Tuesday Morning

Got to the gym last night and did a weigh in this morning.  The scale read 305.3...which is close enough to 305 for me.  I am happy with the progress that I have made over the last year and 1 month.  So far it has been a total of 62 pounds, and over the last 3 months it has been 30 pounds.  But lately things have been a little stagnate I have been floating at the 306 mark for the last couple of weeks (2).  And I am looking to get back on track.  Thanks to everyone who has been supporting me through this journey...

Thursday:

Got to the gym, not this  morning but this evening.  Got a really good sweat in and burned 400 calories.  Had a really good dinner as well tonight.  Had a footlong subway oven roasted chicken sandwich and some baked lays. The sub was chicken and veggies only...no mayo or cheese.  It a amazes me that a sub with no cheese or mayo can have so much flavor.

Saturday - Tuesday:

Man I hate being sick.  I have a head cold that I have not been able to shake over the last couple days.  I have not been feeling the best since Saturday.  Luckily today I am beginning to feel like myself again. Still have a stuffy nose but at least the rest of my body doesn't ache anymore.
I have not gotten to the gym since Saturday and I am hopeful that I will get back to my workout ways tomorrow.  But all is not lost  I have not gained any weight during this sick time, which I assume is expected, but I am still a little surprised since my caloric intake has been higher these last few days. Anyway here's to getting better and back on the wagon!

Thursday and Friday:

Ok so I got to the gym on Thursday and the scaled read 306.5 which is good...It means i am making some progress.  But recently I have been floating anywhere around 305 to 308.  Today I woke up with a sore throat and generally feeling pretty terrible, so no gym for me.  I figured on getting sick today since I took care of my son yesterday and he wanted Dad to hold him...how could I say no to that...long story short...I didn't. Now I am paying for the opportunity to spend a day with my sick son.

Crazy scales:

So I got on the scale today and I was shocked to see my weight at 308. (Actually just a shade under but that is besides the point!)  On Saturday the scale read 305.5 which meant that I gained 2.5 pounds in less the 3 days.  I am chalking it up to "meh" it isn't really a big deal anyway.  The more important item is that I got to the gym today and got a really good sweat in.  That usually happens when I don't like what I see on the scale.  Maybe I should weigh in with extra weight in my pocket so I can keep that motivation going :-)

5K

Started training for a 5 K today.  Now I doubt it will be running or jogging a 5k but it was doing 3.05 miles in 46 minutes.  I wasn't all that long ago that 3.05 miles would have not been obtainable.  Felt good to do a walk and then have plenty of energy left after we were finished.

Another 10 is gone.

Weighed in this morning at the gym and the number that showed on the scale was 307. So that means my total weight loss has gone to 60 pounds and I only have 42 more pounds to go. If I continue at my current pace of 1.62 pounds per week on average...I will meet this goal by March 11th 2011.  Which is actually vastly ahead of my goal of August 24th 2011.  I realize that I won't keep this same pace up for the entire time...but that is not going to stop me from trying.

Good and Bad:

First the Bad news...I could not get myself out of bed this morning.  So I did not get to the gym like I anticipated.
Now the good news.  My weight was at 308.5, call it 309 to be safe.  Which means that I am continuing my downward tread to 300 and closing the gap ever so slightly on 265.

Wednesday afternoon

So I got to the gym today 30 minutes later I had a good sweat going. 425 calories burned and I was looking to start my day. Even the scale was nice to me... Here is to keeping these good vibes going!

Jeopardy Knowledge:

1 pound of fat = 3,500 calories.  So if you have a 500 calorie deficit per day you would lose a pound a week.
In the last year I have lost 57 pounds which means that is 199,500 calories that I have given up, which is approximately the equivalent of eating 1 Big Mac per day for 1 year.

On a side note I got to the gym this morning...30 minutes of cardio and 448 calories burned and feeling good!

Backing down to bi-weekly weigh-ins

Got to the gym this morning, but did not get as long of a workout in as I previously anticipated.  I really need to get my butt out of bed when my alarm goes off.  I didn't stroll into the gym until 5:30 and that left me only 20 minutes for my workout.  But I made the most of my 20 minutes and burned 320 calories.
I am also going to back-off my basically daily weigh-ins...I am going to go to a two a week system.
Mondays and Fridays.  To see how my week went and then to see how the weekend affected me.  We'll see how this change goes.