Scale, don't fail me now!

Over the last couple of weeks in preparing for this competition.  I have had relatively steady drops in my weight with the scale, that is, until last week.  This is where I had to realize that weight loss does not happen in a linear fashion, it happens in spurts.  I went 9 days without a change in the scale, when you are preparing for a competition, that can be a bit unnerving! However, I also used photos to measure my progress and though my weight was the same, my clothes were feeling more loose, and my photos certainly showed my progress, I could definitely see the lower part of the thigh is leaning out.

Today...... I got on the scale and....... BOOM! dropped 2 lbs.  There is the drop I was waiting for.

The change in my diet and cardio this week is that I am dropping 15 grams of carbs per day and increasing my HIIT intervals to 6 from 5 during a session.  Today is my leg day, which is a refeed day, I am not able to hit legs like I would like since my left hamstring is tight and though I stretch plenty, it has some pain and I am experiencing sciatica down to my feet, grr! I work around the pain not through it and keep the weight light if need be or adjust the range of motion.  I won't let this discomfort get in my way, but I will respect my body and listen to it.  Today,  I am going to do a pyramid style training for the leg press today.  What is a pyramid you ask? I will begin with a lighter amount of weight and rap out as many reps as I can, after about a minute of rest, I will add weight and do as many reps as I can, which will be less reps than the lighter weight and keep increasing the weight and decreasing the reps until I can only do about 6 reps, then I know I am DONE.   I am off to the gym now!