Archive for September, 2009

Doubts starting to creep in

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

I don’t know if I will make it.  Yesterday and last night I ate some bad stuff (junk food).  Although I have to enjoy something once and a while.

Anyway, my weight is not progressing as quickly as I wanted it to.

Before I ran this morning I weighed in at 270 lbs.  Thank goodness it is not official.

Anyway I ran the 4+ and my time was 57:15, not my best time but within tolerance.

Also been busy, I have more to say and may say it later today in a misc post.  But right now I have some Saturday work to do.

Weight: 268.2

Scarfed out last night

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Yesterday I worked late and I was really hungry when I got home.  Plus there were these awesome little fried fish that I couldn’t stop munching on.  I am pretty sure they were bad for me. 

Late Dinner + Good Food + Hungry = Bad

It looks like it is getting much harder to lose weight.  A lot of things are getting in the way of a good workout.  Working late, fixing the house, kids school, daylight hours diminishing.  How do I compensate?  Maybe switch to the gym?

I did hit the gym yesterday.  But I kept looking at the time because I knew I had some work that evening.

Anyway my run was poor today as well, my time for 2 laps was 28:33.75

Tomorrow’s weigh in fills me with fear.  I need to get under 266, I do have a heavy gym workout and a 4+ to run tomorrow.  It is highly possible.

At least I can clearly say I am under 270.

Weight: 268.4

Slowly back in the groove

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Yesterday, as the day went on, it became clear I needed to rest.  As noted, I skipped my morning workout, but in the evening, I did not go to the gym.  I just did not feel well.  Instead I went home a little early from work, took an hour nap and ran a mile and walked a mile.

Also I setup gallery photo on my internal server.  I looked at some past pics and to be honest I cannot tell if I am losing.   Based on my weigh in’s, and when the photo’s were taken, I been losing 7 lbs a month.  Which is realistic, but won’t get me to my 250 goal by October 20th.   Worse is it translates to only 84 lbs in 1 year, putting me at about 211 lbs for summer next year, missing my goal by 20 lbs.

More interesting is that usually your rate of weight loss will deccelarate as your weight drops.

So is all hope of making weight lost? 

Not really, I got couple things going for me.  The big one is that I am lifting weights and adding a protein shake to my diet.  That does add weight and I’ve never done it on a regular basis before.  It is possible that I will start to lose more fat, which is the real goal not weight, as time moves on.

Another one is that my weigh with my photo’s are not the lowest weight point of the week.

Finally, I am evolving, both mentally and physically.  I am learning what to do and my body is getting better at it.

Weight: 267.4

Slowing down a bit today

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

My body is sore, it is signaling that it needs some rest.   I don’t like slowing down because I feel like I am losing this weight loss momentum. 

But I am starting to understand my body and the aches and pains at this stage means I need rest.  I will go to the gym today but I am even considering a light workout, no weights for sure but maybe just a 1 mile run and a 2 mile walk.  More than likely I will do a 2 mile run and a low incline and a 2 mile walk.

Weight: 266.6

Getting darker, running faster

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I got up this morning to do my run and it was dark.  I did run my normal route twice which is about 1.2 miles once.  So I ran over 2 miles.  Its starting to look like I’m going to be running mostly treadmill soon.

My time 27:02.43, I will start to track it but I won’t do a special category like the 4+.

Last night we had a wine tasting party at my place.  It was fun, I got a little buzz, I wouldn’t say I got hammered or drunk like Saturday night.  I felt good but there was a cost.  I could not sleep.  Weird, wine used to make me sleep but not this time.

Got gym this afternoon as well.

I got 12 days to get to 260.  Although not the end if I don’t get there in 12 days, it will certainly get harder to reach 250 by the 20th of October, which as of today is exactly 6 weeks.

I better get moving

Weight: 268

Another late day run

Monday, September 7th, 2009

It is Labor day and I had the day off.  So I decided to only do 1 workout.  Still it was a 4 mile.  This time I hardly walked I ran almost the entire length.  So as of right now I am renaming the 1+3 route to the 4+ route.  Not that I will always run it from here on out, but I am getting really close.

Anyway, conditions were better than yesterday and I was a little full from that 1/2 foot long subway sandwhich.  But I think this is a record.  My 4+ was run in 52:01.  I am going to add a new category and call it Four Plus Time.

My weight before the run was 270.2.  I have 43 days to reach 250.  At that rate I need to burn an excess of 1645 calories per day to make.

Luckily my official weight is closer to yesterday’s weight.

Weight: 267.2

Finally got a watch and stopped snoring

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Today is Sunday, so as usual it is a late workout.  But its cool because I ran a 1+3, ran it in exactly 57.0 minutes.  I will start to time my runs now.  First I will see what I normally run it in then I will start setting goals.

I felt like I got have run a little faster than 57 minutes.  I did encounter  a couple longer stop lights and weather was certainly poor.  There was a light rain.  But I think the thing that slowed me down the most was sharing those 3 bottles of mine with my brother in law Rick. 

Yesterday my wife surprised me.  She said that I do not snore as loud anymore.  That is truly noteworthy.  It did not occur to me that I would stop snoring.

I am behind schedule, I hope I can make it to 260 in 2 weeks.  There is leeway, but I need to push hard.  Today is not so bad.  It is a late weigh in.

Weight: 267.8

Broke through the plateau

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

This is incredible.  I haven’t seen this type of weight for a while now.   I feel so good.

I went for a 1+3 run (where I actually ran 3 miles) today.  This is a lte weigh in mind you.

When I left which was t 12:15 I weighed in at 268.2.  That itself is great.

I got back into the house at 1:30, check it out below.  This renews my chances of making 250 by Oct 20.

That’s six and a half weeks.  Doable if today’s weight is where I really am at.  To be honest, I think it should be higher.

Weight: 265.4

I think I got the right weight

Friday, September 4th, 2009

So I have a schedule to keep.  Basically I want to be 250 by Oct 20th (actually Oct 23 but I want it a little sooner)

In order to stay on schedule I need to be 260 in less than 3 weeks (16 days).

I am certainly behind schedule, but right now, its still possible.

Weight: 268

Unofficial Weigh In

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

As promised, I was going to weigh myself when I got home.  But it is not official.  Sad thing is that this feels like my weight.

Unofficial: 269.0