Psymonkee is getting thinner....

I've heard good things about him too - thanks for the suggestion!

Typically enough though my knee has stopped hurting and hasn't done anything bad for a while now. Had nearly 2 weeks off work though (holiday! :D) which has probably helped :)
 
So my knee gave way again this morning mere moments after putting my work shoes on - perhaps they are to blame?

Bare foot/socks/trainers for the last week and a half have been no trouble at all! :/
 
As in my knee? Was sore foot about a day after the above problem. Been wearing boots to work and it's only gone once since then. Also had a little tenderness last night waking around town

Just frustrating not being able to know when it'll give way :(
 
Rough past few days what with having a cold and little sleep along with it and eating at random times and breaking what routine I have, horrible!

Also today I ate like the me of old for some odd reason - I knew what I was doing and how bad it was but I still did it anyway.

Easy to see how I put on so much weight though and gives me a bit more motivation/hope going forward!
 
Get back on it now, the longer you leave it the more difficult it gets to get back in the routine.
I know from experience that it's ****ing horrible watching everything you worked so hard for slip away and turn back to a sack of crap because you become comfortable and lose the drive.
 
Not entirely Windle. Been meaning to update for a while but always get distracted by something shiny :p

Fell off the wagon completely in April and went back to my old ways again. Felt awful, struggling to walk, always out of breath, sore back the whole lot. I half halfheartedly had a plan to start again during my summer holiday (end of June/start of July) but realised that would likely clash with things I'd planned. Shelved my plans again.

During that holiday however I managed to completely destroy my last pair of jeans (broke the zip completely bending over to pick something up) and finally vowed to do something about it.

I went back to work on July 10th and felt awful - clothes felt tight and still very unfit. Business as normal really. However at some point then I decided to make a change. Sadly the biggest part of making a change is convincing those around me to help since someone in my house doesn't believe what I'm doing works at all.

For the last 4 weeks (this is now week 5) I have been essentially doing a cyclical ketosis diet based largely off the well known Carb Nite (ugh, typing that seems wrong :p) Solution which is 6.5 days low carb and a refeed in the evening of the remaining half day.

Obviously water weight has gone flying off - no surprises there - but there has been improvement in other areas too. My back pain has eased making walking further a little easier, my clothes feel looser and shirts seem to hang off me better and most importantly my energy levels are way up and I'm sleeping better.

My other big problem is that I tend to rush into things like this wholly unprepared and try to do everything at once which usually leads to failure for me. This time I've been a bit more gradual with my changes:

  • 3 weeks of carb cycling
  • add in rowing (intervals) (week 4)
  • Begin stronglifts from the start (week 5, this week) (alternating with rowing on the off days)/

So far, so good and I'm looking forward to lifting weights this afternoon even if my legs are still sore!

Wish I had more (better things) to report but this'll have to do for now - more work in progress.

Currently I'm 11.5 weeks out from my next holiday from work (retail, checkouts - little moving during the day :( ) so I shall really asses things again at that point and see how it's going.

Bit of a chunky update but that's where I'm at for now :)
 
Aaaand Stronglifts week 1, workout 2 done. Feels a bit embarrassing to be back here on such light weights but I know it's the right way to go about this after such a long period of inactivity!

Squats 22.5kg, 5x5
OHP 20kg, 5x5
Deadlifts 40kg, 5x5 (bar was far too low, need to prop it up higher next time!)
 
Main thing is you're back onto a plan mate, a wee blip can be overlooked ;)

Keep at it, have you set yourself some targets/goals to work to? Target weight, waist size etc? Might help if you publish it and keep updating out, putting things out into the public domain might help give you a little boost to keep at it.
 
Monday and Today's weights successfully completed :)

Monday was Squats/OHP/Deads @ 27.5/22.5/45

Today was Squats/Bench/BOR's @ 30/25/25

Didn't do my token amount of cardio last night because I was rather tired (bad night) and also it's cardio so boring!

That said I've been doing rowing (machine) and setup a warmup/Intervals (20, 1min rest)/cool down - what's the logical progression here? Increase the interval time? Decrease the rest? Both? Forget cardio altogether? :)
 
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