Not weighing myself this week

I've always heard you should just weigh yourself once a week.  Normally, the only time I don't weigh myself every day is when I'm eating like a fiend.  This week, I'm going to try not weighing myself even though I'm working out more.  Maybe it will increase the suspense and make me work harder, since I won't know how I'm doing and I won't want to be up.  I will have to weigh in on Wednesday morning since I'm heading out to Colorado for 2 days of skiing Wednesday night.

Back to the 250's

So my official weigh in was this a.m. and I was at 259.6.  I'm please b/c that's down 6.4 since Tuesday and also down from last week.  I put my bike on Therse's new trainer last night and rode for half an hour and watched the Simpsons.  It looks like my gears might need adjusting b/c they were clicking all over the place.  I could only find a few gears that were smooth and not making noise.  When I rode outside that one glorious warm day we had in January, there was only a gear or two that clicked.  If the Colemans push back Saturday's indoor ride to a more reasonable time so that I don't have to wake up my kids (i.e. 9ish), I'll have Bob look at it.

Pre-Lent weigh in

It's not "official," but I was 266 last night before basketball.  Yikes!  But have I mentioned before (probably yes) how much I like basketball as a workout?  My weight this morning was 260.2.  We only had 8 last night but we still ran full court and I think we played something like 8 or 9 games.  I was so spent at the end that my calves were tightening up like a charlie horse.

Turning over a new leaf

Well, Lent starts tomorrow.  I haven't weighed myself in a while, but I'm sure I'm up some more.  So my Lenten resolution will be to work out every day.  And to give up sweets.  And soda.  If I can do those three things, I will have made up any lost ground and then some.  And hopefully gained a good bit of will power.  I shall do a pre-Lent weigh in tonight and report back.

Jim's Weight Gain blog??

This cold weather and lack of basketball (including tonight) is not helping at all.  Peggy suggsted switching to Mondays for the weigh ins, and that makes sense from an incentive point of view.  It will, however, make my weekends suck.  I had basically decided to make the switch, then I realized that Sunday was the Super Bowl.  So yesterday was ugly when I did finally weigh in.  This is getting pretty depressing.  I need some sort of big incentive/goal to work toward.  Who's up for a Jim Telethon to raise money to send me to a tropical destination if I reach a certain goal??

Shoveling my way to fitness?

It looks like the winter of never ending snow continues tonight.  I hope we get a good turnout for hoops, since that's always my best exercise of the week.  I did a spin class yesterday and that was super tough.  I'm looking forward to when it's warm enough to ride outside. 

Quit my H&R Block job

Just couldn't take the hours any more, especially b/c of the low pay.  Plus some things have changed such that I don't need the extra income quite as much.  I feel like a great weight has been lifted, and I'm looking forward to using my extra time to work out a lot more.  Or maybe just sleep a lot more, not sure which.  I am very disappointed that it didn't work out, especially given how much time I put into the training class (70 hrs over 3 months).  C'est la vie.  At least I now know a ton about taxes!