I'm calling it a win

Well it seems that I did reach my end of March goal that I have been striving for, when I weighed myself today I was 210.8 lbs. Yes it is the high end of the 210 but it was there tomorrow (a rest day that I will be taking full advantage of) I will weigh one last time so I know how may lbs I have to lose in order to get to my end of April goal of 190 lbs. I am still in the obese category but I am very close to moving down to overweight. A little victory but a victory none the less. It is nice to look back and to know that  I have lost 55 lbs since I started this venture and I only have 45 lbs to go (65 according to WiiFit but that is crazy). I will just wait and see what happens tomorrow.

Only nine workouts left

So after my Tuesday rest day after Monday's god awful workout I did my next workout this morning, it focused on upper body and core muscles which turned out not to be too bad. I didn't quite get to the 300 calorie burned mark that I normally like to get to but it still felt like a good workout. When I weighed in this morning I had lost another 1.1 lbs, which I was surprised about, but now I am only 1.2 lbs away from hitting  that goal of 210 by Friday morning. I am thinking it is going to happen but we will know for sure in a couple of days won't we. When I got dressed this morning and put my belt on I had to put it on the last hole in the belt so it looks like I am going to be adding one brown belt and one black belt to my shopping list when I decide to break down and get some clothing that fits. The part of all this that I find so funny is that most people are just now starting to tell me I look like I have lost a little bit of weight (54 lbs later) but hey at least they are saying it. I really do enjoy seeing the weigh go down each week and I am still motivated to continue but I am very very tired of dieting. If I could hit a pizza or Chinese buffet I would tear it up right now. The good thing is I have made a bit of a life style change so that when I do go off the diet I will still eat healthy and it won't take a pound and a half of food to make me full like it once did. If I keep going the way I have been then it looks like I should get to my goal weight right about the time we would go into the holiday season so that will be the best test for me. I did read somewhere a long time ago that when you lose weight the fat cells don't go away they just get smaller and they are more than happy to fill themselves backup if you give them the chance. I know this to be true as I have lost around 100 lbs twice in my life already and this would be the third and final time that I want to do so. This is the one thing that is always on the back of my mind is gaining it all back once I stop, but this time I am going to do everything I can to stop that from happening.

Made progress toward my March goal

Well today was a rest day but I still went ahead and did a weigh in and it seems that I had a good move toward getting to my end of March goal. I lost 1.1 lbs between my morning weigh yesterday and the one today. That gives me a mere 2.3 lbs to lose before Friday. It is still going to be close but I think that I can get it done. If tomorrow's workout is anything like the one I had to go through yesterday I will get to my with no trouble. It is nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel but if the last 10 workouts are anything like the first two in Phase 3 then my tunnel (although so close to the end) is lined with razor blades. I will keep letting everyone know how the reset of this month and my goal goes.

Phase 3 and almost done

Well, I am on the home stretch now! I have done two of the phase 3 workouts this weekend, both of which were full body workouts, and I only have 10 workouts left before I am done with the 60 day challenge. Yesterday's workout was a little tough but all in all not too bad. Today's workout on the other hand was quite difficult and I had to stop to catch my breath and let my legs rest three or four times before all was said and done. My lower body is still throbbing and I can tell you with almost 100% certainty that I will be sore tomorrow. Doing the math I am right on pace with my weight loss from the first EA Active. I lost 27 lbs in the 40 days it took me to complete the 30 day challenge and I have lost 26 lbs 42 days in to the 60 day challenge in training camp. The weight loss is a little bit slower now than it was in the beginning but I know it is because I have muscle building going on and I am at a much lower weight/ better shape than I was when I started this whole thing. According to WiiFit I am still about 9 lbs or so from moving out of the obese weight class into the overweight weight class. I know that still means I have plenty to lose but it is a mile stone that I look forward to reaching. I am getting ever closer to my end of March deadline. In order for me to hit the goal I need to wake up on Friday morning weighing 3.4 lbs less than I do now. That is a loss of about .7 or so lbs every day. It is going to be close but I am going to do what I can to see if I can't make it happen. Everyone will know Friday or so if I get there. I know I have already mentioned it before but I am going to set a little more realistic goal for April as I find the  weight loss is getting slower. I am wanting to get to 190 by the end of April. That is 23 lbs from what I weigh today. If I can get there I will be even closer to my final goal and be done with all the dieting.

