December 2007

Weekly Update - 12/30/2007

December 30, 2007

Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 266 Today’s weight: 266 Week weight loss: 0 lb Total weight lost: 29 lbs It’s hard to know whether this is an official plateau or not.  I’ve lost all of one pound in the entire month of December (I guess I still have a couple of days before I [...]

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Introducing Entrecard

December 29, 2007

While the vast majority of my postings will be about my weight loss journey from fat to fit I will stray occasionally to talk about things related to blogging about my weight loss journey.  If you haven’t already read 4 Reasons You Should Be Writing a Weight Loss Blog please do - it explains the importance of [...]

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Catching Up on Christmas

December 28, 2007

The week went by too fast - which always seems to happen when I am on vacation.  So time to get caught up on a few things around here.  First of all you may remember that I was worried about this week from a diet standpoint - we hosted a big feast on Sunday, and [...]

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Tightening Up My Strength Training Routine

December 24, 2007

Adding a morning strength training routine to my daily schedule has been one of the best things I have done over the last five months of my journey from fat to fit.  It’s also been one of the most challenging.  Because of my travel and work schedule I was already getting up early in the [...]

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Weekly Update - 12/23/2007

December 23, 2007

Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 267 Today’s weight: 266 Week weight loss: 1 lb Total weight lost: 29 lbs I really thought I was going to do better this week than a 1 pound loss.  Yesterday I actually weighed in at 265 so I thought there was a good chance I’d be reporting [...]

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Take That, Treadmill!

December 21, 2007

In Tuesday’s Don’t Skip the Cardio! I conceded defeat to my treadmill, which totally and completely kicked my butt as I made a lame attempt at Week 4 of the Couch to 5k plan.  In fact it was so lame that in my recording of the times I recorded it as yet another Week 3.  [...]

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Omron Digital Pedometer Giveaway Contest Winner Announced!

December 20, 2007

Last Thursday I announced a contest to give away a new (well twice used) Omron Digital Pedometer to one of my lucky readers. To participate all you needed to do was write an article and link to that post. I would pick my 5 favorite articles and then randomly choose a winner. Here are my [...]

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4 Reasons You Should Be Writing a Weight Loss Blog

December 19, 2007

Whether you are looking to lose that “Freshman Fifteen” or are in the 100+ Pounds-to-Go Club you should be writing a weight loss blog as a critical component of your weight loss plan. A weight loss blog is not a food journal or a food diary. Keeping a food journal can also be important and [...]

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Don’t Skip the Cardio

December 18, 2007

It’s been about 5 weeks since I have used the treadmill.  Since that time I did get three 3 miles run in, but other than that - no cardio.  As you may remember (or maybe not since it has been so long since I have done any!) I am basing my cardio workout on the [...]

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