Greg's Running Blog

It’s been almost 4 months since I have started my transformation. I have been at a steady decline and everything has been smooth sailing. At this point I should be on autopilot and flying towards the finish line with little to no effort. Well this week was anything but effortless.

The biggest curve ball that I had to deal with has been my first injury. My left knee started hurting which has caused me to limp and compensate by running with a messed up gait on my right foot which caused tendonitis in my outer foot. It has been hurting so bad that I actually had to seize all running and actually all cardio workouts since Monday. It was a great setback but hopefully I have learned my lesson and I will be more careful in the future. Now the foot is recovering well and I think I should be able to resume mild and easy running next week. I will certainly not be able to run the way I have been, not for a while at least. So cardio was a total bust this week.

Strength training did not work out as planned either. I have switched to twice a week upper body training and I was planning on doing it on Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday’s training went fine except for the terrible pain in my foot. I managed to put in my 2×3 sets of exercises for chest and the same for the back. I’m still doing compound movements only and I will stay with them until I’m done with my initial fat loss phase. But the Friday strength training didn’t really work out. We had record snowfall here in Texas with a whopping 8″ of snow within 24 hours. So we were snowed in and I didn’t get to go to the gym. This means I have failed to do my second strength training. By Saturday the weather was fine and I really should have gone to work and do my exercises but there was just no time in the weekend to do that. So my strength training this week was a failure.

Diet, on the other hand was spot on. I had a good week with good foods and great numbers. My average calories for the week were 1,693 calories which is great. I managed to eat 152 grams of protein per day on average with a high of 180 grams of Thursday. That is just fantastic and I’m very happy with it. I really feel good about the food choices I am making now and even when I relax a bit I still manage to stay the course. It really feels great.

Sadly due to lack of cardio even with a perfect diet like this my weight numbers weren’t stellar. I weighed in actually half a pound heavier this morning than I was last Sunday. But if I look at the rolling average numbers it shows that I actually dropped 1.5 lbs this week. 1.5 lbs is 5,250 calories weekly deficit. I have counted 807 calories for my damaging Monday run which means 4,443 calories came from food. That’s 634 calorie daily deficit. Since I calculated I have consumed 1,693 calories on average my maintenance calories are 2,327 calories which I think is pretty much spot on. That is if I don’t do any kind of cardio and I eat 2,327 calories a day I should be able to maintain my weight indefinitely.

Hopefully next week I can get back into my 2-3 lbs loss pace and finish this fat loss off soon. I am really looking forward some running.