So ends another chapter

Well today I did another weigh in and I lost another .7 lbs which puts me up to 51 lbs lost. I am still a little bit away from being in the next weight class but it is nice to know that I am heading in the right direction again. I am starting to think that I am going to be able to reach that end of March goal if I keep it up, with all the extra activity that is happening this weekend it should help a lot. When I say it is the end of another chapter I mean in training camp today was a lower body workout, which normally are no fun, and the end of phase two. By the sixty day challenge calendar I have the next two days for rest and will start the first phase three workout on Sunday. I can't wait to see how that goes I am willing to bet it is going to be hard, the intensity of each workout has been getting higher and higher so I expect this to be no difference. I hope that my next couple of posts are talking about how I was able to do the phase three workouts without needing a break and that I finally reached my end of the month goal. I will keep everyone posted,

Finally, finally, finally, finally, finally

So after a week and a half of not doing a whole log of moving I finally got past the 50 lbs lost mark. Today when I did a weigh it showed that I had lost 1.3 lbs which is also the biggest single loss I have had in a while. It is amazing how quickly you can get motivated again to really start kicking some butt. I still don't think that I am going to get to my end of March goal but  I think I can get pretty close. I am still 5 lbs away from being where I want at the end of the month. I still have two classes to teach this week and running around the labs normally has a pretty good impact on my weight loss as well. Looks like we have plans to go to the zoo on Saturday morning as long as those don't fall through then that will be a good bit of walking. Now that I am re-energized to keep moving forward I am staying committed to working out 5 times a week so I will be waking up early of Friday to do my custom upper body workout since working out before or after the zoo on Saturday is most likely not going to happen.  On a happy note my wife has been doing great on her weight loss as well. She did her daily weigh in on WiiFit and the sliding scale put her BMI in the normal range, I am both very proud of her and super jealous. I am still in the "Obese" with 15 lbs to go before I even get into the overweight. I don't know that I will ever be in the normal only because it says that I need to be 145 lbs (Something I have not been since I was in middle school) When I was at the best weight in my life a bunch of years ago I was still 20 lbs higher than that so I don't think that 145 is even going to be on my radar but the 165 surely is. I guess we just have to wait and see how my weigh-ins go for the rest of the month and see how close I can get to my end of March goal.

Its been a while

So I have finally had a calm week for the most part but was still able to bill a lot of hours without having to be stressed like I have been. School starts back up today and I am doing three classes again against by better judgment but at least the total number of students I have in all three of my classes is less than the number of students I had in just one class last quarter. I am still moving right along with my exercise but have hit a lul of epic proportions. I am at about 49 lbs lost since Jan 3 which is great but that is where I have been now for about two weeks. This  tells me that I will not be hitting my goal of 210 before the end of the month so I have set a more reachable goal for the end of April. I am hoping to get to 195 by the end of next month. The part that makes being where I am now so hard is that I did work out 5 times last week, the workouts are getting much harder and  the calories burned at each workout is getting higher as well. Yesterday I did a workout, mowed the lawn, AND went to the park but was still only down .2 lbs from yesterday. You would think with that much activity it would have been more than that but I guess that I am not so lucky. I have a rest day tomorrow but I might use it to do my custom workout that I created and start working out six days a week until I get over this slump. When I first started this it seemed like it was going to be very easy to get to my goal since I was losing weight so fast but now it seems like I just can't get any more to come off. I am so close to halfway to my goal and all I want is to get back this hump

I hope week gets better

The title has nothing to do with weight loss but with the week of work that I had. That is behind me now and today starts a whole new week. I know I am going to be busy again I justchope it is nothing like last week. Back to the point, I finally got a chance to weigh in today and I have lost another 2.2 lbs. I am now under 220 lbs for thie first time in several years and I have to say that I am pretty happy abut that. I am only nine lbs from gettin to my end of March weight and only four lbs from losing 50 lbs since all this started. I am so close to the half way point of my goal that I can't believe it. It is only making want to push harder to complete my 100 lbs lost and get back to the shape that I was in when I was in Orlando. Today Whitney is bringing Haley to the doctor because she has had a very bad cough most of the week and they first told us that it had to do with her teething but now they are starting to think it is something different. I hope they are wrong and it is only the teeth I don't want her tpgetting sick. I will keep everyone updated on that as well as how things are going and when I get to 50lbs lost and to my march goal.

The week from hell

So it seems I have no idea how far along I am nor did I get to go with my plan for this week and excerising. Like I said I wanted to go back to doing five workouts a week again since I missed that last week. I was also planning to make my first custom workout and do all upper body since I think that gets missed in the active games. Needless to say that since the week I had was 100 % out of control I didn't get any of that done. I will be working out tomorrow and that will be my forth workout this week. I have missed this workout again but since I have been able to make them up before the end of each week I am not behind yet. I don't have school anymore this week or next so I don't need to worry about long nights getting it the way at least for one week. When I weigh myself tomorrow I will post what it is so we can see how close I an to my end of March goal.

