Vacation Over: Damage Report (Time for Work!)

• Weight - 14st 9lb (up half a stone [7lb] from last measurement)
• Body Fat % - 7.4% (digi-callipers -up 2.4% from last measurement)
• Waist - 34.75 inches (up 1 whole inch from before vacation)
  

This appears to be considerable damage done over the two week period especially when you consider that I wasn't going crazy. I suppose the first week I ate pretty much off plan and treated myself but the second week was more in line with my usual eating plan with only the odd deviation. I think where things went a bit wrong was that I had considerably more alcohol than I've had in a very long time and I would class this as one of the main culprits for the results above.This coupled with a significant reduction in activity and eating majority high fat whilst fat burning is turned off from the alcohol pretty much account for everything. The activity levels were considerably lower than I had initially anticipated simply because of the heat and the fact that the bike I hired wasn't really up to the task. By that I mean it had two buckled wheels, was too small a sticking back brake and a dodgey saddle. Unfortunately there wasn't another one available at such short notice so I made do. I thought that the little bit that I would use it would be better than nothing. Swimming any amount of lengths in the pool was also difficult since there were a lot of people in there due to the heat and the pool itself was smaller than the pictures I had seen had led me to believe. I'm not making excuses I'm just giving the background. I intended to use the holiday as a break for my body (from exercising at least) and treat myself. I feel that I've done that now and I'm ready to get back in the gym as well as on my bike to progress further and be the best I can. Whilst the break has given me some ground to make back up it has been beneficial in so many other ways.

We all need a break, so long as that's all it is and you get back into the swing of things as soon as possible. That is what I intend to do from tomorrow when I'll be cycling to work and attempt the first official Strength II session on Tuesday. I will be doing two sessions a week initially since they take a lot out of me these strength workouts and as I'll be cycling as well this will be enough to begin with. Depending on how things go and timetable arrangements I may move to three sessions eventually but like I said it depends how things go. I'll let you know.

Cheers, BustaGut!