Weight today 231
Total weight loss to date 39#'s
I've started averaging 1# loss per week lately and if that holds for next week I'll have lost 40#'s in 20 weeks for a flat average of 2#'s per week.
Slow and relatively steady has been the trend so far.
I think it's cool that in July I'll be in the 220's. That's not something you normally hear people say but if earlier this year they weighed 270 and it's just now mid year then the perspective is different. The idea that I'll be around 210 and possibly looking at the 200-single digits for Thanksgiving this year is pretty outstanding actually. That will put me at ~70#'s weight loss inside a calender year that did not even start in January. Not bad.
There that was my mental check but there is another side....
I'm not feeling as mentally "changed" as I'd like to.
I'm really trying to feel more like my body has changed to and is changing towards, more healthy, fit and in shape. I feel it physically...I'm getting stronger everyday. That isn't an issue but I'm finding that my mental self image does not mirror the scale. When you loose 20#'s it does not auto-transfer to the brain and make the correction.
I think I'm going to have to collect some "proofs of improved fitness" to the game as evidence for my brain to evaluate when it provides my self image.
Hmmm, Angie was telling me yesterday about the closest 14ers to Durango Co. and we are planning on riding that Durango Silverton RR in a few months.....I think it's time to put the research and planning to my 14er project......
Friday, June 27, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
18th week weigh in
Weight today 232
Total weight loss to date 38#'s
I should see the 220's and a 40+# weight loss for 4th of July weekend. Sweet!
The hardest part of this for me remains to be the mental game. Developing patience and accepting weeks without weight loss, or working very hard for minimal progress can be frustrating but that's the way it goes.
It's hard to keep "defocusing" on the time line you WANT and accept that the realistic time line to loose a significant amount of weight is much longer than you would like it to be....a year, a year and a half, two years....? Could be. ;)
The thing I keep trying to remember is that a year or two goes by anyway and I'm also going to want to be fit then. The race to loose weight fast is a mental trap and unless you have impending serious health risks that require it, averaging that 1-2#'s per week with intermittent periods of no weight loss is what experts suggest to be the best approach. It's hard to deal with because we all want instant results and particularly if we are working hard we want to get "paid" NOW!
Even at a pace of 5#'s per month that is 60#'s weight loss in a year...100#'s in a little over 1.5.
It's a mental battle but we have to fight it to avoid the pitfalls that await with quick weight loss gimmicks, tricks, and unhealthy schemes that only offer temporary results at best.
Total weight loss to date 38#'s
I should see the 220's and a 40+# weight loss for 4th of July weekend. Sweet!
The hardest part of this for me remains to be the mental game. Developing patience and accepting weeks without weight loss, or working very hard for minimal progress can be frustrating but that's the way it goes.
It's hard to keep "defocusing" on the time line you WANT and accept that the realistic time line to loose a significant amount of weight is much longer than you would like it to be....a year, a year and a half, two years....? Could be. ;)
The thing I keep trying to remember is that a year or two goes by anyway and I'm also going to want to be fit then. The race to loose weight fast is a mental trap and unless you have impending serious health risks that require it, averaging that 1-2#'s per week with intermittent periods of no weight loss is what experts suggest to be the best approach. It's hard to deal with because we all want instant results and particularly if we are working hard we want to get "paid" NOW!
Even at a pace of 5#'s per month that is 60#'s weight loss in a year...100#'s in a little over 1.5.
It's a mental battle but we have to fight it to avoid the pitfalls that await with quick weight loss gimmicks, tricks, and unhealthy schemes that only offer temporary results at best.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Chin ups are hard!
I got a chinning bar and (as I expected) can not do 1 pull up.
I've been working at it for a few days now and can get the bar just below my eyes...I can do 2 eye ups. :)
I'm working at that and controlled declines, I bet I will be able to do 2-3 chin ups in about a week or so. Slow and steady right?
