I never did make it back, did I? Sorry about that. The only thing with which I struggle more than my weight at the moment is my time management.

As you can see, this week represents my first real loss — 1 lb. I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard for a one pound loss in my life. My workouts continue, but we’ve tweaked things a bit. For cardio, I’m doing cardiovascular endurance building (working out just below my anaerobic threshold) three days a week with my “Team” (aka fat club), and then working out in my lowest fat burning zone (about 60% of my maximum heart rate) for the other three workouts (for a total of six cardio workouts per week). The move to a lighter workout on my non-team days was very counterintuitive to me… apparently, I most efficiently burn fat in my lowest zone, so that’s where we’re focusing for now. It’s miserably boring… an hour at a time on the treadmill at an almost literal crawl. I’m going to start downloading some audio books to get me through… I’m open to recommendations!

For my strength training, I’m still working with my trainer 5 days a week, but two of those days have become dedicated to private yoga lessons to boost my overall muscle condition and flexibility. I’m finally starting to hit a stride to where this workout schedule isn’t feeling quite as heavy.

We tweaked my diet pretty significantly, too. My nutrition coach took me to a low glycemic diet — which essentially means that anything remaining before that was quasi-fun (i.e. whole wheat bread, sweet potatoes) is now gone. Apparently, I am what they call a sugar burner… my body gives complete preference to burning sugar over fat whenever it can find it, so the cure is to strip it from my diet. No, this is not fun at all. If I don’t eat every three hours, I get a pretty substantial headache… but as long as the scale keeps moving downward, I’ll find a way to deal. If it would pick up its motion by another pound a week, I’d be thrilled.

I’ve also started chiropractic treatment to correct some posture and muscular imbalance issues we’ve stumbled upon during my training. My chiropractor is amazing — his specialty is applied kinesiology, and the wide scope of treatments he offers is unlike anything I’ve witnessed before. Unlike other chiropractors I’ve had, he’s not solely interested in performing adjustments… he’s also interested in diagnosing (and, as possible, treating) the underlying biomechanical issues that are causing problems. With all of the folks I’ve got working on me right now, I’m definitely feeling like Humpty Dumpty… I just hope the King’s Men have better luck this time.