I have been stuck at 183 pounds for several weeks.  It’s getting a bit frustrating.  I wanted to be in the 170s by this point in my journey, and I’m not.  I’m not unhappy being 183 because it’s still progress, and it is feeling good, but I want to get past this plateau.

I tried calorie cycling, and it definitely has potential.  But I found it difficult for me because I had to pay too much attention, and I had to plan everything out in the morning.  How much was I going to work out affected how much I needed to eat.  And if I i wasn’t planning on working out until the evening it really threw me off.  Because I would need to eat more during the day, but I didn’t feel like eating more since I hadn’t worked out yet.

It’s my own shortcoming that makes calorie cycling hard for me.  I am such a creature of habit.  I have trained myself over these last few months to not eat during the day, and to eat small meals.  On the days that I’m supposed to eat more calories, I would forget, and then in the evening I didn’t want to eat the deficit.  So my first venture in calorie cycling has not been a success.  But I’ll try it again in a few weeks.

I have to get refocused on the basics.  I need to run more miles.  I need to keep my calories as low as possible.   I need to get back to the things that got the first 15 pounds off of me.  Running and eating right.   That’s where I will put my focus.  I have two months before I turn 40.  Two months.  It’s go time.

I have been keeping a close eye on my calories, but I haven’t been running nearly as much as I’d like.   It’s mostly been weather related, but I cannot use the weather as an excuse.   I