Well, I weighed in this morning at 283.2, which is 74.6 pounds from where I started this time, and 123.4 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month, and it should be mentioned that this month included a week of no exercise and eating at maintenance levels (~3000 cals a day).  So, the monthly totals.

• calories per day: 2474, hr monitor: 7535 cals total
• treadmill: 1h 0m, strength training: 11h 10m
• garden work: 1h 0m, walking outside: 7h 50m
• avg daily exercise: 41 mins (243 cals per day)
• weight lost: 10.2 pounds

I’ve changed a couple of entries this month.  The calorie balance number was next to useless from FitDay.  It never really showed anything when it came to weight loss for the month.  This month, for example, my calorie balance was -341/day.  Using that I should have lost 3 pounds.  I suspect it’s because my daily calories burned is set too low, but I’m not going to play with it.  I’ll track intake, calories burned using the heart rate monitor, and average exercise for the day.  All of those things are skewed with the maintenance week, however, so far it hasn’t affected my weight loss. Now I need to think about goals for next month. I don’t set weight lost goals, as I feel I would be disappointed if I didn’t meet them. I try and set goals that will push me, but I can control if they are attainable. Although you can do certain things to help, you can’t force your body to lose weight on a schedule. So, on to the goals for July.

• Eat within plan every day (2400 exercise days (60 mins of something), 2150 rest days)
• Drink water every day (18 cups min.)
• Exercise (60 mins treadmill Tues&Sat, 60 mins strength training Mo/We/Fr)

The exercise remains the same as last month.  I’m still toying with lowering the calories but since I’m happy at the moment with the rate of weight loss I’ll probably leave the levels alone for the month.  September will bring a change in my routine so that’s likely when I’ll modify the calories.  On the first day of September I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done.  Wish me luck!