Day 64: Plateauing?

Today marks the 10th week of my P90X journey. I only have four weeks remaining and I don't expect major changes. In fact, I feel as if I have plateaued. Quite often when people exercise, their bodies adapt to the workouts and their muscles stop growing. P90X purports to avoid this by cycling through different workouts and creating muscle confusion. The muscle confusion prevents your body from adapting and keeps your muscles growing. When I look in the mirror, my muscles don't look very confused though. However, in the photo my head does appear to still be growing. Eat your heart out, Shrek.

This week I'm going to try to get a body fat percentage test, take some photos to compare to my Before photos and do the same with my body measurements. This will let me know if I'm actually plateauing or if it's just in my head. Facts don't lie.

I'm finally close to weening myself off of the Prednisone. I have less than two weeks before I'm done. I'm hoping that I'll drop a lot of water weight once I'm completely off the medicine. My appetite should also decrease so I'm hoping it will be easier to reduce my calories from 3,500 per day to just under 3,000. I'm always hungry on this Prednisone. This is the first time I've dieted and exercised and not lost significant weight and it's frustrating. I'm still hovering around 255 pounds and I was hoping to be down to 240 by now. Maybe I'm just getting old and my metabolism is slowing down.

Well, regardless of whether or not I'm plateauing, I do know that I'm going to keep working out hard. I may not be all ripped and cut up like I was hoping but I sure do feel amazing. I guess that's the most important thing in the end.