Weigh-In for February 28, 2009

Posted February 28th, 2009 by Jeff J. Snider

Okay, let’s start with the Blubbermetrics:

• Weight: 346 pounds
• Weight Loss Since Last Weigh-In: 1.8 pounds
• Total Weight Loss To Date: 55.8 pounds
• Left to Lose Overall: 106.0 pounds
• Percentage of Goal Lost: 34.5%
• Left to Lose for Next Mini-Goal (under 340): 6.1 pounds
• Average Weekly Loss I Need to Meet My Overall Goal Before My Daughter’s Fifth Birthday: 3.03 pounds
• Average Weekly Loss So Far: 1.74 pounds

Well, it felt good to lose some real weight (you know, something that doesn’t start with “zero-point”).  It’s obviously not the five or six pounds I feel like I need to have soon as a breakthrough, but it’s real.  Consistent weight loss, even if it is sometimes slower than I want, is a good thing, right?

My mom commented on last week’s weigh-in, asking if I am eating enough.  She noticed, as did I, that Bob tolk Mikey on The Biggest Loser a couple weeks ago that he wasn’t eating enough, and that’s why his body wasn’t responding to the immense number of calories he was burning.  I am definitely not burning 10,000 calories a day like they said Mikey was (can that be accurate), but I am burning quite a few (and for sure a lot more than I used to when I was a lazy slug).  I don’t feel like I am starving myself, but I might need to analyze how many calories I am eating and where they are coming from, because maybe there’s something that needs to change there.  It’s one of those things that sounds so simple: exercise regularly and eat the right amounts of the right foods, and you will lose weight.  I really believe that it IS that simple most of the time.  And I am doing somewhere betweeen good and great on the exercise part of the equation, so maybe the eating part still needs some work.  I wish I could have someone with me at all times tracking what I eat so it would be easy to analyze (you know, without me having to do the work), and then that person could also prepare all my meals with the right amounts of the right foods.  That’s not too much to ask, is it?

Anyway, the exercise this week went pretty well.  I need to start doing something different on Sunday nights (probably something like going to bed at a reasonable hour), because Monday mornings are killers for me.  This week, I didn’t go on Monday because I was too tired.  I also skipped Thursday due to tiredness.  I am thinking about having a scheduled day off each week (probably Wednesdays), but I definitely need to go at least four days each week.  I did work out at home in the evening with Beth three times this week — it would have been four or five times, but our treadmill broke and we are waiting on the repairs, so we can’t exercise in the basement together.  So the only time we exercised together after it broke was Thursday night, when we went for a 30-minute walk in the neighborhood after the kids went to bed.  Wednesday night was when we discovered the broken treadmill, so Beth exercised without me.  And then last night, neither of us exercised since we couldn’t do it together.

I am meeting with a personal trainer at the gym on Monday morning.  My membership comes with a free consultation with a trainer, so I figured if nothing else, this will give me motivation to get out of bed on Monday morning, which I apparently need.  Their rates are pretty ridiculous, so I doubt I will do it after the free consultation, but we’ll see.

How is everyone else doing on their own goals?

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