An excess of Phlegm..

I'm starting to have to be pretty creative to keep with my motif for the names of my blogs, we'll see how much longer I can keep it up. OK, so I didn't update last week, at the time when I should have updated I was still 221, so there was my week 3 score.

So I have a lot to talk on in this post, so i'll try to sum things up quickly. So the week following my last blog, I was sick almost the entire time. I got sick Tuesday Night, and didn't feel well again until like Sunday. I was starting to feel better on Saturday, but then I met Johnny, Tom, and a friend of theirs out for drinks and ended up walking 20 blocks in the rain, needless to say, I didn't feel great the following day. I was essentially coughing and sneezing from Tuesday until about Monday night the following week (hello title of my blog..) so I didn't go to the gym much that week, however, my snacking was kept down by the fact that I had no appetite. The week after was Thanksgiving week, which entailed two Thanksgiving dinners (a pre-Thanksgiving one with the Augustinians, and then the real one with the volunteers, Dan, and some others. The week was also filled with drinking with friends, and only a couple gym sessions..

Thanksgiving, like last year, was one of the best holidays of the year (Christmas might have passed it last year, spending it at the orfa, but still, it was great.) I definitely missed my family, and I missed last years AV's, with whom i spent my first BIG holiday away from home last year, but overall it was a great day. Dan and I went shopping, made two buffalo chicken dips (which we had never made before, and they came out really well..) and then headed over to the AV's house, where a teacher from one of the schools (Brendan) and one of the AV's brothers (Chris) were already there. After a little catching up, we had our own football game. It was a very hard fought game, and unlike last year, I didn't dominate this game. I played decently on offense (quarterback, made some really good throws, as well as some shitty ones.. and caught a couple touchdowns) but I got torched on defense. After getting beat on the first drive, i switched to sorta just playing safety as we weren't going to rush the passer, that didn't work out well, as I still got outjumped and outran for a few TD's and my winstreak ended at only 1 year (although, my brothers record in AV Thanksgiving football games now stands at 3-0.. weird.) After football it was back to the house for food. We drank, ate a very good Thanksgiving dinner, drank, ate some awesome desserts, drank, and played some pretty fun games (Fishbowl, which the guys dominated) and some game called "what is yours called" that Kathleen explained. After that it was drinking and talking about random things, from discussing my hate for Kesha, to religion and philosophy and a lot in between. It was really an awesome day, and I thank the AV's for inviting us, I really had a blast!

So now that Thanksgiving is over, I can concentrate on two things.. making money in a very busy season at work, and my getting back into shape. I worked all weekend (except Saturday, when I went to Mexico) and got back to the gym this week. As I didn't work out much the previous week, and ate and drank a whole lot.. I decided to make my weigh in Tuesday instead of Monday. I went to the gym monday, played basketball tuesday, and went to the gym today, Wednesday.. I also made good decisions the past couple days on food and what not.. so while I haven't made great progress with my numbers so far, I feel good about it moving forward. So as of my Tuesday weigh in..

Week 4: 218lbs