Harewatch - May 3rd, 2010
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jakebeWeight: 182.2
It came down to the wire. On Thursday I was 180.8 pounds, but I couldn't quite seal the deal. Of course, I missed every single mark I had set for myself last month, so I'm more surprised that I got as close as I did before failing than actually not making it. Still, I gave it a really solid push and made significant gains in just about all metrics. My diet is better, my exercise is more consistent, and I'm feeling a lot better about how things are coming along.
Still, a promise is a promise. If you see me this week, please pinch my belly and I'll give you a free cookie. I can't promise I'll be able to produce the cookie right away (keeping a constant supply of them on my person would be nothing short of disastrous), but I'll at least make a note of an IOU or something for a cookie at the later date. Since I didn't put a limiter on it then I'm gong to do so now: the offer stands until next Monday, so be sure to get your belly pinching in!
I'm going to make the same kind of deal for this month, though May promises to be a bit harder than April in terms of temptation. I'll be hitting a vacation this weekend, going up to the city the next, playing in a Star Wars game the weekend after that and hosting company (and going camping up north) the weekend after that. Even still, I should be really active for much of the month and I'm hoping to use all the disruption as an opportunity to find ways to eat right and exercise even when there's no routine to make it easy.
Hopefully, by June 1st, I will weigh 175.0 pounds. If I don't, for the first week of the month pinch my belly and get yourself a free cookie!
That gives me four whole weeks to lose 7 pounds. I've been trying to keep to a pretty strict diet of 1500 Calories per day which I more or less hit, though I tend to fall down in the evenings and afternoons. Eating out for dinner at certain places makes calorie counting much more difficult, and the temptation to snack during those long hours after lunch is really hard to resist. Something tells me I'm going to be buying a lot more gum this month!
Goals for this week:
+ Exercise. I haven't been as hard-core about that as I feel like I should be. I've been running all right, but on the days I'm meant to do something else it's far too easy to collapse into a chair and watch TV all evening. This week I plan to exercise every day, even if it's just the placeholder 'rungs' that are recommended by The Hacker's Diet. In the meantime, the plan is to run five miles on Tuesday and eight miles on Thursday.
+ Eating in the late afternoons/evenings. By the time work is just about over and I'm heading home, I'm just about out of willpower. I think it'd be a really good thing to budget a treat for myself either on the way home or as soon as I get there to look forward to. Maybe apple slices and peanut butter, or some kind of energy bar, or some grapes or something. But the gap between lunch (1 pm) and dinner (anywhere from 7 - 9 pm) is just too large. That's a problem.
+ Cooking in as much as possible. Given that I'm going to be heading off to Wisconsin this weekend, I'm pretty sure I'm going to wreck my diet at least one out of four days. :) That being said, making my breakfast and lunch the night before and eating at least a TV dinner or canned something-or-other for dinner makes it easier to be 'good' before then. Hopefully I can lower my weight throughout the week and just hold the gains through the weekend.
This week should be a pretty big test. Wish me luck, guys. :)
It came down to the wire. On Thursday I was 180.8 pounds, but I couldn't quite seal the deal. Of course, I missed every single mark I had set for myself last month, so I'm more surprised that I got as close as I did before failing than actually not making it. Still, I gave it a really solid push and made significant gains in just about all metrics. My diet is better, my exercise is more consistent, and I'm feeling a lot better about how things are coming along.
Still, a promise is a promise. If you see me this week, please pinch my belly and I'll give you a free cookie. I can't promise I'll be able to produce the cookie right away (keeping a constant supply of them on my person would be nothing short of disastrous), but I'll at least make a note of an IOU or something for a cookie at the later date. Since I didn't put a limiter on it then I'm gong to do so now: the offer stands until next Monday, so be sure to get your belly pinching in!
I'm going to make the same kind of deal for this month, though May promises to be a bit harder than April in terms of temptation. I'll be hitting a vacation this weekend, going up to the city the next, playing in a Star Wars game the weekend after that and hosting company (and going camping up north) the weekend after that. Even still, I should be really active for much of the month and I'm hoping to use all the disruption as an opportunity to find ways to eat right and exercise even when there's no routine to make it easy.
Hopefully, by June 1st, I will weigh 175.0 pounds. If I don't, for the first week of the month pinch my belly and get yourself a free cookie!
That gives me four whole weeks to lose 7 pounds. I've been trying to keep to a pretty strict diet of 1500 Calories per day which I more or less hit, though I tend to fall down in the evenings and afternoons. Eating out for dinner at certain places makes calorie counting much more difficult, and the temptation to snack during those long hours after lunch is really hard to resist. Something tells me I'm going to be buying a lot more gum this month!
Goals for this week:
+ Exercise. I haven't been as hard-core about that as I feel like I should be. I've been running all right, but on the days I'm meant to do something else it's far too easy to collapse into a chair and watch TV all evening. This week I plan to exercise every day, even if it's just the placeholder 'rungs' that are recommended by The Hacker's Diet. In the meantime, the plan is to run five miles on Tuesday and eight miles on Thursday.
+ Eating in the late afternoons/evenings. By the time work is just about over and I'm heading home, I'm just about out of willpower. I think it'd be a really good thing to budget a treat for myself either on the way home or as soon as I get there to look forward to. Maybe apple slices and peanut butter, or some kind of energy bar, or some grapes or something. But the gap between lunch (1 pm) and dinner (anywhere from 7 - 9 pm) is just too large. That's a problem.
+ Cooking in as much as possible. Given that I'm going to be heading off to Wisconsin this weekend, I'm pretty sure I'm going to wreck my diet at least one out of four days. :) That being said, making my breakfast and lunch the night before and eating at least a TV dinner or canned something-or-other for dinner makes it easier to be 'good' before then. Hopefully I can lower my weight throughout the week and just hold the gains through the weekend.
This week should be a pretty big test. Wish me luck, guys. :)
