Okay, okay.

I've fallen off the boat.  Last month I thought I had achieved a certain life/health/body condition that might give me cause to slow down on the heavy lifting, but I didn't.  And it's been hard getting back on that wagon now that I'm struggling with insomnia.  I also found out I am gluten-intolerant, so I've been recovering from a decidedly gross-and-horrible month of suffering (August).  And now I'm about to move across the country, which is going to entail a non-stop, two-day drive across America with my husband and my cats.

Yip.

But I'm here, really.  And I haven't buried the book away to collect dust somewhere--it's out on my desk to remind me every time I sit down that I'm going to do this thing, at some point.

I've also been quite indecisive about my goals.  I don't know if I should work largely on reducing my overall weight with a side of body blubber first, and THEN do the book.....or do the book and THEN focus on shedding the jiggle jelly covering my frame.

LE FREAKING SIGH.

I wish I had someone to answer these questions for me.

I'm coming back, I promise!

Just give me a few more days to test something.  If things turn out as predicted, I'll be back next week.  For real!

Laziness

It's Wednesday and I still haven't done my A workout for the week.  Instead I have been making and eating homemade pudding.

Hey, it's protein!

Workout tonight.  I have been making good use of my time.

B workout and body fat!

Wow!  Yesterday's B workout totally kicked my tooshola.  My back and booty are so super sore today, but I am really glad--I was worrying that I wasn't working as hard on my B workouts as I have been on my A workouts.  Yesterday really helped knock that idea out the window.

WTF evaporated

Yesterday's freak out was either the result of reading the scale without my glasses, or my body just dropped six pounds overnight.  Today, I stepped on the scale and saw 213.8...exactly six pounds down from yesterday.  Three's and nine's look kind of similar, huh?  3....9...

Anyway.  I'm POSITIVE I saw 219 yesterday, which means maybe all the peeing I did yesterday was a side effect of dumping extra water weight.

Erik has gone to pick up a deliciously modified version of one of our favorite take-outs...a cafe rio salad with double portions of shredded roast beef, no rice, and double beans.  Extras on all the veggies, topped off with cilantro-lime vinaigrette.  These things are huge, like pie plate filled to overflowing huge, so we are going to go splitsies on it.  Curiosity also got the best of me, so I had half of one of the bison hot dogs I bought at the store.  They are yummy!  I like that they are uncured and nitrate free.

Going to do my B workout in a few hours.  Go hard or go home.

And an extra WTF?

So I weighed myself today against my better judgement, and since starting New Rules I have packed on 10 lbs in under three weeks.  Seriously?  What is this crap?  Is this just typical water-weight gain from intracellular water retention in my muskols?  Like, I'm freaking out.

Woops on the "more tomorrow" bit

So, I meant to post this yesterday but I didn't.

The level of my soreness isn't as bad as it was when I first started.  I wonder if this means I'm still not pushing hard enough (I felt totally whomped after my workout, in a good way) or is my body adjusting already?