sobo's death to BP meds journey

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jsobo119

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Me:

Height: 5'11"
Weight 192 lbs.
% body fat: 22%


1992* 2001 2004 2-2006 today
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lbs. 158 264 180 204 192


Goals:
<15% body fat

Run mile under 7:00

Run 3.2 in under 28 minutes.

Run 10 K

Run 1/2 marathon.

Run marathon

Target weight: 16x?

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THE ULTIMATE GOAL

Get off my blood pressure pill... I hate it... it makes me a sloth...
 
Sat.
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Ran 3.2 locked keys in car ran 4 miles home... (more than I wanted) really showed how bad my shoes were...

Sun
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Bought new shoes...

Ran 1.8 to try to loosen up... perhaps made things worse... achilees sore... shins sore...

Mon (lunch)
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10min on upright stationary bike

lat pull down 108 10x3
incline bench 95 10x3
Military Press 95 10x3
Low Row 108 10x3
Shoulder fly 60 8, 50 10x2 (don't know correct name for this one)

Hammer Curls 35 7, 6
30 8,5
25 6, 5

Sholder Shrugs with dumbells (55) 10x3

Stomach... 2 machines... 6 sets... of 10+ reps.. weight?

Mon (Evening)
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Stationary Bike Upright 22 minutes (left knee patella tendon started to get sore so I stopped) Got heart rate up to 120 at 10 minute mark... but was mostly in the 114-118 range.

Stairmaster step machine... (actually has steps like a tread mill but with steps on it)... 10 minutes... really got my HR up... didn't have something to measure it... but I could tell I was breathing pretty good...

Sauna 12 minutes.
 
Tues after work
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20 minutes... Stationary upright bike... good intensity but had a hard time getting heart rate up. took 10 to get to 120... peaked at 13x... My thighs started burning at 16 minutes... was at 120 rpm for some time... when the resistance increased where I was down to 90 rpm my quads started to burn... 1 minute cool down

2 minutes stair machine... bad choice after quads exhausted...

5 minutes treadmill 3.5 mph 4% grade... walk it off...

10 Eliptical machine... HR 120+ for 9 of the 10 minutes... 2 minute cool down

Sauna 12 minutes.

(Tues food)
breakfast: Grapenuts & skim milk + O.J.
Lunch: 12 hot wings at bar, 6 celerey sticks, 1/2 tsp or bluechees dressing.
dinner: 2 Pears, 1 Plum, 1 Soy Milk drink (20 grams protien)

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Tues nite scale... 196 ( 18.5% body fat )

Wed morning scale 191 ( 20.5% body fat )

... that was a big drop overnite...

Wed
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Breakfast
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2 granny smith apples
1 strawberry (grabbed it when I took my BP pill)
6 oz O.J.

-- Planning 3 mile run at lunch today --

Planed lunch
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6 cucumber sticks (like pickle size)
4 Egg whites... (I might eat one whole not sure yet I have 4 hard boiled).
 
Actual Workout at lunch
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3+ miles... 2.5 laps = 1 mile... I did 8... so 3.2

I felt pretty good the first 1.5 miles... and still pretty good closing 2nd mile... in the 3rd I started to get some leg fatigue and cramping in my gut...

I alternated my breathing to start in/out on side of cramp and it helped... (saw that on some website).

Actual Lunch
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cal fat grams Protein
1 hard boiled egg 77 48 6
3 egg whites 41 0 12
5 Cucumber sticks 5 0 0

Total 123 48 from fat... and 18 grams of protien... I should have added in some carbs... a veggy...
 
wed dinner
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2 pieces of meatloaf (short loaf... so about 2 restaraunt size piece in total)
--- 600 cal 66 grams protein 330 grams fat
1.5 cups of Zuchinni caserole (Zuchinni, onion, tomatoes, bacon)
--- 90 ? cal 3 grams protein ? 28 fat cals
+ 1/2 piece zuchinni break (w/ raisins) 150 cals???
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3 beers (--- shouldn't have had them... but I did... ---)
--1 hefenwiesen.. 2 light beers--- in 2 hours---
?(160) + 110*2 = 380

Not having any real carbs after my run yesterday was a mistake... I got a bit shaky later in the day just before dinner... I really thought I ate more than that but even if I had more meatloaf... say to take it up to 800 cals. in meatloaf... I was still under 2000 for the day...
(230) + (123) + (1150) + 380 = 1883 so just say 2000... which is about 500 less than 2690 or whatever my number is to hold weight... 7*500 calories = 3500 calories = approx 1 lbs or fat burned
 
Just read an article on pain from running and found out according to all of the pain I was experiencing is due to overpronation.. (as I suspected)... I bought shoes that help with that...

