Keep eating that fatty...

I took my stomach circumference and it was almost 2" bigger than when I got to this place!! Whoa heart stopper and my sketchy fat caliper said whoa fatty keep eating that...needless to say I know my eating hasn't been the best since I've been here.  I struggled mentally for the last few months to diet or not to diet, basing my decision on the fact that I am here.  Pity would be the word.  I volunteered to come here and although I long to be home and I miss the comforts of being home, I made a choice to be here and deal with my situation.  I keep saying I'm going to do this challenge and that, but the fact is I need to find a lifestyle that works that I can adjust based on my body's responses.  In order to do this I have to be able to recognize what my body is saying. Central adiposity (more fat around the waist area)...according to some reading I have been doing this is associated with elevated stress levels.  How do I fix this?  I am living in a stress filled environment.  I have things outside of my control now that are causing a huge amount of stress for me, I am stressed about my lack of employment when I come back, I'm stressed about my body and the list goes on...

Two things I have taken away from this reading that I will start immediately are using breathing to calm myself down and getting enough good restful sleep.

I do this self test all the time in my room:

I call it my bagel

I am ready to leave it behind.  On my path of actually sticking to a program for 90 days, I am still on my LBEB Oly lifting program.  Already on week 4!  I have had some longish metcons on Saturdays and from the guidance of my forever coach I will be shortening those up to benefit what I am trying to accomplish.  Also, I have started adding ancillary work to help build strength into the MU!  I am also adding in some cardio to round out the next 90 days.  I have been reading Outlaws programming and I am eager to give it the next 90 days!  I really like his programming and also the way he writes...pretty entertaining.

In other news, I have a competition this Friday.  I am pretty excited to go to it, the first event is a clean and jerk ladder (jerk is optional), but I'll get to test all the work I have been doing on my clean and jerk!  On the Fourth to celebrate our independance I'll be running a 10k got to get that LSD in!

I've read 5 books since I've been here all interesting in their own way...my most recent was The Alchemist.  It was different but good.  I read it in one day.  Next on the list is Why Zebras don't get Ulcers.  Pretty excited to read that one and as always I am slowly plugging away at my nutrition cert!

I'll be taking pictures and posting them on 1 July or around there.  I have a buddy that said he eat healthy/clean to support me until I got but we are both taking pictures and are on the same workout plan.

Thats the news from here...stay classy