The good news is that I'm building up quite a nice home gym with the various dumbbells, kettlebell, bar, sandbag, TRX knock off, swiss ball...I've got several options beyond all the bodyweight stuff, yoga and other workout dvd's, before I even touch my full Olympic weight set and bench. Not too shabby.
Next is some sort of cardio machine like a tread mill, elliptical, or what Angie wants a tread climber, (pretty much a combo of a treadmill and elliptical). Until then I have plenty of low tech cardio options that are kicking my butt on a regular basis anyway.
I expect to have dropped some weight on Friday's weigh in and I'm feeling really good....strong....no complaints right now.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Kettlebell
I have not had this overpriced hunk of iron long enough to know it's full potential but straight away it seems to be a very nice addition to a workout toolkit.
When I first saw kettlebells and swings I thought it was just idiots using horrible form doing useless swinging. I can get an 80# dumbbell and use poor form to swing it up into something that looks like a curl but so what? I was misunderstanding what the swing is all about. It works your back, trunk,...cardio...it's sort of a beast to be honest. I had fashioned a makeshift kettlebell that was "OK" but the real thing is of course better and I'm glad my buddy Shaun goaded me into buying it. :) The thing is that these marketing guys know when they have a hot product and I know that in 2 years these things should cost 50% less than they do now. Oh well, waiting for the price to go down $20-$30 isn't really worth it for all the workouts I would not be able to do while waiting.
Damn supply and demand... I picked this thing up when it was still in the shipping crate (they had to enter it into their system before they could turn around and sell it to me), the guy told me they sell them about as fast as they can order more.
I have not ventured into the more complicated lifts as the cornerstone basic swing is enough to keep me busy for a while.
More on the kettlebell will follow I'm sure... ;)
Friday, June 13, 2008
17th week weigh in
This week held at 234.
No weight loss....ask me if I care.
I don't.
I've had enough weeks now to know that this happens and that I am doing my thing so there is nothing else to be done right now. If it turns to a trend I'll know it's time to change something up but for now everything is as it should be.
My nutrition is solid and my exercise is solid, I'm fine with a static week.
I'll post up tomorrow on my new toy an official kettlebell. :)
No weight loss....ask me if I care.
I don't.
I've had enough weeks now to know that this happens and that I am doing my thing so there is nothing else to be done right now. If it turns to a trend I'll know it's time to change something up but for now everything is as it should be.
My nutrition is solid and my exercise is solid, I'm fine with a static week.
I'll post up tomorrow on my new toy an official kettlebell. :)
Friday, June 6, 2008
16th weigh in
Week 16
Weight 234
Total weight loss to date 36# avg loss of 2.25#'s per week.
Cool!
This pushes me over the hump of the high 230's and sets the 220's right in my line of sight. It's really exciting to me that I'll be weighing 220 something soon after weighing 270+ just a few months ago...man it's a trip.
What is really wild is how at some point I am going to drop below 200 and weigh in the 100's. Not having a 2 in front of my weight will be like going back in time to when I was 21 years old.
My mood is good right now because my food and exercise are pretty much in check at this time. What I have now is pretty much second nature to me at this point so I'm happy to continue on monitoring my progress and make any needed adjustments whenever they might be needed. But for now I'm sort of set on autopilot.
234....I don't see any reason I will not be at/below 230 for 4th of July and be able to represent 40#'s of fat loss at that time. If I make 237.5 it will be 45#'s or 50% of my total goal....if that does not happen by the 4th it's still going to happen in July and the 50% mark will be a super cool milestone.
John F
Weight 234
Total weight loss to date 36# avg loss of 2.25#'s per week.
Cool!
This pushes me over the hump of the high 230's and sets the 220's right in my line of sight. It's really exciting to me that I'll be weighing 220 something soon after weighing 270+ just a few months ago...man it's a trip.
What is really wild is how at some point I am going to drop below 200 and weigh in the 100's. Not having a 2 in front of my weight will be like going back in time to when I was 21 years old.
