Notes from Week of 2/22 and mini resolution re: fat burning

• 5 consecutive days of structures workouts more or less as RX'd (alternating lift/strength days and interval-based metabolic conditioning)
• increased deadlift 1RM to 385lb but still shy of goal
• hit TGU goal (80lb)
• got beat by bad strategy on one workout
• eating habits fell off late in week (thurs-sat)
  

Recently, priority has been to get strength back and hit goals on some big lifts - a noble pursuit but it's not helping with what really SHOULD be my #1 priority: weight loss in the form of fat loss.

LOSE WEIGHT:
My summer weight was around 173 give or take a pound or two and including some fluctuations. I am touching 190 right now. I can accept that with some of the lifts I am doing, I will be putting on some muscle mass, but how much can I really be slapping on my arms, shoulders, core, or even back? Like 5-10 pounds over next 3 months or so, max?

Even at my summer weight, I could have stood to be free of another 10-15 pounds EASILY. I'm dense, but still, only like 5'8." My goal weight to hit and hold by the Summer (before Memorial Day) is 175.

STOP THE FLUCTUATION:
If the weight is not going in the downward direction, it should be level, and it certainly should not jump drastically from week to week or even day to day. In FOUR days, I lost 4-5 pounds and the gained back about 6. That is insane.

DIET:
Worst thing ever and last resort... gonna have to start not only eating better, but eating less. I am a man of large appetites across the board, but I need to learn to stop stuffing my face. Even when I am eating very healthy foods, I am just shoveling it away in too much quantity.

And finally...

PRIORITIES:
I did a few good things this week, and getting back strength is a good task to play around with now since snow is still on the ground and stuff. But let's face it -- would I rather Deadlift over 400 pounds and Squat over 300, or would I rather be lean and mean. They are not mutually exclusive at all, but there are only so many days in the week and I think as we ease in to the Spring, my priorities need to shift away from strength and more toward conditioning, with an eye toward the superficial I hate to say. I feel excellent right now. Strong and fit. But I look fat and gross, and that's keeping me from enjoying the other stuff.

Try to keep more or less to this week's lifting RX, BUT be ready to start deadlifting, TGUing and maybe even Squatting once every two weeks instead of once or more every week.