Well, I weighed in this morning at 257.0, which is 101.2 pounds from where I started this time, and 150.0 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month. The weight lost came out a little higher than I expected. I see a trend towards lower exercise and I’m going to work hard this coming month to try and combat this. I’ll still likely have to move around days because of tests, however, this coming week I’ll definitely plan some exercise before my test as I did the last time. Overall though, decent progress.

• calories per day: 2115, hr monitor: 5383 cals total
• strength training: 11h 55m
• walking outside: 2h 0m, treadmill: 1h 0m
• avg daily exercise: 28 mins (174 cals per day)
• weight lost: 9.0 pounds

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 next month.

• Eat within plan every day (2300 lifting days, 2150 cardio days, 2000 rest days)
• Drink water every day (18 cups min.)
• Exercise (60 mins cardio 2 days, ~60 mins strength training 3 days)

From a couple of tests at school I definitely keep my level of activities up during the days I’m at school. This is likely from lugging around books/water/lunch/purse from the back of the parking lot and such. So at the moment I don’t plan to change the calorie levels at all.

The plan is to lift Tues(PM), Thurs(AM), Sun(AM). The cardio will be 2 hours between Wed/Thu/Sat/Sun. On the first day of December I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done. Wish me luck!