I know this blog has fallen apart, but I wanted to check in with a quick update. I have been working out daily, though as my weight I am lifting as increased, I am moving to a more every other day deal with that. Walking every day. its been nice enough to do so. My wife is training to do a 5K so her hard work is encouraging me. Anyway I said I would weigh myself monthly and I did. back to 289. Off a high of 300 at the start of the year. So it is good direction. I may start weighing weekly, but since weight is not the priority we’ll see.
8 months ago
i could make up a lot of excuses, and frankly, they are valid IMHO…. after having a baby take over our lives, and then losing my job… i could give a crap about eating right and exercising. right now, i’m just happy to wake up every day and be alive and still have some left over money to pay bills. so, for the time being… i’m drinking the mountain dew…. i’m eating cheap ramen noodles. yeah…. food makes me happy…. calories make me happy…. carbs make me very happy………. should food have that much of grip on my emotions? No….. but when you are in the midst of a storm, your decisions don’t necessarily match the decisions during the calm, and that is ok. Life will return to the norm eventually, and so will my resolve to whip this.
9 months ago
Us three guys apparently have an issue with food. We hate how we look, how we feel, but the overwhelming urge to just tear thru a juicy hamburger, or down that empty calorie can of Coke is a powerful thing.
I’m frankly scared to get on the scale.
10 months ago
OK. so I said I would not get back on the scale until January after ballooning to 312 mid month. My heaviest ever. Which is wild considering, I have certainly worked harder than ever this month.
sigh.
So I started the month at 299 pounds. 26 of the 31 days of the month I walked on the treadmill 1 1/2 miles. 2 days I walked outside 2 miles. 1 day I did 2 miles at the track at the rec center. Every other day I did push ups, sit ups and worked on the weight machine. Every day I did light curling with free weights.
I dropped from about 6 sodas a day down to 2. We ate much better, only eating out once or twice.
About 13 days into the year I had dropped 11 pounds down to 288. It was the first time I had been on the scale. I was thrilled. A couple weeks later I hopped back on the scale and was horrified to be staring at 312 pounds. I redoubled my efforts and vowed to get back on the scale at the end of the month.
So here we are. End of the first month. And I am staring back at 300 pounds. Again.
I feel better. My arms certainly look better. Lifting and walking on the treadmill have certainly become easier. But my belly is as fat as ever and the weight is the same.
Suggestions? Encouragement?
I’ll start fresh tomorrow. Hopefully with a new game plan.
Cross posted at http://richrichmond.blogspot.com/
10 months ago
Sorry, since I posted that sandwich pic, Ive been lax in my updates here…so have two other people whose names I will not mention.
Anyway, eating habits are slipping a bit. Still trying hard, but not as good as I started out. As far as working out, thats been solid. still working out daily. Was able to get off the treadmill and walk outside with my daughter early this week as we had a warm day. Spoiled by that 50 degree day, I wanted to walk outdoors the next day. of course the next day it was 11 degrees. Yay Cincinnati! But walk I did over a mile, half of which i carried about 10 pounds of groceries. I curled the grocery bags like they were weights for much of the way. I felt like Rocky training in Rocky 4.
The bad news…the scale. I climbed back on and was suddenly and alarmingly at 312 after being at 289 a few weeks ago. I cannot figure that out as ive been working harder than before, still eating OK and still down to 2 sodas a day from 6 or more daily last year. I was discouraged and a bit horrified to be honest. I am hoping its a fluke. I plan to refocus on eating better this week (prepping for the gastrointestenal disaster that is sure to accompany the Super Bowl) and continue my commitment to daily work outs. I will do a weight check again on the 31st to see what it looks like.
Encouragement welcome in the comments.
10 months ago
Pretty good week. Sorry for lack of updates.
Ate pretty well this week. Kept on point. We did go out to Frisch’s one night and that may have single handedly destroyed any progress I’ve made, but it was oh so good.
Worked out every day. Went to the rec center and walked about 2 miles on the walking track. Just me and the iPod.
Added comments to the theme here, so the 2 people that accidently stumble on to this blog can make fun of us…
11 months ago
Well, yesterday we just won’t talk about. I was up all night supporting Indian users that couldn’t log in (now that is a switch…. most people have to call Indians to get support). Trust me, the frustration goes both ways sometimes. Anyway, lack of sleep willed me to sleep in and go in late. No breakfast… good lunch at Remke’s. Had a bowl of chicken noodle soup and some fruit. Last night, decided not to do the “make up workout” and stayed home with the family. Missy made some great little meatloaf muffins using some of my deer meat mixed with ground turkey, some stove top stuffing, some EVOO, and topping them with a delicious mixture of ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar. I’m sure the stove top and brown sugar weren’t great for the ole’ diet… but I’ll survive.
Today, getting out from under the covers was a fight that lasted right up until i HAD to get up for work, so no gym for me today either… nor tonight, because Monster Truck Nationals is calling my name. Taking the boy and my wife down there… the other two girls are hanging with “grammie”. Yeah for me!
No breakfast this morning since I was running late. I seriously need a better planned out week, and shore it up with sufficient quick meals and snacks to keep myself from straying. That seems to be the key for me. Lunch was left over meatloaf muffins and a copious amount of green beans. Now I just need to keep up with the water today, and behave myself tonight…. oh, oops… pizza tonight for supper. Man, I just can’t win….
11 months ago
Hey dudes… I just ate some Sushi from Biggs… yeah, Biggs. Funny how the Biggs and Krogers in the nicer parts of town have better-for-you-food. They have a full spread of nice good things to eat for lunch.
This might be my new lunch place.
11 months ago
Well… I am pretty full from lunch. I went to Remke’s and built a salad at their salad bar. I had left over lunch meat and cheese here, so I loaded up on other things like cottage cheese, some seafood salad, mushrooms, garbanzo beans, and egg. I cut up the left over buffalo chicken slices I had along with some great Caesar salad dressing. It was quite delish.
This morning I didn’t do the gym… I’m still in limbo as what I should be doing gym-wise. Should I go 3 times a week? 4? When I don’t go, should I do something else? I think I’m going to go to the gym tonight for a little bit. My wife skipped this morning, and is thinking about trying the pilates class. NO thank you… I’ll stick to the weights. I drank a full sized shake this morning… three scoops. I thought it would be different to mix the powder with coffee, so i just brought a full sized sports bottle with the powder to work and almost filled it with coffee…. mental note to self… NOT as good as you’d think it would be. I got through it all, but I’ll stick with cold water from now on.
Last night I ate some pizza, had one cup of mountain dew, and ate cake and ice cream… topping it off with some coffee. Nothing to be proud of… but it could’ve been much worse. Still need to work on portion control. UGH.
11 months ago
