Dizzyness and the diet

I haven't counted calories, but I would think that I am taking in between 1700 - 2000 per day.  I eat a high protein breakfast and small snack a healthy lunch another small snack, dinner, and possibly another small snack.  All told, the meals are relatively small and the snacks usually consist of an apple or a 1/4c of nuts and seeds, but the the overall intake should be pretty close to my target calorie level and yet I have been feeling dizzy during workouts and struggling with my energy level.  I am not saying I feel tired all day, in fact, I have plenty of energy throughout the day, but at the 10-12 minute mark of a 15-20 minute workout I am spent.  Totally gassed.  Having trouble breathing, not sweating a lot, feeling dizzy, and definately short of breath.  A day off of exercise and a few more calories and we will see where it leads me.  Overall, staying the course.

A New Week

Operation: Moderation deemed a success.  The pitfalls came the day after, and suprisingly is has nothing to do with eating, lack of eating, or the kinds of food I ate.  With snow on the horizon (supposedly 8-12 inches), I geared myself towards going to bed early, getting up every few hours and checking on the weather, and when the time was right, getting the crews and myself out to plow and shovel some of the white gold.  As it happens, I got to bed about 11:30, got up every couple of hours, but and the snow never came.  The downside to this is that I was too tired for a morning workout and my evening appointments kept me from making the 5 o'clock workout.  Short story long, day of good eating + a day with no exercise = just another day in a new week.  The positive is, I am fresh for a few intense workout days this week.  Time to hit it hard.

Superbowl Sunday

Waffles, Eggs, and Bacon were the request of the 4-year old for his birthday breakfast, not a bad start.  A piece of homemade banana wasn't necessary, but delicious.  Probably some snacking today will occur.  Operation: Moderation is in effect.  Ran a couple of miles this morning in preparation, and will likely be shoveling snow for a few hours tonight.  Should be on the right track for another good week.  Starting March I will get on the scale and see where I am and what I need to do to reach some goals.  Probably be a good time to set some short and long range goals as well.

A Good Start

A reflection of the past week resolves a pretty good diet and crossfit.  Probably not enough calories to sustain the workouts in which they are intended, but in my efforts to not just eat well, but lose weight rather rapidly, a bit of suffering is to be incured.  High calorie birthday dinner for the 4 year old followed by 1 of Baskin-Robbins many flavors on Friday did not lead to an avalanche and Saturday was pretty healthy for a weekend day.

It has only been a few days, and these few were anticipated to be the toughest so things are right on course. Down to 205 this morning and although I did have pasta for lunch, I kept the proportion way down and balanced it out with a salad for lunch. Dinner was tilapia with brocoli and a salad. Roughly 600 calories. More than most dinners this week, but I am starting to feel like I am progressing in the right direction. By that I mean I am tired, recovery is taking longer than usual and I have an endless supply of cravings. The key is in the 3rd to 4th week. Balance will return and the benefits will then overtake the debts.

Stay The Course

In the past year and some odd months I have set goals to reach 175 lbs (at the time I weighed 205), I have gone on zone type diets, paleo diets, and zaleo diets.  I even cut out sugar completely for a little over 30 days.  At one point, likely due to some starvation and water reduction I weighed in at 192, the lowest I have been in several years.  The problem with that was I could not maintain that weight due mainly to the way I lost it, and went from strict "dieting" to SNAFU and went right back to 205.  From there I worked on putting on muscle and while I was still planning on dropping some LB's, I crashed mentally and decided Reeses PB cups and ice cream were better fuel than 1700-2000 calories of chicken and brocoli.  So, with no surprise I swellled up to an average weight of 211 and recently stepped on the scales to see 217 glaring back at me.  At that point I decided I had to start helping myself before I let the sugar win the fight.  After 3 days of strict adherance to good food and limiting meals to normal proportion and not feeding myself until I was stuffed I am back to my maintenance weight of 208.  So, here I go again.  Over a year ago I said I wanted to be at 175, I still do, so will I do it this year, or gain another 3 pounds.

Kicking the habit

Cutting out sugar for the most part.  I am not going to look at every label, I already know what is full of sugar and what basically has none.  I will stick to the stuff that basically has none.  My body and mind don't like that right now.  Headache is coming and leg is already sahaking.