My mood is good right now because my food and exercise are pretty much in check at this time. What I have now is pretty much second nature to me at this point so I'm happy to continue on monitoring my progress and make any needed adjustments whenever they might be needed. But for now I'm sort of set on autopilot.
234....I don't see any reason I will not be at/below 230 for 4th of July and be able to represent 40#'s of fat loss at that time. If I make 237.5 it will be 45#'s or 50% of my total goal....if that does not happen by the 4th it's still going to happen in July and the 50% mark will be a super cool milestone.
John F
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
2 35's
Today's daily weigh in was 235. I have ironically lost exactly 35#'s at the 235 mark making 2(35)'s.
Trippy. :)
Trippy. :)
Friday, May 30, 2008
15th week weigh in
Weight today 236
Total weight loss to date 34#'s
I'm happy with the week. The 1# does not tell the tale of the work I've done this week and this is probably one of my favorite pounds that I've lost so far. I'm doing some very structured workouts right now that incorporate good ratios of strength training, cardio, and recovery time. It's an improvement over my personal "scattered" approach so I'm learning how to put some structure in where it was badly needed.
Little by little I am picking up small tools, learning new things, getting bits of equipment...slowly everything is changing in my life to gear it towards the direction of health and fitness being the normal "day to day" and not the old way where eating healthy, exercising, or activity based things where a diversion or departure from the norm.
At this almost 35# mark I am starting to get a few comments from people now saying they can tell I've lost weight. I figure by August/Sept. it's going to be strange running into people I have not seen in a while. It's one thing to see me having lost 35#'s but if it's 50#'s I expect that I'm going to look a lot different in the face and all...that is going to be sort of odd.
Anyway, mood is good, I'm feeling really good, plenty of pep, sleep is relatively above average, strength is increasing...things from old school diets like food cravings, hunger pains, that deprived feeling, feeling fatigued or exhausted with the menu...all of that stuff if non existent for me and mostly because my focus is on being healthy, fit, and living an active lifestyle NOT simply loosing weight.
It's been a good week for me. :)
Total weight loss to date 34#'s
I'm happy with the week. The 1# does not tell the tale of the work I've done this week and this is probably one of my favorite pounds that I've lost so far. I'm doing some very structured workouts right now that incorporate good ratios of strength training, cardio, and recovery time. It's an improvement over my personal "scattered" approach so I'm learning how to put some structure in where it was badly needed.
Little by little I am picking up small tools, learning new things, getting bits of equipment...slowly everything is changing in my life to gear it towards the direction of health and fitness being the normal "day to day" and not the old way where eating healthy, exercising, or activity based things where a diversion or departure from the norm.
At this almost 35# mark I am starting to get a few comments from people now saying they can tell I've lost weight. I figure by August/Sept. it's going to be strange running into people I have not seen in a while. It's one thing to see me having lost 35#'s but if it's 50#'s I expect that I'm going to look a lot different in the face and all...that is going to be sort of odd.
Anyway, mood is good, I'm feeling really good, plenty of pep, sleep is relatively above average, strength is increasing...things from old school diets like food cravings, hunger pains, that deprived feeling, feeling fatigued or exhausted with the menu...all of that stuff if non existent for me and mostly because my focus is on being healthy, fit, and living an active lifestyle NOT simply loosing weight.
It's been a good week for me. :)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Cool vid
Here is a cool youtube vid. I think it could apply to almost anything you want it to but....well, just watch it.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Moving the weigh in day...
A bit of housecleaning......
I joined an online weight loss group and everything they do is based on Fridays so I'm moving the weigh in days to Friday starting with the one that was going to be tomorrow.
I'll give more info on the group, why i joined it, and what it's all about after 2-3 weeks of membership just to make sure it's going to work out (like I hope it does).
Also, I'm going to test a weight loss ticker below here to see if it works.
Cool, it works! So I'll be able to update that whiz bang ticker every Friday with the weigh in as well starting next week but the above is the my actual up to date ticker.
I joined an online weight loss group and everything they do is based on Fridays so I'm moving the weigh in days to Friday starting with the one that was going to be tomorrow.
