Outsourcing My Body–Week 7

Well, It has been seven weeks since I outsourced my body.  On to this week’s summary…

Diet

This was not a good week for the diet portion of this project.  Compared to 8 weeks ago it was a good week but compared to the last 7 weeks it was not.  On Tuesday I went out to lunch with co-workers who were in town for testing.  I went to Chick-Fil-A but I only had a wrap and went without the dressing part.  I think this was OK and not too far off from a normal lunch.  That night though the wife decided we were having pizza.  Fast forward to Friday night.  My mom and grandma were in town and the kids stayed with them at their hotel leaving the wife and I with no kids on a Friday night.  We went to Pei Wei and split an appetizer and also split a single plate.  I was still quite full when we left.  Last night (Saturday) my mom and grandma were at our house around dinnertime so we ordered pizza.  I do not want to spoil the WEIGHT portion of this blog but I do want to point out part of the genius of this project.  Not only are the decisions for my body outsourced to the wife but also the guilt.  For when I do not follow the diet or exercise, it is with her permission.  So, when you get to the weight portion, I would like to say that I totally blame her.  She let me down this week.  Of course, she could have told me NOT to eat pizza last night but that would have made her look bad in front of my mother.  Mother-in-law / Daughter-in-law relationships being what they are, I suppose she had no choice but to allow me to eat pizza.  From my point of view this just allows me also to blame my mother.  This did not stop me from feeling a little guilty when weighing in this morning but it has soothed my conscious since that time.

Exercise

I have been doing so well on level 1 of the workout video that I feared level 2 was coming.  The wife did announce earlier in the week that we were going to try level 2 on Saturday.  For the past 6 weeks whenever I would pat myself on the back with my progress in conquering level 1, she was there to warn me about the coming migration to level 2.  She had showed me a few of the moves that level 2 had coming and explained various pains that she had from doing the level 2 workout.  This left a little fear and doubt in my mind.  I began to obsess about the coming of this level to my daily routine.  After my first attempt at level 2 was behind me on Saturday morning I can say that it was much easier than it was made out to be.  Perhaps this is part of the genius of my wife in that she overstated its difficulty so that I would feel better after having done it.  Who knows.  I have today off (my normal Sunday thing) so I will hit level 2 again tomorrow.

Other

I still feel a bit guilty for the weight portion but all in all it was still a good week.  Perhaps I have some water weight from the sodium in the pizza from last night (I hope) and next week will get my momentum back.  This is one of the downfalls of only weighing in once a week.  Three years ago when I lost all this weight (that I am re-losing now) I weighed in daily.  I had my bad weeks but there were good days in those bad weeks.  Of course bad days had a negative effect on my attitude during that day so my plan on weighing once a week has worked well so far as I have carried the good news of Sunday’s weigh in with me during the week.  Now that I have a bad report, the week ahead will have to sort itself out I guess.

Weight

Let’s get right to it since I have harped on and on about this weeks lack of progress.  This morning I was up 1/2 lb.  That is not too bad I guess but very bad compared to the rate I was going in this project.  This still puts me down 18 1/2 lbs. for 7 weeks.  Not too shabby.

The kids are staying at the hotel with my mother again tonight and the wife and I will probably go out again tonight.  I have trouble enjoying food during this project though.  I am not sure if I can maintain this life style going forward in my life.  My mother told me that she is not so impressed with my loss thus far but suggested that she would only be impressed if I kept it off 18 months from now.  So, unless I change my life style I will not be able to meet her challenge.  18 months from now is August of 2013.  So basically I have a new challenge on the table.  Stay fit until I turn 44.  I am up to the challenge I think.

Jon