Progress Report and Weekly Check-In

It is time for my first weekly check-in as well as my mid month progress report. First things first, when I weighed myself and took my body fat percentage this morning I discovered that I have remained static this month. Although, I am also beginning to see a slight improvement with my upper body muscle definition. I know, it is slight, but if we didn't celebrate the small things in life, we would be constantly miserable.  I am planning to reward myself this weekend with a nice pedicure. After all, I deserved it! 

158 lb. 24.9% Body Fat

 

This week I have been doing a lot of lower body workouts in an attempt to allow my elbow and shoulder to heal. With luck I will be able to return to moderate upper body workouts next week. I have started running again and as of next week, I will officially start training with my awesome running coach. I can't wait!  

My Brain Keeps Playing Tricks On Me

Right after the cleanse, I noticed an increase in anxiety and general feeling of dissatisfaction. At first, I attributed this to the lack of running due to shin splints and inability to do some upper body work due to an inflamed case of tennis elbow.  After further examination of my daily routine, I came to the conclusion that although injuries play a big part in my disheartened feeling, what makes an even bigger impact is diet. I can't say that I slipped. I still eat clean (except for last Saturday. I paid dearly for that one), I just don't eat enough. 

I realized that as I switched from running to swimming and elliptical for my off day cardio and eliminated certain exercises from  my upper body routine, I have been feeling less hungry. Naturally, I started eating less. What I didn't take into account was that I am still burning about the same amount of calories. Basically, my feeling of "satisfaction" had to be completely mental. 

Today, I made a concentrated effort to get my food intake back on track. It would be traumatizing to wake up one morning and realize that I began to lose all this glorious muscle.