Week 7 is over and here is the weekly update.
If you haven't read week 1, go to Operation Make Josh Attractive: Week 1. If you haven't read weeks 2 and 3, go to Operation Make Josh Attractive: Weeks 2 and 3. If you haven't read week 4, go to Operation Make Josh Attractive: Week 4. If you haven't read week 5, go to Operation Make Josh Attractive: Week 5. If you haven't read week 6, go to Operation Make Josh Attractive: Week 6.
Honestly I have forgotten some of the stuff I ate. I think I stuck to the diet pretty well except for two occasions. I ate a chocolate cupcake on Tuesday when a big box of them were brought to work for the second week in a row. For our Thursday lunch we went to Lanna Thai and I my usual chicken dish. It comes with a lot of rice and I ate it all, but I did do something out of the ordinary: I ate all of the vegetables that come on the side. This includes two tomato slices, a piece of broccoli (I usually eat this one though), and two cucumber slices. The tomato wasn't too bad, but the cucumber was disgusting.
For my cheat meal, I had biscuits and gravy on Sunday morning. I ended up eating six biscuits and finishing up with two Reese's big cups and one of those new caramel Reese's. My advice: stay away from the new caramel Reese's because it is not any good.
My exercises on Monday-Wednesday-Friday followed the same pattern, but the amount of weight and number of reps changed. I now have to do 12 squats and double leg bucks. This is followed by 12 bench presses and one armed rows (12 each side) with 25 pound weights. That is followed by 12 shoulder presses, bicep curls, shrugs, and triceps with 17.5 pound weights. Then I finish with 15 sit ups. Even with more weight, I am still doing pretty well I think.
Tuesday and Thursday were changed quite a bit. My roommate took me to a nearby track and had me warm up by walking a lap around it (1/4 mile track). Then I would run the 100 yard straight section, walk around the end, run the next 100 yard straight section, and walk around the other end. I would do 2 total laps each set and do three total sets with a 1 minute rest and a swig of water between each set. He said I should be running at about 50% on the straight sections. We also got a heart rate monitor to use while I am running. My heart rate is usually in the 140s but did get up to 160 at the end of a running section on a really windy day.
My weight on Sunday, May 2nd at 8 AM was down to 357.2 lbs. It's a 5 lb loss and about 48 lbs since I started this operation. My goal was to hit 50 this week, but I'm not extremely disappointed with 48.
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