Odd, can’t see one for this month. Anyway, 210, up 1.5, after being bedridden with “man flu” latter half the week which didn’t help. Hey-ho.
“Man flu?” What the heck is “man flu?”
I’m sort of dreading my weigh-in tomorrow - fell off the wagon a bit this weekend. Oh well. Trying to lose weight or not, you still gotta live.
Interesting cross training the past few days; trail running, road running, skiing, and road bike. I weighed myself after my ride today (cheating, I know) and was 192, down a full 50 lbs from New Years. But that’s not my official weigh-in, I’ll wait until Tuesday for that.
I’m back to tracking my WW points strictly, I think I need to do that to make further gains. At least it will help me.
According to the Wii, I’m 214.5.
I’m at an annoying point right now. I realize that I am probably gaining muscle but it hasn’t been long enough to notice it in my clothes. In addition, when I exercise regularly, my appetite diminishes so I’m sure I’m not eating enough to begin with.
I need to start actually tracking my calories. I did a quick check for 2 days this week and each day I ate about 1400 calories but burned about 500. I’m pretty sure 900 a day isn’t good. I’m eating some chili right now because I just realized that all I’ve eaten today was a sandwich and some fruit.
So, my goal for May is to continue to use the Wii Fit for at least 45 minutes a day (I’ve been doing about 90 a day so far this week). If I keep that up and watch my calories, I will be happy, even if the scale doesn’t show a decrease.
It’s sort of like a bad cold, with the implication that men, who are all big babies, yuck yuck, immediately run off to bed and cry loudly for hot lemon, paracetamol, antibiotics, drip-feeding and constant cosseting; whereas women would just grab a tissue and an aspirin and carry on as normal. In my case it did mean three days in bed and some headache pills. I didn’t think my eating had been as undisciplined as all that, but obviously the exercise suffered.
I anticipate being about 156 come Wednesday, which would make it 34 pounds in 20 weeks.
This month’s challenge will be keeping my eating habits on track now that work is getting super busy again. Last year, it was common for me to be at work for 12 hours a day, and eat like crap because I was too tired to cook and it was easy to get fast food on the way home. This time, I will cook whenever I have time so I always have leftovers to dig into, and I will bring my dinner to work with me so I can eat properly when the hunger hits. This actually works out very well, as I’ve got a weeks-old, ever-growing list of meals I’ve been meaning to make.
This past week, I showed some poor discipline and didn’t record all the calories I took in. It wasn’t anything terrible, maybe a lapse of 50-100 calories, but what’s gotten me this far is strict and accurate recording of everything. I’ve got at most 20 pounds left to go, and now’s not the time to get sloppy.
I’m still at the same weight I have been for the last 2 weeks. I seem to have fallen into a pattern of staying at the same weight for a few weeks then dropping for one or two weeks and then holding steady again. I think after this week (going to Montreal for a few days), I’ll try to clean up my diet to include fewer carbs and more protein and vegetables while keeping to around 1500 calories a day.
I need to get a new mp3 player. My old one fell out of my pocket a few weeks ago and I have all this new music I want to work out to.
You and me both. I’ve been bouncing between 219.2 and 222 for the last fortnight and it’s a bit frustrating as I had been making non-stop steading losses up until then.
On the plus side, I had to go pants shop and am now down to a size 36 waist where I had been in a 42 in January. I am seeing some muscle gain and if I can buy smaller pants, I’m not going to worry as much about the scale.
When I started this change in January, I would do the treadmill at zero incline for 30 minutes at 4 mph. My heartrate would be at 137 at the end. Now my heartrate will be 117 at 4.1 mph and I’ll also do some interval training in the middle. (I double the speed to 8.2 mph and run for 30 seconds, jump off to the side for 30 seconds and then back on. Repeat 5-8 times and I’m a puddle of sweat. Then go back to 4.1 mph for the cool down).
We went away for the long weekend - away from the kids, down in the New Forest in the caravan. We ate (moderately) badly, and inclement weather meant only one long walk.
And I was almost 85kg (187) this morning, down a kilo from last week. I just have to be extra careful the rest of the week - back to the swimming (13 degrees in the lake, brrrr) and gym today to keep things from bouncing up. I am pretty happy, and reckon on being 83kg by the end of the month. Then only 5kg to go to the ultimate goal.
