Year 2 Week 21 Day 5

The Measurement Day results:

Date:		Difference		6/21/2009		12/26/2009	4/30/2010	5/28/2010
Ankle		0.000		11.500		10.500	10.250	10.250
Calf		0.000				19.500	18.500	18.500
Thigh		-0.500		34.000		30.500	29.500	29.000
Hips		0.500		52.500		47.750	46.250	46.750
Middle		1.500		60.000		55.250	52.000	53.500
Chest		1.500		58.000		54.500	52.500	54.000
Bicep		0.750		18.250		17.250	16.500	17.250
Wrist		0.000		8.500		8.000	7.750	7.750
Neck		0.000		21.000		19.000	18.500	18.500
Weight		1.800		350.000		319.000	296.400	298.200
Bl. P.		+15/+17		181/125		154/100	119/74	134/91
Pulse		-1.000		78.000		74.000	73.000	72.000

Also since Friday is the big numbers day I am moving the exercise totals for the seven days to Friday:

0 for 3 on Pilates

1 for 5 on Morning Workouts

0 for 3 on Walking/Biking

Wow, that is terrible. It's just Monday to this morning but still terrible.

It looks to be nip and tuck to be under 298 come the June anniversary date.

Memorial weekend this Monday means no regular diet day on the holiday which throws the whole next week into disarray.

So enjoy your holiday plans, the cook outs and the what nots, I'll be eating salad or nothing at all.

Later,

Year 2 Week 21 Day 1

So the bouncing ball is back this week and the number is 303.4 and last week was 306.0…yada, yada, yada.

One month to the one year anniversary and as you can see if you are doing the math in your head, I started eleven months ago at 350.0 and if in four weeks I am not at 298.0 then I fail in the very simple concept.

"One week, one pound."

Based on my lowest achieved measurements and rolling forward I am aiming for 291.6 lbs.

Sadly, I can tie together the failure in the measurements above with the failures in the exercise schedule.

0 for 3 on Pilates

2 for 5 on Morning Workouts

0 for 3 on Walking/Biking

Still not disappointed if you review the Friday numbers and notice the blood pressure is still good.

No great revelations this week but I am rethinking the whole what happens when you die. Still not going for the crazy guy in the sky concepts, but there are issues with the time dilation where your last moments on life as far as your perceptions are concerned extend infinitely. So your life experiences up to the point of death are expounded for eternity which would allow for the idea of living a good and decent life since you would build upon that, but if you enjoyed a life of doing evil then you get that. However it makes the deaths of infants and the like very depressing, I mean more than they would be already. My only saver is that their life experiences don't include much to compare to so they wouldn't know any better. Still, doesn't sound great.

Later,

Year 2 Week 20 Day 5

Date:		Difference		6/21/2009		12/26/2009	4/30/2010	5/21/2010
Ankle		0.000		11.500		10.500	10.250	10.250
Calf		0.000				19.500	18.500	18.500
Thigh		-1.000		34.000		30.500	29.500	28.500
Hips		1.250		52.500		47.750	46.250	47.500
Middle		2.000		60.000		55.250	52.000	54.000
Chest		1.500		58.000		54.500	52.500	54.000
Bicep		0.500		18.250		17.250	16.500	17.000
Wrist		0.000		8.500		8.000	7.750	7.750
Neck		0.250		21.000		19.000	18.500	18.750
Weight		4.200		350.000		319.000	296.400	300.600
Blood P.		+8/+11		181/125		154/100	119/74	136/83
Pulse		6.000		78.000		74.000	73.000	79.000

 

Still have a ways to go to improve on April's numbers, but I am choosing to think of it as maintaining rather than stepping back.

Really comparing to where I was at the end of last year I am still pretty okay with the progress.

Still would like to get the exercise numbers up before the memorial weekend.

There is no grid for that yet, but that might be the second half of the year project.

I managed to do morning exercises three times this week.

I seemed to have missed walking and biking entirely.

Even after finding my DVD last weekend I managed a zero on the Beginning Pilates run throughs too.

Well, if I read as a little disappointed in the numbers that's because I am and such emotional turmoil usually leads to some binge eating.

Later,

Year 2 Week 20 Day 1

Well the floating around of late Spring is killing me emotionally. The reality of change is that it is effing hard.

Last week 302.0 and this week is 306.0 so go to hell. The frustration is obvious in that it's so easy to follow the plan and it's so easy to fall off the plan. It's all about how you choose to live from day to day and minute to minute.

I'll keep this up until the 21^st of June or so…the goal under one pound one week for next week is 292.6 lbs.

Managed to get in two days of weights and one day of walking, still looking for a five and three week in exercise.

Still don't want to spend money on a gym if I can't manage the time at home for 30 minutes of something.

