Kicking Precor's a**

So, today was day five out of five at the gym, boys and girls, and I did what is called "active recovery". That is when you still workout, but less intense. It gives you the benefits of working out, but doesn't cause as much stress, especially if you have been working out a lot. Ive been using either an Adaptive Motion Trainer (elliptical with resistance on all four points of articulation) or an Elliptical without the arms, but ramping up the incline.

I ended up at 502 calories (according to it) in 32 minutes. Thats a hair over 15 cal/min for you calculus majors Yesterday I did 40 minutes and hit 567. So, my 'active recovery' ended up netting an extra cal/min.

Active recovery, ha! Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelt of elderberries.

Here is what my week looked like (facebook people will have to go to oldguynation.blogspot.com to see the graphics, sorry)

The red line is what I ate, the blue line is the amount I set for myself (1945), and the green line is "net" taking exercise into account. 

Here is my calories from exercise for the week, total.

Friday weight

Because I don't want to mess with it tomorrow, and I have to have a day or two to cheat in there, somewhere....

So....*drum roll please....*

Last Sunday I was... I was 315 in the morning.(the bold numbers are the running average)

This morning I am....310. 5 lbs. WoOt! Yes, I know its partially water, but still.....ive maintained it thorough the week while increasing my water intake to some 50-60 ounces a day. 

counting down...

I'm kind of excited to weigh myself on Friday. My pants fit a little better, and other than feeling tired from working out, I seem to have more energy during the day. Im sleeping better, to.

Anywho, on the 6th I weighed 319 (afternoon weight) and 315 (morning weight) and at the gym in clothes i've been at around 315 the last few days after working out, but having eaten in the morning. We'll see what the scale says on Friday, Hmm?

Todays workout: 40 minutes total, 567 calories according to Precor, but divided up because "Fat burner" only goes for 33 minutes. I trust it vs. LiveStrongs "general elliptical 1137/hr" or whatever measurement.

A somewhat momentous occasion

Well, not a lot going on today. Made it to the gym again. Worked out. Felt pretty good.

but the big thing today, at the end of it all, was after. I hit the locker room and was taking off my shoes. This is when I usually stretch a bit, my lower back and leg. Just a sort of hang. Except today I kept going-to the floor, for 15 seconds.

This is a big deal. I havent' been limber or pain free enough to try to do that in a long  LONG time. I could in HS easy, but I was in theater and show choir. I could in college-more theater, and I could in the Army, so let say, after that.....oh, about 8 years.

Happy Birthday to me.

ch ch ch ch changes......

Little changes. I drank 56+ oz of water yesterday. Many of you (all 2's of you, probably) are thinking, Umm.....so?

Well, I should own stock in Pepsi. Seriously (SRSLY?) I can evaporate a 6 pack of 20 oz diet bottles in 2 days...more if im stressed out, or bored. Its like I forget the existence of water. I had 1 Mountain Dew yesterday. I just KNOW there is some green tennis visored guy that looks like my middle school librarian cranking away on a machine in the bowels of Pepsi ™  having a heart attack right now. It IS diet, but one thing I noticed this morning is that I felt a little better than I did yesterday when I woke up. Maybe it was better sleep, maybe my pancreas is thanking me, I don't know. I know that on Saturday mid day I weighed 319 in the afternoon (after the scale debacle), I weighed 315 yesterday, and I weigh 311 today.

Now, I know its probably water, so Im not committing it to being a trend yet, but hey, its downward progress and all I had to do was drink a butt ton of water. I did finally eat last night-some taquitos and 3 small fish fillets, so im not starving. This morning, however, Amigos is also weeping as I have changed my standard 2 breakfast burrito + 1 lg Mt. Dew order for 2 breakfast taquitos and dew. Not a HUGE change, but the two taquitos themselves have 1/2 the junk that that I get out of the two breakfast burritos. 360 calories-ish is a big deal, when you consider that ive been trying to eat around 2000 a day by keeping track at dailyplate.com. (its online DB of foods is really good, and has a lot of FF that I eat. Amigos/Kings isnt in there, but I goaded them into finally giving me what they had for nutritional info on their menu)

That means that by doing nothing else in two days but changing two habits I have (face it, the two breakfast burritos was pretty much autopilot) ive managed to drop 360 calories out of my daily, meaning that that 30-40 minutes I can spare during lunch at Anytime Fitness goes that much further.

TODAY-the elliptical, and a new play list. This should be fun.

More scale woes-scale drift relative to increasing weight

The general rule of scales is, if you don't like what weighed today, just weight until tomorrow. :-)  This morning, just as a whim (and to establish a baseline for me on the 'new' scale. I stepped on it. It weighed me at 319 in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, so, having not eaten last night, slept, done the 'morning stuff', I stepped on the new scale. 319. And the BF monitor wouldn't read. Okay.....step on the old glass scale that read 318 yesterday (a lb difference I can deal with. 313.5. WTH?

Briallen still weighed 54.5 on the glass one, and 57 on the new one. Trevelian weighed 74.5 on the glass one and 78 on the new one.
  
             Briallen    Trevelian
glass       54.5            74.5  
new         57                78
me          313.5            319

Trevelian Drift-3.5
Briallen Drift- 2.5
Me Drift-  5.5

Does anyone out there have any ideas on relative drift based on increasing weight with regards to digital scales?

Incidentally, my old glass scale weighs a gallon of milk at 8 lbs, which, for 3.78 liters, is right on.

*sigh*