Week 3 Progress Update

It's time to post my Week 3 pictures, but my picture taker is in school right now, so I promise to get them up later today. I'm closing out Week 3 and heading into Week 4 at this point. Here is a quick summary of my progress so far.

Pounds lost - about 5
Five pounds in 3 weeks probably doesn't seem too great, but I'm training so hard that my muscles are in a constant state of repair. I know that I've lost more fat than 5 pounds. I've been tracking my measurements and plan to post a nice little graph showing my progress in a more accurate way. :-)

Eating Clean Update
This is going very well so far. My skin looks amazing and I do feel in control of things. I got a little off track this weekend, but nothing I can't recover from easily. I've learned that the real way to avoid pitfalls is by having food available on hand. I'm going to spend some time today cooking things I'll need to have available this week. I've discovered some items this week that I'm going to share in a separate post.

Exercise Update
While I'm still training hard everyday, I am unable to run on the treadmill anymore. Despite my daily dose of Glucosamine, my knees are protesting the impact. My knees were already bad, and trying to run on them as a nearly 200 pound person isn't working out. The Bodybugg gets up to about a 9 to 10 cal/min burn rate when I run. I haven't been able to top that with the other machines. The truth is that I'm just going to have to drop some pounds before I can run. The stepmill and the elliptical are my new machines of choice. I've also been doing WiiFit during the day, which has been fun. I plan on doing a WiiFit/BodyBugg experiment this week. If you aren't familiar with the Nintendo Wii, or WiiFit, I'll be posting on it soon.

Strength training is going pretty well. I still haven't claimed my place in the free-weight area at the gym, but I did buy weights and a bench to use at home. My weight training has been fairly unstructured up to this point. I've been doing machines at the gym and lifting enough weight to get a nice burn, but I didn't doucment what I did or do the same things in any sort of pattern as I had hoped to. This week I will add some consistency and documentation. Wish me luck!