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369 Weigh-In: Focus on the Positives
Have you ever just found yourself in a good place and things are going awesome?
I love reading healthy living blogs. I often feel bad for the various writers I read, because many seem to go through various trials and tribulations. I understand, because (although I have never battled depression), I’ve still been in a place where it seemed like nothing was going right.
But now, I really do feel like everything is going right. In fact, everything is going GREAT.
If you are suffering for clinical depression, then this information I am about to share may not apply. I am not a therapist, psychiatrist, doctor, or anyone otherwise capable of diagnosing or treating depression. Please do not think I am in anyway making light of the suffering that depression can bring.
For everyone else, this may work. And if you have depression, I don’t think what I’m about to suggest would hurt. But see previous disclaimer.
Basically, I think we are all often our own worst enemy. It is SO easy to focus on the negative and ignore the positive.
I can look back at my weight in September of 2010 and see that I was in the 330s. It’s easy to look at that and curse the fact that I put on almost fifty pounds. Oh well. At least I am still alive to lose the weight.
It’s even easier to look back to 2006 and see me at 250ish pounds. Again, oh well. I am still moving; I am no diabetic; I am not dead. I can do it again, and I thank God for the opportunity to do so.
I want to focus on the positives only. Screw the negatives. I don’t need those in my life at all.
That’s why I am changing my weigh-in.
The weekly weigh-in has never felt exactly right to me. I might weigh one thing on Sunday and my weight temporarily jumps up on Monday and then decreases again on Tuesday. Well, if I record my weight on Monday, then it looks like I gained when I really didn’t.
Instead, I want to celebrate each pound lost. I’m using a free online program called Physics Diet. Basically, you enter your daily weight, and it calculates your average weight. For every pound I lose, I’ll post about it here.
Today’s post is 369. With willpower, effort, and positive thinking, I will do all that I can to keep from weighing 369 ever again.
The next time I post a weigh-in, whether it is in three days or seven, I’ll weigh 368. And then 367.
For every pound that I lose, I am going to post a celebratory post.
Goodbye 370. I won’t miss you. 368, watch out. I’m coming for you next.
Oh, and I may be posting daily this week. I have several video match-ups to share.
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A Lentils Weigh-In
If you watched my vlog last night, then you’ll know that I said I forgot to weigh-in but I am trying to eat more calories in an attempt to lose weight.
Crazy, right?
Well, apparently, eating between 1500 and 2200 calories, for a guy of my size, weight, age, and exercise frequency, was not enough. An online BMR calculator revealed that I need to eat around 3,100 calories to lose weight. So that’s what I did, for the past week, even if it felt weird. Awkward. Wrong. Almost like I was cheating, even, as I ate more.
How did my body respond?
My body loved it.
I feel better. My skin is even better, my joints don’t ache nearly as much, and my hunger, as expected, has dropped. How did I do?
March 27, 2012
Weight: 370.2
Change from Last Week: -2.4 pounds
Change from All-Time Highest: -32.6 pounds
Woo hoo! That’s the best loss I’ve had in a while, AND that includes not doing actual cardio or weight lifting (just lots of physical activity) for three days.
There is one thing that I want to change, though, and that is the source of my calories. I’ll admit that a few of my calories were obtained in the form of Girl Scout Cookies. I still believe that the occasional splurge is fine, but when 160 of my calories were obtained, every day, from 4 Thin Mints, well… that’s not as okay.
I want to get my calories from good, healthy sources. And that is why this is a lentil weigh-in.
I’ve never been a fan of beans. I think they are gross, and at best, I tolerate them in dishes for their health benefits. I’ve recently discovered lentils, however, and I’m in love. They are tasty, healthy, and cheap (the latter is great for someone trying to save money). A cup of cooked lentils has 230 calories, so for someone trying to up his calorie intake while eating healthy foods, lentils are a great way to go.
Yay for extra calories! I never saw this one coming.
Watch out 360s. I’m coming for you next week.
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Pre-Holiday Trifecta Weigh-In
It’s the Pre-Holiday Trifecta Weigh-in!
What do I mean by that? I’ll explain below. But first… the weigh-in!
September 9, 2011
Weight: 374.0
Change from Last Week: -1.8 pounds
Change from Highest: -28.8 pounds
Waist: 53.5”
Change of ½” since 9-2-11
Woo hoo! I definitely feel like I am on the right track now.
I’ll be honest – I had two pretty splurgy days this week. We had labor day at both my parents’ house and Tina’s mom’s. While I didn’t eat AWFUL, I did eat quite a bit, too. Lots of meat. Quite a bit of desserts. More than a few brats. And a few handfuls of chips. I feel confident in saying I didn’t binge, but I did eat WAY over my points.
However, and this is where I’m really proud of myself, I got back on track Tuesday morning. I didn’t say, “Eh, I’ll just wait ‘til Friday and start over.” I actually counted my points beginning Tuesday and just finished out my week.
