Long time, no blog

Hi both of you,

When last we left our intrepid blogger, he was celebrating an all time low.  Then things changed a little.  He want from 248ish a week ago Thursday to 261ish last Tuesday.  No foolin'.  Apparently a long weekend in NJ eating buckets of Johnson's Popcorn as well as filet and pizza and whatever the heck else was within freakin' arm's reach will do that to you.  Who knew?

But from 261 Tuesday I lost about 12 pounds by this past Saturday, when I "officially" weighed in for the week.  I was back to 249.8, which is where I was on June 11th.  Then I decided to try to not blimp up this past weekend, and I was still in the high 240's today instead of up a bunch.  Granted, I spent several hours in 100 degree weather Sunday pulling weeds, and then a couple more today putting down mulch, but whatever it takes, right?

On a side note, I'd like to welcome spammer Jay to the program with my first spam comment.  Go Acai berry!!

Slow and steady wins the race, right?

I was down another 1.4 this week.  Not this morning mind you, when I was up 2, but this afternoon, after running 3 in the hot sun.  But I'm happy with 1.4 a week, if I can do that consistentlty.  1.4 per week from now until the (maybe) St. Lucia trip in January would be another 40 pounds, and I'm only trying to lose another 30.  Therese bought the Insanity workout DVDs off ebay this afternoon, so we're going to start doing those.  Anyone here have any experience with it?  I hear it's incredibly hard.

The weigh in I've been waiting to see!

New all time low!

Saturday evening, after Erin and I worked on my car in the heat of the day for 3 hours, I stepped on the scale and saw 249.8!  I called Therese in to verify it.  Naturally, much of it was due to dehydration, but even so I was very excited.  November 19th of last year was the first time I got into the 250's, so it only took me 6 1/2 months to lose ten pounds!  At this pace, I'll be in the 230's by January!

Of course, since it's me we're talking about, I celebrated my accomplishment with a big steak dinner Saturday night (although I didn't actually finish the whole steak!).  I didn't work out yesterday, but I'll be back on the wagon today.  I just want the official weigh in later this week to show something in the 240s and I'll be happy.

Thursday Weigh-in, Friday Edition

I was 252.2 yesterday after my afternoon run.  That's down 1.6 from last week.  I don't have multiple barbeques to go to this weekend, so I'm hopeful things continue to improve.  This morning after racquetball with Anil I was 251.6, which is only a couple tenths off my lowest yet.  I'm going to try Peggy's gallon of water suggestion, and Joan is absolutely right that I need to start strength training.  I just find it very boring.  Maybe I could invent a game that involves lifting weights...

Weigh in coming today...

I weighed in this morning and I was down from last week, but just a little.  I'm going to try to run or cycle this afternoon and see if I can juice the number a bit more.  Sit tight!  (I know you're all on the edge of your seat wondering what the number is, right?  No?)

Back to the grind

So the weekend is even more challenging when there's an extra day of it!  We attended 3 barbeques this weekend (and turned down a fourth b/c the kids got sick), plus I ordered pizza on Saturday night.  At least I made an effort at counteracting the food with some exercise:  racquetball Friday, Frisbee Saturday and tennis Monday.  Even so I was back up to 259.6 this morning.  I think that's probably a little less than after last weekend, but last weekend I had a two hour soccer game on Monday night to help me.  We played hoops tonight and I'm hoping to play more Frisbee tomorrow night, so I have some hope of being down this week.  But as of this morning its going to take about 6 pounds to get there...