Countdown to 30: 14 Days to Go

4/1: 157.0
4/2: 155.0
4/3: 155.2
4/4: 154.6
4/5: 154.8
4/6: 154.2
4/7: 153.2
4/8: 154.8
4/9: 152.6
4/10: 151.2
4/11: 153.2
4/12: 152.2
4/13: 152.2
4/14: 152.4
4/15: 153.2
4/16: 152.2
4/17: 152.0
4/18: 151.8
4/19: 152.0
4/20: 152.0
4/21: 152.0
4/22: 152.6

Up a hair today after yesterday's feast, but that was pretty easy to see coming, and frankly I'm surprised I didn't see more of a bump this AM. Generally restaurant meals, even super healthy, clean meals such as my husband and I enjoyed last night will cause a substantial upswing in scale weight the next day because of the enormous quantity of salt that's used to make those restaurant meals so delicious.

A half pound increase is really nothing. A really sodium and/or sugar laden meal eaten late in the day can translate to three or five pounds of retained water the next morning. When this happens, it's important to remember that you did not actually really gain 5 pounds (this is where tracking moving averages is reassuring). Drink plenty of water, get back to eating simple, clean food and the hydration thing will work itself out over a day or two.

So this morning I went in for spin class-at the moment the only bike training I'm really getting. 60 minutes, lots of hill work....a great class as usual. In the afternoon before work I went back to the gym for the Crossfit Mainsit WOD: Heavy Deadlifts, 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1

I am super happy with how this workout went:
135 warm up
185 - 205 - 215 (fail, too big a jump, didn't budge) - 205 - 210 (belted from here on out) - 215 - 220 - 225

225 is 10 pounds heavier than my Crossfit Total Deadlift from a week or so ago, so that felt awesome. Also, after my off-day with heavy squats on Monday it just felt good to dial in, focus and PR. Yeah, deadlifts! Kevin says I'm pulling big boy weights now...and thinking about it, 225 is the bar plus 2, 45# plates per side. I was dinking around with 2.5# plates to maneuver up to my PR weight, but if I had arranged it right at the end I would have pulled 4 plates off the ground. That's pretty incredible considering how my deadlift has been my weakest lift, historically. I feel really great about the progress.