On January 5, 2010, I started my first weight loss attempt. I told myself I wasn't going to overthing the scale. I was only going to weigh in once a week. I had to fight the urge to weigh every morning. However, when January 12 rolled around, I jumped out of bed and headed to to scales. Weigh Day! I was shocked when I got on the scales and weighed 12 lbs less than I did the week before!
Some of my friends (both online and in real life) told me that it was mostly water weight that I lost. I didn't care. I weighed 12 lbs less than I did the week before. I think I lost 10 lbs the next week and then my weight loss leveled out at 5lbs a week for about two months. Then dropped down to 2 lbs a week. But that 12 lbs in one week (water weight or not) was heck of start and motivated me to stay on track.
So anyway, last week was my first week back "on plan". I woke up Monday morning, cooked my breakfast. After I ate I wrote it all down in my handy dandy notebook (thanks Blue's Clues) and started my first week back at work. I knew the structure of a 9 to 5, or in this case 8 - 4:30, (who are we kidding? More like 8:30 - 4:30!) would help me stay on track diet wise. And sure enough, by the end of the day I had written everything down and gotten in my 45-minute workout. Day 1 was in the books!
Day 2, day 3, and day 4 went just as well - didn't cheat at my diet and got my exercise in.
For day 5, things got a little hairy. The diet was no problem, but by the time the workday was over, I just could not bring myself to workout. I considered trading my Friday weight lifting for Saturday's cardio, but finally talked myself into staying on schedule and banged out my 45 minutes on the weights.
Day 6 - I had to work all day testing about 20 students. I did my fair share of moving around the room and was exhausted when I got home. I decided, as crappy as it may sound, to count that as my cardio for that day.
Day 7 - Sunday - The worst day ever for diets. I've always had trouble maintaining a schedule on Sundays. Sunday is a day made for naps - I think that's actually a rule somewhere. Thou must nap after church on Sunday...and possibly snack.
I got to thinking about it and one of my downfalls last go round with this weight loss stuff was that once I was off Nutrisystem, I was like a kid in a candy store. I knew how to eat as long as I had Nutrisystem food, but without it, I was just back to bingeing. So I decided that I would use Sunday for a flex day. On Sundays, I will eat real food. Food that I prepare myself. Food prepared on a device other than a microwave. Food served on a real plate (well, probably paper plate) and not in a plastic dish. So that's what I did. I managed my portions, but I ate real food. It even allowed me to get in the kitchen (and on the grill). That's my me time. I think I did alright for my first try at restraint.
Alright, so anyway, today (January 9) was my first week Weigh Day. I got up and went to the scale before I ate breakfast. I don't know if there is any science behind this, but I always weigh on Weigh Day before I eat anything. Anway, remember the opening of this blog? How I was so motivated after a loss of 12 lbs my first week? Well, I'm motivated again. Last week the scale was 262.8, and today it was 250.2.
So its good to see the old tried and true Diet and Exercise still works for me! I've only got 50.2 lbs to go! At a rate of 12 lbs a week, I'll be at 200 lbs by like the middle of February or something!
Of course, I know better....
Monday, January 9, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Well....I'm back
Ummm, hi. So it's been what, like over a year? Long time no update.
2011 was kind of a rocky year. Wait. Who am I kidding? The rockiness started the end of 2010. But I digress, I'll leave out the "hows" and "whys"and get right to the matter at hand. I've put about 65 lbs of my lost weight back on.
So here I sit at 262 lbs. The last time I wrote in this blog, I was at 198.2 lbs. I know, right? I really let myself go. I'm not proud.
What happened? Long story short, I think I got cocky. I was still well on my way throughout the end of 2010. I had started P90X and was sticking pretty close to my diet. I started slipping on both diet and exercise around the middle of February 2011. I ballooned up to 215 lbs. Then 220 lbs. Then 225 lbs. I would catch myself, get my diet in order for a few weeks and lose some weight here and there, but I would always slip again.
