D187: 04.20.23

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: 6mi/~27 min
Driver: Shotgun Messiah - Violent New Breed
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: As part of a massive WTF, I wound up getting very poor to no sleep at all on Tuesday night. I don't know if it was a bug or if my body is not loving going back to workouts closer to night after not having done that for so very long, but whatever the reason, it was not great...it didn't seem to impact recovery as much as I thought, though, and Legs were not all the way back but good enough to go today. I feel like my body, overall, is bouncing back a lot quicker to this than last time, but I really haven't started pouring in any heavy work as of yet. Air was not especially tested, as I don't think Legs are quite back enough to drive that. Cold weather is lingering on, so I imagine it will be the AirDyne for a while longer.

Me feeling embarrassed is somewhat of a good motivator for me, I see. Despite living entirely alone, I did a weigh-in on Wednesday morning, which was probably a mistake after that night, and despite not following my usual process and being slightly bloated, the scale read 261. This means I shifted 8 lbs in 6 days, which is bullshit...probably. 

In any event, I was so irritated by this result that I've decided I need to take more drastic steps with diet. While it's still cold out, I'm going to finish out the not especially healthy foods I have left, but I've decided to go back to what I always started people with back when I used to train people in college, which was in the fucking 1990s. That first step in the back to basics approach I'm doing now is to keep a food log. I'm not yet going to get into macros, at least not until I resume the gym, but I'm keeping track now, with a target daily calorie load of 2,000...ideally, this will also be spread across 4 or more meals. I've gotten really bad at not paying attention, truth be told, and often I'll have that many calories, sometimes more, in a single meal, like I did Tuesday night and which may have contributed to my sleep issue then. That shit has to stop if I'm going to be serious about getting my fat ass back into shape.