I was all set to have a no loss week and stay at 245 when I stepped on the scale this am to see...
243
Total loss to date 27#'s. :)
Not too bad and I am overall happy with my diet and exercise. I keep finding ways that I can improve both but am still getting results at these levels so it's encouraging.
But I have been thinking about changing my attitude about loosing X pounds in a specific time frame because I'm not sure it's the best way to look at it. There have been times that I did not loose weight for X time and then suddenly drop a couple few #'s. I'm sure it's not a one day thing and that the efforts put in on those days that do not show any weight loss are very important to the day the scale does move. I've got no idea what other benchmarks to use and the idea has to be to keep the scale moving downward....it's just not as simple as saying 2#'s per week. It does average out like 2-3 but there is something unhealthy about feeling bad when you don't loose any weight one week however (everything is fine in that moment..the efforts are "working" just not showing up right then).
As always it's more to think about but the good news for today is that everything is still going according to plan and onward I go....
Monday, April 28, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Monday weigh in
I thought this might be the day and it is....
First 25#'s down.
Weight today 245.
It's strange in a lot of ways because it feels like a lot and it feels like nothing. It was hard and yet it was easy....It's just a strange thing for a few reasons.
The main thing is that it is a good thing. I am 25#'s lighter and there just isn't any downside to that at all. I think this next 25 is going to be the dramatic part where I start to look a lot different. Maybe I just carried that weight as a super thin layer all over because even loosing 25 I don't look in the mirror and see it right now. That is a little mental jab to think you should see some visible results but this is a long game.... It's only the first quarter and I am up 14-0 so there is nothing at all "wrong" here it's just that weight loss on a big scale is so much harder than just the actions of eating right and exercising.
By the way I have decided that the simplicity of some things must be what confuses us because sometimes it is that simple...this is one of them.
1) Eat right
2) Exercise
3) see above
So it is pretty easy to figure out and after you change your mindset about food the "diet" portion is even fairly easy but what nobody tells you is what goes on inside you head all this time. I have yet to go back and read any of the diet books I've owned to see but I'm pretty sure now that unless the authors of those books were super fat at one time they are probably not able to get across this internal piece of the puzzle. And I'm not talking about willpower, cheating, or anything like that..the food part is really not that hard. :)
I'm probably going to get into this later because I feel like it's very important yet it's not something I hear very much about or see portrayed on the various diet reality shows or wherever. They focus on willpower and food almost exclusively...BL goes heavy on the exercise with personal trainers 4 hours per day...but the internal mental game....I don't see anybody dealing with that.
Anyway......
25 down is pretty freaking cool and it is very strange to be looking at that scale and see 245 where 270+ used to be just a number of weeks ago....220 is going to be all the more cooler. :)
This 4th of July BBQ I will be wearing smaller shirts.. It's going to be fun to stop paying the extra $2 for "extended size" shirts. I have been in XXL for a long time now. This BBQ season I will be sporting the less expensive and leaner XL. :) ;)
First 25#'s down.
Weight today 245.
It's strange in a lot of ways because it feels like a lot and it feels like nothing. It was hard and yet it was easy....It's just a strange thing for a few reasons.
The main thing is that it is a good thing. I am 25#'s lighter and there just isn't any downside to that at all. I think this next 25 is going to be the dramatic part where I start to look a lot different. Maybe I just carried that weight as a super thin layer all over because even loosing 25 I don't look in the mirror and see it right now. That is a little mental jab to think you should see some visible results but this is a long game.... It's only the first quarter and I am up 14-0 so there is nothing at all "wrong" here it's just that weight loss on a big scale is so much harder than just the actions of eating right and exercising.
By the way I have decided that the simplicity of some things must be what confuses us because sometimes it is that simple...this is one of them.
1) Eat right
2) Exercise
3) see above
So it is pretty easy to figure out and after you change your mindset about food the "diet" portion is even fairly easy but what nobody tells you is what goes on inside you head all this time. I have yet to go back and read any of the diet books I've owned to see but I'm pretty sure now that unless the authors of those books were super fat at one time they are probably not able to get across this internal piece of the puzzle. And I'm not talking about willpower, cheating, or anything like that..the food part is really not that hard. :)
I'm probably going to get into this later because I feel like it's very important yet it's not something I hear very much about or see portrayed on the various diet reality shows or wherever. They focus on willpower and food almost exclusively...BL goes heavy on the exercise with personal trainers 4 hours per day...but the internal mental game....I don't see anybody dealing with that.
Anyway......
25 down is pretty freaking cool and it is very strange to be looking at that scale and see 245 where 270+ used to be just a number of weeks ago....220 is going to be all the more cooler. :)
This 4th of July BBQ I will be wearing smaller shirts.. It's going to be fun to stop paying the extra $2 for "extended size" shirts. I have been in XXL for a long time now. This BBQ season I will be sporting the less expensive and leaner XL. :) ;)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Espresso
I love good espresso.
On most days I stop by to see my buddy Shaun and we talk about a wide variety of zany topics and I watch as he pours some 4oz drinks with superior quality coffee like the above pic.
There is no other point of this post other than to give props to Shaun for this pour and many others like it, good coffee, convo with your friends and all in all some of the good things in life while it was on my mind. :)
I love good coffee.
Monday, April 14, 2008
AM walk
I had some time today to grab a quick 30 min. cardio with a walk around the lake.
If I move someday this will be the one thing I really miss about this place. I can step out and walk 3 min to the park and grab a walk around the lake. It's really nice and if I had a decent camera or could take pictures it would probably show more.
