Weekly Weigh-in

Sunday morning brings us round again to another weekly weigh-in. (Hey, that rhymed.)

This week I'd like to take the time to mention a tool that I feel helps me a bit when it comes to watching what I eat. When I started in on my weight-loss goals I decided to take a look at how many calories I was actually eating in a given day. It really wasn't pretty. An average meal out for me could easily contain nearly 1500 calories. It wasn't any surprise to me that I'd been eating too much, I just never before had realized by how much it really was.

So, armed with this knowledge I decided to start looking around the internet for the nutrition data for places that I go on a regular basis when I go out to eat. I managed to find official sources for most places and reputable unofficial ones for some of the less cooperative chains. I went through their menu offerings and found things that were both tasty, and reasonable in the calories column. I put them all into a list on my computer, broke it up by meal, and printed it out. Each meal is subdivided into small, medium, and large categories based on -1 standard deviation, average, and +1 standard deviation of calories, and each size is also assigned a Weight Watchers points value just because I'm a data nut (as I don't do Weight Watchers the actual number isn't much use to me but it makes a good relative assessment if I'm at a restaurant that lists it for certain items on the menu or something).

I mention this list this week because I've used it a number of times over the week, and I feel like it has helped me do better than I would have otherwise. Is this a method that will work for everyone, probably not, is it a method that works for me, maybe, does it make me feel like I'm doing something, definitely. For that alone I feel it's worth keeping around, because it at least seems to help some.

Now for the actual weight. Didn't get any additional exercise this week and work was lighter than usual so I'm not expecting much. 249.2, down only .2 since last week. While I wasn't expecting much, I was expecting a bit more than that. I really need to either hit the pool or take to my feet at some point this week, so if you see me feel free to ask how much I have done so far. I think another step I want to take is to borrow a page from Ed Levine's Serious Diet when I go out to eat. While my wallet won't let me just leave food there, I can at least force myself to bring some back and have it for lunch later in the week.

So that does it for this weeks installment of my weekly weigh-in. Progress, though small, is still progress at making me not so large.

Weekly Weigh-in

It's Sunday morning and time for another installment of my weekly weigh-in.

This week was an interesting case at work. While I worked quite a lot it was much less physical work, so it still used up as much of my time as normal, but gave less back to my health. I also know I didn't eat as well as I should have this week, I think I only ate breakfast 3 maybe 4 days this week. All in all, it was a bad week for my diet.

So what can I do to change this next week? Well, firstly I'm going to make more of an effort to actually work out during the free time I do have, even if it's just short and simple like doing jumping jacks or sit-ups or something instead of going for a longer workout. Also, I'm going to push myself to try and eat less, my issue most of this week with eating was the same as it always has been, I let myself eat too much food when I eat. Instead of eating the whole subway I should be saving half, various other small things like that add up.

So enough of what I did wrong this week, where did it get me? This weeks weight is 249.4, down only .4 from last week. It's not a lot but it's a little anyway and a little is better than nothing. Going to have to do better next week, but at least the things I have got myself doing regularly are helping even when I'm not doing enough else to help myself.

Weekly Weigh-in

Hello readers and welcome to another weekly installment of my weigh-in.

This week was hellish on a number of fronts. Huge amounts of work that seemed to steadfastly resist showing any sort of progress were a constant throughout the week. I was sick for a bit there in the middle portions of the week to make things that much more fun.

I didn't eat very well at all, which is probably part of the reason I was sick, the other part being me not drinking enough water for the sudden increase in temperatures we had. On top of that, other than the aforementioned huge amounts of work, I didn't really do any exercising this week.

I did go down and get signed up at the rec center here on campus so I'm planning on visiting the pool at least once a week for the rest of the semester. I suspect work will try and keep me from doing anything especially productive, it seem to have a knack for that, but will do the best I can despite being very busy.

Anyway, time for the actual numbers. I don't really think I did that well this week, but we'll see if the scale disagrees: 249.8, down 2.4 pounds since last week. The scale seems to think I didn't do bad at all. I'm going to have to chalk that up to the large amounts of work helping burn more calories than I expected, and the eating less because of being sick that happened mid-week. Regardless, I'm almost a third of the way toward my final goal now. Progress is steady at least, and for that I am thankful.

Weekly Weigh-in

A day late this week, I apologize for that. This weekend was busy with working a as an usher at a friend's mother's dance show. A fun experience but bad for my ability to get a post in yesterday.

This past week was full of work, to the extent that aside from work causing me to have to lift/carry/throw/transport large amounts of heavy stuff, I really didn't get much exercise done this week. I feel bad for it, but wasn't really anything I could do about the situation, so I suppose I play with the hand I'm dealt.

Also last week I discovered that the Rec Center may be cheaper than I was originally quoted, so I'm gonna look into that because if I have access to that I can more easily work-out in the evenings/in the pool. Other than that, I feel like I did alright with my food this week, but we'll have to see.

This weeks weight: 252.2, down 2.6 from last week. Making good progress still, hopefully I can keep that up. Got 9 weeks until the wedding, so I could in theory be down around 220 by then if I keep this up. Don't know that I'll manage anything that good, but I'm sure as hell gonna try.