Stalled

As of my official weigh-in on Monday, I'm 2.6 lbs short of an even 100lbs of weight loss this year.  I weighed myself today and I had actually picked up a few pounds, but I know its water.  I'll get rid of that soon enough.  

So far my revamped workout routine is going well.  Really well, in fact.  I'm back to lifting 5 days a week now with reduced poundage and increased reps, and I won't lie...I've had the pump of love after every workout so far this week.  Don't get me wrong, I still have way too much body fat.  I'm no bodybuilder and I still have work to do.  But I'm on my way, and thats what counts.

 The shoulder is feeling pretty good.  I ran into a little more pain than normal today while doing shrugs, so that tells me I need to drop the weight there.  Not a problem, I can do that.  I believe that I have fully accepted the mental aspect of the reduced poundage already, and thats huge.  Ego is a funny thing as I've mentioned before...you all know this.  But I believe that I've been able to set aside my ego from the poundage aspect and concentrate on whats best for my program.

I've also upped my cardio to 45 minutes daily, 60 minutes on days I don't lift...which is usually only on Saturdays, but its a quality workout.  My ultimate target weight range is still on-track for this summer.  Once I hit that range (which has a 20lb variance) I will change my diet up a little.  I won't lie...I miss being able to go to BK or Wendys on a whim.  But right now I can't because I need to lose body fat.  Once I do that, as long as I keep the majority of my diet on track, I can deviate a bit more than usual.  I won't obsess over 3lbs here or there because I'll be in my target weight-range.

I won't be skinny.  I could be skinny (ish), but to get to that point would take a lot of effort; maintaining it would take even more.  I've learned to be ok with the idealogy of me being a bit paunchy but fairly well developed from a muscular standpoint.  In short, I'm ok if I have a bit of a belly.  I just want to be able to eat what I want more than once a week lol.

But this week it will happen, I believe it.  I will hit that 100lbs of weight loss mark this week.  And when I do I'll blog about it, and come clean about where my weight was really at.  :)