Greg's Running Blog

Another week has passed and I am struggling with my progress for several reasons.

1) I’m on vacation and I find myself super busy with the kids and things to do around the house and enjoying my time off generally. It does not help me at all with keeping my cardio sessions. I have skipped cardio on the 24th and on the 27th, twice this week.

2) Since I’m home and I hang with the kids and my father-in-law it’s a lot harder to do my own thing when it comes to eating. They want to go out so I have to go with them. they want to eat stuff that might not be as clean as I’d like it, I have to eat what they eat. Mind you, I don’t have to but I’d like to, being one family and all. So they are not helping my situation one bit.

3) Since I’ve lost 30+ lbs that means that my RMR/BMR has dropped by 300 to 400 calories a day. So in theory I’d have to either eat 300-400 calories less every day than before or I have to exercise 300-400 calories more. And there lies the other problem.

4) Since I have lost weight my cardio workouts are not as effective as before while carrying all that extra weight. So not only I have to do more of it I would actually have to do a whole lot more of it to keep up the weight loss pace from before.

Given all of the above issues that I have to deal with right now my weight loss is struggling. I still have dropped 2.2 lbs from last week but It’s not the 3.5 lbs that I have been getting comfortable with. I will need to reevaluate my nutrition and exercise in the near future if I want to stay on top of the weight loss and keep the muscle intact. I’m still so far from my goal weight that it really concerns me that I’m already hitting a wall. Some might not consider losing 2.2 lbs in a week as hitting a wall though.

I’d also like to mention that I’m finally under 30% body fat which I’m pretty happy about. It has been long coming and I felt pretty good when the scale showed 29.9% on Saturday morning. I’m sure I’ll get a lot more excited once I hit 19.9% which should not be that long unless my weight loss struggles. I think I’ll go to the gym tomorrow just to see where I’m standing even though I’m off from work.