So I put on my hi tech hiking socks and sport specific hiking shoes (because I have become an urban assault nerd) :(
I geared up and hit the trail... and by trail I mean to say HOA maintained 6' wide level concrete walking path.
The weather was super nice and cool for this time of year and the sun was full. I saw a bluejay digging around in the grass, and a few ducks wandering around...the normal park/lake stuff. But then I spotted an 80 year old dude doing tai chi he looked pretty cool if you ask me. As I made the loop I see the same old guy doing pull ups on the monkey bars. I made him my hero for the day.
I think I'm going to google up tai chi now.
9th Monday weigh in
This was a tough week.
Because of the stall last week I mixed up my exercise and amped it up a bit. I made some adjustments and went to work.....
I did move the scale but it was the recognized "healthy weight loss" of 2# per week.
Weight for the 9th Monday 249.
This 2# was the hardest to loose so far.
Now I'm pretty sure my body has adapted to the new diet/exercise routine and is trying to compensate. This makes things much harder. :(
I even put in an extended work out by doing a 4.75 mile walk that took 1.5 hours.
Last week I thought I could have done more (we can always do more) but this week I feel like I put in enough effort that I should have lost 3-4#'s. I think sticking with it long enough is going to cause a correction. I think my body might prefer to keep things static but I have other plans.
The current 2 week trend now is that it's going to be a lot harder to move the scale so for next week the exercise goes up another click. My diet is pretty good. I will keep looking at it but it is pretty good.
Anyway 2 hard earned pounds this week....
2 is not exciting but it is another 2 down and not 2 up, so now it's time to get at week 10.
Because of the stall last week I mixed up my exercise and amped it up a bit. I made some adjustments and went to work.....
I did move the scale but it was the recognized "healthy weight loss" of 2# per week.
Weight for the 9th Monday 249.
This 2# was the hardest to loose so far.
Now I'm pretty sure my body has adapted to the new diet/exercise routine and is trying to compensate. This makes things much harder. :(
I even put in an extended work out by doing a 4.75 mile walk that took 1.5 hours.
Last week I thought I could have done more (we can always do more) but this week I feel like I put in enough effort that I should have lost 3-4#'s. I think sticking with it long enough is going to cause a correction. I think my body might prefer to keep things static but I have other plans.
The current 2 week trend now is that it's going to be a lot harder to move the scale so for next week the exercise goes up another click. My diet is pretty good. I will keep looking at it but it is pretty good.
Anyway 2 hard earned pounds this week....
2 is not exciting but it is another 2 down and not 2 up, so now it's time to get at week 10.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Plateau busted
The Plateau didn't last long and the scale has started to slowly respond.
What's in my mind now is that I lost a week towards the next goal and I'm not sure just yet how I'm going to make up for that.
It's a bit of a problem where I didn't want to panic about a temporary stall but now I don't want to miss my goal or do anything wacky in order to make it either....
Not sure what I'll do next but if I wait for 1-2 weigh ins it might auto-correct.
Looking back on it I really should have done more Mid week last week when I saw what was happening. I had to make some adjustments in my exercise program and I was just too slow to implement those changes.....sucks!
So, I guess the next 2 weigh ins will tell the tale because I have ground to make up.
On the larger scale it's insignificant but mentally it's a challenge if the progress stops and goals get questionable...it's a problem. If these things continue of get worse/last longer it's going to get even harder and I'm going to have to make some adjustments and hard decisions.
For today I'm glad that the Plateau is busted but it's something I'm going to have to think about before it happens again.
What's in my mind now is that I lost a week towards the next goal and I'm not sure just yet how I'm going to make up for that.
It's a bit of a problem where I didn't want to panic about a temporary stall but now I don't want to miss my goal or do anything wacky in order to make it either....
Not sure what I'll do next but if I wait for 1-2 weigh ins it might auto-correct.
Looking back on it I really should have done more Mid week last week when I saw what was happening. I had to make some adjustments in my exercise program and I was just too slow to implement those changes.....sucks!
So, I guess the next 2 weigh ins will tell the tale because I have ground to make up.
On the larger scale it's insignificant but mentally it's a challenge if the progress stops and goals get questionable...it's a problem. If these things continue of get worse/last longer it's going to get even harder and I'm going to have to make some adjustments and hard decisions.
For today I'm glad that the Plateau is busted but it's something I'm going to have to think about before it happens again.
Monday, April 7, 2008
8th Monday weigh in
Rats! Plateau week. :(
Nothing to report.....
In the back of my mind I knew that a time would come when my body would adapt and I would have to step it up, I was just hoping it would be months away.
It might be that or something else but either way the lesson I learned is that I should have done something sooner in the week to avoid this. So I have no excuses I could have done more to try and change things up so that is the plan for next week.
It's a real drag not to have made any weight loss this week but now there is a new week in front of me to manage and I'm going to focus on that so the next weigh in will go better.
I picked up a pedometer that I'm going to start using today so I expect to make a mid week post on that as well as if I can break the plateau before the next weigh in but other than that it's a bleah sort of post for now.
Holding on to 251 :)
Nothing to report.....
In the back of my mind I knew that a time would come when my body would adapt and I would have to step it up, I was just hoping it would be months away.
It might be that or something else but either way the lesson I learned is that I should have done something sooner in the week to avoid this. So I have no excuses I could have done more to try and change things up so that is the plan for next week.
It's a real drag not to have made any weight loss this week but now there is a new week in front of me to manage and I'm going to focus on that so the next weigh in will go better.
I picked up a pedometer that I'm going to start using today so I expect to make a mid week post on that as well as if I can break the plateau before the next weigh in but other than that it's a bleah sort of post for now.
Holding on to 251 :)
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