205.6

Started back at Crossfit on Monday after almost a month off.  It's been pretty hot, so it gets extra sweaty in there.  Here is how pretty I look after a workout.

204.4 return from trip to Mom's house

Had Nina on town for a few days, then dropped her off at the airport and went straight to my mom's house near Seattle, so diet went out the window a bit.  Now to get back on track.  The 2k calorie diet didn't seem to be working that well (got initial results, then started to stall and feel worse).  I'm thinking of doing 2500 this time.

201.2

Ran three miles yesterday.  Hopefully things get back on track and I cross under 200 in the next day or two

202.2

I would be mad if it weren't so funny.  Every time I come close to getting under 200 lbs, my weight jumps.  I didn't do anything different yesterday.  I'm going to try adding in some running today and see what happens 

200.6

Strict calorie counting is going great so far.  Hoping to keep this up until I hit 190

203.2

I've been logging every calorie I eat and keeping the total under 2000.  I'm only 3 days in, but it's already had a big effect.  It should be easy to get down to 190 if I keep this up.

209 - Ran Spartan Sprint on Saturday (photo)

I ran the Spartan Sprint at Washougal MX Park on Saturday, it was a great course and definitely a lot harder than the Rugged Maniac courses I've done.  I finished in 1 hour 49 minutes, which put me about 780th place (out of 4611 people).  I'd like to do the Super & Beast length Spartan courses next year. 

But, my weight has ballooned suddenly, which I'm guessing is partly due to swelling, and I wasn't eating that great leading up to the race, so I expect the weight to come back down.

My attempts to cut calories over the last couple weeks failed miserably.  I'm not really sure why.  I ate significantly less, but gained about .2 per day until I hit 206, then jumped to today's 209.  The lesson learned is that I'm going to have to actually count and track calories if I want to keep losing weight, the easy days of just "eating less" are gone, I'm not fat enough for guess-work anymore.