Mar 24.

What a whirlwind.

Took a week off for period time. There is no sense in tracking weight during that time. It futile and frustrating.

Weight is stuck at 130, despite frequent exercise and pretty damn clean eating.

A couple impacting factors:

NEED MORE WATER

NEED MORE SLEEP

Seriously. These two pieces are huge. I can control the water, and some days are much better than others. But SLEEP. UGH. Two small kids + child's medical issues = 6/7 interrupted nights of sleep per week. Seriously interrupted.

Lack of sleep = fatigue = sluggish energy = minimal eating = slower metabolism, etc. It's a vicious cycle. And totally outside my control.

So, I have to dig deeper to shake these last five pounds and make more muscle. Half-way photos are in 9 days. I need to be at 129 steady by Apr 1.

Changes:

WATER (64oz per day)
No booze for the next three nights
Limit drinks to two for Fri (Ringside date night); one for Sat (bday); one for Sun (more bday); NONE next Mon, Tues.
Make sure that meals are tried-and-true equation: protein + healthy fat + veggies

Mar. 9

Weight was down to 129.8.

Then the weekend happened and it's back up to 130.2. Not bad at all for a night at the Timbers game, complete with beers and sausages, and a family dinner with ample potato salad, steak, and wine.

Today:

Vitamins
Coconut milk latte
Protein bar
Banana

Nuts
Dried fruit

Meat
Salad
Avocado

Grapefruit

Chicken stiryfry
Two glasses red wine

It was a workday today, so little movement. But the weekend was full of exercise. Back to strength bursts and walking tomorrow.

Mar. 4

Weight: 130.2. Back in action.

Yesterday:

Vitamins
Coffee
Protein bar
Banana

Two slices lunch meat

Eggs
Carrots
Grapefruit
Hummus

Almonds

Chicken stir fry over cauliflower "rice"
One glass red wine

11,000 steps. Day was busy and active. No strength training, though. So today I will complete 30 push-ups, 50 crunches and 2 planks before bed. I would like to do more, but I finally got my kids' cold, so this is a reasonable goal for the day.

Mar 3.

Weight: 131.4

Yesterday:

Coffee
Vitamins
Eggs, spinach, sausage, olive oil
1/2 grapefruit

Protein bar
Banana

Nuts
Small serving dried fruit
Sweet potatoes with coconut oil
Carrots

Two slices lunch meat

Chicken and veggie stirfry
1.5 glasses red wine

Decent amount of water

Still need to up the water.  Also, I'm stuck around this 131lb point.  I'm going to cut out the coconut milk lattes for a while (I only have about 2-3/week, but that's still a decent amount of sugar).

Overall, diet is pretty solid (paleo-based) most days.  It's the regular exercise that's the killer.  Days off work - lots of activity and movement.  Days at work - next to none.  Need to balance that out.

Started at 134 and change.  Goal is 125 by June 1.  Half way point is Apr 1.  So I'd like to be down to 129 steady by Apr 1.  Shouldn't be a problem.

Life got bananas so I stalled on the blogging.  Sure enough, stalled on the progress.  As Steve and Tim Ferriss say, "What gets measured, gets managed."