Fat Loss: Week Six, Day Three

I'm finding that if I can make it from lunch until my late afternoon workout without something to eat that it's a lot easier to be able to splurge at dinner. I'm not sure if it's a good thing, but in the interest of experimentation I'm going to run with it. Keep in mind that with the type of food I'm eating "splurging" at dinner still comes out to 750-900 calories, which isn't really over the top at all. To give you a comparison, one piece of plain cheesecake has 650 calories.

In any case, I came in about 200 calories under target.

Click here for today's diet journal.

Although I'm feeling like I might be coming down with something, I didn't feel sick enough to pass on a workout today. I did decide to pass on the Turkish Get-Ups since the combination of feeling out of sorts and balancing a 36 lb chunk of iron over my head sounded like a bad combination.

6:10PM - Workout duration: 28 minutes
- 2 X 8 one-legged squats each leg (54 lb kettlebell)
- 2 X 8 suitcase deadlifts each side (54 lb KB)
- 2 X 8 military presses (36 lb KB)
- 2 X 6 curls (36 lb KB)
- 2 X 10 crunches
- 2 X 20 second side bridge each side
- 2 X 15 pushups

FYI, the crunches that I do are quite grueling... not the quickie lift your head variety. They're more like a combination of power breathing and crunches, where I try to lock my ribcage into my abs by tensing, and then try to lift the upper third of my back into that tensed area while expelling air at high pressure.

Try it sometime (if you don't have a high blood pressure problem)... it's not easy.