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*** Weigh-in for WEEK 343 ***
12/08/2007
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| Week Completed: | ___343___ |
| Weigh-In Weight: | 200.0 |
| Body Mass Index: | 24.94 |
| Average Weight for week: | 199.79 |
| Miles Walked for week: | 2.7 |
| Miles Walked in 2007: | 258.18 |
| Week’s Average Points/Day: | 42.20 |
| Pounds +/- for this week: | +0.5 |
| Pounds lost total: | 39.5 |
| Made GOAL: 9/22/2001 † | |
* Made 10% at 215.5 pounds on 7/14/01
† Goal is 200 pounds.
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Week’s Data
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Day |
Date |
Weight |
Points |
Water |
Miles
Walked |
| Saturday |
12/01/2007
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199.5
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34.5
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6 cups (48 oz)
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0.00
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| Sunday |
12/02/2007
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198.0
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48.5
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6 cups (48 oz)
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0.00
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| Monday |
12/03/2007
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199.0
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53.0
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6 cups (48 oz)
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0.00
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| Tuesday |
12/04/2007
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200.0
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40.0
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6 cups (48 oz)
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0.00
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| Wednesday |
12/05/2007
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201.0
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36.5
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6 cups (48 oz)
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2.20
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| Thursday |
12/06/2007
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201.0
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34.0
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8 cups (64 oz)
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0.50
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| Friday |
12/07/2007
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199.5
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47.5
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6 cups (48 oz)
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0.00
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Week 343 Update
I weighed 200.0 pounds at 7:20 a.m.
Dotti had finished her part of the latest Dotti's Newsletter and it was waiting for me when I got up. So, I got to this write up later than usual. But I was able to get it proofread, formatted, and all corrections done, and ready to ship by 2 p.m. to the 54,700+ subscribers.
I spent most of this week under the weather, since I was sharing Dotti's head cold. She was about 7 days ahead of me, and that gives me an idea of what I have to look forward to. Fortunately it has remained above the shoulders and that is a plus.
The Weight Commander graph shows me holding the black squares fairly steady in my target range, even though the white squares are up and down quite a bit. I am definitely struggling a bit to hold things exactly where I want, but I am struggling around the right area and not well outside of it, and that is at least something to be happy about. 
 The future graph shows that my current trend would put me around 203 pounds by March. While that is not where I want to be, it is within 3 pounds of my target range and that is not too bad. And I hope that I will be able to correct that trend long before I can pull the black squares up that far on my daily graph. I have my work cut out for me over the next few weeks, but it is doable work and I will just have to focus on the task at hand.
Here are a few highlights of the week:
On Saturday the 1st of December after weighing in, we took Mom to church. (She is a Seventh-day Adventist and goes to church on Saturday.) While waiting to pick her up, Dotti and I stopped at Starbucks for a little DWLZ meeting, and were greeted with some snow! It was too warm to stick but I went out and snapped a few pictures anyway.
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Each night when we come home from an outing, we are greeted by the cheery lights that Dotti and LeRoy worked so hard on putting up in our yard. It always makes us smile when we turn the corner and there are the lights.
Monday I woke up early with a sore throat, and generally not feeling really well. I took a couple of aspirin for my headache, and then started writing my article for Dotti's Newsletter #37. The deadline was fast approaching and I didn't want to wait until the last minute.
I got the outline completed, and then turned to my computer and started to type the actual article. After only about a paragraph I felt like curtain fell down over me, and I felt terrible. I had to shut down and go back to bed. I spent most of the rest of the day in bed as my temperature climbed up to almost 101°F before finally breaking with a case of the sweats.
Tuesday morning my temperature was only a degree high, but I still wasn't up to doing much. Then in the afternoon I got a burst of energy and I finished typing out the article. I printed up copies for Dotti and my mom to read, and they both liked it, and Dotti picked up a couple of typos that needed correction. I got to bed early that night.
Wednesday I was awake at 3:15 a.m. but I was feeling a bit better. It was Dotti's Weight Watchers meeting day, and we usually go to lunch on the day she has her meeting. First we took a couple of pictures before leaving. Here is Dotti with her Christmas shirt on, and blue tassel. The North Pole shows up on the map on her shirt and her face shows she is really into the Christmas spirit!
Here Mom is looking up at me, showing off our height difference. She is just a bit over 5 feet tall and looks cute as a button in her knit hat.
The three of us bundled up a bit, and then we set off on our walk to Red Robin. Mom looks toasty warm in her coat, hat, and gloves. She was ready for a walk, and we soon were on our way.
It wasn't terribly cold at 47° but the coats still felt good on our walk. I carried Dotti's umbrella, and it was long enough to use as a cane, which I found useful a couple of times when I was feeling lightheaded. While we were under a cloud cover the entire time, we didn't need the umbrella fortunately.
Mom and Dotti at about the halfway point in our walk to Red Robin. We had to stop a couple of times for Mom to catch her breath, because she was trying to keep up with our pace and we didn't realize we were going a bit too fast. We took it slower once we realized what was going on. Mom has walked over 200 miles this year, and that is very good!
Dotti and Mom are looking over the menus getting set to order at Red Robin. We had a good lunch and fun walk back home afterwards.
In the evening we took Mom to a local attraction at the Portland Speedway. Every Christmas they take over the speedway track and set up Christmas lights all around it. The patrons drive onto the track and then follow the course around once, before exiting. There were many creative displays with various creatures made in lights, like Santa and his elves. There were dinosaurs and other things to delight the children who might visit. They offered us a Christmas CD to play in our car as we drove around but we had brought one of our own with old traditional songs from Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, and others, and declined with thanks.
While the displays were loaded with elves, Santas, and other Christmas figures, including a Nativity Scene set back well off the road, the word Christmas was nowhere to be found. That was very disappointing, but we had our Christmas music and conversation going on in the car and would not let our spirits be dampend by the timerity of the producers of the display. The pressures are enormous upon all areas of our society to hide from the word Christmas, even while exploding with colors of green and red, candy canes, wreaths, Christmas trees, reindeer and all manner of Christmas trappings. Those who hate Christmas write letters, complain, threaten boycotts and lawsuits upon stores and even schools. Since well over 90% of the country celebrates Christmas in some form, it is merely a case of "boo tactics" but alas to many businesses are weak kneed when such tactics are used on them. (E.g. I noticed the big Merry Christmas signs disappeared from the front of Sears this year.) Well, the rest of us will continue to celebrate Christmas as Christmas and they will just have to get over it!
On Thursday, I was feeling a bit better. This week I was having trouble sleeping through the night. I would wake up around 2 or 3 coughing and unable to get back to sleep. I would take some cough syrup and finally get back to sleep. But for the rest of the day it wasn't too bad. We took Mom up to Pittock Mansion to see the Christmas displays there. Dotti and I had never been up there for Christmas before either, and so it was a new experience for us all. They had taken the various rooms of the house and decorated them with various fairy tale themes, like Sleeping Beauty or Alice in Wonderland.
Even though I had weigh-in the next day, I enjoyed a nice steak dinner that Dotti cooked on Friday night.
When I am ill I have a tendency to eat, unless the illness makes that impossible. My average for points-per-day was up to 42.20 for the week, and on the day I was most ill I ate 53.0 points, and the followed a 48.5-point day on Sunday, where I had a Taco Bell dinner with an ice cream chaser. The steak dinner, and a Very Berry Sundae at Costco put me up to 47.5 points on Friday.
6 years, 211 days on my journey; a lifetime to follow.
-Al-
6 '3" 239.5/200.0/197.5±2.5/BMI:24.94/WK- 343
Starting weight: 239.5
Target Weight Range: 195 lbs to 200 lbs
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