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Post by seltzer on Aug 7, 2020 19:54:53 GMT
Some good eats are on your way!
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Post by M@ on Aug 9, 2020 16:35:05 GMT
Some good eats are on your way! Indeed! Everything came out perfectly and was delicious. Weight: 301.3 lbsSaturday came and went without any alcohol consumption or urges/withdrawal. I just finished my upper body hypertrophy workout and I'm soaked with sweat. Sara's going for a bike ride with her sister this afternoon, so I'm going to attach the bike rack to the car for her and drain the kiddie pool before I go up and get a shower. I'm currently nursing my protein shake and posting this while I try to get to a point where I'm not sweating. My father in law has gotten a burr under his saddle to sell their house in Falls Church, VA and move out here to Loudoun to be closer to the kids. He's also getting sick of the maintenance required on a freestanding single family home. Last week they were looking at single family homes in our neighborhood. Now they seem to have decided to get a place in the 55+ community where my parents live. One of the stated reasons for the move to that complex, particularly, is so that they could help out with my dad and his dementia. Have I mentioned how much I love my in-laws? I definitely married up.
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Post by M@ on Aug 10, 2020 17:17:15 GMT
Weight: 300.6 lbsI ordered a pair of shin guards to keep the leg extension machine from hurting my shins too much. They arrived yesterday. I just used them and they work like a champ. I should be able to really load up the machine now for those lower-body power days. I also ordered a Nintendo Switch a couple of days ago. I've been trying to buy one since March, but they've all been bought up by scalpers who then try to turn them around for a 50-200% markup. Nintendo has had fulfillment issues because of the pandemic, but it seems like those are getting sorted out. I was finally able to purchase a console through Amazon Services, LLC for retail price ($299) on Thursday. It had a delivery date of September 25, 2020, but I'd been trying for so long that I figured I should just jump on it now. Turns out the thing will be arriving today. I'm wondering if some scalper cancelled their order and I was high enough on the waiting list to get mine early. The Switch console is for the kids. There aren't really any games I'm eager to play on it, but they love watching Mario Party videos, so I'm hoping they'll enjoy playing the games for real. Sara loves Nintendo, too, so she should have some fun with it. I just watched this interview with Johnny Marr and all I really want to do now for fun is to practice and play my guitar. Marr has always been my favorite guitarist. It kills me that he doesn't seem to realize he's one of the few living guitar gods. He seems to have the mindset of a poor Irish kid from Manchester who's just eager to play. I saw an interview with him where he was talking about being nervous about trying out for Modest Mouse. Modest Mouse! The heart and soul of The Smiths and #51 on Rolling Stone's Top 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time was nervous about getting into Modest Mouse. That is an ego-free individual.
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Post by M@ on Aug 11, 2020 21:50:58 GMT
Weight: 303.7 lbsI took the afternoon off and played a round of golf at my local muni. Shot an 86 while falling apart on the last three holes 'cause I was exhausted and hot. I played with a couple of black guys who could hit the ball a mile (they played from the blue/farthest back tees while I played from the whites) but we scored about the same otherwise. It was a really good day. The older of the two guys, Kim, told me to cut down a spare set of clubs in my basement for Alexander and take him out on the course with me. Right now, while they're giving everybody an individual buggy, is a great time to take a kid out on the course with you. I've got at least three full sets of clubs in the basement, so I may make that a project. No weight training today. It's my one off day and I look forward to it because I grow. Every bodypart that I worked last week is sore and the rest is welcome.
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Post by M@ on Aug 12, 2020 21:51:30 GMT
Weight: 301.3 lbs
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso
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Post by seltzer on Aug 12, 2020 23:03:25 GMT
I don't golf, but know enough that 86 is darn good. :thumbsup!:
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Post by M@ on Aug 14, 2020 22:27:59 GMT
I don't golf, but know enough that 86 is darn good. :thumbsup!: I’m very happy with the round. I’m not playing anywhere near as well as I did last year, but I’m not playing or practicing anywhere near as frequently so this will likely be a lost year as far as any significant progress goes. However, I’ll get to focus on other things (e.g. Guitar) in the time not spent golfing. Weight: 304.1I managed to get through all of the lower-body power exercises today. It’s the first time I’ve done those in at least a month without having to cut something short or skip it because of pain. Sara is fed up with the kids and bored so I’m going to watch them myself tonight and she’s going to get out of the house for a while. I wish there were more places she could go, but I think the key thing is some personal time. I’ve ordered pizza and am going to install our new Nintendo Switch.
