Mirror vs Scale

I was talking to my buddy and coworker Chris about body weight today. I asked him if he weighs himself everyday and his answer was "I used to. Now I just look in the mirror." I laughed.

It's Wednesday and I'm one day from the end of a 4 week period for which I set myself a goal to lose 10 lbs. Sunday morning when I stepped up on the scale I was happy enough to see the number 225.0. The number I dreaded seeing a month earlier, 235.0 shocked me out of complacency and I've rededicated myself to living longer, if not lighter. Unfortunately my weight bounces up and down, I guess like everybody else' does so yesterday the number shot back up to 227 and this morning was 228. Looking in the mirror today I have to be happy with what I'm seeing, but I really want to be down to 220 when I see my cardiologist for my annual check up. Since I'm scheduled to see him on the 26th I doubt that's a reality.

I continue to experience the odd twinge in the same place, which tends to get a bit distracting. If these sensations were absent I would reschedule for a month or so down the road but I guess that would be pretty silly given my history.

So, after feeling pretty elated this past Sunday morning I felt really motivated for the day. We had just decided to hit OG for lunch and it was clear I wouldn't have time for a pre-lunch ride. I figured I'd go in the afternoon but decided to work up a bit of an appetite by pushing some iron and maybe get a short run in. I jumped into a circuit of dumbbell presses, squats, blast-strap pull ups and leg lifts in the ab straps. After 15 minutes I stepped onto the treadmill and ran for ~15 then finished with another set of squats. In all I must've done 4 or 5 sets of 10 squats light and fast. Lunch was good, but the lactic acid dessert in the quads was not and the ride never materialized. Monday morning I was nicely crippled.

It took some stretching over the course of the day but I was able to fence then hit the KK for an hour, finishing at midnight. Last night Iain and I hit the MHBW so he could run and I figured I'd spin and give the legs a gentle workout. Rode easy to the RR tracks then turned around and hammered back to the parking lot. Averaged 18.4 inbound, then tooled around for another 10 minutes spinning out the slag. Legs feel good today so far. Hopefully Iain will feel like going out tonight, in which case we'll go to the campus. If not I'll head out over Tawasentha.

Still no snacking or binging. Improvement needed on getting enough sleep.