Little John's Penultimate Goal

Thanks guys - I just had my first home-made frozen meal. Must say I'm quite happy with it, good taste and texture, and filling afterwards.


Each one has 1 serving of starch, 4 oz of chicken, and lots of frozen vegetables. Cook up your starch and chicken, then leave it in the fridge to cool down. Dice up the chicken, add it to the starch, add in some sauce and frozen vegetables, then toss it in the freezer. Mine needed about 4.5 minutes to microwave at work.


Now I need a nap!
 
So yesterday started with promise, but ended poorly. I was in control the whole day, I had a salad for dinner, but I wasn't paying attention to my intake - I had avocado on the salad, and then after lifting I had some ice cream and a couple of Cora's trick-or-treat supplies. My net for the day was 2500 cal instead of the goal of 2000. I'm not going to lose sleep over it, it's rowing night tonight, which should knock out around 400 calories. Plus I'm being really good now that I've got this November challenge laid out, I think this Thursday's gonna be a very happy number, based on how it looked this morning.



Also, I have LoseIt back up and running, and I'm baking in a 400 calorie deduction from their prescribed "lose 2 lbs a week" plan. It's all good.



On a side note, salad night with Cora went, shall we say, poorly. She loves veggies, but apparently not raw. And when she saw me ripping up lettuce, it was all over, I think if I let her she would have ripped all her food to a molecular level. She was being a charmer, though, so I couldn't get mad.
 
Originally Posted by Little John



Also, I have LoseIt back up and running, and I'm baking in a 400 calorie deduction from their prescribed "lose 2 lbs a week" plan. It's all good.





On a side note, salad night with Cora went, shall we say, poorly. She loves veggies, but apparently not raw. And when she saw me ripping up lettuce, it was all over, I think if I let her she would have ripped all her food to a molecular level. She was being a charmer, though, so I couldn't get mad.
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At our size, I read that the "OMG never lose more than two pounds a week or else death!" rule can be extended out a bit. I once read it as not having a deficit of more than 30% of what you're burning. But as always with nutrition info, skepticism is probably warranted.


As for the little one, I would suggest avoiding chicken cordon bleu then, because it involves hitting the chicken with a hammer, repeatedly. She'd be hammering her food for a week.
 
Oh, yeah... tenderizing food could be a bad thing, especially if it's cereal. I already picked up a spilled cup of V8 on Sunday, that was stressful enough.


I'm thinking a lot of what I've lost this week could be attributed to water weight, since my body fat percentage is only dropping a little. Doesn't matter, pound's a pound for November!
 
Cannot believe how well this week is going from a weight-loss standpoint. I started on Thursday at about 312... this morning I'm 304. 8 pounds in one week. Hot damn. I don't expect the rest of the month to go that way, but it sure puts my November goal a lot closer.
 
Congrats. That's a lot of weight in a short period of time. I'd check all your appendages just to make sure you didn't lose anything important.
 
I lost 9.2 lbs in the last week. Holy schmoly. I know most of it's "fake", since my fat didn't change, but I'll still take it!


So I have the remainder of November to shed another 2.4 lbs, that should be easy enough. This week was an advantage since my wife was out of town, so I forced myself into a routine of salad for dinner every night.


Now I have another matter to think about, any thoughts would be appreciated: I was doing an endurance session a couple nights ago, and messing with different paces, and found that if I upped the pace, I had a lot less need for an "explosive" pull (i.e., I'm maintaining momentum vs stronger individual rows). The technique felt more "right", and it seemed like everything was falling into place. Wonderful, for a minute, then my legs start to weaken significantly and I get fatigued pretty brutally.

Other than the obvious "practice makes perfect", is there something I can do to build endurance? I've been leaving legs out of my lifting routine, it seems like there's plenty of strength there, but I'm open to suggestions.
 
Congrats on the ultra focused week and the amazing result!


Think you might have to hit a rower's forum to get more specific advice on the rowing issue but the potential things I can spitball:

Have you narrowed down where the fatigue is coming from (cardio issue or using a new muscle group)?


If it's a general cardio issue some cross training on a stationary bike might help but if you're cadence is causing you to engage new leg muscles maybe a targeted exercise for that muscle group. One of the things I struggled with training for triathlon is that while I was getting great cardio for the legs I wasn't building a lot of extra power so mixing in a strength training session from time to time helped. The other thing I can think of would be to start mixing in some HIIT sessions as it'll force you to go hard and also recover over and over.
 
Thanks man, I was pretty stunned when I saw the scale this morning. I had to get back on a couple more times to verify it.


I found a few articles regarding the endurance building, looks like squats (narrow-stance, and one-legged) and legs-only power rows on max resistance on the rower are both key. Probably followed by an escalator ride back upstairs from the basement. Boy oh boy, do I hate me some leg exercising.
 
Yeah, used to be big on squats and know all too well the hobbling upstairs but even worse and scarier at times it trying to hobble downstairs with sore legs. Guess the fortunate part of trying to get downstairs is that if you fall you'll still end up at your destination.


Like everything make sure you ease into it and build up gradually and one other trick I discovered is that dumbbell squats have the advantage of not having to swing a heavy barbell into the squat position after each set.
 
Woof, what a weekend. Since I missed my lifting on Thursday, I did it Friday AM and rowed Friday PM. Saturday was all about calories, both in and out, with raking, rowing, hiking, mowing, and out for lunch and homemade meatball grinder for dinner... I broke even. Yesterday was a small breakfast, nibbles all day, and pizza dinner, plus rowing and raking. I slept like a log last night, and I needed it.


All told, I ran a calorie deficit for the week, every day except Thursday (no exercise, and Indian restaurant for dinner). I have a few days yet to stabilize after the weekend for my weigh-in.


FG, the squats were not as painful as they could have been, but I wasn't "going to town" for my first round. My quads are still burning a little, but it's a good burn. I am proud to say that for the first time... ever, I have pretty good form in my pushups. Not touching the floor with my gut yet, but good cadence and stiff body the whole time.
 
Can you do real pushups? I'm guessing that's the rowing because I sure can't. Either that or about 10 pounds from now I can do them too. If you can do pushups at three bills, you must be ridiculously strong. I'd rather avoid getting in an alley fight with you. :)
 
:iagree:

Had all kinds of issues trying to crank out any pushups at 295 so I'll be taking the long way around any dark alleys in your neck of the woods.
 
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