Status Report: 9/21/10

Sep 212010

Progress Report: September 21th, 2010
Weight: 262.5lbs
Body Fat Percentage:  34.9%
BMI: 38.2
Weight loss since last week: -0.9 lbs

It’s not much, but I’ll take it. :)

Need to get some work done, so this is going to be a brief post.  Basically I wanted to check in and say that I’m alive, and that I’m still around :P

I need to workout more this week.  I worked 25.5 hours of overtime last week, and I got some schoolwork done, but exercising kind of fell to the wayside.  I need to work on that, otherwise I’m going to start inflating again. :/

Diet was meh, again.  No calorie counting this past week, but I did try to keep the portions in check, to an extent.

More later.

Oh, and Biggest Loser tonight! WooT! :D

Have a great week!

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?

Still alive...

May 072010

I’m still alive…

…and still trying to get back on track.

It’s been a few days, and I apologize for that.  It’s not that I’m deliberately trying to avoid the blog.  It’s more a combination of being busy with work, being busy with schoolwork (apparently self paced means I still have to do the work at some point, DAMMIT!), and not knowing what to talk about, at least in a coherant way (bullet points wouldn’t be much help either).

So yeah, there is that.  I’m working out, and the diet is slightly better.  I’m not going to go and say I’m back yet, but I’m getting there.  Your regularly scheduled Steve will be back soon :)

In the meantime, how in the hell are ya?!

And thank you for the encouragement, advice, etc…you gave with the weigh in post.  I’ve said it before, but I can never say it enough, you guys rock! :)

Peace!

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