Losing more by staying home?

Tonight was a special kind of session with Mr. I-feel-bad-that-I-went-on-vacation-so-I-am-going-to-torture-you-really-badly.  It was a cardio set where we did upper body followed by a 350 m row and stairs (1-by-1, 2-by-2, and 3-by-3) five times.  This is something new, but apparently we are going to be alternating cardio 'super-sets' with weights to try to further confuse my body.  I guess there really is something to this whole muscle confusion theory.

I never thought I would say this in my life, but tonight The Enforcer told me that I needed to take more days off when this contest is over because he is worried that I am not giving my body enough time to recover between workouts - which means that I may actually be working against my own weight loss goals.  Apparently when a semi-in-shape human being kicks their bodies ass at the gym 5-6 days a week, the body gets confused - so instead of shedding weight - it holds on to it for dear life. 

So even though I am doing cardio, weights, boot camp and Tracy's crazy personal spin class - sweating so badly that I have had to buy special shirts so I don't look like a drowned rat when it is all over (girls shouldn't sweat like this) - I may not be losing weight.  That hit me pretty hard, and I actually broke down a little because I have only lost 2 pounds in the past two weeks.  To find out that all this hard work I have been doing may have been better spent staying home one night to relax - was hard to accept. 

He knows that I won't quit until this contest is over, so he figures that it would pointless telling me to stay home (damn competitive nature of mine).  He is right though - I am not going to slow down - yet.  With just 2 weeks to the end, a weekend of missed workouts (which may be a good thing) and the feeling of fitting into regular sized clothes - I am pretty excited to see the actual results of my little journey so far and am still determined to hit that 25 pound mark. This isn't even close to the end of my journey, but knowing that I will be able to moderate this schedule is going to make the next two weeks a little easier.

PS - If you are confused about the weeks, I get a bonus week because The Enforcer was on vacation last week - so this is actually week 11 of 12 :)