Weekly Weigh-in (Week 45)

Sunday yet again and time for my weekly weigh-in.

This week was a tricky one for eating smart. As most of you probably know, and the rest of you are probably among the ranks of the undead, Thanksgiving was this week. Due to both sides of my family being in town, that meant not one but two large and delicious meals in honor of said day. I did my best to limit myself to reasonable portion sizes, and I feel like I did a decent job, though we'll see what the scale has to say about that later on.

Last week I mentioned that I was done talking about the diet part of my plan for a bit and that I'd be filling this space with something else this week, and going forward, and so here it is, let me know what you think in the comments.

Diet is only really one part of the equation when your goal is more about being in better shape than merely losing weight. As such I moved a while back from a plan based almost exclusively on diet to one that includes at least a reasonable amount of exercise as well. Those who have known me a while know that I have never been one for dedicated exercise, or really much at all, in past years. When I was younger, as is probably the case with most of you, I was much more active than I am now. I played sports when I was young, and then again in high school for a little while, and for a while I even did martial arts. I enjoyed all these things when I did them. But for some reason I got it into my head that I didn't like exercise and thus I didn't do it.

Recently I've been bitten by the bug, and my interest has been piqued. As a result I've started running. 3 times a week, 30 minutes or so at a time. I'm using a training plan I'll talk about more in a coming installment. It's been really great for me I think. I tend to do my runs in the morning before breakfast or work, so that it wakes me up and leaves me energized most of the day. I'm much more awake than I was before on less sleep than I was getting. All in all I am really glad I started doing this because I feel better, and combined with the weight I've been working on I look better too. I was never really that big on what I looked like so it's nothing like that, but I'm much more comfortable in my skin now than I used to be, and I like it. I feel great and I hope to continue along the path to feeling even better. I've got some designs on how I'm going to get there as well.

That's about all I've got for now, so time to get to the numbers. What does the scale have to say about my thanksgiving week? 215.0, down 2.8 pounds since last week. So it would seem that I'm doing alright for myself. Let's hope I can keep it up. See you all next week.