Entries from September 2007

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Weekly Update - 9/24/07 (Monday)

Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 281
Today’s weight: 282
Week weight lost: -1 lbs
Total weight lost: 13 lbs

(Note, I am posting my update on Monday because I was out of town all weekend camping and couldn’t do my normal Sunday update.)
I knew this week was going to be a tough one to stay on plan because I was [...]

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Losing Weight is Like the Stock Market

When you look at the long term performance of the stock market the trend is clear - it goes up. This chart looks amazingly like my weight gain over the years where you don’t really notice it at any given point but once 20 years have passed you see the trend. And it’s up!
One key [...]

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Hitting the Road

Perhaps emboldened by my public workouts this week, yesterday I took my cardio program off the treadmill and took to the lake path near our house.  I’ve walked it before and there are quarter mile markers which make it good for running, and the hills aren’t too bad.  It’s about 2.25 miles.  Unfortunately there turned out to [...]

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

4 Observations From My Hotel Workouts

As I wrote yesterday in I’m Still Fat But I’m Already a New Me I did a great job this week on my business trip, actually exercising in a hotel “fitness center.”  In addition to what I wrote in that post about not working out while I travel I should also point out that I haven’t [...]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

I’m Still Fat But I’m Already a New Me

I’ve been referring to my weight loss program as a journey to a new me.  I expect the journey to take two years although that is only the start - it needs to be for the rest of my life.
I’m down 14 pounds in the first month and a half or so of my journey [...]