Day 224 - Memorial Day

Well I can't believe it's already Memorial Day weekend. This Beach Body Shred has gone so fast and I did not make nearly the progress I had envisioned for myself. I'll have the final numbers tomorrow, but I wanted just to put up a quick post to say congrats to all my fellow shredders and the rest of the NY4 for finishing our latest mission in daily accountability. You are all my inspiration and example to aspire to. I want to do more soon, but have not yet decided what the timeline will be for next time. For now, I'll just say good night and that I'll be back tomorrow with more details on my final results from the BBS. See ya!
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Update: Here's my final pics:

Shredder Council 2.0 Accountability (Day 28)

Day 223 - Down to the wire

Day 222 - Pics Only

Day 221 - Not much

Nothing new to report, a lot of work to do today so haven't been able to edit my pics yet - they'll be up later. Sore today from the running yesterday but still glad I did it. I might do more this weekend, the weather is finally supposed to be nice. Nutrition was a weird today - my timing was off because I slept late and I had half a donut in the afternoon but still didn't go over on carbs because I had pretty much no others besides that and the nutrition info said 16g in half so I'm good. Thanks for all the well wishes for Gram, I hope to have some good news soon.

DAY 53 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	none	1
Meal #2?	12p - chicken & spinach	1
Meal #3?	2p - "free" snack	1
Meal #4?	6p - hamburger	1
Meal #5?	9p - nuts	1
Meal #6?	11p - Atkins bar	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	0
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	Jujitsu	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	?? of 636
	Compliance:	??%

Day 220 - Momentum building but tough news

If you look at my log, I know my meals look weird today but I do take advantage of being on low carb and have some higher fat things sometimes. I never see adverse effects from it, so if I can't have other things I am craving with carbs, I at least let myself have some interesting proteins. Today I took Jedi to the big park about 15 min away from my house and we jogged/walked our way around the path there. It is 2.5 mi long and I would jog for .2 mi, the walk for .1, and so on pretty much all the way around. It took about 30 min. I know that's not that impressive but if you know me, you know that I am in no way a runner so jogging is about all I do and I was working hard enough to work up a sweat and give myself a blister so I think that was good for me. I wanted to do some outdoor cardio to start working on my endurance. I don't have machines at my house and jogging in place just doesn't cut it. So we'll see how often I put that in my routine, but Jedi loved it. He's a runnin' pup, that's for sure. Of course, he pretty much slept the rest of the day so I guess I tired him out. :) And my abs were actually a little sore today from Jujitsu last night, which is rare because it takes a lot to work my abs these days. So I was excited about that, need to do that new exercise more. On the "what am I doing with my life" front, things are generally starting to look up. I'll tell all of you about it some day when I figure it out myself. A lot still to work out on that.
The big thing today is that we got some bad news about Jeff's grandmother - she's been in the hospital upstate (NY) since October and just keeps having complication after complication, and she decided yesterday that she didn't want any more treatment and wants to be "DNR", meaning if something else happens to not bring her back this time. She's on a ventilator so it's only a matter of time before she begins to really deteriorate and we lose her. Probably a few weeks, or a month. So that's tough, I don't really know how to feel about that because right now, nothing has changed, you know, it's just the idea that she will probably not make it out of the hospital. She has given up, she's tired of fighting. So I'll pray for a miracle. I'll ask those of you who believe in them to do so as well if you would. I appreciate it. Talk to you tomorrow.

DAY 52 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	11a - eggs & bacon	1
Meal #3?	2p - chicken on salad	1
Meal #4?	5p - hot dogs	1
Meal #5?	7p - nuts	1
Meal #6?	9p - Atkins bar	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	jog/walk 2.5 mi	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	?? of 624
	Compliance:	??%

Day 219 - It's coming together

Well I didn't get in a regular workout today but I did have a pretty good Jujitsu class tonight so I'm counting that. I have been on virtually no carbs starting yesterday and plan to continue that until the end of the week just to try to burn off those last few pounds that have been hanging on. Low carb seems to work well for me in the short term so we'll see - hopefully I'll see the results as long as I do enough exercise this week. I know it's kind of like cramming for a test, but I really want to show results this week so that I'll be okay with taking some time off after this mission. I haven't decided if I'll do that or not but it's looking like I will just schedule-wise. On that front, though, I do have some things in the works to both free up my time and make more efficient use of my time so I am excited to see how that works because I feel like I have been running around in circles lately when it comes to my work. Hopefully this new approach will help me out and then I'll be more confident about going on a new mission. I do have my tournament on July 12 so it's not like I can really "take off" but probably switch things up to more of an endurance program rather than fat loss. I'll have to check on how to do that exactly, I have done nothing but try to lose fat all my life so I don't really have any data on endurance. Funny. I still haven't decided what I am going to do about my cumulative chart number but here's today's. I'll have to put up my pics tomorrow morning, I am too tired to edit them right now, but they'll be there!

DAY 51 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - coffee	1
Meal #2?	11a - hamburger & salad	1
Meal #3?	2p - cheese	1
Meal #4?	5p - chicken & green beans	1
Meal #5?	9p - sugar free jello	1
Meal #6?	none	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	Jujitsu	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	?? of 612
	Compliance:	??%

Day 218 - Questions questions

Hey everybody - sorry I haven't been around lately, just posting pics and all, I don't really know how to explain what has been going on but some things are changing and I just haven't been able to really put any time into blogging and such lately. The last few days have also been pretty bad as far as nutrition and exercise. I got back on the wagon as far as nutrition goes today but not exercise, I hope to accomplish that tomorrow. I did get two comments from family members in the past few days about my arms looking good so that's positive still, I guess. It is important to me to finish out this last week strongly but I just have a lot of things vying for my attention so it is difficult to really concentrate. I want to thank all of you who have been checking in on me. I have been checking up on your blogs when I have a few spare minutes but have not left comments, sorry about that, I just haven't felt very "commenty" lately. So maybe I'll remedy that tomorrow, too. As far as my accountability log goes, it is obviously out the window the last few days so I don't really know what to do about that. I don't want to give up on it so close to the goal, but I don't really know how to score the cumulative stuff since it was so out of whack. I'll have to come up with a good compromise I guess. For now I'll put up my score for today and leave out the cumulative part. I also want to update my last few posts with time machine pics but don't have time for that now, so I'll just do my regular pics for today and I'll have to call it a night. Again I apologize for being such a poor role model for the shredders out there, but I can't really explain what has been going on with me. I'm too young for a mid-life crisis, and it's not even what I would call a crisis anyway, but I can't think of an accurate description. But I can say I am very much out of focus so I want to get that back and that's my number one goal right now - in many areas of my life. So pray for me on that and I'll be back soon. Thanks again all.

DAY 50 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	11a - spinach omelet	1
Meal #3?	2p - chicken & salad	1
Meal #4?	4p - almonds	1
Meal #5?	6p - lean hamburgers	1
Meal #6?	9p - Atkins bar	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	none	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	?? of 600
	Compliance:	??%