Hey thanks!

I'm kind of excited to work my way through the program. It's one of those things that's really popular in my extended circle. I know I could just diet off the weight if I wanted to, but then I'd just be skinny, not really healthier.

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Plyo take #2

Ramped it up a little bit more this time through. Was absolutely shot by the 1 legged front, back, side to side things. Kept pushing through anyhow.

Breakfast (missed had to hit the road early)
Snack: 50 calorie String Cheese
Lunch: 250 calorie Tuna Wrap with a slice of colby jack cheese
Snack: 90 calorie Orange
Snack: 200 calorie Protein Bar
Snack: 140 calorie bag o'junk
Dinner: 1000 calorie Two small (4-6ish oz) chicken breasts, some corn, a 1/2ish cup of pasta with sauce.

1730 calories total to this point in the day, leaves me a little room for some Oatmeal or another string cheese. It's amazing how many calories you save daily when you cut out the 4 cans of Coke everyday. I haven't had a drop of Coke in 3 or 4 days now. Coffee (black) until noon, and switch to straight water.

Was at a place with TONS of free pizza all day today. Avoided the temptation but caved about 4 o'clock and grabbed a small bag of chips. Love the logging on here, love the accountability factor that it adds.

Idk if you're using the worksheets, I def recommend that you do fwiw, but if you're looking for accountability/lol ~90 days from now posting rep couts/weight used on here sounds amazing if you have the time.

I remember being able to do like 15 standard push-ups on my knees first time though chest and back back in the day, it's just funny to look back after all this time and see what you were at.

Logging food now because I just spent the time figuring out portions/total meal values/etc for the dinner the Mrs. had prepared.

Breakfast (missed had to hit the road early)
Snack: 50 calorie String Cheese
Lunch: 250 calorie Tuna Wrap with a slice of colby jack cheese
Snack: 90 calorie Orange
Snack: 200 calorie Protein Bar
Dinner: 1000 calories of scrambled eggs, pork sausage, green peppers, onions, and a little cheese sprinkled on. My god was it delicious. Probably ate more than I should have, but the chance to load up on low carb, high protein stuff was too inviting to not go back for a little more.

Still, I'm well under my 2000 calorie goal for the day, so no biggie. And I'm stuffed to the gills. It's amazing how full you feel when you fill up on something other than pasta.

I think I'm gonna print the rep counts out and start recording them, even if I don't post them all until the end

At first I really didn't see any value in them, now that I'm two trips in to chest and back, I can already feel some differences, and my reps are much better (form wise and count wise), even if I can't go 30 at a shot.

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V up/Roll up sucks nuts.

Really like the arm/shoulder day. Been using bands, but might actually buy some real iron here in the next couple days.

Always found the exact exercise that I hated the most I needed the most.

Mainly two angle shoulder flys. Hate that ****.

Did a little quick grocery in/out today.

Spaghetti squash
Tuna
Protein Bars

I'm pretty sure the old lady running the register looked at me and muttered "DYEL" in disgust.

Food log then it's Yoga X (after the kids go to bed, the Mrs. wants to Yoga it up with me tonight. Might even let her stand in front of me so I can watch)

Breakfast: 100 calorie Plain oatmeal dab of honey
Snack: 50 calorie String Cheese
Lunch: 250 calorie Tuna Wrap with a slice of colby jack cheese
Snack: 90 calorie Orange
Snack: 200 calorie Protein Bar
Dinner: 1100 calories Chicken with Bacon and cheese Ravioli's.

Week 1 loved Yoga, got a great burn, covered in sweat, etc.

Week 2 Yoga can suck my nuts and I wish I would have hit the treadmill or lifted.

Variance is a bitch. I guess they can't all be great workouts. Just couldn't get a good groove going or get into it tonight.

Breakfast: 200 calorie 2 eggs scrambled
Lunch: 250 Tuna wrap
Snack: 50 String Cheese
Snack: 90 Orange
Snack: 200 Protein Bar
Dinner: 850ish Top Sirloin Steak, Spaghetti Squash, Cauliflower

Legs and back + Ab Ripper done.

Tomorrow is my favorite calorie burner, Kenpo

Might treat myself to either a little junk tonight.

Last weeks post workout weight 175.20
Post workout weight current 174.00
gain/loss = 1.20

I might up the calorie load slightly if I continue to drop at over a pound a week, but I don't think so. More than likely I'll stick to a 2000 calorie cap, and try to be under that # when I log post workout, so I have room if I grab a few peanuts/another string cheese/Coke (haven't had one in over a week at this point)/beer at night.

Good progress at a sustainable rate of weight loss - if it ain't broken don't fix it?

Yeah, my very first weight log was 183.60 on 1/7, and I know I was heavier than that before I actually bothered to record the weight. I've slowed down a bit since I switched to p90x from straight up attacking our treadmills on a nightly basis. That said, I'm not in the range that I actually want to be in for loss per week. I can hit the treadmill nightly and crash 2-3 pounds a week pretty easy, but what fun is that?

Did a stripped weight this morning (all my other weights are with my heavy workout close on, sweats/hoodie) and smiled at 169.60.

Food log for the day

Breakfast: 175 cal Frosted Lucky Charm are Magically delicious! (with 2% milk measured both to make sure my portions were correct)
Lunch: 300 cal 2 eggs slice of dry wheat toast
Snack: 90 cal Orange
Dinner 1050 cal 10 oz prime rib w/side salad (ranch dressing), no veggies, gave the mashed potatoes to the daughter
Snack 190 cal single serve Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream

Kenpo X today finished out my 2nd week of P90x. Had a great burn working right up until the 45ish minute mark when I answered the question of how many 3 year old's I could take out.

