Well, I weighed in this morning at 245.0, which is 113.2 pounds from where I started this time, and 162.0 from my top known weight. January was better, but not perfect.  I’ve made a plan to try and deal with the Friday afternoon pub visits at the college, but we’ll see how that goes.

• calories per day: 2106, hr monitor: 8448 cals total
• strength training: 7h 20m, resistance training: 5h 50m
• snow shoveling: 1h 50m, treadmill: 8h 50m
• avg daily exercise: 46 mins (273 cals per day)
• weight lost: 8.4 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 (1900 rest/cardio days / 2200 lifting days, Friday - 2800 max)
• Drink water every day (4L min.)
• Exercise (3 days lifting/2hr cardio per week)

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!

Well, I weighed in this morning at 266.0, which is 92.2 pounds from where I started this time, and 141.0 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month. The weight lost came out higher than I expected (ie. with the rest/maintenance week), but that could be because I’m down almost 2 pounds from Sunday’s weight. If October 1st had been yesterday the number would have been different. The exercise minutes are low as well because of the rest/maintenance week. Overall though, decent progress.

• calories per day: 2396, hr monitor: 4827 cals total
• mixed cardio: 1h 30m , strength training: 7h 15m
• walking outside: 3h 45m
• avg daily exercise: 25 mins (161 cals per day)
• weight lost: 8.4 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 (starting tomorrow) to lift Tues(PM), Thurs(AM), Sun(AM). The cardio will be 2 hours between Wed/Thu/Sat/Sun, with ideally doing 1h15 mins on Wednesday and 45 mins on Thursday (at the college). That will leave Saturday as a completely free day. The other commitment I’ve made is to work on my homework on weeknights, so I don’t have to spend my days off catching up (as I did this last week). On the first day of November I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done. Wish me luck!

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Added: technically this is me exactly at the halfway point (assuming that 125 is my final weight). It’s almost sad, having lost so much, that I have so much to go. I’m trying to think of it as a victory or a milestone, but it’s kind of tough to do so.

Well, I weighed in this morning at 274.4, which is 83.4 pounds from where I started this time, and 132.2 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month. I think the exercise minutes are a bit low but I think that’s because of the rests between stages of the lifting. Overall, good progress.

• calories per day: 2290, hr monitor: 7162 cals total
• treadmill: 2h 0m , strength training: 14h 50m
• walking outside: 5h 0m
• avg daily exercise: 42 mins (231 cals per day)
• weight lost: 8.8 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)

I bit the bullet and lowered the daily calories a bit. I decided at least for the first few weeks of school I had to cut them back (in case I don’t get the cardio in). I’m not sure if I’ll move less or more than I do now. I have found out that I can carry the watch part of the HR monitor in my purse and get a pretty decent reading. I don’t care about wearing the watch (ie. people seeing it), however, it kind of bugs me when I wear it all day. This is because I don’t wear a watch at other times.

I haven’t defined which days I’m going to workout, but at the moment the plan is (after next week) to lift Tues(PM), Thurs(AM), Sat(AM). Depending on the facilities the college has I might do some cardio there. The only days I really have time is Thurs(12-2) and Fri(12-2). I doubt, even with a 2 hour break though that I’ll get 60 mins of cardio in as I rarely do it as 1×60min stretch. So I’ll see how the schedule goes and see what I can work out. It might work out better to do the cardio on Wed/Sun - days I don’t need to be at the school, but we’ll see. I’d love to leave one of them as a complete rest day so if/when the garden chores need to be done for the fall I have a clear day to do it. On the first day of October I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done. Wish me luck!

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!

Well, I weighed in this morning at 293.8, which is 64.4 pounds from where I started this time, and 113.2 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month, although the gardening and a bit of a mishap with my foot (much better today) kind of derailed some of my planned exercising.  So, the monthly totals.

• calories per day: 2300, calorie balance: -641 per day
• treadmill: 3h 20m, strength training: 13h 30m
• pool (various, incl. laps): 20m, BBQ assy: 1h 30m
• garden work: 4h 0m, walking outside: 3h 40m
• avg daily exercise: 53 mins
• weight lost: 8.0 pounds

Now if the end of the month hadn’t followed a lifting day I would have been around 9 pounds down for the month.  Although it varies I usually hold at least an extra pound of water after strength training days.  Oh well, that might just make July’s number better.  I just added them to the stats page if you want to compare to previous months. 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 was planning on changing the calorie levels but the weight loss has remained steady, even trending up the past few weeks.  So for now they’ll stay the same.  I’m planning a maintenance week, which might fall during July (haven’t decided yet).  The concept is that you shouldn’t eat at a deficit for long periods of time.  Ideally once every 12 weeks you should rest (workouts) and attempt to eat at maintenance levels.  This actually makes sense.  It gives the body a chance to repair anything that it might not get a chance to when you’re losing weight.  I’ve done slight rest weeks since I started the lifting, however, I’m way overdue on the eat at maintenance levels.  I want to see where I am on the lifting program towards the end of the month and I’ll pick a week then.  On the first day of August I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done.  Wish me luck!