Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Weigh In For 02/08/10
Damn, for the first time I actually gained weight. Oh well, it was good while it lasted. I clocked in at 184.6.0. Not much gain, but still again. The good news is I've gotten a new belt. This is my 2nd new belt since October 1, 2009. Check out the picture.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Weigh In For 02/01/10
Man, well it was bound to happen. This is the first week I have not lost any weight. Oh well it was good while it lasted. I clocked in at 184.4 the same as last week.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Weigh In For 01/25/10
I still can’t believe it. Since starting on 10/01/09, I have lost weight every week. Can you believe it 15 weeks in a row. I actually thought this week was going to end my streak, but nope. I still managed to lose 1.2 pounds, bringing my new weight to 184.4. To think this week was a bad food week for me. I it was full of fried chicken, burritos, and pizza. I just rock. =) Only 19.4 pounds to go.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Weigh In For 01/18/10
Well it was another slow week. I guess things have finally started to catch up with me. Not a big week. Only down .6 pounds. I'm now at 185.6.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Weigh In For 01/11/10
Well today is my first weigh in since we stared up on Jan 4th. My new weight as of this morning is 186.2. How I managed to lose 5.6 pounds in a week I have no idea. I must have had a ton of fiber or something. Who know knows. That means since I stared trying to lose wight on 10/01/09, I'm now down a total of 31.4 pounds. 18.6 pounds more to go till I hit my 50 pound goal =)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Time For Round 2
I’m now ready to lose more weight, so are my peers at work. We started round 2 on January 4, 2010. This was a 2 week break or so. I clocked in at 191.8. Lets see how I do come March 31 =)
Monday, December 21, 2009
I Lost 25 Pounds in 2 1/2 Months
I really should have started this when I first stared this change, but I was lazy and never got around to it. As I had said, I’ve been wanting to lose weight for a long time now. My wife had just had our 2nd kid and she wanted me to lose some weight with her. I said I would. Then a couple of people at work wanted to play the Biggest Lose, $50 winner take all. I was game, I always like a competition. The deal with my co-workers was this. We’d stat on October 1, 2009 and end it on December 18, 2009. The winner would be the person who lost the most body %. Meaning that you took your weight loss and divided it over your initial starting weight. So on October 1, 2009, we started our quest.
I had already known that I was clocking in at an all time high. I got on the scale at my work gym and the scale read 217.6. Well, at least I had a starting point. Below you’ll see my weekly weigh ins.
10/01/09 – 217.6
10/08/09 – 213.0
10/15/09 – 212.6
10/22/09 – 210.0
10/29/09 – 208.2
11/05/09 – 205.2
11/12/09 – 203.8
11/19/09 – 201.0
11/25/09 – 198.2
12/03/09 – 197.2
12/10/09 – 194.4
12/18/09 – 192.0
There you have it, 25.6 pounds, 11.76% down in 2.5 months. Now the question is how did I do it? A lot of people here don’t really believe me. To be honest, it was all about portion control and watching what I ate, also doing some light exercise
I am lucky enough to have a gym at my office. There is also a personal trainer that works there that we can use. When I first approached him, he walked me over what I needed to do. The main goal for me was cardio. Cardio was my best bet if I wanted to lose weight. He started me slow. The first two weeks I only did about 20-30 minutes of light cardio. I remember I first started on the stair stepper. I hate that machine. =), at first I was only about to do a few minutes on there, but by the end of the 2nd week I was going 16 minutes without stopping. I soon starting switching things up. I was using the elliptical, treadmill, and bikes. He didn’t want me to mix things up. After the 2nd week was over, he started me on some light weight. I do mean light weights. He picked 3 different weight machines and had me do 2 sets for the first two weeks. As my body started getting use to it, he moved me up to 3 sets. I tried to go down at least 3 times a week during my lunch break. Some weeks it was 2, some 3, some 1. It eventually got to the point where I felt bad if I missed a workout, so when I got home, I would go to rec center gym near my house after I put my kids down to sleep. I could get my 3 weights in and my 20 minutes of cardio in an be done in less than an hour. So while I feel the work outs helped, I still think the food was the biggest and most important change.
I use to never eat breakfast. I now realize how important it is. I was eating at least 4 times a day to give my body all the energy it needed. I would start off with breakfast. Breakfast was the interesting meal of the day. I would either consist of a piece of bread with a slice or two of deli meat, or it would be one serving of dry cereal. Why dry, because it was much easier to drive and eat. =). Around 9:00-9:30am, I would have a piece of fruit. Then for lunch I’d have a sandwich with some sort of crunch snack, like pretzels, or some other low fat chip. I actually measured out one serving each time, because I tend to go overboard and I’ll eat the entire bag. This was where portion control came in. The I usually went to do my work out around 1:00. Later in the afternoon, I would snack on carrots and celery. I also bring 1 ounce of almonds with me. These are a good source of good fats. I always made sure to measure out my one once, too many will not do you any good at all. Then for dinner I had dinner. My wife doesn’t really cook unhealthy foods, I always made sure I had a normal size portion and not 2 or 3 servings like before. If I was still hungry later, I’d eat fruit or even a salad. The other big thing was water. I drank a boat load of water. They say to lose water weight you have to drink water, it sort of makes sense. It's worked for me.
I didn’t limit myself to just health foods. In fact, at least once a week I was eating not so healthy stuff. I was eating pizza, Chinese food, fried chicken, Pho, pastas, Thai, cake, brownies, candy, you name it, I ate it. The difference was, I did it once in a while and not every day. I also didn’t force myself to eat everything on my plate. That was the hardest thing for me to do. I eventually got use it. I don’t have to eat 5 slices of pizza, 2 or 3 is just fine.
