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I posted this over on MFP... so for any of my buddies that are over there you can ignore this..
I have not stepped on the scale in almost a month, actually its been 27 days. I have no idea if I am up, or if I am down or where I am. I decided not to step on the scale while doing the JM 30 day shred, but I haven't done that since last week. I feel like a fake.
Here are the reasons why I have not done JM shred since last week:
1. knee pain - I used to play baseball, I used to be the back catcher, I screwed my knees up pretty good (the tendon in both my knees rubs the bone wrong and I get pretty nasty bone chips if I am not careful) and now any time I do lunges, squats or the like it kills me, so listening to my body is the key, I will continue to do it but the 30 day shred will take me a whole lot longer than just 30 days.
2. I have to pack and clean an entire house (5 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a laundry room, a kitchen, 1 bathroom - the second one is tore apart. I have one brother that still lives with me but he works 10 hour nights in a metal manfuacturing plant so asking him to help is generally out of the question, my other 2 room mates that just moved out will be of no help because they are "busy".
3. I have have a nasty case of the fuck-its (I like that better than a case of depression). It happens every year, this year is worse as my niece just moved out after having her live with me for 4 years.
I have not weighed myself in 27 days because I got tired of seeing 206.6 on the damn scale. This week I lowered my calorie goal to 1200, we will see how I do with that. For now the plan is to NOT eat back my exercise calories (please do not flame me, I have talked to my Dr. he has said to try it and see, but being as I have the slowest metabolism on earth, and a thyroid issue I could be eating way to many calories), if I am hungry I will obviously eat back some of them - if not all.
There are lots more reasons I am sure but honestly I am not going to rack my brain coming up with them.. these feel like I am making excuses for myself, I do not like making excuses,
Between now and January 3rd my life is quite hectic, I have 3 birthdays (one of which is my own, my best friends and my nieces), there is Christmas, and new years, and a whole lot of moving and packing and cleaning happening. My time at the gym will be short and sweet if there is time for the gym, I am hoping to off set the missing gym link with cleaning, it will not be light cleaning as it is washing walls, carpets, floors and moving things. I probably will not step on the scale until January 13th. It will give me time to get back to normal and into my new house.
I would like to look my best in June as my brother is graduating and I have dreaded family pictures, when I started losing weight I wanted to be at my goal by then - I know this will never happen but I would like to at least be down 20 pounds... if its possible I doubt it but a loss in inches would make me extremely happy too.
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