Status Report: Week 7

Nov 242009

Progress Report: Week 7
Weight: 247.6 lbs
BMI: 35.5
Weight loss so far: 2.2 lbs since last week, 17.4 lbs to date

(in my best Eric Cartman voice) Sssscccchhhhwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt!

YAY!

This week had alot of bits of awesome, but, admittedly, there are many things could have gone alot better.

The good:

  • RUNNING!  Not only have I gotten my mile down to 9 minutes and 22 seconds, as of last night, but I’m running longer and faster than I thought possible.  Examples of that include one 20 minute stretch of 5.5mph and a 5 minute stretch at 7.0mph.  WooT!  I think that now I am getting used to/and liking running I’m seeing more and more what I am capable of, which will help me IMMENSELY on October 16th, 2010.
  • Working out otherwise!  In addition to the running, I have worked out everyday this past week.  Some days more than others, but I am at least getting something done and I don’t feel like I am burning out yet.
  • Snacking.  Yeah, there has been some snacking, but I survived from home on Friday and the snacking otherwise wasn’t AS mindless as usual, and there have been no trips to vending machine in at least a week (I know its been longer, but dunno exactly how long).

And now, the bad:

  • Goals.  I did not meet or EXCEED any of my goals for this past week.  I wanted to burn 10,000 calories in cardio, I burned 6986.  Still not bad, but I’ve done 10,000 before, I wanted to do it again.  I also only worked 4 hours of overtime (wanted 6 hours) and did maybe an hour of studying (wanted 6 as well).  D’oh!
  • Calorie counting.  I let this slip quite a bit, especially this past weekend.  The small meals are easy enough to track, but its when I eat out and it involves going home after the fact and researching.  That’s where I failed.  I didn’t feel like putting the effort in to find the exact meal at the restaurant I ate at (and I ate out quite a bit), or a comparable meal somewhere else to base the calories off of, and I HATE having to guess.  This is something I will work on though.

And now, the ugly.  This is Thanksgiving week, which in of itself is bad enough, but I am leaving tomorrow night and not coming back until Sunday.  Instead of one really bad day for good food choices, this leaves several days of pretty much eating out every meal, blah!  Luckily, the hotel has a gym (although in my previous experiences hotel gyms have always sucked) and there will be alot of walking around, so maybe I can at least hope to stay the same, especially since I made it a goal of mine when I started to not gain anything this week.

Hopefully the weather will be better, I wish I was going somewhere awesome and exotic, but I don’t think Pittsburgh fits that bill.  I’m sure it would be an awesome trip and I’ll have alot of fun, but Hawaii it ain’t :-P

Besides not gaining anything this week, the only goal I want to set is that I want to try and get SOME FORM OF A WORKOUT in everyday, whether it be a full gym experience or some stuff in my hotel room, I am starting to get antsy when I don’t work out, so I want to do something.

I’m playing around w/ the idea of another challenge in my mind, and I will annouce that tomorrow.  It won’t start until the holiday weekend, so that way if anyone wants to participate there will be a better chance of that happening.

WooT!

Hope everyone has an awesome day, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVE-EVE!

The weekend THUS far...

Nov 222009

So, okay…the weekend hasn’t been horrible, per se.

I would like to think that I ended Friday with some level of success.  There was no snacking WHATSOEVER while I was at home working, only my little dinky piece of toast for breakfast and my somewhat less dinky lunch.

Of course, dinner, as it usually does, proved to be my Kryptonite.  It took place at Buffalo Wild Wings, as usual, and consisted of 12 wings (6 old bay wings, 6 mango habanero) and buffalo chips (sliced potatoes), and one beer flavored water (Michelob Ultra).  Afterwards I was craving something sweet, so we stopped at Wawa and I got a 6pack of oreos (think I left that out of twitter, oops) and ate some chocolate.

