A FEW MORE THINGS
YOU MIGHT ENJOY
|
 |  |
|
WEEK 416
Week Ending May 6, 2009
Weight Watchers Goal
(the top of my normal weight range)
200.0 pounds
|
Week 416 Update
|
|
| Weigh-In Date: | 05/06/2009 |
| Weight: | 213.0 |
| Body Mass Index: | 26.62 |
| Average Weight for week: | 213.57 |
| Miles Walked for week: | 6.00 |
| Miles Walked in 2009: | 48.77 |
| Pounds +/- for this week: | -3.0 |
| Pounds lost total: | 26.5 |
| Pounds From Personal Goal (185 lbs) | +28.0 |
RESTART!
|
|
DATE
|
WEIGHT
|
|
April 21, 2009
|
219.5
|
Week's Data
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
04/29/09 |
04/30/09 |
05/01/09 |
05/02/09 |
05/03/09 |
05/04/09 |
05/05/09 |
|
216.0
|
215.0
|
214.0
|
215.0
|
214.0
|
212.5
|
211.5
|
|
|
|
|
|
CONTROL PANEL
GRAPH |
FUTURE
GRAPH |
60-DAY
GRAPH |
90-DAY
GRAPH |
1-YEAR
GRAPH |
|
|
I stepped up on the scale at 6:21 AM and the number 213.0 came back at me. Well, I wasn't sure whether to be upset that the scale was up a pound and a half from yesterday, or to be happy that I was down 3 pounds from last week. I'll go with happy! 
My Weight Commander Control Panel Graph shows that late in April, I made a change and since then I have been trending downward. Of course there never was a question of whether or not the plan worked, it was only of whether I was going to work the plan or not.
I weight 10 pounds more than I did one year ago, and that isn't very good news. But all I can do at this point is continue to stay on program and not "cry over spilled milk."
My Weight Commander Future Graph is not as dramatic as last week's. (That one showed me dropping from 216 down to 198 in 90 days.) However, I think this one is just fine. It shows me on the downward trail, with a nearly 10-pound loss over the upcoming 90 days.
My Weight Commander 60-Day Graph has the appearance of a hill that I am at least on the downhill side of. I am not quite back to where I was at the start of the period, but I am getting closer all the time.
I have farther to go in order to get back where I was 90 days ago as is seen on my Weight Commander 90-Day Graph. Still, it is only about 10 pounds and if I hold the course, it won't take too terribly long to get down there. It is up to me.
My Weight Commander 1-Year Graph looks pitiful. I was unhappy how the previous year had gone, and now I am doing even worse this year. Obviously, I have been on a terrible emotional roller-coaster ride this year, but it is scary seeing how easy it is to go this far off course.
Wednesday— I weighed 216.0 pounds.
Dotti didn't waste any time getting to her first Spokane WW meeting! She found that the scale showed that she didn't have too much to make up for from the past stressful weeks, and now, hopefully she will be able to work the program uninterrupted all the way to goal! I am really proud of the way she refuses to quit. If something upends her apple cart, she just picks up the apples and starts up again. She is very much on track!
We're still very much in the unpacking mode. I assembled 3 bookcases, each 6-foot tall or so, to go along with the 3 I already put together a few days ago. All 6 are completely filled with books now, and still it isn’t enough.
We are making progress, but I still feel like I am surrounded by a big mess, especially in my office. My music room isn’t any better, but it does have fewer items cluttering up the space. We just keep plugging away. I also reorganized the layout of my office area a bit before it got "set in concrete."
We are building up our emotional reserves still. I am not all the way back yet, but I am moving in that direction. I feel a lot better than the first day I arrived in Spokane. (I don’t think I have ever been wound any tighter than I was by the time we parked the trucks for the night. I am just glad I didn’t snap completely.)
Well, I ate 25.0 points for the day, and that was well within my eating range, so it was a good day in that area.
Thursday— I weighed 215.0 pounds when I got up.
Dotti and I went out and played miniature golf. It was wonderful. We last did that in Vancouver, and it was like a healing step to have so much fun again at last. It feels like another lifetime when we were doing those sorts of things regularly.
I put on the self timer and ran back to Dotti and she put her arm around me and we were smiling like we haven't smiled in ever so long. I feel like we are finally  climbing out of the hole we have been in, and it feels so good!
Notice what Dotti is doing here: SMILING! It is super seeing her doing that again.
It is the little things that count so much in life, and we are starting to have little things fall into place again, and it feels WONDERFUL!
I ate 34.0 points on Thursday, which was high. It was 3 points over my limit, but I was fortunately 6 points under my limit the day before, so it balanced out. Still, I don't like going over my limit.
Friday— I weighed 214.0 pounds.
I went out and did a 3-mile walk on Friday. I hadn't felt too well after my last walk, and so I took a few days off. I did better on Friday and it was nice. Up on the plateau where we live (it is commonly called the "Five Mile Prairie") it is sometimes hard to remember that we are in the city. As you can see from this photo, taken about half way around the 3-mile loop, there is a lot of rural looking land. I believe that tower at mid picture is for our water. That is the only way to get any water pressure up this high, unless you use some very hefty pumps to produce it. It's a lot easier using gravity to supply a steady pressure. (Of course you still have to use pumps to get the water into the tower, but then gravity does the rest. )
There is a severe sparsity of trees up in this area, and with the 400-foot height advantage over the buildings and trees of most of Spokane there is nothing to block the wind. We have had some really spectacular windy days so far, and we really enjoy them.
