Well, I'm finally home after a two-week travel stint: one week in India for work and then another in Georgia to see ParentsOfTheWife. All was good. Luckily, missed getting rained on in Bombay, as apparently the monsoon was a few days delayed. However, we got monsoons and more in Georgia, where it rained 4 of the 6 days we were there.
For now, it's back at the house, cleaning up the disaster zone that this place has become after nearly a month of neglect. Yesterday, I spent about three hours cleaning up the kitchen, washing pots and pans, and wiping down the counters. Today, I think I'll tackle the family room and bedroom. If I can convince TheWife to unpack any of her myriad suitcases from recent trips, I think we might actually make progress! Problem is, TheWife still hasn't unpacked all her shit since we moved here two years ago, so color me doubtful. And any iota of free time that her job lends her is spent going to outlet malls, visiting cousins, visiting friends, watching Criminal Minds, watching Cold Case, watching Law & Order: SVU, painting her toe nails, painting her finger nails, baking cupcakes, reading Wikipedia, curling her hair, straightening her hair, watching The Voice, watching Duets, etc etc etc. Somewhere, waaaaay down on the list, you will find "cleaning." But I've never seen her get that far down the list.
The one bright spot is that Bocephus and Anant took good care of the lawn while I was gone, so the house is looking quite nice on the outside. It's always nice to come home to grass that isn't knee-high, but is in fact freshly cut! Anyway, I'm weird, and these are apparently the things that I care about. Moving on.
I've been continuing the assault, and am quite hopeful and confident that I have settled into a nice, sustainable routine of eating healthy, working out regularly, and occasionally cheating. TheWife is continually pissed at me for not wanting to eat the fat-laden pastas she's always interested in, but I'm not budging, dammit! Sure, I'll let myself have a slice or two of pizza every now and then, but none of this every night nonsense. That's what got me to 203 in the first place! I've been pretty good about sticking to lean meats, vegetables, fruits and nuts and I think the results are showing.
Bocephus, Anant (to the extent that a vegetarian can), and I have all adopted a sort of "Paleo" diet recently. The basic tenets of the Paleo diet are that we should concentrate on eating naturally occurring foods that our Paleolithic ancestors ate for hundreds of thousands of years and evolved our bodies to digest most easily. Now, lest I sound crazy, I will assure you, basically, it just means cutting out a lot of the refined grains like breads, tortillas, pastas, etc., and also paring back on dairy products and just focusing on eating, as I said above, lean meats, veggies, fruits and nuts. Basically, just eating healthy. I'm trying to stick as closely to it as possible, but clearly there are weekends with friends, the occasional trip to a restaurant, etc., where the rules will have to be relaxed a bit. And that's fine by me.
The other side of the assaulting equation, exercise, has been going well too. Was able to get in five mini-crossfit workouts in my 7 days in India, and got in 6 while in Georgia. Back in CT since Sunday night, and I'm glad to say I worked out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm starting to get much better definition around the arms, legs and shoulders and the weight is still slowly melting off. When I started the assault back in December, I weighed 192 and stated a goal of 180. I hit 180 fairly recently and reset the goal to 175-170. Today, I'm at 177. So I'm headed in the right direction!
Current weight: 177.0
Target weight: 170.0
Time frame: Open-ended. Let's call it 8 weeks.
For now, it's back at the house, cleaning up the disaster zone that this place has become after nearly a month of neglect. Yesterday, I spent about three hours cleaning up the kitchen, washing pots and pans, and wiping down the counters. Today, I think I'll tackle the family room and bedroom. If I can convince TheWife to unpack any of her myriad suitcases from recent trips, I think we might actually make progress! Problem is, TheWife still hasn't unpacked all her shit since we moved here two years ago, so color me doubtful. And any iota of free time that her job lends her is spent going to outlet malls, visiting cousins, visiting friends, watching Criminal Minds, watching Cold Case, watching Law & Order: SVU, painting her toe nails, painting her finger nails, baking cupcakes, reading Wikipedia, curling her hair, straightening her hair, watching The Voice, watching Duets, etc etc etc. Somewhere, waaaaay down on the list, you will find "cleaning." But I've never seen her get that far down the list.
The one bright spot is that Bocephus and Anant took good care of the lawn while I was gone, so the house is looking quite nice on the outside. It's always nice to come home to grass that isn't knee-high, but is in fact freshly cut! Anyway, I'm weird, and these are apparently the things that I care about. Moving on.
I've been continuing the assault, and am quite hopeful and confident that I have settled into a nice, sustainable routine of eating healthy, working out regularly, and occasionally cheating. TheWife is continually pissed at me for not wanting to eat the fat-laden pastas she's always interested in, but I'm not budging, dammit! Sure, I'll let myself have a slice or two of pizza every now and then, but none of this every night nonsense. That's what got me to 203 in the first place! I've been pretty good about sticking to lean meats, vegetables, fruits and nuts and I think the results are showing.
Bocephus, Anant (to the extent that a vegetarian can), and I have all adopted a sort of "Paleo" diet recently. The basic tenets of the Paleo diet are that we should concentrate on eating naturally occurring foods that our Paleolithic ancestors ate for hundreds of thousands of years and evolved our bodies to digest most easily. Now, lest I sound crazy, I will assure you, basically, it just means cutting out a lot of the refined grains like breads, tortillas, pastas, etc., and also paring back on dairy products and just focusing on eating, as I said above, lean meats, veggies, fruits and nuts. Basically, just eating healthy. I'm trying to stick as closely to it as possible, but clearly there are weekends with friends, the occasional trip to a restaurant, etc., where the rules will have to be relaxed a bit. And that's fine by me.
The other side of the assaulting equation, exercise, has been going well too. Was able to get in five mini-crossfit workouts in my 7 days in India, and got in 6 while in Georgia. Back in CT since Sunday night, and I'm glad to say I worked out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm starting to get much better definition around the arms, legs and shoulders and the weight is still slowly melting off. When I started the assault back in December, I weighed 192 and stated a goal of 180. I hit 180 fairly recently and reset the goal to 175-170. Today, I'm at 177. So I'm headed in the right direction!
Current weight: 177.0
Target weight: 170.0
Time frame: Open-ended. Let's call it 8 weeks.
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