The Shrinking Man

Okay, so after a bunch of contemplation, research and just asking myself, “Can I really do this,” here’s my test plan for the next two weeks:

Eating

• Smart for Life: 6 cookies during the day (unless I’ve eaten one of the new yummy Eating Right soups from Safeway for lunch; it’ll be 5 for those days), then a dinner on their plan, except for 2-4 oz. more protein
• Nature’s Best Zero Carb Isopure, Creamy Vanilla flavor, mixed with already-prepared Crystal Light orange (the line that’s designed for mornings). Drink after exercise for 50g of protein over and above what’s provided for on S4L (which I still think is too little for people)

Exercise

• in the AM (ugh), Sunday through Friday
• “Hard days” on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday; “Easy days” Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  • Hard days: Turbulence Training for bodyweight exercises for muscle strength/building, and Pace Power for the interval training on the elliptical (40 mins. 10-15 mins. for TT bodyweight; 20 mins. of Pace Power)
  • Easy days: Turbulence Training’s interval training on the elliptical and/or recumbant (just 20 mins.)
• Saturdays off - S4L weigh-in day

As I said up top, I’m giving this two weeks, to see how my body reacts vis-a-vis the “scale.” I’m guessing my weight loss on the scale will slow, but at the same time I’ll be gaining muscle while losing fat. When I’m at S4L this weekend, I’ll get my weigh-in on the fancy-schmancy Tanita scale that does a good job at analyzing fat and muscle loss/gain, to see what’s happening.

I’ll make some kind of decision about what I’ll do going forward in two weeks. So, April 26th will likely be a big day in the Shrinking Man process. No matter what happens, I’ll still lose weight. This is just an experiment, as I try to pull together the best of everything I’ve found and put it to use. Wish me luck!

A brief one, since I’m really crushing on the ol’ main project …

After three two-and-a-half days in Atlanta with Italian cooking, steaks, and a great local beer called SweetWater 420, I thought I was in huge trouble — especially since I did this late in the week, and my weigh-in was Saturday morning. I didn’t even weigh myself before going to the local Smart for Life.

Well, after all of that — I was only up 2 lbs! What helped me, I think, was that while I pretty much went off the reservation at dinner, I did do all of my cookies during the day. So my overall caloric intake wasn’t as bad as it could have been. And believe me, with everyone around me going to places like the Waffle House for breakfast and lunch, I could have done much, much worse.

So I’m back on it. We’ll see what happens this week. Here’s to your health!

NOTE TO READERS: From here on down are my old blog postings. Thanks.

… about posting once before I move to a new blog (and take all of my stuff with me, because it is my stuff, ya know).

I’m actually going to write two postings. One (this one) is the one I promised on a great protein mix that I’m using in conjunction with Smart for Life compliant, while exercising at the same time. The other will be an update on my weight loss after two weeks of exercising while on the Smart for Life (S4L) program. The question I’ll be answering is: Can you actually lose weight and exercise while being on S4F, considering that they all but forbid you to exercise while on it?

All right, here we go on the protein mix.

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Now there’s three words you usually don’t see in one sentence or headline. But here’s the upcoming schedule of gizmos (keeping in mind our definition of “gizmo”) to be reviewed:

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