Wednesday Wii Weigh In

We got the Wii and the Wii Fit a while back, and while we don't use it a ton, it is pretty cool. I especially like it simply for tracking my weigh ins. It is the most accurate scale I have found yet, and it is 100% consistent. It features all sorts of additional graphs, body mass percentage, etc. I've found that weighing in once a week on Wednesday works best for me. If I do it more often than that, there can be natural daily fluctuations that get me worrying about things that I don't need to think about. And Wednesday is good because weekends are a natural time to eat things a little less healthy, so that way I get Monday and Tuesday to get back on track.

Today's weigh in: 293.4

This pisses me off.

My last weigh in was in mid-March and I was 280 on the nose. Shortly after that I started having some back pains flare up. I have soreness off and on in my neck and upper back, but these were shooting pains in my lower back--atypical for me. They got so bad that I really couldn't do my lifting so I went to see a back specialist, who took x-rays and let me know that I have bone spurs on my spine. Lovely. There isn't a ton they can do. He prescribed a few physical therapy sessions, but these were basically worthless. I learned a few (common sense) strengthing exercises that I could do perfectly well on my own, rather than paying a $20 copay to have someone else tell me to do them.

I also took a couple of rounds of steroids to help out the area. Clearly I was not getting the same good stuff that Barry Bonds and A-Rod got, because all they did was make me starving and lethargic, which is an optimum combination to gain back weight by the bucketload, which is exactly what I did. Finally, things just cleared up on their own. I went back to lifting weights and I have been okay since then.

But I can't believe that I weigh 293. That means I was 13 pounds lighter just a few months ago, and nearly 20 pounds lighter back in the fall of 2007. Honestly, it doesn't feel like it. Almost 20 more pounds, just to get back to where I was? I really don't feel that different. I'm wearing 40 inch waist pants now, which is what I was back to then, aside from an ambitious pair of 38s I bought at my best point two years ago, and even those were a little snug at the time. I really think I must have added some muscle mass...at least a little. Don't get me wrong, I'm not buffed out by any means. But I'm able to do more upper body lifting across the board, so I think I may have changed a handful of pounds from fat to muscle.

All I can do is keep plugging along. I've done great with the workout schedule lately, and I need to keep that up. I'm not going to set firm goals like "lose 10 pounds by mid-August" this time, because all I can do is eat right and exercise and see what happens. I feel good, though. I'm in a good groove and when that's the case, I know I can keep it up.

Monday dinner: roasted catfish, with the fire roasted tomato and olive sauce I've been doing with tilapia. Had steam packs of rice and snap peas to go with it. Last night was taco salad (90-10 beef) with black beans and mixed vegetables over a spinach-romaine combo of greens. I really like this, and for once, I was able to skip the post-dinner snack. This was mainly due to the fact that I was so pissed about the Red Sox game that I wanted to break something.

But I'll take anything that helps.