The boy caught a back kick during the Front/Side/Back set. Lucky for him, I was dogging it on rep 24 with my off leg and throw back kicks pretty wimpy. Looked back when I threw it just in time to watch the ball of foot connect with his face just under the left eye.

Had to pause the dvd, get him to shake it off, and then get restarted. He's a pretty tough little dude that has to do whatever dad's doing including working out, and we were pretending that we were Ninjago's (the lego ninja's, he's obsessed with them and Ninja Turtles) at the time. So we had to go through the "occasionally Ninja's get knocked down, and when they do, they get up, shake it off, and go right back to work" routine.

The rare moment I was glad that I was dogging it, if he had caught kick 1 it would have been terrible. Kick 24, I'm hitting with a feather duster.

Sunday Rest Day

Breakfast: 400 cal Scrambled Eggs with bacon/green pepper/onion mixed in
Lunch: 350 cal Salad
Dinner: 700 cal Chicken Corn Chowder with 1 biscuit
Snack: 50 cal popcorn (100 cal snack pack split with the wife)

Today
Breakfast: Missed typical Monday
Snack: 50 cal string cheese
Lunch: 300 cal Corn Chowder
Snack: 90 cal Orange
Snack: 200 cal Protein Bar
Dinner: 350 cal Salad

Great workout tonight with the first video and Ab Ripper X. Slowly working my way up in push up reps. Hate the diamond push ups with a passion. Hate the V-up roll ups.

Helps to get an incredible phone call during the day. I've got a house project/rental that the adjacent neighbor wanted to buy last fall. The deal went dead and I didn't think anything of it. Phone beeps that I have a voice mail when I came out of building, check the v/mail and it's neighbor, has CASH and wants to close ASAP.

Who said Mondays suck

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You ever try stretch x?

I always take the day off too, but stretch x isn't a day off imo, it's hardish.

I've watched the wife do it a few times, but never tried it myself. It looks like quite the workout for those of us that don't workout.

Pretty sure that was the video that I captured this pic during



Obviously not the most flattering, but damn, now that I've managed to get in to this position a couple times, I respect the **** out of anyone that can do this.



I think I'm gonna add a little jogging or something like that on Sundays. I'm to the point now that when I take a day completely off, I kinda feel guilty.

Breakfast: Nope
Snack: 50 String Cheese
Lunch: 250 Tuna wrap
Snack: 90 Orange
Snack: 200 Protein Bar
Dinner: 750ish Chicken with Red/Yellow Bell Peppers and Onions

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...l-Peppers-1556

No wine, added onions. Ate just under what I would estimate half of the pan. This stuff was DELICIOUS.

Plyo X done. I could actually jump on my one foot for about 20 seconds where you make the X. My first rotation through I couldn't hardly do anything by the time I hit this point. My legs were already toast.

Its not many calories - I'd be starving hungry after that I think.

It's not that bad. Just stay busy all day, workout after dinner, then hit the sack about 10:30 when the urge to munch kicks in.

So looking forward to when you get to do core synergistics.

LKCP, I do that with 10s and it kills...

I'm not

I've been reading up on it, sounds like those, and the movement after are BRUTAL.

Breakfast: Skipped
Snack: 90 cal String Cheese (colby jack stick, excellent)
Lunch: 250 cal Tuna wrap
Snack: 200 cal Protein bar
Dinner: 1350 cal Jambalaya (I think I'm super high on this number, but still it keeps me at a 2000 cal number for the day so oh well)

Daddy/Daughter Dance tonight with my 7 year old. Picture 100 dad's standing around, while 100 elementary school age girls run around a scream.

Then came home and did my video. Overall went very well. First time through with real iron versus bands. Much better burn.

Breakfast: 225 cal 2 eggs
Lunch: 250 cal Tuna wrap
Snack: 200 cal Protein Bar
Snack: 90 cal Orange
Dinner: 700 cal Walleye fillet (320), 1 dinner roll (150), green beans (30), side salad dash of italian (100), small side of rice pilaf(100).

Yoga earlier today. Nothing fun and exciting today. I hate Yoga and hope it dies in a grease fire.

Yeah, I basically give up after those things, they are horrible. But if you want to work like 100% of everything except chest they are great.

Just read through the log. Good one! You may start getting really tempted to skip days soon. Don't.

Great work on the diet transformation. Your initial diet plan sucked, but you figured that out quickly.

Once you've gotten through this, maybe consider a workout program that isn't so difficult to comply with (lots of people begin P90-X, few complete it). P-90X got me good flexibility, and a good base, but doing it every day for the rest of your life (with diminishing returns) is way, way harder than Starting Strength.

Breakfast: 400ish Calories Scrambled Eggs with Pork Sausage, peppers and onions (wifey treated me this morning)
Snack: 50 cal String Cheese
Lunch: 250 cal Tuna Wrap
Snack: 200 cal Protein Bar
Dinner: 1500 cal Dinner out with the Mrs., and I engorged myself. Soft Pretzel appetizer, Side Salad with Italian, Smothered Chicken (looked to be about a 4-6oz breast with veggies and cheese), and about a 1/4 of a baked potato.

Probably going to add a Valentines Cupcake later (Mrs. made some for the kids) too. Fat day, but I'm cool with it. Everyone needs a bad one every now and then, just don't make it a habit.

Last week post workout 174.00
This week post workout 173.20
Weight loss = .80 pounds (and this was after the pigout dinner)

Legs and back went well. V Up Roll Ups are actually starting to kinda resemble the video.