to get in all 4 resistance training sessions on MTTF. Wednesday will be cardio day at the gym, and then probably DDR at home that evening as well. The dual cardio session means I'd miss only one cardio session for the week. Since I'll essentially have two rest days back to back on Saturday and Sunday, I think I'll be okay recovery-wise.

Then for the vacation itself, I've been thinking that the week of 6/29 through 7/5 won't be the scheduled rest week--but it won't be an OPT week, either. I'm brining my Wii so there will be some DDRing and morning walks. Planning also on looking into some BW/resistance band exercises and drawing up a (probably quick, 30-45 min max) routine to do. 4 times that week would be great, but it'll likely be more like 3.

The following week of 7/6 through 7/12 I'll consider my OPT rest week (Week 4). I'll be traveling on Monday and Tuesday again, so won't be able to follow macros too easily (and I actually don't plan to do much in terms of macros during vacation at all), but I can start right up again on Wednesday and carry through the rest of the week.

Anyway, I think this is the best compromise between vacation and following OPT. Not really planning on losing scale weight during vacation; I'd be happy to maintain. Postponing the rest week a smidge will give me a bit of leeway on the diet for that week, at least.

[Juleske]

Originally Posted by scribess

Creases on face from pillow this morning, so there's definitely still some water retention)

Huh? How does that work?