I got back home yesterday afternoon in time for trick or treating and also to weigh in on the home scale. The 25th of the month is the day that I measure the end of a month for the weight reduction program because I started this program on July 25th, but I also look at a calendar month total because, well, I have to have something to write about.
On the 25th, I weighed on the Fatherland scale, which skewed the month results. This time, though, I'm weighing on the home scale. For the month of October, I lost 16.7 pounds, which is a lot, of course. I'm now literally within spitting distance of 50 pounds lost. I haven't felt particularly good the last half of the month and really, I probably should have worked out more, but I'll be off to the gym tonight and all told, it was a very successful month.
One of the guys that I car pooled with way back in the old days is now VP of engineering. About two weeks ago, he had a mild heart attack. Luckily, like Twayn, he didn't have any damage to his heart. He also found out that he's diabetic. I stopped in his office yesterday to offer my support. He termed the experience a wake up call. I told him about how I was woken up by Twayn's event. I am so glad that I got serious about this when I did. Yeah, I should have done it a long time, ago, blah, blah, blah. The point is, I did it now. You can do it now, too.
Day 100
Weight: 234.8
Total Loss: 49.7
BMI: 28.96
I haven't slept well in about a week. Now I'm to the point I'm waking up with a headache
How is your hydration? I notice that I am prone to headaches if I don't pay attention to my fluid intake. I also generally find it hard to keep hydrated.
My hydration is usually pretty good. I started paying extra attention a few weeks ago when Stick reported his hydration issues. For me, I think it's just a lack of quality restful sleep lately.
What rhu said. I use one. Cheap at Target.
I am pleased to report that, after all my eating out over the last week, my weight remained level.
I got a flu shot last week, and now have several flu-like symptoms. Natch.
I felt bad for about two hours, but then I was better.
I got a tetanus booster on Friday at my physical. Arm was sore for a couple days and I may have had a low-grade fever on Saturday, but no other ill effects.
I don't have my log handy (I highly recommend keeping some kind of journal/logbook), but I'm pretty sure that for October I only missed one day that I planned to go to the gym and downgraded one day (this last Tuesday, actually) from a hard day to a light day because I was feeling pretty beat all day. Unfortunately, the Sounders have a playoff game this Friday which gets in the way of my plan to workout on Friday. Rather than trying to do Thursday PM and Friday AM (almost no time to recover), I'll just do my presses Saturday morning, which will make it a little more work than I usually do Saturday morning.
I just started a notebook yesterday. I every time I was in the gym, I kept thinking "Was I doing 30 lbs? Or was it 40?" And I don't know for sure, but I probably wasn't making much progress. So now I have a reference. And, like so many others here, I like hard numbers so I'll be able to go back and look and see the change over time. I taped the USBSF scoring chart on the inside cover for a little extra motivation
Keeping track of my workouts now makes me wish I'd kept a log for my 6+ years of running in middle/high school.
I got the numbers back today from the blood panel at my physical on Friday. Good news. Cholesterol is well managed (thanks, Zocor!). Total cholesteral is at 139 (150-199 is normal), HDL at 41 (above 40 is desired), LDL at 79 (below 130 is desired) and triglycerides were at 93 (below 150 is desired). It felt good to get results like this, it shows that the diet and exercise are paying off.
Well done!
Excellent news!
2,010! Full report tomorrow.