Dec 17, 2008

Diet was mediocre today… well it was down right terrible by Zone standards. Breakfast: 2 eggs, some chicken, some spam (mmm) and a slice of toast.

Lunch: Sante Fe Chicken salad @ Earls (extra chicken + avocado). In the future I gotta order this with just extra avocado, twice the chicken too much.

Dinner, some beef stew that dad made. Good! I also rotisseried a chicken with the new counter top oven. Oh it came out awesome. Tastier and jucier than chickens from Safeway. I gotta wait for there to be a sale on chickens and roast some more. This weekend I’m planning to roast a lamb leg… I’m drooling already.

I ate a few cookies and a peanut butter chocolate ball. Janet our neighbor was also baking up a storm of sweets for X-Mas. Pretty good, a little too sweet for my likes. But still tasty. I’m trying to have self-control! I really am! *not*

No Crossfit today. Tomorrow there’s quite a work out.

Dec 16, 2008 – Nasty Girls

Diet was ok today. I ate an ok breakfast. 2 eggs, some cheese and the last of wraps. Lunch was a simple omelet. Two eggs, 1/2 an avocado and some seeded, chopped tomatoes. Dinner after Crossfit was a chicken and some fruit. I was way too lazy to cook. Today’s Safeway chicken was good.

Work out:

Nasty Girls – 21:51 (terrible time).

I couldn’t do the muscle ups, so I subbed for pull ups / ring dips instead. So it worked out to 3 rounds of:

• 50 squat
• 21 pull ups, 21 ring dips
• 135lb hang power cleans

Fell off the Wagon… and it ran over me.

After coming back from vacation and dealing with a rush of work, it was easy to fall off the wagon. At least I’m done all of those damn burpees now. Lately I feel like all I’ve really been doing is making excuses about not sticking to things.

However, health and fitness is a renewable resource and tomorrow is another day. It is amazingly easy to get off track and here are my reasons and things to watch out for:

1. Keep a rhythm. Going away for 2 weeks, having nothing really to eat except for rice, noodles and other yummy foods really affected my good eating.
2. Stick to a plan. I stopped planning out my meals and I haven’t really measured anything.
3. Be vigilant. I’ve gotten complacent.

Well time to get back on the wagon.  I have to admit that I fear quitting Crossfit, about slowly letting motivation and ambition die out. I gotta remember rule #3, complacency is such a danger.

I feel a mixture of disappointment and despair at how bad things have gotten. Anyways, enough of the sob story… this is how to get back on the wagon and get back into shape.

1. Eating plan. Zone works, I hate all the measuring but it works. The biggest challenge is to making sure to have the right foods convenient. I still need to develop a system that works.
2. Crossfit, and fitness. I realize where my weak points are, well pretty much everywhere. I need to go more, however, I want to focus on strength and skills.

When I did my strength progressions (pavels) and went 4 days a week I saw so much improvement. It was measureable. When I stopped going 4 days a week, stopped doing Pavels things dropped off sharply. My trainer was definitely right about “getting laid” is affecting my Crossfit attendance.

Anyways this is a just a back into it blog post. I’ll be blogging more about my progression. On a bright side, at least getting back into it, or the journey, gives me stuff to blog about.