Yeah I am happy with the deficit I have been running, hoping that this Garmin knows what its talking about!

Last night rode the bike while watching designated survivor. So far it's great, haven't seen it before but stayed up way to late watching it. Made the bike ride go by fast.

As I said yesterday morning, I seemed to be hungry all day. Still managed to have a nice deficit though.

Calories in 2415 Calories out 4132 for a deficit of 1717

Running deficit 10656
Theoretical weight lost 3.04lbs

Crawled out of bed this morning, bundled up and went for a walk back up to the church. Need to do this every single day while I can. Looked at the long term forecast and it is going to drop into the deep freeze in a couple weeks. Looking at high -20s and even some days of mid -30s.

Last night was both positive and negative. Got to the apartment with all of the enthusiasm in the world, threw on my workout gear and decided to start Insanity. All was going good for the first 20 minutes. Minute 21 hits and both of my hamstrings start to tighten up, less than a minute later my workout was over. Made it less than half way through the video.

After that I took my workout gear off and laid down on the bed feeling sorry for myself. Thinking about all of the things that were plaguing me, being sore, tired, homesick, cold I figured I was done for the night. Then I started looking on my computer at past photos of me and somehow a little bit of enthusiasm came back. Hopped on the bike and busted out a 48 minute ride. Averaged a heart rate of 152BPM with a maximum of 174.

Calories were right where they needed to be.

Calories in 1937 Calories out 4125 for a deficit of 2188

Running deficit 14 797
Theoretical weight lost 4.23lbs

Woke up and went for a super easy walk, more of a stroll. My lower body is pretty sore but I needed the steps so I went for it. It's still -18 but the wind is blowing and feels much much colder. I am hoping that the weather network is wrong, no way I can walk in -36 soon.

Yesterday didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Attempted another Insanity video and made it about 23 minutes into a workout and my right knee started to... ping?? I don't know how to describe it. Shooting pain behind my knee cap. I immediately shut it down just to make sure that I didn't hurt myself. I'm wondering if every part of my body is going to hurt the first time I work it out.

Anyways instead of getting a decent workout in I decided to gorge myself on BBQ pork from the vendor outside of my apartment. I probably didn't need to eat and extra 700 calories of straight meat right before bed, but oh was it good.

Calories in 2674 Calories out 3617 for a deficit of 943

Running deficit 15 740
Theoretical weight lost 4.50lbs

Had a terrible sleep and didn't get up to walk this morning. My starting enthusiasm might be starting to wear a bit thin. Just a touch more than 2 weeks left of work!

Yesterday I am going to chalk up as a mental health day. As I mentioned before I didn't walk in the morning, by the time I got home at 8pm I had a near comatose like 1777 steps. I got home and was mentally defeated. Ended up getting into my workout gear, started a workout but quit within minutes and couldn't muster up the effort to do anything else.

Calories in 2042 Calories out 2937 deficit of 895

Running deficit 16 635
Theoretical weight lost 4.75lbs

So knowing that I had a crappy day when it came to exercise and deficit I promised myself I would crawl out of bed early and head for a walk. I put my gear on and had a glorious 56 minute walk in the ankle deep fresh light powdered snow. It was a great way to start the day. I commented on it many months ago, simply getting out for a walk in the morning sure puts my head in a better place for the day ahead.

My lower body is still extremely sore but am going to try some Insanity tonight again. I haven't had any success getting a workout in with it yet but I am determined to not give up. It is what was changing my body so much before, I would like to get to that point again.

Finally had an Insanity workout last night that I am proud of. It was the first time this shift that the reason that I had to stop was because my fitness level wasn't there, not because my body parts were hurting me. There was even a spot where I had to rest because my heart rate hit 180. Although it may sound weird that I am happy I had to rest due to my physical ability, it's much much better than having to stop because my body was failing. Physical endurance and strength can be built on, getting hurt is getting hurt. All in all it was a pretty good feeling and I ended the workout a sweaty mess.

Calories in yesterday were 2112 calories out 3864 for a deficit of 1752

Running deficit 18 387
Theoretical weight lost 5.25lbs

I don't know if it was the high from working out, or some stress from dealing with issues from my small business back home but had a really hard time getting to sleep. Laid in bed for well over an hour tossing and turning. I did get up and go for a walk but only had time for 35 minutes.

With any luck I will be able to have another successful workout tonight!

Last night had a lack luster Insanity workout. Not happy about it but not too disappointed, I just thought that after a day of rest I would have had more energy then that.

Unfortunately I ate a large snack after my workout and that put a damper on my huge deficit I had going.

Calories in 2170 Calories out 3901 for a deficit of 1731

Running deficit 24117
Theoretical weight lost 6.89lbs

I am excited to get home and compare my actual weight to what I was "supposed to lose"

This morning I woke up a bit too late. I didn't have enough time to get a meaningful walk in so I hopped on my bike for a fairly easy 30 minute ride.

My watch has been bothering me for the last two days. I don't know what I changed but it is having a hard time reading my pulse. I do have a rather large (4") scar on my wrist that I wear it on but changing hands didn't help for my last two workouts. Hopefully it smartens up.