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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Febuary weight


If i can get some time during the work day I'll see if I can pontificate on the month, but at the moment I really need to hit the shower and hit the road.

And now, I'm getting ready to go home from work and I realize I haven't said anything.

Well, I'm not sure how much there is to say, the trend downward continues, not always at the same speed, but a respectable 5 pounds over the month (and a short month at that) and my actual weight dropped to nearly the high goal weight I've set for myself a couple of times so far.

I strongly suspect that March will be the month I reach my low goal weight and start on the even more interesting task. Maintenance.

I know what to eat to lose weight.

I know what I ate to gain it in the first place.

I have little clue exactly what foods and amounts are going to be keeping me at a given weight.

When i do reach my low weight.. I'm definitely going to Culvers, calorie and fat overkill or not. And rather than taking it home, I will eat it there and do my best to savor it. For now.. I'm going to head home and wait for the snow.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Workouts ... Week beginning 26-Feb-2007

Workout 26-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 27-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 28-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:53:13
Time In Zone 0:47:35

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 151
KCal/Fat: 793/50%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 01-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 02-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:56:39
Time In Zone 0:49:19

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 148
KCal/Fat: 799/55%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 03-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 04-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Monday, February 19, 2007

Workouts ... Week beginning 19-Feb-2007

Workout 19-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:50:14
Time In Zone 0:46:45

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 150
KCal/Fat: 739/40%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 20-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 21-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:52:53
Time In Zone 0:47:16

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 148
KCal/Fat: 736/40%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 22-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 23-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:52:48
Time In Zone 0:47:46

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 151
KCal/Fat: 779/50%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 24-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:56:31
Time In Zone 0:47:48

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 152
KCal/Fat: 836/50%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 25-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Workouts ... Week beginning 12-Feb-2007

Workout 14-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:50:39
Time In Zone 0:46:00

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 151
KCal/Fat: 747/40%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 15-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 16-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:52:19
Time In Zone 0:47:02

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 147
KCal/Fat: 738/45%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 17-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:51:52
Time In Zone 0:48:31

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 150
KCal/Fat: 756/40%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 18-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Non-workouts, week beginning 12-Feb-2007

Yep, you read that right.. non workouts, at least for a couple days.

I'm not sure exactly how I caused a muscle in my hip to be really highly irritated with me, but it is, so Monday was my first sick day in a few months as I let a muscle relaxant have it's way with me. Now I'm back at work today, but I still didn't even attempt my calisthenics yet since things still aren't quite happy there yet.

I'm hoping to ease back into it later in the week, but at this point I feel like most of my exercises would just aggravate things.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Which way to indulge myself.

Well, I've indulged my workouts in two way this week. One, I got myself a hula hoop. You go ahead and laugh, but I was watching one of the VH1 "100 best toys" or some such thing and one of the featured toys was the hula hoop. You're not moving far, it looks like it could burn a fair amount of calories and it's just absurd enough to be fun.

So far.. I've knocked things off two different tables and this morning, worked my way up to a count of 40 before I end up with the hoop around my ankles, which certainly beats last night when I couldn't get it to stay at hip level or above. I was actualy looking for Heavy Hands at Target (because I had found them online at Target.com, and didn't notice the text saying "available online, but not in stores) and I'd been thinking about getting a hula hoop anyway.

Second, I ordered some heavy hands from Amazon because they seem like a good and adaptable way to keep challenging myself during my cardiovascular workout. You can change the weights on them to be up to 10 pounds that I can find, and thus ought to keep being challenging, yet remain about the same size for me to hold on to. (As opposed to my 2 kilogram juggling balls which are a bit large to hold onto with sweaty hands.

Now I'm trying to decide between two indulgences. Behind Door number1, we have, crossing the weight barrier of 190 lbs. I'm really close and if I push, i think i can get there by end of this week, or middle of next week at latest. It would likely be my lowest weight in a decade. Behind Door number 2, we have a lunch or dinner out at a restaurant I have had a taste for. (Not going into detail because I don't need to trigger anyone else, let me just summarize by saying meal parts = 684 calories, 396 from fat + 584 calories, 270 from fat + 320 calories, all carbs. )

I think at this point I'm going for the weight goal, because I had not looked up the calories before this moment. I can certainly let myself indulge in things like that infrequently, I'm not interested in denial or abstinence from food or anything else, but I am certainly all about "all things in moderation." And that includes high fat fast foods. Something that artery clogging definitely qualifies as a very infrequent indulgence.

Monday, February 5, 2007

A little more about this chart...


One of the things I really like about the the The Hacker Diet philosophy is that it is a change for life. You see I'm not planning on weighing myself every day until I reach my goal, then I'm done dieting. Maybe I could succeed at staying a slimmer me if I were to do that, but I doubt it. My weight would surely creep right back up that same slope and I'm certainly not guaranteeing that the slope would be an gentle as the route down has been.

No, the idea is to continue to weigh yourself. Every Single Day. That way, if I start to bounce out of that nice wide band of "Low Goal weight" and "High goal weight", I know very quickly and I can adjust to get back in bounds. Not 10-20 pounds later when I check because my pants feel too tight.

I don't really have a date by which I feel I should reach my goal, but mostly I'm just going for continuing to have the trend line go downward.

Workouts ... Week beginning 05-Feb-2007

Workout 05-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:48:57
Time In Zone 0:46:37

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 149
KCal/Fat: 704/45%

7 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 06-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 07-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:49:29
Time In Zone 0:47:00

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 149
KCal/Fat: 717/45%

7 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark, edged up to 8 for the last 2 sets

Workout 08-Feb

Morning Calisthenics


Workout 09-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:49:14
Time In Zone 0:46:01

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 149
KCal/Fat: 711/45%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 10-Feb

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:49:44
Time In Zone 0:47:20

Watch calculated limits: 132 - 156
Average Heart Rate 148
KCal/Fat: 722/45%

8 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 10-Feb

Morning Calisthenics