I know, right? That drop was welcome but totally unexpected!
I’m starting to feel a little weaker on deadlift, but I expect part of it is just from being in a calorie deficit for so long. Once June 1st comes around and I ease back up to maintenance+ calories, it’ll come back without gaining much/any weight.
4/12/19 food for yesterday
Breakfast: Shake = 1/2 cup whole milk, 1 scoop quick oats, 1 1/2 scoop protein powder.
Lunch: Don Miguel’s 4 meat breakfast burrito from ‘carousel of death’ at work.
Dinner: 6 Pizza Hut hot wings with blue cheese dressing. 10 Ritz crackers with cheese. some garlic-stuffed olives. Some grapes. 1 giant armadillo egg = very large jalepeno stuffed with cheese, wrapped in hammered out chicken breast and bacon, and smoked = deliciousness.
Snack: 1 small piece of apple pie a la mode. 1 lemon drop cocktail.
Bedtime: 1 scoop creatine.
Total for today 2590 calories, 173g protein, 191g carbs, 107g fat. Pretty crappy eating day, but a good day overall. Only 9 calories over my training-adjusted goal, as well. Lunch was garbage out of the machines because I had to go into work and I was in a hurry, so scarfed it down and hit the gym quickly on the way home. Last night was game night with the kids so food was all over the place. Ate some wings early, then a bunch of the different finger food that the wife fixed while I fixed cocktails for everyone who wanted them, followed by hot apple pie with ice cream for dessert. #noguilt
4/13/19 morning weigh-in 183.4# 2 days in a row at this weight, even after all the crappy eating from last night! I will definitely call that a win. It’s Saturday, so time for the weekly average:
4/7 - 186.2#
4/8 - 186.6#
4/9 - 185.6#
4/10 - 186.2#
4/11 - 184.8#
4/12 - 183.4#
4/13 - 183.4#
Average = 185.2#, down 1.7# from 186.9# last week. I’ll keep trying to keep a good weight loss pace through the end of the challenge.
I had the gym at work to myself, so I took some more progress pics. I don’t see a lot of difference from 3 weeks ago, and definitely still too much fat around the middle. I guess that’s just where my body likes to retain fat at this stage of my life?
