:: Free 2 Be :: the Odyssey ::

 “ate better, started exercising again, touched base with my friend…”
This comment by our Patty (Sistah Pat) seems to me to be our secret to success here.
We all have differences and try various things over time, but what it boils down to is improving our eating, finding ways to incorporate exercise, and, making time to hook [...]

WooHoo! With another loss last night I weighed in for the month at 253.4, down another 5.8 from last month. That is 5.8 two months in a row, 11.6 pounds for the two months and 46.6 pounds down from my top weight.
This month was pretty much a wash. After my trip at the end of [...]

This is day one of Delita’s Own Diet and Fitness Challenge.
Starting Statistics:
Height: 68 inches
Weight: 265 pounds
Waist: 47.25 inches
Calculated by ZONE *measure* method:
Lean Body Mass: 115.4 pounds
Total Body Fat: 149.6 pounds
Body Fat Percentage: 56.5%
Body Mass Index: 40.3 (morbidly obese)
Weight loss to date: 35 pounds
Weight loss goal, this month: 5 pounds
Waist loss to date: 10.75 inches
Waist loss [...]

The Target:
Make excellence in diet and fitness my lifestyle by building habits based on consistent daily effort and results.
How will I do this?
Over the next six months, October 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009:

develop my diet to increase physical capacity and maintain long term weight loss,
follow a workout plan that will improve performance and increase [...]

This odyssey doesn’t have a clear beginning and won’t ever end (until I leave this world) so we’ll be racking up progress in blog days here – days since I started blogging the odyssey.
Progress is defined as anything I did or even thought about that would tend to result in odyssey-related movement. Motivation. Forward movement [...]