And my run yesterday was virutally pain free... and no shin splints today...

Of course that website is selling products so... is it exagerated... maybee???
 
Thurs. Food
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Grapenuts
OJ


Lunch
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Applebee's 1/2 Pecan Crusted Chicken Salad


Dinner
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4 slices London Broil
1/2 cup Brocolli
1/2 cup Ichiban eggplant
A little bit of A1

After dinner
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3 beers (--- oops I did it again ---)
--1 hefenwiesen.. 2 light beers--- in 2 hours---
?(160) + 110*2 = 380
+1 O'Dools (60 cal)...

So I did 420 in Beer... Ok no more of that for a few days... Well going to lunch at a brew pub today... will have 1 beer... then none tonight except maybee 1 or 2 O'Dools

Thrus. workout
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Ran 2 miles... felt really good... ran fastest I have since starting up running agian. No pain in legs... Got 1 side cramp in the last 100 yards or so when I was really pushing... I think I am drinking too much water before my workouts... I think I am going to stop drinking water about 45 minutes before and see if that helps...

Bench
60 lbs 10x2
90 lbs 10x3

Fly
50 lbs 10x2, 8 (I hate that machine)

Incline Bench
95 lbs 10x3

Low row
60 lbs 10
75 lbs 10
90 lbs 10
105 lbs 10
90 lbs 10

Bench
90 lbs 10
105 lbs 10
120 lbs 10
105 lbs 10

Lat pull down
105 lbs 10 (did this somewhere in the Middle)

Sauna 15 minutes

Today
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Minimal soreness in my upper chest...
a little soreness in my right glut? must of been overstriding a bit?

Breakfast
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1/2 cup grapenuts w/ skim milk
small handfull of frozen blueberries (were fresh but we put them in the freezer) so about 10 or so
2 strawberries
6 oz of O.J.
 
Ran 5 miles today... did a bunch of pushups, situps, DB military presses??? whatever they are called... some curls... cut the grass too...

Ate...

Breakfast (already posted but this give the whole picture)
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grapenuts trail mix cereal 1/2 cup with skim milk... (I love that stuff) with some blueberries.
2 strawberry...
6 oz OJ

lunch
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1 stout beer
1 bowl beer gumbo...

Dinner
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3/4 cut zuccinni caserole (zuch... tomatoes... onions... bacon)
1 can low sodium albacore tuna
small piece of asiago cheese... (like a ball the size of a quarter)
2 strawberries
1 O'Dools

Watching Friday Night Fights
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1 hefewiezen
3 Bud lights... (4 bears in 3 hours)

Ok that is it for the beer for the weekend.. I'll take an O'dools or two with me for the weekend... but that is it... my beer fridge is empty and so I will be dry for a few days... probably a good thing!

weighed myself after cutting the grass.. .which was after my dinner... and I was 190 and 19% body fat...

I need to be carefull this weekend not to ruin the work I did this week...
 
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Morning weight: 188 (22.5% BF)

ok.. exactly where I was last sat...

(taliking to self)
just don't blow it this weekend... no humungo meals... eat enough so you don't get monsterously hungry for dinner... and go over board... No beer this weekend.

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Left leg a bit sore from yesterdays run... actually both sore just above the knee...

Just a tiny almost soreness in my very upper stomack... and shoulders & chest... So that was a decent 15 min workout in my family room while watching boxing... lol...

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I bought a Timex Ironman USB datalink watch today... I'm pumped I'll be able to time myself... and keep track of my times...
 
Food for weekend

Sat
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Breakfast
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grapenuts trail mix cereal 1/2 cup with skim milk...
2 strawberries
6 oz OJ

Lunch
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grilled chicken ranch wrap...
alot of letuce in that... was bit... but still about 3/4-1 chicken breast... a couple slices of tomato... a tortilla... letuce... more letuce... just a bit of onion... some shredded cheddar... less than 1/4 cup... 1 packet ranch dressing.... used just over 1/2 of it...

Dinner
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3 pieces from med Pizza Hut Veggie lover pizza...Probably more than I should have had but I was really really hungry... was hungry again a few hours later... figure I wasn't getting enough H20...


Sunday
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Breakfast.
Grapenuts & 3/4 of Apple (kids ate some of my apple)

Lunch
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whole 6 oz can of Tuna on wheat.. with 2 peices of american cheese... 1 tbsp or Mayo... 1 tsp black peppar...

