|
*** Weigh-in for WEEK 379 ***
08/16/2008
|
| Week Completed: | ___379___ |
| Weigh-In Weight: | 207.0 |
| Body Mass Index: | 25.87 |
| Average Weight for week: | 208.21 |
| Miles Walked for week: | 0.00 |
| Miles Walked in 2008: | 155.18 |
| Pounds +/- for this week: | -3.5 |
| Pounds lost total: | 32.5 |
| Made GOAL: 9/22/2001 † | |
* Made 10% at 215.5 pounds on 7/14/01
† Goal is 200 pounds.
|
Week’s Data
|
Day |
Date |
Weight |
Points |
Water |
Miles
Walked |
| Saturday |
08/09/2008
|
210.5
|
24.0
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Sunday |
08/10/2008
|
210.5
|
28.5
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Monday |
08/11/2008
|
208.5
|
26.0
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Tuesday |
08/12/2008
|
208.0
|
30.0
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Wednesday |
08/13/2008
|
208.0
|
31.0
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Thursday |
08/14/2008
|
207.0
|
31.0
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
| Friday |
08/15/2008
|
208.5
|
30.5
|
6 cups
|
0.00
|
Week 379 Update
This week, they are laying new asphalt on the road to our house and my maintenance graph looks like a road construction project that has just gotten started. All the way on the left, around Christmas of 2007, I weighed 11 pounds less than I do today. But, at the same time, I was 11 pounds heavier than where I intend to be at the end of this Weight Loss project. (While a Weight Loss Project can truly have an end, when you reach your goal weight, a Weight Loss Journey has no end, as I am demonstrating by my efforts—for better or for worse—to contain my bad eating tendencies.)
Dotti has set a tentative goal of climbing Mt. Hood in the year of our Lord, two thousand ten. That is a really big goal, but these past two weeks she has been doing all the right things to ready herself for this adventure. If Dotti is going to be at goal and climbing that mountain, that means I better be ready too.  So, it is a very good thing that I have started back on the right track at this time, even though the two things were completely unrelated. I will have to start working on the exercise side of things, and that is totally related!
Speaking of Mt. Hood, my Weight Commander graph resembles that majestic peak as viewed from Portland. Along towards the end of July I started ascending the northern slope, and reached the peak on August 2nd. I then began the descent, going up and over the Crater Rock volcanic dome plug and continuing on down the southern slope. (Crater Rock is about 560 feet tall, and Mount Hood is 11,239 feet, so the mountain is 20 times as tall as the plug. If you measure from the solid squares up to the hollow square, that is just about right. .)
The important point is that the solid squares have been falling ever since I got back on program, and even the hollow squares have been doing pretty well, in spite of the ibuprofen that has entered into the picture on several of the days. I am still overweight, and will be officially so until I lose 7 more pounds—even the squares on the left of the diagram show my weight as being out of bounds for the normal range. So, this is a start, but that is all it is.
The rectangles on the sides of the graph hold some numbers that show what I have been up to of late. On the left side it shows that over the last 7 days, I have lost 3.5 pounds. The 7 days before that, I lost another 3.5 pounds. However, the next rectangle down shows that the 7 days preceding that, I gained 4 pounds, and the week before that, I gained 2 pounds. Net result for 4 weeks of effort: 1 pound lost. Looking at the 30 day graph in the middle shows that I am pretty much where I was a month ago.
The rectangles on the right side show that I weighed 207 pounds this morning, and 30 days ago, I weighed 207 pounds. Sixty days ago, I weighed 207.5—two months of going nowhere except back and forth. Starting from where I was 90 days ago, I have managed to gain 4 pounds, and over the last year, I am up 8 pounds. Yep, that is what I have been up to lately.
However, I am determined that the next 30, 60, 90, and 365 days will be different.
Looking at theWeight Commander's Past 90 Days graph, you would assume that I was still on the way up. The trend is a climbing one. I was down at 203 or so in early May and even now, am several pounds above that. The graph shows that I have been fluctuating greatly over the past few weeks, but gives no indication that things are on track today. It is only the fact that I am tracking what I am eating each day, and knowing that is where it should be, that gives me hope that the southern slope of Mount Hood will continue falling right past that 203 pound mark.
 And what does theWeight Commander say the future holds? It predicts that by Thanksgiving, I should be around 190 pounds. It appears to be optimistic about my chances of reaching my goal. 
I too am optimistic, because I know I am eating well and writing it down. As long as I continue on the path I have set my feet upon, I will reach my goal. It is up to me.
So far, so good, but it is just a start. Also, I need to work on my exercise. Dotti has actually set up a goal for us that will help make sure that I get my exercise in the future, so that is a very good thing!
During one of our basketball games with my sons and grandson, I had the nail of my right big toe catch on the top of my shoe, just as I was making a quick stop, and the shoe was planted. It took about a quarter of an inch of my nail and bent it back, and I am still hobbling on the sore foot just a bit. I have lost nails from injuries that didn't hurt this much, but it feels like it is starting to heal up! (That is what I get for pretending to be one of the young pups out there playing ball.  )
With the temperatures we have been having the last few days, it wouldn't matter anyway, because I won't be out walking or exercising in any fashion outdoors when the mercury says it is over 100 degrees in the shade. Fortunately, a cool batch of air is heading our way, and should arrive by Monday. Until then I will just keep that A/C cranked up and work on staying cool.
This coming week I will try and do as well on my eating, and hopefully do a bit better on my exercising, and have an even better week than I had during the week just past. We'll see how it goes...
7 years, 96 days on my journey; a lifetime to follow.
-Al-
6 '3" 239.5/207.0/197.5±2.5/BMI:25.87/WK-379
Starting weight: 239.5
New (returning to my original) Target Weight Range: 183.0 lbs to 187.0 lbs
BACK TO WEEK THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT On To WEEK THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY
|