Things really went to pot in the summer. I started eating out alot and pretty much stopped all exercise completely. I got up the 235 (funny how I always catch myself on weights divisible by five, huh?). I tired to get things in order again around October, but life had other plans. Again, I'll spare the details, but some stuff happened in my life, Halloween and all its delicious confections was looming, not to mention a fat guy's favorite holiday...Thanksgiving.
By Thanksgiving, I had really just said "screw it", and I hit the 262 lb mark.
Well, I've decided that I can't let that happen. While I was off work for Christmas holidays (another important time on the fat guy calendar), I began putting together an exercise/food journal. Starting January 2 (that's today!), I'm going to write down everything I eat and its calorie count. I'm sticking mainly to the nutrition plan I learned in 2010 from the good folks at Nutrisystem. So I'll be trying to stay between 1600 and 1800 calories a day (not counting the added protein shake once I start more intense workouts).
My exercise plan is to use several different workouts, changing monthly, between today and the end of July. I'll add August through December once I see where I am in July. Weight days, cardio days, recovery days, off days...the whole kit-n-kaboodle. I'll mainly be using Beachbody products for my workouts - P90X, Insanity, and P90X2. I'm starting this month, however, with the workout video I used in 2010 when I first decided to fight my fat. John Basedow is kind of weird and not nearly as entertaining as Tony Horton, but he's helped me lose weight before so I figure he's an obvious choice to help me get started this time.
Anyway, my goal weight is 200 lbs this time. I spoke with my doctor and we decided that I looked rather sickly below 200 lbs so that would be a healthy weight for me. I plan on blogging at least once a week on my weigh in days, maybe more if the mood strikes me.
I appreciate any comments, postive or negative and thanks for joining me (again)!
2011 was kind of a rocky year. Wait. Who am I kidding? The rockiness started the end of 2010. But I digress, I'll leave out the "hows" and "whys"and get right to the matter at hand. I've put about 65 lbs of my lost weight back on.
So here I sit at 262 lbs. The last time I wrote in this blog, I was at 198.2 lbs. I know, right? I really let myself go. I'm not proud.
What happened? Long story short, I think I got cocky. I was still well on my way throughout the end of 2010. I had started P90X and was sticking pretty close to my diet. I started slipping on both diet and exercise around the middle of February 2011. I ballooned up to 215 lbs. Then 220 lbs. Then 225 lbs. I would catch myself, get my diet in order for a few weeks and lose some weight here and there, but I would always slip again.
Things really went to pot in the summer. I started eating out alot and pretty much stopped all exercise completely. I got up the 235 (funny how I always catch myself on weights divisible by five, huh?). I tired to get things in order again around October, but life had other plans. Again, I'll spare the details, but some stuff happened in my life, Halloween and all its delicious confections was looming, not to mention a fat guy's favorite holiday...Thanksgiving.
By Thanksgiving, I had really just said "screw it", and I hit the 262 lb mark.
Well, I've decided that I can't let that happen. While I was off work for Christmas holidays (another important time on the fat guy calendar), I began putting together an exercise/food journal. Starting January 2 (that's today!), I'm going to write down everything I eat and its calorie count. I'm sticking mainly to the nutrition plan I learned in 2010 from the good folks at Nutrisystem. So I'll be trying to stay between 1600 and 1800 calories a day (not counting the added protein shake once I start more intense workouts).
My exercise plan is to use several different workouts, changing monthly, between today and the end of July. I'll add August through December once I see where I am in July. Weight days, cardio days, recovery days, off days...the whole kit-n-kaboodle. I'll mainly be using Beachbody products for my workouts - P90X, Insanity, and P90X2. I'm starting this month, however, with the workout video I used in 2010 when I first decided to fight my fat. John Basedow is kind of weird and not nearly as entertaining as Tony Horton, but he's helped me lose weight before so I figure he's an obvious choice to help me get started this time.
Anyway, my goal weight is 200 lbs this time. I spoke with my doctor and we decided that I looked rather sickly below 200 lbs so that would be a healthy weight for me. I plan on blogging at least once a week on my weigh in days, maybe more if the mood strikes me.
I appreciate any comments, postive or negative and thanks for joining me (again)!
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