225.4

Lunch with a friend... enough said.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.4
Change from previous: +0.8

Total: (53.0)

Total Days: 284

224.6

Back up a pound.  I earned it.  Free breakfast and lunch at work ended a nice little run of eating really good.  Back on it today and hoping to see a new low by Friday.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.6
Change from previous: +1.0

Total: (53.8)

Total Days: 283

223.6

Down 1.2 and 0.2 pounds away from my recent low.  Feeling great despite still hobbling around.  Walked a bunch on Saturday and then paid for it on Sunday with a tired knee to sore to walk any longer.  Finally able to move around without a crutch last night.  Getting better... slowly.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 223.6
Change from previous: (1.2)

Total: (54.8)

Total Days: 282

224.8

No, I am not forgetting to update or accidentally publishing old posts.  For the third straight day, I remain at 224.8.  That means I made it through a weekend unscathed!  Great way to start a new week... and very easy to update the details below.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.8
Change from previous: no change

Total: (53.6)

Total Days: 281

224.8

Okay.  Same as yesterday.  Did manage to move around most of the day without crutches and that is encouraging.  Of course, the soreness this morning wasn't quite as encouraging. 

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.8
Change from previous: no change

Total: (53.6)

Total Days: 280

224.8

I start my weekend down 1.2 from yesterday and 4.6 pounds over the last week.  I am thrilled that I was able to focus on eating right while not being able to do much in the way of cardio exercise.  I could have easily phoned it in and accepted that I was going to gain a few pounds while recovering.  I could have easily been 234.8 this morning.  Pretty happy with myself right now.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.8
Change from previous: (1.2)

Total: (53.6)

Total Days: 279

226.0

My streak of not gaining any weight without exercising ends at six days.  Up 0.8 pounds after a decent day.  Will chalk that up to salt and just being due and look forward to a good weigh-in tomorrow morning.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.0
Change from previous: +0.8

Total: (52.4)

Total Days: 278

225.2

Down 1.2 pounds!  Even better than that is that I spent most of the day walking without crutches.  I use the term "walking" very liberally and I kept the crutches nearby.  Would be nice to see what I can do if I get back to exercising and keep eating the way I have been over the last few days.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.2
Change from previous: (1.2)

Total: (53.2)

Total Days: 277

226.4

Who needs exercise?!

Okay, I am kidding.  But, another really good day eating and another 0.8 pounds further from 230 despite my lack of anything remotely similar to exercise.  Feeling pretty happy with myself at the moment and even more excited to get back to it when I can.  While I was slightly worried about and hoping to avoid a major slide after injuring my knee, I wasn't really expecting to keep losing.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.4
Change from previous: (0.8)

Total: (52.0)

Total Days: 276

227.2

Maybe if I can keep eating this good while not being able to exercise, it will bode well for me when I can start exercising again!  Down 0.8 pounds and a touch further from 230.  Back to walking on my knee on and off.  Hopefully, off crutches completely by the end of the week.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 227.2
Change from previous: (0.8)

Total: (51.2)

Total Days: 275

228.0

Made it through the weekend and stayed under 230 with limited exercise.  It helped that yesterday I was able to walk without crutches most of the day and stayed busy around the house.  I still thought I was going to go over this morning and was thrilled when I actually lost 1.4 pounds.  

I know it's just a number, but that 230 barrier means a lot to me.  I lost only 0.2 on Saturday morning and then stayed the same, with help from a very late weigh-in, yesterday morning.  I need to eat really good this week and hope that I am able to exercise a little more each day.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 228.0
Change from previous: (1.6) (via -0.2, no change, -1.4)

Total: (50.4)

Total Days: 274

229.6

Not sure if I have ever been happier about a 0.8 pound gain. After not eating well yesterday, I thought for sure that I was once again going to find lil' miss 230 knocking on my front door this morning.  But, I managed to avoid her one more day!   