Still moving right along

So now I have completed a few workouts in Phase 2 of training camp and it seems they are getting a bit harder each time. The number of calories that I am burning each workout has gone up which is good. Today was an "upper body" workout, but like all things EA Active there was still a bunch of squats, and jumps in my upper body workout. I have one more scheduled workout this week then I can do whatever I want. I plan on creating my own real upper body workout that will just beat the crap out of my arms and shoulders for about 30 minutes and I will do that one on Saturday. Once it is done I will post how that went and if it was even worth it. I lost another 1.8 lbs since my last weigh in so I am now down to 221 lbs. That puts me 11 lbs away from my goal for the end of March. I like that my weight is still coming off at a good pace I just wish it was coming off at the pace it was when I first started all the. I have lost about 43 lbs at this point but I still have a long way to go if I want to get to my final goal of 165. Here's hoping that I can get to that goal before I get board or tired of same work each day.

Phase 2, you had me going there for a minute

So I did the second workout from phase two in training camp today and it was much different than the first one. When I did the first phase two exercise I was thinking to myself that it was a bit harder than the phase one workouts but not all that much harder. What made me happy about the phase two workouts compared to the phase one workouts is that the cal count has been higher for total burned than the phase one workouts. Today when I started the second workout I took a look at what was going to be done and training camp said that it was a "full body" workout. It seems that training camp and I have two totally different ideas of what a full body workout is. In my mind a full body workout is a few exercises from upper and lower body. To training camp a full body workout is jumps followed by jumps followed by lunges, followed by squats followed by split squats followed by more jumps and finally some running. All I can tell you is that after today's workout my legs are feeling quite a bit like jelly and I was so happy to get to work today where I knew I would be able to sit down for a little bit and rest my legs. Tomorrow is a rest day so I am going to take every little bit of it as I am sure that my legs will begin to get stiff and sore by the end of the day. Tomorrow I am also taking a Microsoft certification test so the extra sleep for that will be good. I will let you know how that goes and how my next workout goes when they pick backup on Wednesday.

By the way I am at 42 lbs lost as of yesterday morning

Finally got there!

Well on my 61st day of diet and exercise I made it to 41 lbs lost. I am pretty excited about it, I haven't lost this much weight in 7 years or so, I have been to busy finding it all these years. I got a little lazy this week and didn't workout on the days I was supposed to but I did make them up. The down side to that is my Phase 1 in training camp shows I completed 11 of the 12 workouts when I did in fact complete all 12. This brings me up to my next point I am starting my phase 2 of the training camp workouts tomorrow. From all the reviews I read, the intensity level goes way up on phase two. I am sure that I will comment on it tomorrow.

Justin

So close yet so far!!!!

Today was day sixty and I decided to take a look at my weight to see if I reached my goal of losing 40 lbs by today. I can say that had I done my scheduled workout yesterday or remembered to set my alarm today I would have made it. I lost 39.6 lbs in sixty days. I am going to call that a win. This quarter at school is finally coming to an end so I won't have to worry about 60 hours a week working and trying to wake up early enough to get my workouts done. Tomorrow I plan on doing the workout that I was supposed to do yesterday and then mow the lawn, I am thinking that can get me to the 40 lbs mark one day after my goal. My new goal now is to lose 16 lbs by the end of the month, if I can make that happen I will have my total weigh loss goal in site before May.

Complain and you shall receive

So after going through an emo like bitching yesterday I weighted myself again this morning and was down 1.1 lbs from my last weigh, a net of .4 lbs since my last weigh was .7 lbs up from the one previous. It seems I am already on day 18 on the 60 day challenge on NFL Training camp. It is going by pretty fast, I have to do one more workout tomorrow (Three in a row) since I skipped Monday morning due to being tired. I have a feeling I will be changing the days that I work out any time now. I am thinking Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, with an EA Active workout on Sunday so that I am doing 5 workouts a week, but that can always change. I am getting very close to the 40 lbs lost goal that I set myself, tomorrow is the actual 60 days since I started the weight loss campaign so if by some unbelievable miracle I lose another 2.7 lbs today I will have done 40 lbs in 60 days. I don't think that is going to happen but it would be pretty cool if it did. I can't complain 38 lbs in 60 days is a pretty good feat in and of itself. As I said before I will scream it from the mountain tops when I hit that 40 lbs lost mark. I have sent a new goal for this month, I want to get down to 210 by the end of it so I will keep everyone posted on how that goes. (I remain optimistic since I have an extra day this month) :-).

Justin

Frustration sets in

So it seems that when I weighted myself again this morning my weight went up a little more. Needless to say this is really beginning to upset me. This is the third day in a row that I weighted myself and the weight went up. I am not doing anything differently than I was when I started this thing but for some reason my weight is not going down. It makes it really hard to wake up in the morning and continue to workout when all of your hard work that was paying off all of a sudden does not seem to work anymore. I guess I will just have to continue to push through and hope that I start to see that weight go down again. I am trying really hard to stay motivated and not reset my alarm when it goes off in the morning but it is getting harder to do each day. I would love to get some advise or motivation from anyone that has gone through this to help me through it but since I am the only person that reads this I don't expect it. :-)