Week 6 Redux!

I haven’t posted in a while, with the primary reason being I have been almost deathly ill. I had to miss two days of work and had little to no strength. I have felt guilty all week about missing my Wed workout and the Saturday BW 350 +100. So since I wasn’t able to complete the Week 6 workout. I will be doing that week over again.  I hate getting out of my routine because I am an absolute creature of habit. Looking forward to getting back on  track.

On a side note this weekend I ended up going to our High School youth groups Winter retreat(I started feeling better on Friday Night but had already made my mind up to give week 6 another go). So it wasn’t the best food, mostly pizza, chips, soda, manicotti, catered sandwiches, only breakfast did I have any healthy options. Apples, bananna’s, oranges, etc. I didn’t do the best, so I ate whatever was there. I feel like this wasn’t really that bad considering that I really didn’t eat anything but soup, water, and meds for 4 days prior. It is weird that I feel like I have lost some strength and muscle mass because of the illness. Who knows. Oh well on to Week 6 pt. 2.

Finally!

Just a quick update. I have been sick since Thursday afternoon. Today I have finally snapped out of it. I was hoping to do so. Since I did feel better I decided to do the BW 350 today instead of yesterday. I had little to no strength yesterday so I didn’t even attempt to try it then. I found that today’s workout was a real challange. My legs were burning so bad during the final BW squats. I had to break them into 4 sets of 10 to even complete them. Taking a 10-15 second break in between sets. I am sure I am going to feel this workout today. I am also very excited, for I weighed myself today. Down to 211 lbs. from the 216 last sun. Granted 2lbs of that was probably water weight from the SB sunday I had. So I Look at it like I lost 3 lbs. this week. Some might be attributed to my being ill and not being able to hold much down. Lots of soup and water. That is about it. So I am not looking to lose to much during week 6. Hopefully just 1-2lbs. I would be very happy with that. Hard to believe that it was just 5 weeks ago and I was 228 lbs and couldn’t do 20 push ups without absoulutely dying.  Keeping strong. RClem24 -OUT-

What an Evening!

Since I have been doing the Belly Off! Program. I have lost 14lbs, and have gotten much stronger. The only problem is that I get to see myself nake everyday. So it is difficult to see the difference in my appearance. Of course my only true gauge is that my pants are almost falling off of me now and my belt buckle is on the last loop. So something must be working, Right. Not to mention I feel great.

I have titled this post What an Evening for the story that follows. I attend the Vine Community Church in Carbondale Illinois. Home of the SIU Salukis. I am very active in the church, Weekly Attendee, Run Sound for Sunday Morning Service, Tuesday Night Small Group, and am one of the leaders in the High School, Jr. High School group NEOvia. The 1st tuesday of each month all of the small groups that meet on Tuesday come together at the church for something called Discipleship Community. DC for short.  All in all it is just one giant Small group. Most of these people I only get to see in an intamate setting like this one time per month, at DC. Since I go to a relatively large church(around 1100 people) it is difficult to keep in touch with everyone or even know 1/3 of the people that you attend with. Not to mention we have 3 different services.  That is why the small groups and DC are so important to the core of our church. Anyways enough about church. Last night was such a great evening, because  5 different people I know(3 women, 2 men) came up to me and said, “Randy, have you lost weight? You look like you have.” Of course I told them about the Belly Off! Program and how great it was working out for me.  Feels nice to have people notice. Looking forward to the rest of my healthy life. Rclem24 -OUT-

Hello world!

Well this is my first attempt at launching myself into the blogasphere. I am going to update all who care ASAP.  Thanks to Sloshbg and NoMoreFatDad for helping me get up and going. I have a whole lot of info and so little time. Will be updating soon on the Men’s Belly Off! Plan and what meals I have had for the last two weeks. I will also be posting some photos and trying to give day by day results,frustrations and overall feelings about a day in the life of Rclem24. -OUT-