Power 90 day 120/90
Welcome back to Tim Loses it. For starters, let me apologize for the recent
silence coming from this blog. As many
of you know I started this blog as I started the Beach Body workout routine to
show how much weight I lost in 90 days.
Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans… Instead I dropped 15 pounds in the first
couple weeks, and then hit a plateau where I have been stuck at 300 pounds for
the last 90 days.
In the end depression snuck in, and although I never
quit working out altogether and I never all together quit eating well, I did
drift from where I started. My calories
drifted up to about 2500 a day and my workouts drifted down to just a couple
times a week. Now I find myself a month
away from our big Disney vacation still with 50 pounds to lose.
Well, let’s be real. I can’t lose 50 pounds in a month, but if I
could break the plateau, I could lose 10 or more. So the next month is my new goal. Today is Friday October 28th, and
I am giving myself 4 weeks, until Friday October 26th to try to break
through this plateau and lose some weight.
However to do exactly what I have been doing would be crazy as it hasn’t
been doing the trick up to this point.
So with 4 weeks to go, I am going to mix it up a
little -- try to shock my body into losing some weight. Week one I am going to go Low Calorie. 1200 a day (well between 1200 and 1250 and it
can be tough to stop on a dime.) Also
starting Monday I will be back to workouts. I will probably stick with weight loss Yoga
and Power 90 Sculpt 3-4 as my energy level is already down after only 1 day at
1200 calories. I’m not sure how I will
be by Friday, but hopefully still on my feet.
Well here we go, Here is my menu for the day:
Breakfast
– Special K Protein Bar – (170 Calories)
Mid
Morning Snack – None
Lunch
– McDonalds Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken, Fruit and Yogurt Parfait (440
Calories)
Afternoon
Snack – ½ cup low fat cottage
cheese (100 Calories)
Dinner – 3 scrambled eggs, ¼ cup cheddar
cheese, 1 tbsp low fat margarine (360 Calories)
Evening Snack – Del Monte Diced Apples and Pears in light syrup with Caramel flavor, ¼ cup low fat cottage cheese (110 Calories)
Total Calorie Count
for the Day 1180, its true it’s under 1200, but it will cover things if my
measurements were off on the cheese.
Well if you’re
still interested in following me, I will try to do a better job this time
around. And I hope you are still going
strong on your healthy lifestyle changes… Till Later…
Hi Tim
ReplyDeleteBig thumbs up and tons of respect for your effort. I was thinking of doing Power90 and then P90X myself, so I read up on a bunch of stuff amongst which is the diet part.
I will keep it short as I have no intention of lecturing someone who has already proven that they can bring it for 90+ days... But I have read in tons of places that 1200 Cals per day is just not enough for even a small guy like me (5 ft 7, about 200 lbs). I'm sure you are/were starving your body and it went into ultra-saving mode and stored each calory away for later. That's the reason why you plateaud as much in my humble and inexperienced opinion.
I read through a few blogs so I can kick my own butt when I would like to call it quits, because so many ppl finished the whole program. This one (http://jonsaxon.com/power90/?m=200901), besides yours, I liked a lot, as the guy keeps a positive mindset the whole time even if the weight isn't disappearing as fast as he would like. He also started out taking in 1200 cals/day, but over time and after getting nutrition tips he upped it to about 1800-2200. I think the P90 guide would also put me in or around that area. I think a lot of ppl just focus too much on the cals and think that the more they shave off, the quicker they lose the weight. Or do they want to punish themselves for binging all these years?
Anyways, as you seem to have no problem sticking to the diet, check that blog out and maybe think on the fact that you can't build a cathedral of a body using sand. You need something stronger! You need to fuel and stimulate muscles that can burn away your fat instead of starving off fat. Fat is inactive, just like the life style that generated it.
Well... I'll stop here as I ranted on more than I intended to. I just was so impressed with your effort that I felt I needed to say this as you don't seem to be getting the results you hoped for and even deserve in my view. Hell, I even registered a profile on this site, just for this purpose :-)