Day 22 - May 25, 2013

Weight:             244.2 lbs.
Body Fat %:     34%
Composition:    83 lbs fat  / 161.2 lbs. lean body mass
H20 %:            47.5%  (116 lbs )


The analysis had some good news and some bad new.   Weight was down in general, but up .2 lbs from yesterday.  Fat is up .5% from last week.  I somehow gained a pound of fat and lost 2.8 lbs of lean body mass, including an additional pound of water.  Seems strange, right.

Today I had this week's usual breakfast of sausage, eggs and oatmeal.  Now lunch! Oh lunch!  Lunch was the most calories I've eaten (in one meal) since I started.  There was probably more calories than some whole days.  It was planned to be this week's cheat meal.  I had the pastrami burger at Sammy's LA Pastrami.  I had no idea how big this "sandwich" would be. I also ordered the garlic fries.  My son fell asleep in the  car on the way there, so we ordered from the drive-thru and took it home.  I washed it down with a sugar free lemon lime soda.  I finished this 3/4 lb. behemoth of a sandwich and many of the fries.  Oddly enough, I think I could have continued and the old me would have kept eating, but I stopped.  Such a big meal put me out.  I think I slept for another 4 hours.  I knew I wasn't going to eat another real meal that day after that.

So for "dinner," I suggested ice cream.  My wife went along with it.  We went to Thrifty, which is a brand of ice cream shops (formerly based in the eponymous drug-store) that rarely exists anymore. My wife grew up with the brand, so she was easy to convince.  There "scoops" produce cylindrical ice cream scoops, which looks really funny on a cone.  I suggest ordering in a cup.

I figured I would get things back on track by finishing the day with a healthy snack of fruit and nuts, but I finished the whole day off with a beer, my first since I started.  The beer sucked, which made it less than worth it, but I couldn't stop myself from finishing it. You can't waste beer! Right?

We'll see how this all turned out tomorrow at the scale.


Breakfast:
2 Farmer John's pork breakfast sausages
1 scrabbled egg
1/2 serving of oatmeal with tsp honey and splash of almond milk

Lunch:
1 Pastrami Burger from Sammy's LA Pastrami: 1/4 lb cheese burger w/ Provolone cheese + 1/2 lbs of pastrami
1/2 medium order of garlic fries
Sugar-free lemon/lime soda

Dinner:
2 scoops ice cream from Thrifty: pecan praline and Amaretto cherry

Dessert:
1 banana
15 unsalted almonds

Night cap:
Blue Moon Blackberry Tart Ale

we'll see what the scale says tomorrow ...

Day 21 - May 24, 2013

Weight: 244.6 lbs

What the deuce?  That's a 2.4 lb swing since yesterday.  I am very surprised (positively).  When I began adding complex carbs in, my thought was that in case a certain percentage of weight loss was water, I wanted to get that gain out of the way (no tears later). I also wanted to max out the glucose in my muscles and liver, which comes with a certain degree of water. Turns out since I started adding in complex carbs I've lost weight, and today was a substantial loss.

Breakfast was familiar: oatmeal, sausage, egg and tomato juice. I had lunch with my wife at Buffalo Wild Wings.  The lunch special comes with 8 wings (I ate 4, based on my restaurant theory), and I upgraded the fries to a salad with blue cheese dressing.

It was back to the gym again today.  I did some sparring in boxing class today.  I did some face punching and some face punching avoidance for cardio.  By the time I got home, my wife was hungry and waiting.  So I didn't have time for my post workout meal: chocolate milk.  I downed a banana and the remnants of my son's peanut butter and jelly sandwich on wheat.  Dinner soon followed.  Sound familiar: brown rice and jambalaya.  Dessert was watermelon and almonds.  Hopefully, the scale continues to move in the right direction. 


Breakfast:
1/2 serving oatmeal with honey and almond milk
1 breakfast sausage
1 scrambled egg
8 oz V8 spicy tomato juice

Lunch:
4 Buffalo Wild Wings parmesan garlic wings
1 side salad

30 oz water


Post workout meal:
1 banana
part of a PB&J that my son didn't finish

Dinner:
1 scoop brown rice
2.5 scoops of jambalaya with chicken, shrimp and smoked sausage
16 oz water w/ lemon juice
16 oz water

Dessert:
2 big slices of water melon
15 almond
16 oz water

we'll see what the scale says tomorrow ...