Not so good on the weigh-in this month, and I was expecting that. We had a stretch of nice weather with lots of cookouts and eating out, and I’ve discovered I always overeat when we have a cookout. The problem (for me) is that I want to eat everything: a hot dog, a brat, a burger, every side dish. I really need to quit that.
I have been pretty spotty on the exercise (running and pushups) but I feel we’ve made some solid progress on improving our diet. I’m putting tons more veggies in everything I cook (my chili this month was outstanding, if I do say so myself, with yellow bell pepper, onion and shaved carrot that practically dissolved after simmering). I’ve also started logging my food intake on SparkPeople.
Both Wii Fit and the bathroom scale are showing me with a good weight loss in the last 35 days.
Sweet! I’ll be rocking if I can keep up 2-4 pound monthly loss for the rest of the year.
Phew, my posting has been sucking hind teat this year. I’ve been meaning to get back to it, really I have.
Anyhoo, weighed in at the end of February and was surprised to see I was down a couple pounds. We’ve been making an effort to eat more veggies, which is going really well — it just sucks doing dishes a lot more because we’re cooking at home more, but that’s a good problem to have. We’ve also decided to start cutting high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) from our diet, especially in products the kids consume. I’ve actually started using the Wii Fit for some daily exercise, although that is far from a habit yet. I went running once when the weather warmed up, then we’ve had a few weeks of illness in household that put a damper on things.
I need to get a habit going for both exercise and blogging. I think my eating is under decent control, if I could just get the exercise going along with it.
Well, finally got around to my official year-end weigh-in. Actually, I stuffed myself so much at Christmas and New Years Eve that I was afraid to weigh right away, haha. Anyway…
So, officially down one whopping pound for the year, which is almost progress toward my goal. Over in the half-full end of the glass, though, I didn’t gain back any weight, which means I’ve been sub-200 for two years now, yay. I think I’m still aiming for 180 pounds, and I don’t think 1-1.5 pounds per month is at all unreasonable; I just need to actually get with it on the exercise.
Well, holding steady at the end of the year again. I actually didn’t weigh till last week, so I’m behind on that — I won’t weigh at the start of December and will just have the final end-of-year weigh-in after New Year. I feel like I’m back in control of the eating and I’m running and doing push-ups a couple times a week, so I’ve got a modicum of exercise going on now. Maybe I can step it up for the next 6 weeks and make it to at least 190.
I’ve been eying the Couch-to-5K program for a while now. A friend on Facebook is doing it, and now Brian V. has challenged me to completing the program. Well, actually he wanted someone else to do it with him, and he guarantees my participation by making it a challenge. Apparently, I’m competitive or something.
We’re building in some repeat time. The program, originated at CoolRunning.com, is a 9 week regimen but we’re setting our deadline as Sunday, January 10th, 2010. It is a pass/fail challenge — we don’t really want to do a footrace — with the sole criterion being able to do 3 miles in 30 minutes. Not terribly difficult, I don’t think, if one just jogs regularly.
We haven’t discussed the stakes yet, but based on past challenges, it will probably be a game for the winner if one of us can’t meet the goal.
I did W1D1 today. Lessons learned:
Or, as I am famed for saying in my local gaming group: Dammit, I did that wrong.
It almost looks like I’m not even trying, ne pas? I did get sidelined from push-ups due to my wrist (which is doing much better now, thanks), and there were a lot of homemade cookies consumed last month. I did manage to go running one day at lunch, and I am making an effort this month to start doing that regularly. Otherwise, I think this year is pretty much a bust for fitness 
I don’t think I’m going to make much progress until I start exercising regularly. I know I ate “heavy” this month, although I’ve been sticking with my pushups. Maybe I gained a pound of muscle? lol
Sigh. Well, at least I am doing push-ups regularly again.
Unfortunately, I suspect my progress this month is due largely to being sick for a week, heh. I have, however, started doing push-ups again, using a set of Perfect Pushup handles I got from a peer reward at work. I like them – they appear to relieve the stress on my wrists, although it also seems harder to do them, but that’s fine.