3/4 of apple

2 sandwich cookies... (145 cals... 50 from fat)

Dinner
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whole 6 oz can of Tuna on wheat.. with 2 peices of american cheese... 1 tbsp or Mayo... 1 tsp black peppar...

3/4 of apple

2 sandwich cookies... (145 cals... 50 from fat)

Still hungry... and had 4 slices of Hard salami on wheat with 2 slices white american... small squirt of mayo... and a bunch of black pepper...

Sunday nite weight...

191.6 (20% BF) GOOD nite weight! Looks like I didn't blow my weeks work... normal 2 pound drop puts me at 189... and if I am a true 189 morning weight... that is down from 192 where I was... We shall see as I rehydrate... Not sure If I am just down on water from being in the sun all day and sweating... or if I actually have dropped some fat...

I feel smaller...

BTW my stomach is sore... what from iduno... perhaps carrying my 6 year old on my sholders for about 1/2 mile?
 
187.6 (22.5% BF) morning weight...

Ran just over 2 miles at lunch... 1st mile nice easy pace... actually laps are .4 miles... so first 3 laps easy.. then I ran 1/2 lap at fast pace... any faster and it would be a sprint... then secodn half of lap at recovery jog speed... after then next 1/2 lap at that fast speed I felt some pain in my groin as I slowed down... so I slowed to a walk for a while... when I picked it back up to a slow run I felt a little tighness in my groin so I walked for a few minutes... then called it a day...

I am beginning to wonder if I should just NOT stretch my groin... I haven't been stretching it and I have had no problems... today I warm up well and stretch my groin... and whamo...

normaly I warm up paying attention to my lower leg... achiles tendon... and then stretch my hamstrings and quads a bit... and stretch my gluts... I only strech my groin after... I started doing that on a hunch that my streching of my groin actually was contributing to my groin injuries in the past... hopefully because I stopped before it really started hurting that I'll be fine... I may even take tomorrow off... and x-train...
 
Morning 187.6 (22.5% BF)...

Not sure I will get my lunch run in... should be 93 degrees with 70% humidity... putting the heat index over 100... it is 10:00 and it is 85 out already... I am hydrating just in case... I may go for it... I may just try to do a real easy 3 mile run through the park...
 
ok I did 4 miles at an easy pace... proably around 12 minute mile pace... but more likely at 11 minute mile pace...

I felt pretty good... a little bit of achilles tightness... soreness in the right leg... ok tomorrow is off day... I'll hit the weights...

Oh I was 185 after my run... I was 187.6 this morning... and I think I hydrated pretty well before my run.... so it really was hot out there... 2-3 pound I dropped durring my run... that seams a bit high... but I did have a pretty good BM at work before my run as well... (sorry for the TMI)... I'll be interested in my night weight... and what happends tomorrow... I figure I should be low 187's

Trying to eat more to keep the cal deficit >1000... having a hard time... Eating healthy just makes me too full! :) How can you even think of eating more after eating 3/4 cup of grapenuts then 3/4 cup of cottage cheese for breakfast...

:)
 
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I feel great! I haven't felt this good in... ???

I am getting real excited about crossing the 180 mark... it is a few weeks away... maybe a month & 1/2 but if I go to see my doc at 178-180 and 18% body fat... he is going to be pumped... I figure I will send leave him a message that I want to create a plan to get off the meds so that he is prepared when i go see him... I have to find that date so I can put it on my calendar... but it is approaching... I have a feeling it is in sept...

then a few months later I will be crossing the 170 mark... and the I get to celebrate... because I should be completely off the stupid bp medication by then... I am going to check my BP tonight... just to see where my pulse is...

I'll bet it is in the mid 40's it was upper 40's to mid 50's before I started running I would bet there has been a drop already... I went from struggling to run a mile in under 10 minutes to being able to run sub 8 and now I am able to run 4-5 miles and 3 is easy... I can run 2 at a fast pace... and I have 3 weaks to get so I can 3 fast (my first 5k since I ran one 11 years ago)...

A bunch of people haven't seen me since my daughter's b-day party in early june... I am interested if I'll get any comments... my wife thinks the changes in my body are dramatic and she sees me naked every day... (sorry tmi again)...

That being said that is icing... I am not doing this for what other people think... if I get some compliments it will be nice... I am doing this to feel better and to get off the BP medication that makes me a sloth... makes me not want to do anything...

BTW I kicked my addiction to nicoteen... I'll post about that tonight... its bazaar... I don't understand it... well enough for this post...
 
Wow, I dunno how I missed this thread.. But you're doing great. You'll be off the pill in no time, very inspirational.
 
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