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Down another 3.6 this week, at 194.2 from my start at 242. I’m getting very close to my 50 lbs goal, and am pretty psyched right now.
However, I did a long run today (10.3 miles) and near the end my ankle started hurting, probably from overuse. I’m resting tomorrow and icing it now, plus more stretching. I’ve been worried about overuse injuries, and this is a stark reminder to take it easy with all the running. I need to set up an exercise plan that I can sustain long term with my schedule and without injury.
Recap:
April 2009: 220.6 pounds
Today: 152.8 pounds 
(67.8 pounds lost)
Goal: WW, 150 pounds, actual 145 pounds
At 145 I’ll earn my 75-pound WW “washer”. Only 7.8 pounds to go!
I’m doing 5K almost every day, some combination of run/walk, depending on how my back feels (I wrenched it a few weeks ago). I hope to walk my 10K course for the first time today, to start prepping for a 10K run in September.
With the crappy weather, I’ve been back on the bike, and I have a knee that’s starting to bother me now. When they say losing weight in your forties is harder, they neglect to mention that one of the reason is because your body keeps breaking down! My husband has a good knee brace around here somewhere; I’ll see about using that on the bike. Today I plan to walk for a couple of hours in a mall. I’d prefer gardening, but that’s not happening any time soon. 
Last week: 205.00
This week: 203.90
Eating habits are getting better and more second nature (not that there’s not still a lot of work to be done). Need to work on finding more exercise time.
One thing I’ve noticed after doing this for about nine months now is that my exercise habit has really become a habit - I look for some kind of exercise every single day. It truly has become like flossing and brushing my teeth - just something I do every day.
ETA: One thing that works for me is no days off - one day off turns into never doing it again, I’ve found. I can have light days, where I just take a walk around the block, but I really try to do something every day.
My dentist is constantly on my back about not flossing. 
One crisis at a time. 
I am exactly the same way–I’ve missed only 2 complete days since August first, and one was Christmas and the other I had either the worst cold of my life or a mild flu. And there are days that I am not sure that I exercised–it’s so automatic that it gets lumped in, the way that it’s hard to remember one specific morning shower. But when I reflect, I always have, in much the same way that I’ve always showered. It’s not a choice anymore, it’s a routine. That said, I expect I could lose the habit pretty quickly.
Being a teacher, I am amazed at the end of each school year when I contemplate summer: how will I possibly fill my days without the bell schedule? I can’t even imagine life when I don’t have to get up at 4:30. And at the end of each summer, I have a panic attack: how will I adjust to having to get up each morning at 4:30? How is that even possible? What if I can’t make the switch? What if I can’t function like that this time? But every time, the cycle switches and I adapt to the new mode in a matter of 2-3 days. So I remain vigilant! I worry that one serious disruption in my schedule–like a true flu, that stopped me for a week, or a vacation where my exercise was less formal–could put me back in my old habits and, the next thing I know, it’s six months later.
I went on vacation for a few days to Montreal and ate pretty much what I wanted. Somehow I managed to lose .8 lbs since last week, breaking my plateau of the last couple of weeks. Maybe the extra food was good for my metabolism or all the walking helped but probably it was just one of those random things. I did not meet my goal of being in the 140s by the time my sister came to visit but I think I’ll get there before I go home later this month. My sister, who hasn’t seen me since Christmas, said I lost weight and people from work have also started noticing. So that’s all good.
I’m thinking of signing up for a 5k race next Sunday. I have done 5k on my own but haven’t done a race before. It’s supposed to be a flat course so it looks easy enough.
I need to see a dentist. Haven’t see one for over 15 years.
Last I weigh I was about 149 pounds. Goal is 143 pounds, so I am almost there. Of course my weight loves to ping-pong up and down from 1 to 3 pounds, so that’s not a very definite reading.
Anyway, I doubt I will change my routine even when reaching the goal. I feel so much better when actively exercising, so I am not so concerned about what the scale says.
I have been up and down a bit just recently, I had a bad few weeks and gained about 4lbs in total which wasn’t a major disaster but also wasn’t the way I’d intended to go. Since then I’ve lost 1.5lbs and hope to have lost another half-pound at this week’s weigh-in but I’ve not been particularly good just recently. Also, we had a death in the family so had an unplanned week away from home and that didn’t help the diet plan at all.
I finally got my bike fixed and went out for a ride yesterday, only about 4miles in total but today my girlie bits are hurting. That’s good, right?!