Newnan’s Largest Lessener 8

First of all this isn’t so much late as it is really earlier for someone who is on vacation. 

 

That’s right I am not at work this week.  Away from the rigid schedule and the easy make lunches (Banana for mid-morning, tuna on top of salad for lunch, celery and hummus for afternoon snack with maybe almonds and a second fruit somewhere in the day).  I didn’t go anywhere and so I was left to fend for myself at odd hours for meals.  I was up later and stayed up later so breakfast was late, I skipped snacks and overall did a horrible job.  Now I didn’t cheat, but I did eat too much too late.

The Numbers:

	6/21/2009	2/9/2012	3/9/2012	3/16/2012	3/23/2012	3/30/2012
Neck	21.00		18.00	18.50	17.75	18.25
Left Arm	18.25	16.50	15.25	15.25	15.00	15.25
Shoulders	58.50	58.50	55.75	52.75	53.75	54.00
Chest	58.00	56.75	53.00	53.75	53.75	53.00
Waist	60.00	55.00	51.00	50.50	50.00	50.00
Hips	52.50	49.00	46.00	46.75	46.25	46.50
Left Thigh	34.00	28.50	26.50	26.50	24.75	25.50
Left Calf	18.50	18.50	18.50	18.00	17.75	18.25
Left Ankle	11.50	10.50	10.25	10.25	10.00	10.25
Left Wrist	8.50	7.75	7.50	7.75	7.75	7.50
BP	170/115	159/104	147/93	136/87	134/88	120/76
Pulse	78.00	70.00	75.00	71.00	60.00	70.00
Weight	350.00	319.20	297.40	295.20	292.20	293.00

So you can see that this was a setback week.  Up nearly a pound and the measures are all over the place.  Goodish news, look at that blood pressure number, wow was I relaxing and what not this week.

Exercise:

I hate exercising; it is more boring than watching political debates.  So with the vacation I didn’t do much on the elliptical, I didn’t go anywhere so not much walking either.  It was Wednesday when I did my first elliptical of the week, since last Thursday.  Yeah, that is pretty bad.  Did 15 minutes straight through though.  Then I took a break and came back for 8 more minutes.  Yesterday was another 10 minutes straight through.  If only it was a total of thirty minutes a week I’d nearly be there.  Next up will be increasing the difficulty a little bit.  See if I can offset boredom with a challenge.  Also starting next week I’ll be re-introducing the Exercise chart.  It’s a calendar with the days of the week and a list of exercises on it.  The goal is still 30 minutes straight through on something aerobic 4 days a week.  I also want to keep up the weight training 3-4 days a week, not mentioned this week because I didn’t do any at all.

Nutrition:

Let’s cut the cheese.  Literally I mean, not figuratively.  I find myself using cheese where it isn’t adding anything to the meal.  I am also suspicious that most cheese at the grocery store is the equivalent of fast food.  No real flavor just the artificial attempt at creating real flavors.  I mean in France they have a cheese course with varieties that I can’t spell or pronounce but sound divine.  When was the last time you sat down for a cheese course?  No, fondue does not count.  So the cutting out of the 2% cheeses that I am pretending are real cheese will be a permanent thing.

I am also worrying about coffee.  Too much or not enough, I never seem to hit the right amount.  On vacation I am drinking about 6 times what I drink Monday-Friday at work.  I actually was getting sleepy around 3PM at work, had to walk it off and slap myself around a little to power through.  Don’t know if it was a night time, not enough sleep, issue or a food related problem or what.

Still not happy eating until I feel like I’m going to explode.  My belly gets like a squirrel’s cheeks then I am happy.  Even with it being mostly salad or steamed veggies that can’t be good.  Also, never feel done eating until I’ve had dessert.  That’s an interesting cultural thing too, some folks never got into sweets at all (I hate them so much) and others never connect dinner with dessert (barbarians!) so I grew up with lunch that included a Hostess treat and dinner that included a dessert of some sort.  This is a tough habit to break.

Today’s diary of a Fat Kid:

Okay, this is less fat kid than it is where I was a decade ago.  The year was 2000, the weight was a steady climb from about 280lbs to over 300lbs by Christmas.  This was with a wicked sinus infection that hit mid-summer too!  Since then I haven’t been south of 300 for more than a week since.  Look up there.  (neat arrow effect if I knew how) and see that it’s been a whole month under 300.  Maybe this week wasn’t stellar, but I am still very happy.  I took a huge bag of huge clothes to the Goodwill drop box this week.  I am thinking I am dangerously close to XL t-shirts soon, these XXLs are so baggy.  It’s been a terribly interesting four years of looking at what I eat and finding ways to change not only my food, but how I approach eating in general.

The Plan:

Failed the plan last week, still want to see 28x.xx pounds on the scale so more working out, applying the exercise schedule to the routines and keeping at it.

Later!