Status Report (7/6/10)

Jul 062010

I’ve sort of lost track of what week I’m on, so I think from here on out I’m going to label the Status Reports by date.  Cool?  Cool. :)

Progress Report: July 6th, 2010
Weight: 254.8lbs
BMI: 37.1
Weight loss so far: 10.2 lbs lost total

So there it is.  I knew it was going to be bad, and I won’t express shock as to how bad it is, because it could have been worse.  Thankfully I didn’t manage to get back up into the 260s…but the 250s is still pretty bad.  But I have resolved to fix it, so I will, so booyah!

In other news, the fact that I am running a marathon in October hasn’t completely escaped my mind, and while I’ve done some running, I have been in almost no way, shape or form actually training for this thing (boo!).  Thankfully that will be changing though.  David H. from Running Because I Can (who you might remember from his guest post) has helped me out and provided me a little training routine to get me started:

  • Week 1: 3-3-2-8 for 16 total miles
  • Week 2: 3-3-2-9 for 17 miles
  • Week 3: 3-3-3-10 for 19 miles
  • Week 4: 3-3-3-11 for 20 miles
  • Week 5: 3-3-4-6 for 16 miles
  • Week 6: 3-3-4-12 for 22 miles
  • Week 7: 3-4-4-14 for 25 miles

I kicked off Week 1 yesterday with a 3.7 mile run (yeah, I went a little over, but that is my usual neighborhood run).  With whats laid out right there that will get me near the end of August, which is a great start.

On top of that, I really want to put a little more effort into the whole strength training thing, which I have been very much half assing since the beginning.  I think I am going to go about this by doing some weights in the gym, but also maybe a bit of P90X.  I’ve owned the program for almost a year now, but when I first bought it I could barely do any of the workouts, so it was shelved after about a week, and since then I have loaned it out to a friend.  I do however, still have the P90X+ dvds, which is a more intense version of the already intense original program.  I popped in the Total Body Plus DVD last night and I think its safe to say my ass was officially kicked.  Granted, I couldn’t do ALL of the exercises, but I did what I could and I think I did alright, and I made it through the full 45 minutes in one piece.  So I may play around with those DVDs a bit, and then in time maybe attempt the actual full P90X program again.  We’ll see how that goes :)

AND ON TOP OF THAT…I am back to work from my vacation, and I need to pull in some major overtime to make up for the crazy spending I did on vacation, and a new school semester starts this month.  I won’t stress though (too much), but I think this month is going to be a GREAT exercise in time management.

That’s all I got for now.  How was everyones holiday weekend?  Anything fun and exciting going down?

______________ eating

Jul 052010

Source 

 

Emotional
Stress
Boredom

You could basically fit any of those words (and probably a few more) into the title of this post, and you’ll have my eating habits for the past two months.

Now, I’m not trying to dwell on what I’ve done wrong before, but I sorta have to acknowledge it if I want to be able to move forward.

Things started going to crap when I began working from home.  I was suddenly thrown into a situation with no structure, and while I didn’t have alot of food in the house, I’d get bored and eat anything I could, or I would order delivery or hop in the car and head over to McDonalds or Wendys.  If these were my meals, it probably wouldn’t have been so bad, but this was a fairly constant thing throughout the day.  I also grew less interested in cooking, so almost every meal was eaten out, with little regard to healthy choices.

I resolved to do better in June, but that was a joke.  I housesat for my aunt for two weeks, in a house FILLED TO THE BRIM with all sorts of food, and I basically had at it.  I wasn’t eating out as much, but I was making up for it by eating all sorts of shit otherwise.

At the end of June I was on vacation in Winnipeg, Canada.  Again, lots and lots of eating out.  My only real saving grace there was that most of the eating was at actual meal times, there was very little snacking in between.

I don’t know why I get like that.  If I get upset at anything, I eat.  If I am stressed or bored, I eat.  If I have a craving for the slightest little thing, I eat.  If I try to allow myself one cheat meal, that basically gives way to a cheat day, which can give way to a cheat week, etc…

It sucks, and it sucks worse in that after I’ve eaten, I have very little motivation to do much else.  I just want to veg, so my workouts go out the window.  I workout a lot better on an empty, or near empty stomach, and over these past couple months having a empty or near empty stomach was a rarity.

But…hopefully that is all in the past, and I will get back on track.  Hopefully maybe even better than before, because the diet is something I’ve always struggled with to an extent.  I’m just not sure as to the best way to go about it.  I’ve tried counting calories before, and that lasted maybe a week.  I’ve tried meal tracking on Sparkpeople and Diet.com too, but quickly lost interest there as well.  Hell, the only reason I set up a twitter account was to tweet my meals, but that didn’t last long either.  I don’t know why it gets like that, especially I have no problem tracking each and every workout on Dailymile.

Blarg…I don’t know.  I was thinking about Weight Watchers for Men, but I don’t want to pay for something I’m going to end up not using.  I could just strive to eat healthy and not keep track of anything, too.  I know that works for alot of people, but I’ve been surprised in the past at how bad my “healthy” eating could be.

I’m rambling, so I’m going to shut up now.  I know something needs to be done, so it will, even if it means revisiting some old tools I tried to use in the past.  In the meantime, any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated :D  

Have a great day!

Independence Day

Jul 042010

Hello, and happy July 4th everyone!

Alot of pretty awesome things have happened on this day throughout history, The Declaration of Independence was signed, Alice in Wonderland was published, Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum helped defeat the alien invasion…

…and I have decided to get my life back…

…again.

For those of you who follow my blog, you know it’s been a pretty rough couple of months.  I resolved to make things better come June, but in the end that didn’t really amount of anything.  While I did have some great times these past couple months, and I accomplished A LOT, I’m afraid I’ve just about gained back almost all of the weight I’ve lost since the beginning (will post the official weight on Tuesday though, as always).

I’m ashamed of that, but I don’t want to dwell on it, and I’d like very much to move forward.  For the past few months I let emotional/boredom/stress eating get the best of me, and overall I did very little as far as working out goes.

But that ends today.  I am declaring my independence from obesity (corny, but go with it) and I am getting my life back.

WooT!

Regular weigh ins will be coming back on Tuesdays (no skipping), and I will be doing more with weekly goals for myself.  I also need to think about my overall goals and what I’d ultimately like to see come out of my life.  It won’t be easy (it never is), and I will probably still have slip ups, but hopefully this time around they won’t knock me completely off track. 

So stay tuned…

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