42nd Birthday and Kuwait Trip

Well the day rolled around and I turned 42! I feel healthy, I have a wonderful wife and beautiful children. I have a stable job and a master level education. I lead a faith based life and have a great relationship with God. I couldn't be happier! This deployed has been hard because of the seperation from Jessica and the kids. Though over the last 4 months I have lost 35 pounds and finished my masters. Jessica has been using the extra deployment money to pay down our bills and she has done wonderful!
When I got back from Kuwait my co-workers had a cake waiting on me, here are the pictures:

The night of my birthday I enjoyed a birthday cigar with one of our civilian employee's John and was joined my some of the sergeants and a captian I work with.

Now to my Kuwait trip. I spent 4 days in Kuwait on Army business looking over some of the facilities. I really enjoyed the chance to wear street clothes and travel around the highways without fear of being attacked. I have always enjoyed my trips to Kuwait and this one was no different. Here are the pictures from the trip:

 These are taken at Kuwait Internation Airport. we had to drop off a guy to go on leave and enjoyed a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

 Buying something nice for Jessica!

 Yes I ate it, no it was not on my diet, and no I did not record it on my food tracker!

 In a tent for 2 days and DV quarters for 2 days.

 Ran into the washington Redskin cheerleaders in the lobby, had to get a picture with them!

Cruising around a Navy base.

On my way back into Iraq. It was a good tirp and I saw a lot of things. I will return sometime in the summer and eventually move there later in the deployment. Thank you all for the support. Love, Jeremy

G4 Activities

I kind of failed to realize that many of you are not on facebook and I need to post the same pictures onto my blog. When I sat G4 that is the section which I work in. I am assigned to the 25th Infantry Division and the staff section at G1 thru G9 and each covers a key component. The G4 covers sustainment, which is maintenance, food service, supply, and transportation. We have started playing volleyball in the section once a week and here are some pictures from the last game I played in:

This last picture is from a BBQ we had to kick off a couple of days at a big planning event. Since we are located in the Baghdad area a lot of meetings are held here. This is myself, my boss Mark, Chris our deputy, and a gal named Laura who was chatting with us. Our logistics planner Zach is taking the picture.

Okay so this is it for now. I will try and take more pictures and update a little more often. I should be heading down to Kuwait for a few days and I will take my camera.
see ya,
Jeremy

Breaking Through The wall

So I have done incredible on my 6 week program and finished it. This week I lifted heavy to my max using 3 sets 6-8 reps for set and followed the same plan as the 6 week cycle. I did throw arms in twice 3 days apart for recovery. My weight was 181 this morning, I continue to work on the cardio and my run times have gottend great. I can run a sustained 7 minute mile for 4 miles.

Now to the hard part...getting the rest of my fat off without loosing the muscle. This is going to be a balancing act with a lot of protein shakes and leab cuts of meat. Here is where I am right now:

These were taken at 185-186. I have made it a point to switch between dumbell and barbell each week and change which exercise's you are using. Please email or message me on facebook if you want the 6 week workout in excel. It does take 1.5 to 2 hours to perform each day.

I have been working a cheat day in for food and one day that I don't excise that day either. I have a couple of months before R&R and I want to look my best for Jessica when I get back to Hawaii.

I decided to add some more to this post in reference to carbs. Yesterday I was 182.8 in the morning, ate 1200 calories through the day, very high in protein, drank 6 liters of water but only had 21 grams of carbs, and worked out 45 minutes with weights, 15 minute abs, and 45 minutes of cardio, today my weight was 181 on the nose, it's nuts how this works, though my effort level is to the max and I hope I can sustain this until I get my body fat below 10% into the single digits. Here is my weight chart: