Weight Loss Wednesday

Hosting Issues
On Thursday of last week we having some issues with our host company. Their site, and every site with them crashed and was unavailable. This affected some of our posts getting posted in a timely manner. This is now resolved and hopefully we will not see this again going forward.

Weight loss
Consumption-
I have successfully made it through a week without any Mountain Dew. An achievement I am quite proud of. It has not been easy, but I will keep on this path for the sake of my health.

This week my goal is drop out the during the week ice cream. Our snack cart at work as various ice cream novelties to tempt me each day. These range from fudge bars, to ice cream sandwiches, to snickers ice cream bars. All these wonderful treats which I love to consume. BUT NO MORE! By next week I should be telling you that I made it through the week without any. Tune in to find out.

Exercise-
This week was not great. I had off work Friday and Monday which are my two exercise days besides Wednesday. However, with the various activities taking place this weekend, I did burn a fare amount of a calories. Probably not equal to, but I think close.

Progress-
Drum roll please. I weighed in this morning and am down 2 pounds. This puts us well on our way to our goals. I think the biggest factor for this was the missing Mountain Dew, but whatever it is, progress is progress, and I will take it.

Three more weeks until you get a new picture of me. Just to give you plenty of warning.

Weight Loss Wednesday

Well today officially starts my journey to slenderness. First a word of warning to everyone with a weak stomach. At the end of this post I have included some topless photos of myself. I will try to include new photos monthly so you can visually track my progress.

As to my goals. I mentioned my goal of losing 28 pounds by the end of 2008. Currently I am at 208, so this should have me at 180 by the end of the year. BMI says I should be 165, so there will be room to work next year.

However, our family is going to the beach on vacation in the middle of September. It would be nice to be able to feel comfortable taking my shirt off in public again. So this would actually mean I need to lose 7 pounds a month to lose 28 pounds by the time I leave. I do think this is doable, but I need to stay dedicated.

To that end, I will give you the good and the bad news. The bad news is, I eat like I want to have a heart attack at 30. Here is a sample eating day for me:
3 hard boiled eggs
A candy bar
Plate of Pasta
Vitamin water or Mountain Dew
Ice cream Sandwich
Granola bar
Supper of usually meat and Macaroni and cheese
A bowl of cereal no milk

And that is on a lite day. On a really bad day, ad in a few more candy bars and you get the picture. Clearly this is the most obvious area to attack. We will come back to this.

On the physical activity front of this war, I have had a measure of improvement lately. I have developed my own workplace workout which is seeming to be sticking with me on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Still working on creating the habit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The MWF workout utilizes my 2 union breaks per day, and 10 minutes of my lunch break. During those periods I will do the following:

20 bicep curls each bicep- 20 pound weight
30 triceps extensions- 20 pound weight
10 pec butterfly's- 20 pound weight
30 crunches- I need to up this soon
20 arm spread eagles- 5 pound weight
20 back lifts each arm 20 pound weight
15 backups- opposite of a sit up
15 push ups- yes I am that out of shape
20 hand raises each hand 20 pound weight
20 trap lifts each trap 20 pound weight

Clearly by the photos below, I am not completely up to date on all the fitness lingo. To that end, I made up the names of many of my exercises I engage in. Feel free to question what each one is if you want to know exactly what I am doing to get such great results.

Now back to the food front, my first step will be to eliminate the remaining two sodas a week I have been eating. After that, I need to reduce the snack food intake as well. Next week is my goal for the no sodas, I will keep you posted.

WARNING!! Once again, the pictures that follow may cause you to vomit on your keyboard. If this happens, do not blame me, you have been warned.

That being said, here I am in my current state:

Weight Loss Wednesday

Hosting Issues
On Thursday of last week we having some issues with our host company. Their site, and every site with them crashed and was unavailable. This affected some of our posts getting posted in a timely manner. This is now resolved and hopefully we will not see this again going forward.

Weight loss
Consumption-
I have successfully made it through a week without any Mountain Dew. An achievement I am quite proud of. It has not been easy, but I will keep on this path for the sake of my health.

This week my goal is drop out the during the week ice cream. Our snack cart at work as various ice cream novelties to tempt me each day. These range from fudge bars, to ice cream sandwiches, to snickers ice cream bars. All these wonderful treats which I love to consume. BUT NO MORE! By next week I should be telling you that I made it through the week without any. Tune in to find out.

Exercise-
This week was not great. I had off work Friday and Monday which are my two exercise days besides Wednesday. However, with the various activities taking place this weekend, I did burn a fare amount of a calories. Probably not equal to, but I think close.

Progress-
Drum roll please. I weighed in this morning and am down 2 pounds. This puts us well on our way to our goals. I think the biggest factor for this was the missing Mountain Dew, but whatever it is, progress is progress, and I will take it.

Three more weeks until you get a new picture of me. Just to give you plenty of warning.

Weight Loss Wednesday

Well today officially starts my journey to slenderness. First a word of warning to everyone with a weak stomach. At the end of this post I have included some topless photos of myself. I will try to include new photos monthly so you can visually track my progress.

As to my goals. I mentioned my goal of losing 28 pounds by the end of 2008. Currently I am at 208, so this should have me at 180 by the end of the year. BMI says I should be 165, so there will be room to work next year.

However, our family is going to the beach on vacation in the middle of September. It would be nice to be able to feel comfortable taking my shirt off in public again. So this would actually mean I need to lose 7 pounds a month to lose 28 pounds by the time I leave. I do think this is doable, but I need to stay dedicated.

To that end, I will give you the good and the bad news. The bad news is, I eat like I want to have a heart attack at 30. Here is a sample eating day for me:
3 hard boiled eggs
A candy bar
Plate of Pasta
Vitamin water or Mountain Dew
Ice cream Sandwich
Granola bar
Supper of usually meat and Macaroni and cheese
A bowl of cereal no milk

And that is on a lite day. On a really bad day, ad in a few more candy bars and you get the picture. Clearly this is the most obvious area to attack. We will come back to this.

On the physical activity front of this war, I have had a measure of improvement lately. I have developed my own workplace workout which is seeming to be sticking with me on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Still working on creating the habit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The MWF workout utilizes my 2 union breaks per day, and 10 minutes of my lunch break. During those periods I will do the following:

20 bicep curls each bicep- 20 pound weight
30 triceps extensions- 20 pound weight
10 pec butterfly's- 20 pound weight
30 crunches- I need to up this soon
20 arm spread eagles- 5 pound weight
20 back lifts each arm 20 pound weight
15 backups- opposite of a sit up
15 push ups- yes I am that out of shape
20 hand raises each hand 20 pound weight
20 trap lifts each trap 20 pound weight

Clearly by the photos below, I am not completely up to date on all the fitness lingo. To that end, I made up the names of many of my exercises I engage in. Feel free to question what each one is if you want to know exactly what I am doing to get such great results.

Now back to the food front, my first step will be to eliminate the remaining two sodas a week I have been eating. After that, I need to reduce the snack food intake as well. Next week is my goal for the no sodas, I will keep you posted.

WARNING!! Once again, the pictures that follow may cause you to vomit on your keyboard. If this happens, do not blame me, you have been warned.

That being said, here I am in my current state: