April 9, 2012 9:31 PM JST

Blog - Easter weekend edition

So this has been a crazy few days.

I got here on day 47 of the program and was still feeling the impact of those steroid injections - I am peeing constantly and am often thirsty, indicating that my blood sugars are running high.  The good news (I guess) is that I have thrown weight off like no one's business.  Today, the morning of Day 50, I weighed in at 207 which is a ridiculous weight to be at given where I was a week ago.  I felt like I was "due" a quick drop in 2-3 pounds as I had been weighing in around the same weight for 6 straight days even though I had been behaving very well, but this is a very significant loss and I would assume that as my body adjusts to the steroids I will get back to a more reasonable point.

I have kept up with the cardio up here; running two days and going for 25+ minute walks every day.  I did not do any mat work as I am still having problems with that trap and it is radiating down to my elbow.  I return to Canada tomorrow so I will get back on the mat work horse and clear up my backlog, I realy don't like being behind - particularly this far behind - the program there.

The only somewhat bad thing was that I didn't stick to the diet up here as well as I would have liked.  I was totally on point for breakfast, lunch and snacks but for dinner there was no way I could do the evening meal and be polite.  The first night my mother had made lasagna, the second we had swordfish and the third we had Easter ham so while I was off diet I portion controlled very strictly and only ate about 3/4s of a plate's worth every night.  I never got up feeling stuffed.  I did have a few glasses of wine with my dad though, the poor guy was drinking alone and that seemed unacceptable.

So a lot of weird stuff all colliding, looking forward to getting back to normalcy this week and gaining ground on the mat work.  No excuses.