Ahhhh Snap!!!!!

Well I haven't weighed in since last week. About a week and a half ago I went for a 4 mile run. I pushed it harder than normal trying to increase my speed. Felt really good on the run and thought everything was great. Later that night I noticed my knee felt a little stiff. Anyway my knee has become really painful the last week and a half or so. I have tried to do anti inflammatories and it helps with the pain some but it always comes back. It doesn't hurt much when standing on it or walking. If I try to do stairs, push in my clutch, do squats or lunges, or sit with a bend in my leg it hurts really bad (not muscle sore more like tendon sore "ache"). Thus far in my life I have been really lucky and haven't had many injuries less a ankle sprain here and there. On top of missing several cardio days last week my diet has pretty much been sucking. I have been drinking more booze on the weekends and eating lots of carbs and fat (pretty much stuff I know I shouldn't be eating). So I am pretty ticked at myself right now cause I am throwing away allot of hard work. The super sucky thing is I cant seem to get things turned around mentally or physically. I have come a long way and I don't want to have to fight that same fight again.... Send me good thoughts vibes to help get me back on track.

Still Chugging Along

WI: 204.4

Still higher than I would like to see but it is what it is. I knew I
had gained some poundage on the cruise and my P90x workouts have left me really sore (assuming my muscles are holding onto extra water). Last week I hit 5 out of 6 workouts and my diet was mediocre. As predicted my diet will be the hardest to re-regulate, it always is. We had some really good BBQ off my smoker this last weekend and I ate leftovers (pork ribs). Pretty bad for you but taste oooohhhh so good. I need to get back to planning my meals then the stars should realign and my weight should start coming back down faster. I would like to be sub 200 again by the end of October. I am signing up for the Turkey Trot 5k again this year in Bend, OR and want to post a sub 30 minute time.... I guess I should say "I Will post a sub 30 min time". Tonight is either a run or PlyoX depending on the weather. Keep the blogs rolling people, I
love reading them.

Post Cruise..... Auto Pilot Off

WI: ???? gonna give myself a week to re-acclimate

I am back from the big Cruise of 2009 trip that I had been looking forward to for so long. I had a wonderful time and really enjoyed my time in the Caribbean. We were able to take this cruise less the kids given my in laws were in town and wanting to watch them for us. It really allowed my wife and I to reconnect and recharge our parenting batteries. By the end of the week I missed my little guys (sons) a ton though. We had 3 full days at sea and 3 ports (San Juan, St Marteen, and Labadee in Haiti. All three ports had tons to offer and I wish I had more time at each of them. To me that is the main downside to a cruise (you never stay anywhere for long). I did make 3 trips to the on board gym which was awesome by the way. With that said I pretty much ate and drank whatever I wanted to for 8-9 days strait too without much thought of trying to control damage or weight gain. I knew that was going to happen and I was willing to deal with it when I got home. Anyway the time flew by really fast but I have a week full of wonderful memories and tons of great pictures.

Enough talk about the cruise, back to normal scheduled programming. So starting yesterday I began my hybrid P90x/Insanity workout that I put together. It pretty much takes the majority of the weight lifting days of P90x and inserts Insanity workouts in the cardio days. It will allow me to tweak it a little as I go and offer much more variety. I did Chest and Back yesterday and I am really sore. I have lost a fair amount of strength in the push up and pull up area over the last few months. The thing I really noticed is my stamina for pull ups and push ups is way down too. Diet is definitely getting better with even more room for improvement. I want to get back on low carb for cardio days and slightly higher for weight lifting days. I can tell my weight is up as I feel more bloated and my clothes are slightly tighter. If I had to guess I would say I weight like 205ish. There were a few pictures taken of me with my shirt off which I really tried to avoid. Let me tell you I am no where near where I want to be body wise. I still wonder if my genetics will ever let me achieve the body image I would like to obtain. Even though I am somewhat strong my muscles do not show it. I am still very soft with a dough boy appearance. Pretty much like a bunch of fat hanging on a skeleton. But my mind continues to say "Theres no other option, keep trying".

Tonight brings Plyometrics which is a brutal P90x workout but something in me is still looking forward to jumping around with my old buddy Tony Horton.

Hope this finds you all well.... write a update on your blog, many of you are slacking in the blogging department. Lets change that, ok?