Fat Guy on a Diet

Sorry for the lack of updates last week. Things got a little out of hand, and blogging had to take a backseat to everything. I DID release my first video last week, and the reviews so far are very positive overall! I did the last one on a Sunday, and I’ll do my next one tonight. I want to post with the weigh-in updates, so either I move the weigh-in back a day, or just hold off till Monday. I’ll try getting it done tonight, but if that proves too difficult, I might consider alternative options.

So, updates! I finally broke the 20lb mark this morning, coming in at 311.8lbs! Still, progress has been MUCH slower than I want, so I need to switch things up. How I’m going to do that has yet to be decided, but something’s got to change. The one thing I will NOT be doing is DROPPING my caloric intake. I’ve had a few people say I should, but I think doing so would actually do more harm than good. I’ve also had several people say to cut back on the carbs. That, I’ve also taken strongly into consideration. In fact, that MIGHT be the one direction I actually take things. The problem with doing that is the level of carbs that I do get each day. I haven’t been tracking, but my meals have all been carb heavy. Subway is mostly bread. BreadCo is mostly bread – nearly ALL of my meals have had a major carb element to them. Could the carbs be hampering my efforts? No real way to tell, besides giving up most of my carbs. That would mean switching up meals and having more produce than bread. This COULD be a good thing, but it will definitely be a more expensive thing as well. Subway especially has helped a LOT with the budget. $5 for lunch and have water back at the office. I really can’t beat that anywhere I look! I’ll need a way to have lunch out without killing my budget. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

So, this weekend, I did some swimming! I’m not going to say I did laps or anything, but I did swim across the pool a few times. Even had a few races as well! Most of the time was spent just treading water, so nothing too heavy. However, I did spend quite a bit of time doing my own flavor or water calisthenics. What that consisted of was utilizing the resistance of the water to get in some resistance training. The primary one was getting to where my head was JUST above the water, have my arms extented out with my hands cupped so that I was like a T. I would then bring in my arms and “clap” my hands under water. I would then turn my hands the other way, and move my arms back into their original position. I would try to do this as quickly as possible so that there was QUITE a bit of resistance against my arms and hands. After about 20 reps, I could feel the burn, and it felt AWESOME! I did about 5 sets of these each day this weekend.

The other thing I did was underwater crunches. For this, I would start off in a standing position. I would then bring up my knees to my chest and bring my elbows in towards my stomach, getting as tightly into a ball as I can. This was all very low impact, but once again, I felt the burn. I did about 5 sets of 20 reps for these as well.

I was feeling awesome after accomplishing this. It’s actually gotten me considering hitting the pool at the gym again. Maybe not for the swimming in general, but if only to do those two exercises. Actually, mix those with the cardio from swimming, and I think I might have a plan for success. The one negative is there’s only 3 swimming lanes at the gym, and they’re almost always being used. :-/ Times like this, I wish I had my own private pool!

Anyway, I’m going to wrap this up for now. I’ll have the video posted later this evening. I’ll have it up online here once it becomes available.

Thanks again for all of your support and well wishes! I’m not going to let you down!