Farrell's update, weigh in, weekend, bodymedia.

So I did something this morning that I probably should not have done. I mentioned last week I was still debating on if I was going to weigh in or not each week. Well I stepped on the scale yesterday morning and just stared unbelievingly at the stupid scale. I have since decided I’m just going to ignore the fact that it says I have gained 5 lbs. That’s right people. Yesterday morning I weighed in at 262. Seeing the 260’s again is somewhat heartbreaking for me, but I was warned this may happen. The semi-funny part is Jer gained exactly 5 lbs too. My BodyMedia says I should have lost about 3 lbs. I mean I really busted it out. I had absolutely no fast food last week. I stuck to the diet as best I could (meaning I was low on carbs part of the time and over on protein, but neither by a significant amount).

SO after contemplating throwing a fit and breaking the scale I decided to approach the situation much more calmly and go over the facts. I gave up soda. That means I gave up a diuretic… even though I can’t freaking tell because I have to pee every half an hour anyway because I’ve been a thirsty girl and going through somewhere in the neighborhood of 90-160 oz of water each day. So.. then there’s that fact. I’ve been thirsty due to all the sweating and have been guzzling what feels like an obscene amount of water. BUT since I’m thirsty I must need it + the odds of water hurting me are pretty darn low. In addition I’ve been doing something I admit I haven’t been doing NEARLY enough of the last couple of months, and that’s str training. In fact I would say the str training I’ve done recently has probably been more intense and more all body inclusive than anything I’ve possibly ever done. This means that there is probably a lot of water retention right now just trying to repair all the good damage I’ve been doing to myself recently. Muscle does weigh more than fat… but let’s call it a hunch and say I didn’t gain 5 lbs of muscle in a week. I DID use my cheat day… and it was (beyond breakfast) totally a cheat day. This is something I’m okay with. I also burned 3300 calories on my cheat day… which means, from what I calculated, I broke about even for that day in calories. Since I weighed in after that day of a WHOLE lot of sodium that “could” affect it too.

So I’m just taking my weight down for tracking purposes, putting a note on it stating started farrell’s, and I’m going to move on and continue with the nutrition program they recommend and work under the assumption that all of the above is contributing to a rather large gain even though I really did do about everything I possibly could last week. Sore & tired were really the theme of the week. The other reason I don’t think it’s the nutrition is because my calories aren’t out of line. When I’m on point with what Farrell’s wants me to eat I’m eating somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,800 – 2,000 calories and burning at least 3,000. In other words, I’m nowhere near out of line for what I’m eating, and everything has been calculated, measured, etc. So I know I’m not drastically off on the amount of calories I’m consuming.

Today I don’t hurt as much, I think all the water and glutamine really helped with that. We also took Sunday completely off for exercise. As in for the most part we played video games, cuddled, and watched anime. It was actually a nice relaxing day. I had wanted to go to the zoo, but in the end even though it was a gorgeous day it was decided that the hills and workout on Saturday were enough that we were really okay just waiting for another weekend. You know.. maybe next Saturday in which I don’t spend 2.5 hours sweating my butt and feel like I’m going to collapse afterward.

Also Saturday was interesting. I went to the techniques class directly after my strength training class. Class went from 8 – 8:50 a.m. and techniques class went from 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. So what I was expecting from techniques class was slow, precision, going over all the form, etc. Nothing fast, nothing resembling a hard cardio workout. Go ahead and start laughing at my niativity now, you know you want too.

Yeah…. What it ended up being was str training that is difficult and has enough movement that I was sweating my butt off. I had enough time in between my class and the techniques class to go grab my wraps and gloves and put the wraps on. Then they went over some of the techniques slowly at first… but somewhere shortly after it started I was sweating like a maniac and it was felt like a 1.5 hour cardio class. My shirt was completely soaked. When she would briefly stop us to show us another move the ONLY thing I wanted to do was sit or fall down. I considered it seriously a few times toward the end when she was going faster because the class was running longer than expected. I burned 1,500 calories in 2.5 hours. I’m half convinced my bodymedia shorted out at some point and that # is wrong too. Because I was moving and my graph shows me as moving from 7:30 a.m. (the alarm didn’t go off so the fact that I made it to class was pretty amazing) when we started rushing around to get ready until 11:00 when I got home took a shower and went to grab some lunch. I lost a piece of my armband where the computer connector sits, so I’m concerned that it didn’t calculate everything completely accurately. It says I only did 1:28 hour’s of working out, but the graph right above it clearly shows that I was active much more than 1 hour and 28 minutes. The good news is I have another armband ordered, and I found the missing piece this morning. I’m really hoping I didn’t screw up my BodyMedia though. .. that would really suck.