Quick Update

So I have just about completed the first two weeks of doing unweighed and unmeasured paleo and I was kind of curious how I was doing.  I had hidden away the scale and not used it for 2 weeks, which has been sort or liberating.

I was a little nervous because I had stopped weighing everything and only had a general record of how much I was eating.  I just ate until I was full when I was hungry.  This has usually been 3 times per day, but sometimes 4.  Some days I have felt hungry and I've eaten more as a result.

I was pleased when the scale showed 202.6lbs, which is down 4 since the 1st, or 2 lbs per week.  So for now I don't need to do anything different I think, as it seems to be working fine.

I've also finished my first week of the basic program from "You Are Your Own Gym".  The program is pretty challenging, especially for my upper body days.  My legs are fairly strong so the lower body days are easier in comparison.  For upper body I hit a limit where I will fail and have to go back down the ladder, and sometimes back up and down and up and down.  For my legs though, I haven't hit a top of the ladder yet.  The workout is challenging, just I am strong enough to keep going and increasing reps.

It will be interesting to see how it goes in weeks 3 and 4 when it is interval sets where you should hit muscle failure in one of the 3 sets for each exercise.  I may end up needing to add weight to see that happen in the lower body.