I mean, it could have been worse (it can ALWAYS be worse). I could have drunk until I was sloppy drunk (and then would have probably ended up at McDonalds on the way home), I could have ordered more wings, bla, bla, bla…

Saturday was okay too.  Breakfast was whole wheat toast w/ laughing cow cheese (35 calories FTW), lunch was a grilled chicken sandwich from chickfila with a side salad.  Snack (I was hungry), was pretzels and potato chips microwaved with a little mozzarella cheese and bbq sauce  (don’t knock it until you try it).  Dinner…yeah, dinner could have gone a little better….BUT, I was almost finished Julie and Julia (yes, it’s a chick book, but she started out as a blogger too and its a really funny book…I have no shame in reading it) and craving something kind of rich, so I made a pasta casserole with a shit-ton of chedder and mozarella, riccota cheese, sour cream, bbq sauce, chicken and onions, with a side of my very own garlic bread.  Julia Child, I am not, but it was hella good (or so I think) and I didn’t eat a ton of the pasta (two pieces of bread though…oops).

Today’s been spiffy, breakfast was a slice of wheat bread (out of laughing cow..sad face), lunch was Burger King (whooper jr w/ a side salad).  Dinner is chinese food, but I’m going to be conversative.  We’re having company and she offered to pick up food, so I didn’t want to make things difficult for her.

Workout wise, I have yet to take my rest day.  I didn’t do as much on Saturday, but I’m still glad I worked out some.  And today was treadmill and eliptical.  I don’t lift weights on the weekends unless I miss a day during the week.

So…

That’s all I got.  Gonna get ready to eat (a very small portion of) Chinese and watch the new Star Trek movie on Blu-Ray (again..but WooT nonetheless).

Have an awesome evening.

TGIF! Slacking off, marathons, and movie quotes! OH MY!

Nov 202009

I am currently sitting in my bedroom on my laptop, watching West Wing and downloading music to my iPod.

I LOVE working from home…

…but I also HATE it.

I don’t know how or why, but when I am at home, the switches in my mind flip, and I lose almost all willpower and self-control.  This happens whenever I am at home, but moreso when I am working.  I used to do Thursdays and Fridays, but for the duration of this journey I will only be doing one day.  I could go into the office, but I really want to try to face this problem head on, and not run from it.  I can’t run away from EVERYTHING.

Plus, my supervisor pushed and pushed to get me this priveledge, so I don’t want to look like a tool for not doing it.  HA!

Anyway, I had put it out there, so if I get the temptation to run into the kitchen and pigout, I can just read this post.  Note to future Steve:  Today WILL be a good day, DAMMIT! Don’t f*ck up.

In other news, did my weights this morning, and 15 minutes of eliptical.  If I get caught up might do some cardio stuff at home, or go down to the fitness center at my apartment complex for a quick run.  I am due for a rest day, but I don’t really want to take it yet, I feel like I have some pent up energy that I want to use up.

No weekend plans, gonna keep it on the cheap since I am going out of town for Thanksgiving (more on that later), might work some overtime and of course, work out…

OH! OH! AND!!!!!!!…

…so I’ve been gushing about running, right?  I’ve been thinking about this for a long time (in the form of a pipedream, really), and reading this guy pretty much cemented the decision for me.

 I am going to run the Baltimore Marathon. WooT!

Admittedly, it might seem like I am jumping the gun a bit, and yeah, I AM jumping the gun aLOT, but you know what? F*ck it!

A marathon is nothing to scoff at, naturally, but I have almost a year to prepare.  I believe I have made incredible progress in the 6 weeks since I’ve started this journey, so I’m pretty confidant of what I can do in 11 more months.  If my present and future works culminates into me being able to become a marathoner, then I’m all for it.

Registration starts on December 13th, and I still have a little research to do b/c I’d like to try to run for a charitable cause, and I need to find a way to properly go about training, but WooT regardless.

This fatass might make something of himself, after all!

That’s all I got for now, I’ll try to update later to let ya know how the day went (ie…whether or not I ate the kitchen).

I’ll leave you with a pretty awesome quote from a pretty awesome movie, True Lies.

“I wanted to do something outrageous, and it felt really good…It’s just there’s so much I want to do with this life and it feels that I haven’t done any of it. You know, the sand is running out of the hourglass, ao I want to look back and say, see, I did that, that was me, I was wreckless and I was wild, and I fucking did it.”-Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis)

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