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Post by M@ on Aug 16, 2020 17:13:22 GMT
Weight: 302.8 lbs
Yesterday marked a week without any kind of alcohol and I felt like shit for most of the day. It's far enough out that there shouldn't have been any physical withdrawal symptoms, so it was either purely psychological or there's some other shit going on in my head that I've been using beer to medicate. Either way, I got through the day without being an asshole to anybody and got to sleep early. Today has been going great after 9.2 hours of solid sleep. Our beach vacation is still on as of this moment. We're going down to Rehoboth on Labor Day weekend, which seemed like a fun idea last year but seems to be skeeving everybody out now. It'll just be the beach house with family, some golf for me and my brothers in-law, and the beach itself with the kids. The shopping, Funland, Greene Turtle, and restaurants will have to be skipped this year (though we're going to get takeout a bunch, I'm sure). Vacation will, unfortunately, coincide with my next round of TRT. I'm going to try to get it done the week before so that I can recover (i.e. no exercise for a week so that the incision can heal) before the trip. I just finished my upper body hypertrophy workout and I'm gassed. It used to be my favorite workout. Now I dread it slightly. That's what I get for getting bigger and stronger. Speaking of which, I'm surprised there has been no scale weight change. I've cut about 2100 calories per day out of my diet this past week. My blood pressure is also still high (142/97). I'm expecting these things to start dropping this week and plan to start a regular meal plan next Sunday.
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Post by M@ on Aug 17, 2020 22:35:06 GMT
Weight: 300.3 lbs
There might be a correlation between bitching about lack of progress and seeing it the next day. I looked and felt a lot leaner today, or at least not so bloated. My traps and pecs are extremely sore and, as usual, I'm looking forward to my day off of weight training tomorrow.
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Post by M@ on Aug 19, 2020 16:27:13 GMT
Weight: 299.9 lbs
Woohoo! It's a relief to have finally cracked the 300 lb barrier. Hopefully, that's the last I'll see of it, though I know that this isn't a straight-line process. I'm still waiting for that big water weight drop in the realm of 5-7 lbs over a couple of days that always seems to coincide with shunning beer. It hasn't happened yet, however, I haven't had any gout flare-ups either. Ordinarily, I'd be feeling one by now.
I've scheduled my TRT implant for next Tuesday 8/25/2020. That'll put me on the bench for a week, then we go to Rehoboth on the 9/5/2020 so it's looking like it'll be almost four weeks without weight training. I'm still going to exercise every day. I need to put a bodyweight routine together.
One of my goals is to be sub-250 lbs by New Year's Day. I need to put together a spreadsheet on what that entails. I have 18 weeks to get it done and, at my current obesity, a ~3lb/week loss is still safe, so it's possible, but it's going to be tight.
Edit: Spreadsheet says that losing 1% per week will put me at 247.8 lbs on 12/30/2020. Let's fucking go.
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Post by seltzer on Aug 19, 2020 17:32:41 GMT
Congrats on the 2xx.x and kick butt getting to your New Year's goal!
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Post by M@ on Aug 20, 2020 22:07:14 GMT
Congrats on the 2xx.x and kick butt getting to your New Year's goal! Thanks! Even better today! Weight: 297.0 lbsNow there’s more like the drop I was looking for. I’m guessing it’ll level off around 295 and I’ll start losing for real from there. I tweaked my left knee doing bent over rows today. It feels OK now but I couldn’t put weight on it for about half an hour earlier. I’m going to baby it. Looks like I may basically be going a month without weight training, but I’m not risking my vacation (including golf, biking, and beach time) for the sake of an extra day or two in the weight room.
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Post by macdiver on Aug 20, 2020 23:15:29 GMT
297! Heading in the right direction. I'm sure you will nail your end of year goal. Based on a starting wieght from a few days ago that is roughly 16%. Very doable.
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Post by M@ on Aug 21, 2020 18:24:30 GMT
297! Heading in the right direction. I'm sure you will nail your end of year goal. Based on a starting wieght from a few days ago that is roughly 16%. Very doable. Indeed! It feels like an excellent goal: Achievable and challenging. I'm also counting on another couple of pounds of water weight drop in the early part of the effort. Weight: 296.7 lbsStill moving in the right direction. My knee feels OK, but since the menu for the day was heavy squats and heavy deads, I decided to skip the weight training and went to the range instead. It was a good session and it felt good to be out in the sunlight. I haven't left the house much in the past couple of days. I'm taking the kids over to my parent's condo tonight for a visit. It's partially to gratify my folks and the kids with a visit and partially to get me out of the house and doing something while Sara attends a Zoom happy hour with all of our friends from DC. I'm not feeling any alcohol cravings at all, but there's no need to make things any harder by trying to socialize with a bunch of people who are drinking while I'm not.
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Post by M@ on Aug 22, 2020 20:24:15 GMT
Weight: 296.3 lbs
I thought that my edema problems were behind me, but my hands and feet really swelled up while I was exercising (treadmill walk) today. I took a diuretic - the first one I've taken in over a month - and am dealing with the anxiety it produces. I may be in for a more significant weight drop since it's obvious that I'm still retaining a lot of water.
Haven't had an alcoholic drink in two weeks and it feels good. I'm craving right now because of the diuretic but it'll pass.
Two weeks from right now I should be rolling into Rehoboth beach in a car packed with clothes, sheets, golf clubs, etc. Everyone in the house is getting psyched.
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