Cliff’s Notes: Down 6lbs in the first week.
The last time I weighed, it was during the men’s night event at our gym where I did the 3RM deadlift. I weighed in at 279. I would be lying if I said that didn’t bother me when I stepped on the scale. I somewhat justified it at the time as I had an entire day of food in me and was weighing in at night. I had already worked out early that morning, too. So I didn’t expect to see my weight at a reasonable point. That being said, I certainly did not like seeing it so close to 280 when my fighting weight has been hovering around the 265 mark for a while.
Week before last, I remember setting up for a CJ on Sunday and as I bent down to grab the bar, I could feel my gut. My knees were in horrible pain and I was just generally uncomfortable moving around. I knew I had to do something.
Last week, starting on Monday, I began tracking my macros again with some new numbers. As much as I hated to do it, I had to weigh to get another starting point. I hopped on the scale and saw 275. Not as bad as I thought. I told my wife who promptly said “You know that scale is 10lbs off, right?” So I went to get our digital scale and weighed, and sure enough, it said 285. It even said 285 no matter how I wiggled or changed how I stood.
Damnit.
At least I now know that the digital scale is the same as the one at the doctor’s office.
When I had put on a few pounds, I was moving the weight I wanted to move and still felt good. So my goal is to get back to that point. Around Wednesday, I noticed just how much better my body was feeling. Filtering out all of the crap has made a big difference in how my knees feel. My back is still holding up without the diclofenac, something I have wanted to stop for some time now. I keep waiting to wake up and have trouble rolling out of bed, but it doesn’t happen. In fact, I have felt volumes better compared to 2 weeks ago. So now I just want to get around 265 or a few pounds up from that.
I am not going to go hard core and weigh myself daily. That is so mentally defeating. I have heard arguments for it, explaining that it shows you how your weight fluctuates from day to day. I already know that. I don’t need to see my weight go up a pound or down a pound here and there for that point to be made. Once a week will be fine with me. I will allow myself a cheat meal once a week at the end of the week as long as everything else has gone well. If I blow it two days in a row, I don’t really want to have a cheat meal on top of that. For example, this first week has been great, so on Sunday, I went over my macros with dinner and some Halo Top. I don’t even feel bad about it at all. I have made some really good progress this past week and learned a ton. Extra carbs and fats for dinner one night isn’t going to break me.