I'll give more info on the group, why i joined it, and what it's all about after 2-3 weeks of membership just to make sure it's going to work out (like I hope it does).
Also, I'm going to test a weight loss ticker below here to see if it works.
Cool, it works! So I'll be able to update that whiz bang ticker every Friday with the weigh in as well starting next week but the above is the my actual up to date ticker.
Friday, May 23, 2008
14th Monday weigh in
I forgot to post the 14th Monday weigh in....
No matter because the few days before it tell the tale :(
The good news is that the scale is moving now and I expect a good report for the 15th weigh in. Not sure where I will be on Monday but I just did a quick look by today's #'s and and I am still slightly out pacing the 2#'s per week measure.
As I am getting into the mid 230's now I am already bored with them and have my eye on the 220's.. Hahahah.. But seriously I do expect a good report in a few days and am glad to have broken the slump.
No matter because the few days before it tell the tale :(
The good news is that the scale is moving now and I expect a good report for the 15th weigh in. Not sure where I will be on Monday but I just did a quick look by today's #'s and and I am still slightly out pacing the 2#'s per week measure.
As I am getting into the mid 230's now I am already bored with them and have my eye on the 220's.. Hahahah.. But seriously I do expect a good report in a few days and am glad to have broken the slump.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
The hammer didn't help..
Man....this is tough.
I have put in some serious effort lately and have started making small caloric shifts, working different exercises, amping everything up....
Zero movement on the scale.
It is mentally taxing.
The only saving grace is that I am starting to get a couple comments that I've lost weight now and I am starting to feel that I am in a different size category. I just feel smaller, so I'm sure that results are happening they are just not translating to the scale at this moment.
It's frustrating because I really want to get that 50% by 4th of July and with another potential zero weight loss this week it's getting ugly...
All I can do right now is step back, look at it and take another approach next week...what else is there? The eventual goal is not even a question for me, I am positive that I'll make it it's the question of time and what sorts of unknown adjustments I'm going to have to make between here and there that cause the frustration. I seriously hoped that I'd get to 238 for tomorrows weigh in (and it's not impossible I suppose) but zero scale movement day after day after day with increased effort is a pure pain in the ass. :(
The only good thing I can see is that once I break this thing and later on get into an even longer/harder slump I can come back here and read these posts and realize that whatever efforts I make here eventually paid off. Realistically there is no way that this journey is over now and that the 29#'s is all I am ever going to loose....the rest of it is coming off, I'm not confused about that I'm just mad because of the lack of cooperation here that my body is taking sides with the fat instead of "me" and doing what I want right now.... I'm going to have to have a talk with it....
I have put in some serious effort lately and have started making small caloric shifts, working different exercises, amping everything up....
Zero movement on the scale.
It is mentally taxing.
The only saving grace is that I am starting to get a couple comments that I've lost weight now and I am starting to feel that I am in a different size category. I just feel smaller, so I'm sure that results are happening they are just not translating to the scale at this moment.
It's frustrating because I really want to get that 50% by 4th of July and with another potential zero weight loss this week it's getting ugly...
All I can do right now is step back, look at it and take another approach next week...what else is there? The eventual goal is not even a question for me, I am positive that I'll make it it's the question of time and what sorts of unknown adjustments I'm going to have to make between here and there that cause the frustration. I seriously hoped that I'd get to 238 for tomorrows weigh in (and it's not impossible I suppose) but zero scale movement day after day after day with increased effort is a pure pain in the ass. :(
The only good thing I can see is that once I break this thing and later on get into an even longer/harder slump I can come back here and read these posts and realize that whatever efforts I make here eventually paid off. Realistically there is no way that this journey is over now and that the 29#'s is all I am ever going to loose....the rest of it is coming off, I'm not confused about that I'm just mad because of the lack of cooperation here that my body is taking sides with the fat instead of "me" and doing what I want right now.... I'm going to have to have a talk with it....
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