HItting The Wall

210 lbs! For the second week in a row! I'm kinda bummed. 210 seems to be my wall lately. I can't seem to drop below that number anymore. A couple of years ago, I was able to get down to 195. Now I can't seem to get past 210! I know however, that I havn't been as diligent this time around as I was last time. Last time there was no cheating whatsover! Not even little sugar-free candies. I guess I can't complain too much. I did cheat three of the last six days or so. Actually, maybe 210 is good news. I cheated quite a bit, and didn't gain any weight. On top of that, I didn't get the chance to work out as often as I wanted at work. Only two workouts out of five days. So, maybe being able to sit back and say that I had a crappy week, and was still able to maintain my weight is a good thing. I guess I'm just tired of getting stopped at 210. The difference is, is that usually at this point, I would yo yo back up to 215, and then start the cycle over again. NOT THIS TIME! I won't give into dispair this week! I will stay with the diet this week, and I will workout when I can.

The workouts are going to be the hard part. I will be spending a lot of time assigned to a post this next set of work days that won't give me a chance to workout. You have to understand. I work a twelve hour shift combined with an hour and a half commute each way. I leave the door at 5 Am / PM and don't get home until 8:30 AM / PM Not really a chance to workout after work. But, maybe I can get in some quick ten min. runs or something on the treadmill. Bottom line, I plan to be under 210 next week. I'm going to attack this.

I'm glad I sat down to post on my blog. Before I sat down to write, the left-over pizza, and rasberry filled donuts were calling my name without mercy. Now I feel a boost of strength to resist those calls.

No paintball news this week. The weather is warming up. Much of the snow is melted. The temps were in the mid 40s this week. Right now it's pouring and the wind is blowing. The ground is a soggy mud pit. But, you can tell warmer weather is around the corner. Hopefully I will be posting some paintball related stuff soon. That's it for this week.

Lose weight.....throw grenades!

Today is day five since my new recommitment to losing weight. I promised myself that I would post my results every week on here, to kind of help motivate me, and as a way to track my progress.

So here's how the last four days went.

Thursday: Started diet. Ran for 2.5 miles on treadmill. Later that night at work had a good chest / triceps / stairmaster workout

Friday: Woke up ran 2 miles on treadmill. Had back / biceps / stairmaster workout later that night at work

Saturday: No workout at all. I had to deal with frozen water pipes when I woke up, and at work I was stationed in a high secure area where working out is not possble. I will refer to the area for now on as the bunker.

Sunday: Once again, no workout because of the bunker again.

Monday: Ran 2.5 on the treadmill first thing in the morning. Also weighed myself ----210 lbs = a 5 lbs loss. not bad.

Now I am at a crucial point. I usually can get down to 210 and then I destroy it all by cheating on the diet. Well, today would have normally been a cheat day, but not today. I am hanging in there. I really want to kick the effort into overdrive, and see how fast I can get down to 200. I think I will do some lifting later tonight Back and biceps.

PAINTBALL

So, it's still snowing. Talked a lot this week with Clay and Jon about the itch to play. We all agree that it't time for winter to end. I got my A5 all pimped out exactly how I want it now. It has a stock, raised sight rail, Egrip, 42mm red dot sight, flatline barrel, raider shroud, and false magazine. I have to admit, it's a little heavy now with all that stuff on it, but it sure is wicked looking! I will post a pic of it in the future.

I was going to get rid of the Flatline barrel, cause I felt like it wasn't as accurate as I'd like, but then I realized I had gone with a remote last summer and no stock, so there wasn't anything to brace against my shoulder. The inaccuracy I experienced might have been due to that. So, I am going to give the Flatline another chance. It's worth it since the barrel puts 150 ft of extra range on your gun, that others don't have.

The only other thing, is I found this cool kit you can get: refillable grenades.

We as a group have never used grenades hardley. Mostly due to the expense. A typical paintball grenade averages around $5.00 a piece! That's just too much money for most of us. Although there have been many times when a grenade would have come in handy, for the money we do without. Except maybe for now. These grenades average 1$ a piece. Much better. I still need to talk the guys into going in on the refill kit. For practice purposes we could just fill them with water. I talked to Clay, and he's for it. I gotta find eight guys willing to fork over $12.50. That would get them 3 grenades, each one reusable up to five times. So, $12.50 for 15 grenades essentially. That's only 83 cents a pop. You can't ask for much better.

I Think I Can...I Think I Can

I guess for this post, I’m blogging just for the sake of blogging. We got three inches of snow today. BAH! It’s supposed to be getting warmer. Spring is right around the corner...right? Anyway, there isn’t much to report in the paintball world, which is the main theme now of my blog. If the weather ever warms up, then perhaps I will become more active here.

Thanks to idahopaintball.com. I have learned of a tournament being held in Ontario, Oregon in May. There isn’t a whole lot of information available yet. All I know is it’s the first weekend of May, and is a four man team tactical scenario tourney of some kind. Sounds right up our alley. I’ll have to wait until more information is available. It would be a five hour drive, but we could stay at Ben’s ( team mate ) house in Boise to cut costs. Right now I’m thinking we could have Myself, Jon, Joe, and Ben as the team, and Rett whitesalamander. as an alternate, and moral, and logistical support. He could drive down from Portland for the event. We will have to wait and see how the details fan out. More later.

As far as my personal fitness gains go, I’ve been better sadly. At this point, I am on a text book Yo Yo diet. I will start up Atkins, and do it faithfully for a week, and lose three to five pounds, then go off the diet for a few days and destroy any progress. This has been going on now for a couple of months, and I am just about fed up with myself. I am on the verge of a major rebirth. I can feel the personal loathing building to a boiling point. I know I have it in me to do what I need to do to accomplish my goals. For now the plan is to use Atkins faithfully to get down to two hundred pounds. Once there, I will switch from Atkins to the Body For Life program by Bill Phillips. I will use healthy diet, and plenty of activity and exercise to maintain a weight under two hundred. Every few weeks, I will switch back to an Atkins type diet to try to lose a few more pounds. Hopefully after a while, I can be closer to one ninety by doing this.

Part of that plan is to make myself more accountable for my failures as I blogged about before. For now on, I will be recording in this blog my fitness ups and downs as often as possible. At least once a week, I will make a report including times worked out, what work outs consisted of, diet, and current weight. I figure it will help keep me in line knowing that I have to post the results on the internet for all the world to see.

So here goes the first entry:

As of now my weight is 215 lbs. I lifted weights yesterday. chest and triceps. No cardio. I am pretty sore today, so that’s good. Benched more than usual. Which is weird, cause it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve lifted. Today, I worked a long shift, and didn’t get the chance to workout. I followed a strict Atkins diet all day, which I destroyed by eating pizza, a donut, and some candy when I got home. Tomorrow is a new day. NO CHEATING! and I will workout. There’s no excuse not to.