I don’t know if I can stress how big a deal this is for me, because it’s HUGE! I am the King of the Delayed Start. “Well, it’s Sunday… and Mondays are better days to start a diet.” Or “I’ve heard that people who start a diet on Wednesday or more successful…” I seriously read that in the Weekly World News when I was about ten, and it’s been in my head ever since.
And who wouldn't believe such top-notch reporting...
But I did it. I stuck to it. I’ve been running. I’ve been counting my points. I’ve been eating a spinach salad every day for lunch. I’m doing this.
Why didn’t I do it sooner? I dunno. Doesn’t really matter, though, does it? I’m doing it now.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to drop big numbers like I did when I lost weight the first time in my mid-to-late twenties. I’m 33, and honestly, even at 33, my metabolism is slower than it was five years ago.
But it doesn’t matter. The weight is coming off.
Why the holiday trifecta? In the past, I could have easily made an excuse for just waiting until New Years to start a diet. After all, we have Halloween (candy!), Thanksgiving (turkey!), and Christmas (everything!) coming up. Oh, and Tina and I are going to Vegas (Buffets!) in December, too. Not this year. I’ll diet hard until then. I’ll indulge a bit on and around each holiday. I’ll keep track of my points. In Vegas, we’ll do some running on the strip every day. I’ll exercise. I may not lose weight over Christmas, but I’ll at least gain less than I have in years past. I’ll enjoy my life. I’ll keep getting smaller.
The holiday trifecta will be here next year, too. It isn’t like this magical food only happens once in a while. It happens all the time. And I’ll enjoy it. In moderation.
I realize I have not lost enough weight this time to truly say, “You can do it! Don’t give up! We can do this together!” Except I’m going to. We can do this together! If you are struggling with your weight, join me, and we’ll be thirty to forty pounds lighter by the end of the year. If we don’t… well, then what?
Do you have a survival plan for the upcoming holidays?
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I Think I Like Running Weigh-In
I think I like running.
More in a sec. Let me get my weigh-in info out of the way first.
March 11, 2011
Last Week’s Weight: 356.9
Today’s Weight: 355.1
Change from All-Time High: -47.7 pounds
Change from Last Week: -1.8 pounds
What can I say but woo hoo!
So why is this an I Think I Like Running Weigh-in? I think I like it.
I can’t believe it. I’m shocked. But Tina and I have taken to doing a weight session and then a 5K. We’re in the gym longer (and therefore more exercise, which always equals good), and I think it shows in my weight loss this week. I haven’t even had the most perfect calorie counting this week (more on #7daychip, which is helping, later), but I still lost. And I am attributing this one to the drastic increase in exercise going on this week.
I’m finding that I actually ENJOY the running.
Well, real quick, let me clarify one thing.
I’m not running. I’m jogging. And I’m jogging slow. I jog at 4.1 miles per hour. I know for someone with longer legs (I may be six feet tall, but my body is crazy long and my legs are little stumps with a 32 inseam) 4.1 mph would be a fast walk, but for me, it’s a slow jog. And I’m perfectly fine with that.
I haven’t even worked up to jogging a 5K without stopping yet. I’m going at my own speed. Today, I did 1:15 of jogging at 4.1 with 1:45 of walking at 3.2 for the entire 3.1 miles. I completed it in 51:23.
I have a HUGE plan about 5Ks coming up very soon. I’ll announce it early next week.
But for today, I am celebrating my 1.8 pound loss and the fact that I am enjoying running. Yay me.
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Please watch out for goalies…
This is just a real quick post explaining that I am moving my weigh-in days back to Friday.
Friday has always been my favorite day of the week. Aside from the fact that more people are brutally murdered at summer camps on Friday than any other day of the week, Friday means the beginning of the weekend.
Jason Voorhees is a BIG fan of Fridays, too!
I am not doing this because I think last week was spectacularly bad and I need a few more to sweat off a few more ounces.
I am doing this because Sunday doesn’t feel right as a weigh-in day. On Sunday, Tina and I are both off from work, we have church, we have things to do around the house, both practical (such as cleaning our mess of a garage) and personal (such as cuddling up to watch a Netflix movie we’ve kept putting off so we can put it in the mail Monday morning), and I just don’t always want to write a weigh-in blog post on Sunday.
I like to put time and thought into those, and frankly, I don’t always have that in me. So I’m moving back to Friday.
There are plans in the works for me to post later this week. It is the last week before the semester starts back in earnest, so I’m sure I’ll be pretty busy this week. Still, I have plans for a Biggest Loser post on Wednesday night, and I’ll also post about our newest veggie meal sometime this week.
Just now that I am still working out and I am still following my diet. I have discovered that I definitely need to up the amount of non-processed foods in my diet, but I’ll talk about that in more depth on Friday.
Friday’s post is going to be an exciting one for me. I don’t know if I’ll post huge numbers, but I had a mental breakthrough this past weekend that is definitely going to pay dividends for me in both weight loss and general health, physical and mental.
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