Drop 30 Pounds

Time to Get Back on the Scale

AP — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:27:30 +0000

Well, it’s time to get back on the scale again…

I’ve neglected this blog for quite a while now. That probably gives you a pretty good indication of what I’ve been doing with my weight loss effort as well.

I guess I got complacent with maintaining my weight, but now that it’s creeping back up a bit, I need to pay attention and get back to work!

Catching Up

AP — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Okay, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Not too much exciting going on. Basically I’ve held the weight relatively constant and just recently worked off a bit more from my waist, thanks to starting some light training with the powerwheel my sister lent me.

What it comes down to is the fact that I haven’t really been committed to losing weight (no surprise there). I’m still happy with the trend since I started this blog, since I was gaining weight at a ridiculous pace, and now I’m about 13 pounds lighter than when I started, thanks to eating a bit healthier and exercising a bit more. I’m hoping that at some point this summer I will really ramp things up.

If you all have any insights into what gives you the motivation to eat healthy, get & stay in shape, etc. etc., please feel free to share!

Here’s where the weekly weigh-ins landed the past several weeks…

5/18:

Weight: 206.2 lbs. (new low!)
Waist: 39 inches

5/11:

Weight: 208 lbs.
Waist: 39 inches (yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

5/4:

Weight: 208 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

4/27:

Weight: 207.8 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

4/20:

Weight: 207.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

4/13:

Weight: 208.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

4/6:

Weight: 208.8 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

My Scale Likes Me Now

AP — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:42:22 +0000

Okay, so, the new battery must be doing it’s job right, because this week it logged:

Weight: 208.8 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

The crazy thing is, I haven’t been doing the best job these past couple weeks. I know there are pretty decent size fluctuations with someone who weighs as much as I do, but I’ll just say it was encouraging to step on the scale and have it be on a “low” swing. I’m going to need to step things up if I’m going to keep up the downward trend.

By the way, I just updated my progress chart to catch it up to date for the year.

Guess Again

AP — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:21:24 +0000

Okay, so lame of me, but I never got around to buying a size CR 2032 battery this week, so my scale still wasn’t speaking to me. So, once again, I’m going to take a guess and say I’m the same as last week:

Weight: 209.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

My shoulder is still hurting, so I’m hoping I can recover a bit more and then get back on track. Oh yea, and buy that battery…

Shot in the Dark

AP — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:18:34 +0000

This morning when I stepped on the scale, I noticed something new — a dead battery message! So, I’m just going to pretend like I’m the same as last week:

Weight: 209.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

My shoulder has been hurting pretty bad, so this week I’m going to take things a little easier…

Basically Flat

AP — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:14:58 +0000

I wish I were talking about my stomach, but it’s my progress, or lack thereof. Coming off a good week though, I should just be happy to be sub-210:

Weight: 209.4 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

Alright, we’ll see what happens this next week!

Drop 3 Pounds in One Week!

AP — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:30:30 +0000

Okay, this is my best week in a LONG time. I was able to Drop 3 Pounds and lose a little more chub around the waist:

Weight: 209.2 lbs.
Waist: 39.25 inches

I’m a little perplexed, but I’ll take a week like this anytime. After the previous week’s effort of consuming only about 10% of my usual “surplus food” intake and working out six days, I was a little bit discouraged to say the least that I was UP 0.2 pounds.

So, this time I decided to take it a bit easier on myself. I went back down to exercising 5 days, Monday through Friday. I also increased my treat intake back to a respectable 50% of the previous high.

Result: drop 3 pounds and a 1/4 inch on the waist!

Hypothesis: my body is allergic to high levels of diet and exercise

Anybody else have any ideas? What’s the deal with the lag time on results — if that’s even what’s happening. I’m not sure what’s going on, but this week I’ll probably land somewhere in the middle with treat consumption to play it a bit safe and see where I land next Monday.

Experiment Continues… Failed to Drop a Pound

AP — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:50:55 +0000

Six days of exercise and an 80% reduction in treat intake and this is my #$%! reward:

Weight: 212.2 lbs.
Waist: 39.5 inches

Not too happy about this, but I keep telling myself that I must still be better off. Just wish the scale agreed. My experiment last week went pretty well. I hardly ate anything at all in the evenings and on Saturday, I decided to add another workout, just for good measure.

I’d like to believe that I’m somehow adding muscle mass at the rate I’m losing fat, but that just doesn’t seem very realistic. Ugh. I’ll try to keep this up again for this week and see what the results look like next Monday.

Experiment: No More Eating After Dinner

AP — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:08:47 +0000

Okay, so after a couple weeks of exercising, I’m down half a pound. No, not even. 0.4 pounds. Good grief.

So, I thought I’d try an experiment. After dinner we get the kids ready for bed. I decided I’d get myself ready for bed at the same time, including brushing teeth. After that, I’m only allowed to drink water.

Now, this might not seem like a big deal to some of you. Maybe a lot of you already do this (i.e. don’t eat after dinner). AP on the other hand, well… he likes to snack. We’re not talking casual snacking either. Let’s put it this way, if snacking were an Olympic sport, AP would be a contender for Gold!

It’s not that I can just eat a lot of crap. I happen to have a super high tolerance for treats and snack food. Along with that tolerance, I have a strategy that keeps me going through the most intense of snack-fests. Alternate between sweet and salty. Yes, my friends, that’s the secret. Along with plenty of water, if you alternate between butter & salt popcorn (a huge bowl, the equivalent of two bags of microwave popcorn), and then about 10 mini-candybars, then back to chips and salsa, then back to a dozen cookies, then back to pretzels, then back to a pack of skittles, then… well, you get the idea.

I’d put a conservative estimate at 1,000 calories per outing. And this is after dinner, before bed. Not every night, and not always in true Olympic fashion, but let’s just say often enough and with more than enough that it’s time to put the freakin’ breaks on this snacker!

I’ll try this out for two weeks and see what the results are. I’ll keep up the same exercise routine and keep ratcheting it up slowly. We’ll see what the combo can deliver. My guess is more than 0.4 pounds in two weeks. Ugh.

Wish me luck! (although this reduction in consumption won’t do anything to help the current economic crisis — think of all the lost snack food sales! — *sigh* oh well, I’ll have to find another way to stimulate the economy that doesn’t stimulate a muffin top)

Down about half a pound

AP — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:47:33 +0000

After another solid week of exercise, I’m down about half a pound:

Weight: 212 lbs.
Waist: 39.5 inches

I’d like to see that waistline shrink again, it’s been stagnant for quite a while, but maybe after another 5 pounds or so it’ll start to come down as well.