I’m not really sure where the rest of the day went.  However, I’m really much later than I expected to be, so I’m just going to add my food and get to bed!

Food for the day:

Total: 2301 (25% fat, 36% carbs, 37% protein)

Breakfast: protein pancakes, jam, fruit salad (390)
AM Snack: protein shake with berries (284)
Lunch: whole wheat pizza with turkey sausage/tomato sauce and cheese, apple (520)
PM Snack: carrots, hummus, blueberry bran snack cake (281)
Dinner: sirloin steak, corn, butter, salad w/dressing (680)
Late Snack: blueberry bran snack cake, plums (146)

Oh look - a workout! I was so busy this morning afterwards. I barely got my protein shake and we went out for a swim. Then lunch had to be made and it almost slipped my mind!

I started off with 3 mins cardio (walking/jogging on the spot), the prescribed warm-ups, and then did:

Power Training - Strength Training (weeks 1-3)
Workout A4 (7 of 10)

1: Clean Pull - 85t/5, 85t/5, 85t/5, 90t/5
2: Clean-grip Deadlift - 105t/6, 105t/6, 105t/6, 110t/6
3: Single-leg Romanian Deadlift - 55t/6, 55t/6, 55t/6, 55t/6
4: Push-ups - 6, 6, 6, 6
5: Bent-over Dumbbell Alternating Row - 35e/6, 35e/6, 35e/6, 37.5e/6
6: Shoulder Press - 70t/6, 70t/6, 70t/6, 75t/5-3/4
7: Pullovers, alternating - 25e/6, 25e/6, 25e/6, 25e/6
8: Seated Russian Twist - 25t/10, 25t/10, 25t/10, 25t/10
9: Four-point Plank - 30sec, 30sec, 45sec, 45sec

Total time: 70 mins
HR monitor: 384 cals, Max: 147(83%), Avg: 114 (64%)

Still struggling a lot with the single-leg romanian deadlift. I feel very off-balance when doing it, so I’m still not raising the weight. I also don’t know why I just can’t get that last shoulder press up. It’s not really a weight issue as last time it was the 70 lbs I couldn’t get up. I’m beginning to think that it’s a mental block. It was a pretty decent workout overall though. Felt pretty strong. Actually was tempted to go higher on the deadlift but reminding myself that it was early in the workout and the rest of the workout had to be done.

So, next weights workout will be Wednesday. I’ll be doing only two days a week for the next two weeks.

The Sunday to Sunday loss this week is 2.6lbs. I can’t decide if I’m happy or sad about that. I suppose I was looking for the huge drop like I had after the last maintenance week. Although if I look at it rationally, I gained weight during that one, so the loss was primarily just flushing out the gain. The 9-week loss is 17.8lbs (1.98/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. So looking at that I’ve kept my weekly ~2lb per rate going, so I am happy about it. I’ve pretty much decided that the daily weights are going to be out of whack while I’m in school. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider the maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So, since I started keeping track this is day 269 on plan with food.