Sunday Weigh-In

Last week:  172.8

This week:  174.4

My wife left me yesterday!  But she'll be home next Sunday.  She went to Colorado to see her sister.  After getting her to DFW well before dawn and getting home I parked my deflated butt in the recliner and unless it was absolutely necessary did not move from it that often.  Grazed enough to make a mama cow happy  and it showed up this morning.  Got to get motivated today, start working on tax crap and get some treadmill time.  When I'm not pinched for time, like today, I have started stretching the treadmill time out to four miles from the normal three.

Arctic Vortex, or whatever the fancy name is for this massive cold front, from the Great White North brought down some Mountain Cedar with it.  Snot box is driving me nuts again.  Tough to look macho with a runny nose holding a facial tissue.  Yoyo'ing temaptures not helping either.

Have a Great Week Gents!

Last week:  337.8

This week:  332.2

4 weeks out, 20 pounds down since surgery.  I guess that seems like a reasonable rate of losing weight, not sure why I thought it would come off quicker, but slow and steady works for me.  Kicking up the exercise a bit this next week, light weight training and cardio on the treadmill, bike, and eliptical.  Hopefully that will help.  I'd like to be at 300 by mid-March.  Just about 8 weeks, avg. 4 pounds a week puts me at 32 down  but that will be a stretch so let's see what happens.

Hey Guy,

Everybody's journey is different.  Some lose rapidly and some slowly.  When you are fully in ketosis, the rapid weight loss phase, you'll be sub 300 easily by March!

The Numbers:
346: All time high 7/1/10 - BMI = 52
326: Tufts Medical Center, Surgery 12/27/10 BMI=49
199: Weigh In 1/19/14

198: This Week 1/26/14 -->1 lb Down BMI=30

146 Total Weight Loss

2 weeks a row in Onederland...happy with those numbers! Daily checklist for my maintenance:

Protien First

Hydration

Vitamins

Exercise

Speaking of exercise was great! Ran 5 out of 7 days, including doing an 10 mile run today. I am training for a 1/2 marathon (my 2nd one) in March and even toying with the idea of a Full Marathon in May!!! A goal,  unsure if I am up to training for it....Gotta have goals!

Now that my Pats are out of the NFL Playoffs looking forward to the Red Sox and baseball season!

You go Dude!

If you get serious about the Marathon, get a training schedule NOW!!  You will want to be running 20 miles on a long run by mid April and preferably a 25 mile or so run by then.  My longest was 20 miles and I was under trained for my marathon.  They say you need to be running twice the miles per week, than your racing.  So that is 50+ miles a week if you want to run 26 miles.  I was running 25-30 miles in a week so I was really ready (and enjoyed) the first 13.1 but the second part was pure heck.

But, I understand the bucket list mentality, that is how I finished and I may never run that long a race again.  13.1 was "fun" and plenty of energy to still do other stuff that day.  26.2, plan on being DONE for the day, weekend... but then you did it!

Again, if you are going for it, pick a race and pick a training schedule!  (Long runs every other weekend, building up to 15/20/25...miles)

You can do it if you really want to!

Sam

Have not weighed in at home in a few weeks now, but a scale on Thursday night, showed 215!??  This of course is in the evening, fully dressed, shoes, HEAVY winter jacket, boots, wallets, keys, phones, etc.  So I suspect I am really about 205ish or so.

Ran 5 miles the weekend before, never did get out to run this weekend, was gaming instead with friends at a local con.  Then yesterday it was pretty enough to take the Harley out for an hour or so!!

Will hit the treadmill this week I swear... BMacc showing me the way here, got to get back to CENTURY city myself!!

Sam

(355 Aug 2011, RNY surgery Sept 2011)

Hey Sam...thnx for the advice about the Marathon...still debating it at this juncture...hit that treadmill, you know you wanna feel the burn again!!!!!!!