Back on strike

My back got tweaked a few days ago lifting a case of water out of the shopping cart....

It's slowing me down but not stopping me. I think as long as I continue to be sensible it should recover in a few more days and things will be beck to normal. For now I have been going at about 70% with my workouts and that feels like the best compromise I can make right now.

It sucks too because I picked up a copy of never gymless..

Ross training Never Gymless

..and there is so much in here I want to get started on. I had to cut the beginners workout in half on reps and only did 2/3 the sets but I really wanted to get started on this material and the old back is slowing me down. Truth is I'm going to need to start with 50% reps anyway because even the beginners workout is more advanced than I can start with. No problem, I'll start here and work my way into the full beg workout and work up from there...the road is just a little longer. ;)

I've been reading a lot of nutritional info and tons of before and after success stories and it is amazing what people can do just with determination. For strictly weight loss I'm starting to believe almost any "diet" will work. I'm really happy with the choice of (eating healthy foods) as my primary nutrition plan. I could have easily chosen a system where you weight out x grams of this and drink packet b every 6 hours...or an all oatmeal and grapefruit diet. I could have chosen those things and if my resolve was set it might have worked specifically for weight loss but not for the best health.

I see movement on the scale so my next Monday weigh in should be good news.

For food I've been eating good clean foods 90% of the time. My breakfasts have been things like Kashi cereal, Kashi waffles, eggs with whole grain toast, muscle milk, and yogurt with blueberries. My lunches have been a cup of healthy soup with a seed/grain roll or tuna/chicken salad. Dinners have been including steamed vegetables, brown rice, spinach, chicken, wild salmon, grass fed beef. Tea in the evening and my snack at night has been 1/4 c yogurt with 1/4 cup Ezekiel cereal in it. Drinking only water, tea, and coffee. Drinking as much raw milk as possible and organic choices where possible.

The other 10% is still good foods just not as good...like Thai food or Luby's where the green beans taste a little to good not to have pork in the cooking process somewhere or the Salmon has a slight sheen to it that you wonder what it is...(probably not a light spritz of olive oil)... I have not gone down the road of junk foods yet so even my 10% off is still better than 99% of what I used to eat. Frightening to think about what I used to eat really. Eeesh!

That and exercise has been working so far.