When I was a youngster we lived in Barstow, California, up on the high desert. (Actually, at 2100 feet, the elevation there is about the same as the average elevation of Spokane itself. Spokane is generally not flat like Barstow, (despite what this picture shows) and ranges from 1879 feet up to over 2400 feet.) We got about 4.6 inches of rain there each year, and it seemed like about that many cloudy days. Or as the Arab wisdom so truly states, "All sunshine makes a desert." There are many profound differences between these two cities that I have called home, but the wind is a common element, at least where we are living now.
I can still remember my first night in my new room in Barstow, and the wind was pushing by the building, which was not connected to the house, and it sounded like something big breathing. It actually frighted the 13 year old kid that I was, and sent me scurrying into the house to sleep on the sofa. But that was the last time it had that effect. As the years passed by, I grew to love the sound of the wind, and I still love it today.
We picked up our library cards, after fighting with some major road construction, which was going on right in front of the library building.
Friday, at 32 points, I went over my points by one, but it was due to a miscalculation, that was discovered after it was too late do fix. At least my points under on Wednesday more than made up for the two days in a row being over.
Saturday— I weighed 215.0 pounds.
This is Bloomsday weekend in Spokane, and I was not enjoying the fact that we were not doing the race this year. Still, I didn't want to do it by myself, and so we decided to wait until next year when the whole group can once again participate.
Normally on Saturday of this weekend we would go down to the civic auditorium and collect our materials for the race. We'd get our ID number and bag of other goodies.
Unpacking continues…
I got back on track with my points for the day on Saturday, and I only ate 26.5 of them. Much better! Our garage is getting closer to being empty enough to get a car into it, and that is huge step in the right direction. (Thank you Dotti!!!)
Sunday— I weighed 214.0 pounds.
The day of the Bloomsday race, but not for us this year. We have driven up to Spokane several times to do the race:
2004 our first race.
2005. (Dotti sat that one out so we didn’t do a hiking page entry for 05.)
2006 is the last time we participated.
But things have gotten in the way the last couple of races. I was sure we would be doing it this time around when I found out that we were moving up in April, but neither Dotti nor Tammy up to doing it this year, so it's next year for sure!
As for myself, I probably could have done the course okay, but I would have not set any records, and I would have been pretty tired and sore as a result. So, it was probably just as well I didn't do it either this time.
Dotti and I had some very nice compensation, since we didn't do the race: Jim and Tammy invited us over for the first real get together we have had since moving up, and one of Tammy's great meals!
We had a very enjoyable evening with our best friends, and LeRoy even dropped in to visit. It was also great seeing our grandson Hunter, although he got my stomach going when he insisted on pushing me around on the merry-go-round they have in the back yard. It seems incredible that he has grown up to the point where he can do that, when it was such a short time ago when he was born. Wow!
We even got a few minutes to visit with his mom Jamie, when she got home from work just before we left for the night. It had been way too long since we had some time with our friends. We'll make sure it isn't so long next time!
Even with the great meal in the evening, I only ate 27.0 points for the day on Sunday, so it was a good one. And for the week's points I still well under my limit.
Monday— I weighed 212.5 pounds.
We both had our driver's licenses and so we felt it would be good to get our cars registered as well. We were looking forward to getting those Washington plates back on our cars again.
For the day, I ate 28.5 points, and once again that was under my limit.
Tuesday— I weighed 211.5 pounds.
I walked 3 miles once again on Tuesday. It wasn't cold, the wind was really blowing by, which made it feel colder. I put up my hood to hold my cap on, as well as keep my earphones in place without the wind playing havoc with them. Once I got set, I really enjoyed the walk. I like to walk in the wind and the rain. I won't walk when their is lightening out, and the prediction was that there were thunderstorms coming in the afternoon. So, I did my walk in the morning. I felt pretty good when I was finished with the walk.
We were running a little low on some grocery items at home and so we made a run to the grocery store. This store just opened this week after being closed down from snow! They had part of the roof collapse this winter from snow accumulation, and the repairs have just been completed.
I was sitting in the car while Dotti did the shopping. (She likes it better that way, because I get bored easy in stores and then I tend to try and hurry her along. She likes to be able to take more leisurely approach. I don't mind, since I always have something to do in the car. I have an audio book, or college lecture to listen to on in the CD player, and a book to read in the side door panel, and of course my puzzles.
I didn't really catch it with this picture but the smoke coming out of the metal chimney vent on top of Burger King was really being pushed around by the wind.
I pulled back our sunroof cover and shot a picture looking up at the newly reopened store, and the celebratory streamers that were whipping smartly in the wind.
Sudoku is how I spend my car time these days. I rate how long Dotti has been in the store by the number of puzzles I get done. This day I finished a medium difficulty, an easy one, and most of a second easy one before she came out with the groceries. (I finished the last puzzle in a couple of minutes, when we stopped at Starbucks in the same parking lot, and Dotti went in to grab us something.)
When we got home Frostbyte had to be in the middle of everything of course, and he got tangled up with one of the bags that Dotti had cleared out. Somehow, the cat got the handle of the bag wrapped around his neck like a collar. I set my 2-point Starbucks coffee down and snapped his picture. He wasn't upset, despite that mournful look on his face. He just sat there and let me take his picture. I then took his "collar" off for him so he could move around a little easier.
I once again ate under my limit at 29.5 points. But it didn't seem to matter on the scale the next day, as I jumped up a pound and a half for today. Still, it was a good week, and I am very happy with the results!
7 years, 359 days on my journey; a lifetime to follow.
-Al-
6'3" 239.5/213.0/185.0±2.5/BMI:26.62/WK-416
Starting weight: 239.5
Target Weight Range: 185.0±2.5 pounds
BACK TO WEEK 415 On To WEEK 417
|
|
|