Good news though, found my Pilates DVD this weekend while cataloging my collection. That is also the bad news since I can't make that excuse any more for not trying at least the beginners mat work. Might also look to yoga and Zumba training to work on flexibility and my dance moves…oh yeah.

Still can't complain as the new, smaller sized clothes fit better and take away the sense that I have room to grow. Thinking back it's a crazy decision making process that allows a person to say "I'm just going to keep buying larger and larger clothes" instead of saying to yourself "Drop the ice cream fatty and walk to your mailbox or around the block so you don't spend $500 on fat pants!" That's the wow moment for me and having been a person who said that I'd rather enjoy life and eat what I want not realizing the costs of doing so really outweigh (not a pun honest!) the benefits.

Another week with my blood pressure in the safe zone is another week I don't hear my doctor's voice in my head talking about drug treatments and cutting back on salt and losing weight. Of course he was right about the losing weight part but that's pretty much the easiest diagnosis in the history of medicine…"You weigh over 350lbs, maybe you should drop some of that."

Enough thinking for one morning.

Later,

Year 2 Week 19 Day 5

Oh boy, this isn't looking too good.

Date:		Difference		6/21/2009		12/26/2009	4/30/2010	5/14/2010
Ankle		0.500		11.500		10.500	10.250	10.750
Calf		0.000				19.500	18.500	18.500
Thigh		0.250		34.000		30.500	29.500	29.750
Hips		1.000		52.500		47.750	46.250	47.250
Middle		0.750		60.000		55.250	52.000	52.750
Chest		2.000		58.000		54.500	52.500	54.500
Bicep		0.250		18.250		17.250	16.500	16.750
Wrist		0.000		8.500		8.000	7.750	7.750
Neck		0.500		21.000		19.000	18.500	19.000
Weight		6.600		350.000		319.000	296.400	303.000
Blood P.		+8/+11		181/125		154/100	119/74	127/85
Pulse		-3.000		78.000		74.000	73.000	70.000

 

Well, there you go, it really didn't look good.

Hey at least I found my Pilates for Beginners DVD.

Seriously, I have been experimenting with what works and what doesn't in meals this week and clearly have discovered many doesn't works.

On the bright side, the blood pressure is in the relative safe zone for another week.

Still have a BMI over 40 and that means I still am…what's 303 minus 178??? Holy craperjacks…I am still 125 pounds away from being at a "healthy" weight.

I was just happy to be able to wear 44 inch pants, they aren't considered 'big and tall' and don't carry the extra $5-$10 surcharge per pair.

Needless to say, still plenty of room for improvement.

Later,

Year 2 Week 19 Day 1 (kinda 2)

Last week was 305.0 and this week is 302.0, so kind of back on track.

Forget that the number is supposed to be 293.6 lbs for next Monday.

Now last week I began eating lunch on a regular basis, so the drop was a bit unexpected.

I did walk once last week, so yay! I am up to a once a week average walk. I've gone two for two on morning workouts so far this week and that is good too.

I am not sure what else to do unless I actual start doing what I said I wanted to do and get it done.

I may be suffering delirium now. I also heard the phrase "food anxiety" and wondered if I might suffer from that, but turns out that means someone isn't sure where there next meal is coming from or when they might get it and they have little or no way of making those sorts of decisions for themselves, i.e. they are starving to death. That is not me, though I do really sweat about when and where I am going to have lunch.

So at some point, maybe the June reset day, I'll get back to the simple motto:

One week, one pound.

Later,

Year 2 Week 18 Day 5

Date:		Difference		6/21/2009		12/26/2009	4/30/2010	5/7/2010
Ankle		0.250		11.500		10.500	10.250	10.500
Calf		0.250				19.500	18.500	18.750
Thigh		-1.500		34.000		30.500	29.500	28.000
Hips		0.750		52.500		47.750	46.250	47.000
Middle		1.250		60.000		55.250	52.000	53.250
Chest		1.250		58.000		54.500	52.500	53.750
Bicep		0.000		18.250		17.250	16.500	16.500
Wrist		0.000		8.500		8.000	7.750	7.750
Neck		0.000		21.000		19.000	18.500	18.500
Weight		3.000		350.000		319.000	296.400	299.400
Blood P.		+20/+12		181/125		154/100	119/74	139/86
Pulse		-1.000		78.000		74.000	73.000	72.000

 

Kept it under the 300 mark from one week to the next, so that is good.

Also kept the BP under 140/90 and that is excellent.

Otherwise not much to crow about. I added back lunch this week, but it's the going out and buying lunches and not the making it at home lunches. I'll definitely start with my own lunches next week.

Not much else to say about the results except I am still not sure where I am measuring my thigh.

Should be a good weekend for getting out of my house and doing stuff.

And I still can't find that Pilates DVD.

Later,