Status (damage) Report: Week 34

Jun 012010

Progress Report: Week 34
Weight: 248.0lbs
BMI: 36.1
Weight loss so far: 17 lbs lost total

I said it before, and I’ll say it again: May sucked!

Now, granted, there was a lot of good.  I had a pretty awesome birthday, I ran my first half marathon and I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day weekend in Cleveland and Put-In-Bay, OH.

But everything else?  Yeah…

I was completely thrown off kilter by becoming a full time teleworker, and everything kind of went to crap.  The workouts became sporadic and the diet sucked.  Basically everything I could do wrong, I did, and I in one month I completely undid all of the progress (weight related, anyway) made all year.  Granted, I did a bit of damage control following the half, but it wasn’t what it really needed to be.

So yeah, all in all…May was a big ol’ FAIL!

Luckily, it’s not May anymore.  Today is a new month, and I’d like to give myself one (final) fresh start.

For accountabilities sake, I’m setting up some fitness goals for myself for the week.

  • Run/walk (but mostly run) 20 miles this week.
  • Bike 30 miles.
  • At least three strength training workouts.

Diet wise, I think a HUGE reason behind my gain was the constant ordering out while I’m at home working.  If it wasn’t ordering delivery, I’d run to the grocery store or to a fast food place and load up.  I ate with reckless abandon.  So I’m resolving to, well, not do that anymore.  While I’m working during the week there will be no fast food, no delivery, no carry-out, none of that crap.  I will eat what I have at the apartment and be more careful about what I eat, and I will make sure I’m stocked with healthy choices.  I’d like to resolve to cook more dinner too, because I don’t think I did that at all during the month of May (or probably a huge part of April, for that matter).

I’m also going to have another fitness challenge this month, probably in the next week or so.  I leave for vacation on the 24th, so I’d like it squared away by then.

Okay, so, uh, that’s it…for now.  Did you have a good weekend?

Have a great day, everyone! :)

Lather, Rinse, Repeat...

May 182010

I think it’s pretty safe to say that I have become a broken record.

I’ve been struggling…honestly, part of me can’t say it’s been a struggle, because in many ways it seems like I haven’t even be trying.

The end goal is in the back of my mind…it’s in the back of my mind when I don’t go to the gym…it’s in the back of my mind when I stuff myself during the day out of boredom…it’s in the back of my mind when I basically do everything that I know I shouldn’t be doing right now.

Ugh.

I’ve made big claims about getting back on track, hitting the reset button, working out everyday, and all that jazz…but honestly, I’m going nowhere fast.

You’ve all been super encouraging and completely awesome, but I haven’t taken up any of your advice, I haven’t responded to your offers of help, I have been bad about emails, I have been bad about twitter.  I’m sorry for all of that.  I love and appreciate all of you and everything you have done for me…I just, don’t know :(

And yeah, I mean, I HAVE been busy.  Work, school and the like, but those issues were always there and I still managed to at least kick some ass, but now I’ve let it all overwhelm me.

I want to scream, but more than that I want to get on track.  I want to stop making empty promises and actually do this thing.  I want to learn from my failures and move on, and not allow them to overwhelm me. 

I wish I could say that this post would serve as a catalyst to that change, but honestly, the post few posts were suppose to serve as that catalyst.  So yeah, there’s that.

Oh yeah, there is supposed to be a Status Report this week, but honestly, I don’t want to know.

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There is SOME good to report though…I turned 26 last Friday, and I had a really nice birthday.  I hung out with some friends, saw Iron Man 2, and got a huge Best Buy giftcard which went towards the purchase of a Xbox 360 and Final Fantasy XIII. WooT!

I’m also fully intending on keeping with the Maryland Half Marathon this weekend.  My motivation may be in the shitter, but I have (and never had) any intention of calling it quits on that.

Sorry for the rambling.  Hope you have a good day.

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And by the way, this post in entirely thanks to MrsFatass…if it wasn’t for her I would have probably stayed under my rock until I had something better to report.  Thank you for making me put myself out there :)