I know…I was late getting this update.  Here it is. (Usually on Mondays)

Weight:  Good news!  I am down 5 pounds this week.  I now have
12.5 pounds to my ultimate goal of 186, and I am below my previous goal weight
level of 200 at 199.5.

Eating/Diet:  This week I have finally hit a stride in this and my wife has made some yummy and healthy meals.  One thing I made that my family liked was chipotle turkey burgers, with grilled onions.  Also, I found a product called Soyrizo that is a tofu replacement for chorizo–a favorite Mexican sausage of mine!   This is great with scrambled eggs.  By the way, you reduce an egg from 70 calories with cholesterol to 17 calories when you choose to use only an egg white which has no cholesterol and tons of protein.

Exercise: Well, my knee feels better.  NEXT week I am going to get back in the game…I hope.

How was your fitness this week?

This entry was posted on Friday, July 27th, 2007 at 3:31 pm and is filed under Health & Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

This week saw some plus and minus.

Weight:  The best minus was almost 3 lbs. down.  I now have 14.5 pounds to my ultimate goal of 186, and I am at my 200 goal weight level.

Eating/Diet:  I did so much better this week!  Except for the "planned" hiatus this weekend, I ate well within the proper portions and had a lot of greens and fruit.  This weekend, a calzone, ice cream cone and two mornings of buttered bed-and-breakfast meals will have to be paid for.

Exercise: The minus is that I did not get out much this week.  Only two days of exercises, which the goal range of about 3-5 being my desire.  My knee does not allow me to do as much as I would like, but I am going to get creative in the next couple weeks.  Stay tuned!

• Wednesday:  treadmill with run/walk.  1.5 miles, 30 minutes and 200 calories
• Saturday:  hiking to three waterfalls (pics and post coming soon).  3.4 miles, 2 hours and 650 calories

Obviously, hiking works great! How was your fitness this week?

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm and is filed under Health & Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I have done some tweaking on the "Exercise Log" and decided to keep myself publically accountable for my dieting as well.  So, for this 12-week-plus trial, I am hoping to gain some good habits, maintain my weight loss, and live a more active lifestyle.  Here is what I did (and didn’t do) this past week.

• Sunday: not much….
• Monday:  1.75 mile (30 min.) jog/walk on treadmill (240 calories)
• Tuesday:  coach potoe couch potato
• Wednesday:  more coach couch (and 114 degrees outside…sigh)
• Thursday:  1.75 mile (30 min.) jog/walk on treadmill (265 calories)
• Friday:  coach couch again…some good books, though
• Saturday: did I say I like the coach couch?? 

This week I decided to lose the 5 or so pounds I gained over the last two months.  I am counting calories and eating better this week and the verdict is in: I lost 4 pounds! I had a goal of losing 53 pounds, as some of you have read here on this blog.  That was reached last October and I maintained well through the end of Many.  June and July, however have not been great.  Now it is time to ramp it up.  My second tier goal is an additional 15 pounds!  I would like to get there by Christmas. 

My knee is still healing, so I can’t do as much as I would like.  But, I am pretty sure this coming week will be better.

How was your week?

**Note–I actually corrected my spelling on this post.  THANKS for the multiple who have noticed and noted the spelling.;-)

This entry was posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am and is filed under Health & Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.