These last 2 ½ months have been good. I lost 25 pounds, my clothes are all too big for me. When I lost 15 pounds I bought a new belt, now this belt is on the last hole and I have got o buy a new one soon. I’m feeling better and my blood pressure has gone down a lot. Hopefully I’ll be able to get off my high blood pressure medicine soon. The way I see it is this. I’m 33 years old, 5’ 8” and now I’m weighing 192 pounds. That is still way too high. I started at 271.6, I’m a lazy person, but I feel if I can do it anybody can. I was told 1-2 pounds loss a week is normal. I’m still going to try and drop another 25 pounds, wish me luck and hopefully I’ll make it to 165-170.
I did however win the contest with my coworkers. They now want to play again, I’m in. So We’ll do a new weigh in on January 4, 2010. Lets hope by then end of March 2010, I’ll have at least lost 20 pounds more.
So if you want to lose 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 pounds, its possible. Its all about determination, will power, portion control, and a some light exercise and you’ll be good, just like me. I’ll be updating this as we go through the 2nd round of quest to lose 50 pounes.
I had already known that I was clocking in at an all time high. I got on the scale at my work gym and the scale read 217.6. Well, at least I had a starting point. Below you’ll see my weekly weigh ins.
10/01/09 – 217.6
10/08/09 – 213.0
10/15/09 – 212.6
10/22/09 – 210.0
10/29/09 – 208.2
11/05/09 – 205.2
11/12/09 – 203.8
11/19/09 – 201.0
11/25/09 – 198.2
12/03/09 – 197.2
12/10/09 – 194.4
12/18/09 – 192.0
There you have it, 25.6 pounds, 11.76% down in 2.5 months. Now the question is how did I do it? A lot of people here don’t really believe me. To be honest, it was all about portion control and watching what I ate, also doing some light exercise
I am lucky enough to have a gym at my office. There is also a personal trainer that works there that we can use. When I first approached him, he walked me over what I needed to do. The main goal for me was cardio. Cardio was my best bet if I wanted to lose weight. He started me slow. The first two weeks I only did about 20-30 minutes of light cardio. I remember I first started on the stair stepper. I hate that machine. =), at first I was only about to do a few minutes on there, but by the end of the 2nd week I was going 16 minutes without stopping. I soon starting switching things up. I was using the elliptical, treadmill, and bikes. He didn’t want me to mix things up. After the 2nd week was over, he started me on some light weight. I do mean light weights. He picked 3 different weight machines and had me do 2 sets for the first two weeks. As my body started getting use to it, he moved me up to 3 sets. I tried to go down at least 3 times a week during my lunch break. Some weeks it was 2, some 3, some 1. It eventually got to the point where I felt bad if I missed a workout, so when I got home, I would go to rec center gym near my house after I put my kids down to sleep. I could get my 3 weights in and my 20 minutes of cardio in an be done in less than an hour. So while I feel the work outs helped, I still think the food was the biggest and most important change.
I use to never eat breakfast. I now realize how important it is. I was eating at least 4 times a day to give my body all the energy it needed. I would start off with breakfast. Breakfast was the interesting meal of the day. I would either consist of a piece of bread with a slice or two of deli meat, or it would be one serving of dry cereal. Why dry, because it was much easier to drive and eat. =). Around 9:00-9:30am, I would have a piece of fruit. Then for lunch I’d have a sandwich with some sort of crunch snack, like pretzels, or some other low fat chip. I actually measured out one serving each time, because I tend to go overboard and I’ll eat the entire bag. This was where portion control came in. The I usually went to do my work out around 1:00. Later in the afternoon, I would snack on carrots and celery. I also bring 1 ounce of almonds with me. These are a good source of good fats. I always made sure to measure out my one once, too many will not do you any good at all. Then for dinner I had dinner. My wife doesn’t really cook unhealthy foods, I always made sure I had a normal size portion and not 2 or 3 servings like before. If I was still hungry later, I’d eat fruit or even a salad. The other big thing was water. I drank a boat load of water. They say to lose water weight you have to drink water, it sort of makes sense. It's worked for me.
I didn’t limit myself to just health foods. In fact, at least once a week I was eating not so healthy stuff. I was eating pizza, Chinese food, fried chicken, Pho, pastas, Thai, cake, brownies, candy, you name it, I ate it. The difference was, I did it once in a while and not every day. I also didn’t force myself to eat everything on my plate. That was the hardest thing for me to do. I eventually got use it. I don’t have to eat 5 slices of pizza, 2 or 3 is just fine.
These last 2 ½ months have been good. I lost 25 pounds, my clothes are all too big for me. When I lost 15 pounds I bought a new belt, now this belt is on the last hole and I have got o buy a new one soon. I’m feeling better and my blood pressure has gone down a lot. Hopefully I’ll be able to get off my high blood pressure medicine soon. The way I see it is this. I’m 33 years old, 5’ 8” and now I’m weighing 192 pounds. That is still way too high. I started at 271.6, I’m a lazy person, but I feel if I can do it anybody can. I was told 1-2 pounds loss a week is normal. I’m still going to try and drop another 25 pounds, wish me luck and hopefully I’ll make it to 165-170.
I did however win the contest with my coworkers. They now want to play again, I’m in. So We’ll do a new weigh in on January 4, 2010. Lets hope by then end of March 2010, I’ll have at least lost 20 pounds more.
So if you want to lose 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 pounds, its possible. Its all about determination, will power, portion control, and a some light exercise and you’ll be good, just like me. I’ll be updating this as we go through the 2nd round of quest to lose 50 pounes.
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