One-sentence Summary: This week was not good. Again.
Food: There’s a big (well, little) asterisk on the food this week. And there should be one on the food for last week. There was an issue that has now been fixed, but it led to an under-counting in the last two weeks of roughly 4,000 calories, or about 3 days’ worth of food. I could go back and redo everything, but I’m taking this as a learning experience and the goal is to move forward from it, learn from it, not dwell on it, and try extremely hard to not let it bring me down and kill my motivation. So, going from general numbers then, this week was “good” and I met my macros. Moving on …
Exercise: This week I failed to do cardio at least five times, only doing it four times. The issue this week was work, and one of the frequent tags I’ve been using the last few months has been “work-life balance.” Because it’s hard to do that when you’re in academia (well, it’s hard to do that in general, but I have experience with me, so that’s why I said it). Still, I need to remember that I have improved substantially from where I was at the beginning of the year, managing to do weights three times and still do the elliptical four times.
Sleep: Sleep was extremely close to 8 hrs/night, and I admit to cheating slightly about when I turned off and on my watch. Saturday’s sleep was no cheat, though, and my average of 8.3 hrs/day is probably accurate.
Measurements: As with last week, because of the above, measurements weren’t good. This is the second of the last 17 weeks where my bodyfat percentage went up (still well within the noise, only by 0.1%), but weight also went up this week, even though the trend for the week if you look at the graph is down. It’s just that if you include last Saturday, the trend over 4 days (Sat–Tue) is way up.
Points: I did better this week due to food, and actually last week should’ve been +63 not +57 points because I apparently missed a check box. Whatever, not worth fixing now.
Looking Over the Week: The week wasn’t good. But if we take a long-term view of things, it is certainly better than Week 1. Or Week 5. Just not as good as Week 15.
Looking Ahead 1 Week: I have a “maintenance” week this next week where I up my calories by about 540 per day in order to replenish hormone levels and have a psychological break. I need to keep up with exercise in order to make sure I don’t crash and burn (or, um, balloon) in weight and fat, but after this week I will regroup on my goals, reassess things, set the goal weight based on where I am, and move forward.
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