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 229.6
Change from previous: +0.8

Total: (48.8)

Total Days: 273

228.8

Down 0.2 and realizing that I am going to have to figure out how to exercise despite being on crutches.  I am okay with the status quo while recovering.  But, I can't let this be a major setback.  Of course, I write this after eating horribly today and facing the very real possibility of going back over 230 tomorrow.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 228.8
Change from previous: (0.2)

Total: (49.6)

Total Days: 272

229.0

Now it gets difficult.  Up 0.8 after a day without exercise.  Why you ask?  Oh, you didn't ask?  Well, let me tell you anyway.  I twisted my knee on Monday while running.  Not the knee that I had my most recent surgery on and that has been healing over the last year.  But, my bad knee, the one that has undergone multiple surgeries in years past.  The same knee that has no cartilage and probably no business even attempting to run.

So, today I am on crutches and trying to eat good enough that it might make up for my lack of exercise.  That knee replacement may happen sooner than I wanted.  

I hate my knees...

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 229.0
Change from previous: +0.8

Total: (49.4)

Total Days: 271

228.2

Down 0.2.  Whoop-dee-doo!    

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 228.2
Change from previous: (0.2)

Total: (50.2)

Total Days: 270

228.4

New week, new month.  Down 0.6 over the weekend.  The way I ate, I was fully expecting to hook up with 230 again.  Hard to believe that didn't happen.  My letter must have hurt her. 

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 228.4
Change from previous: (0.6) (via -0.4, -1.0, +0.8)

Total: (50.0)

Total Days: 269

229.0

Oh 230, how I've missed you...

Up a 3.2 pounds after a horrible day of eating.  If you see someone near the Fourth Street Bridge, that would be me.  Wave as you drive by.

Disclaimer:  I am not actually at the Fourth Street Bridge.  Nor do I have any suicidal plan... or even tendencies.  Please do not call the suicide prevention line.  Please do not drive to the bridge.  Please do not call local authorities.  I am at my office and in relatively good spirits despite hating myself.  I was just kidding.

Now off to my our company's Biggest Loser contest weigh-in.  Maybe I can win some cash despite yesterday.

And, yes, the MGC stats have been dropped from the updates.  Just depressing...

Happy Halloween!

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 229.0
Change from previous: +3.2

Total: (49.4)

Total Days: 266

225.8

Just so you know... losing weight is much easier when you exercise and eat decently.  Just sayin'...

Down a pound.  I only need to lose six pounds in two days to meet the MGC!  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.8
Change from previous: (1.0)

Total: (52.6)

Total Days: 265

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 225.8
Pounds lost: 5.2
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (5.3)
Pounds to go: 6.0
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 2

226.8

At my current pace of 0.2 pounds per day, I should break 220 in 35 days.  The worst part about a bad weekend is when it leaks in to the week.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.8
Change from previous: (0.2)

Total: (51.6)

Total Days: 264

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 226.8
Pounds lost: 4.2
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (6.0)
Pounds to go: 7.0
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 3

227.0

The one thing I have done consistently throughout the last nine months is exercise.  Other than a handful of days, I have exercised every single day since the beginning of February.  That includes vacations and many of those days include multiple episodes of exercise.  

Yesterday, I ate decently.  Sadly, I did not exercise.  Our walk on the river didn't happen because of the cold front that moved in and the frigid weather.  I planned to go to the gym instead.  I should have gone before I sat down to dinner.  Instead, I planned to go after dinner.  A couple of television shows and a little of the football game later and I no longer felt like going to the gym.  So, I told myself I would get up this morning and go.  But, like yesterday morning, the alarm came way too fast and I was way too tired.  

And, because of all of those decisions, I only lost 0.2 pounds.  So, today I think I need to exercise three times!

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 227.0
Change from previous: (0.2)

Total: (51.4)

Total Days: 263

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 227.0
Pounds lost: 4.0
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (5.8)
Pounds to go: 7.2
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 4

227.2 - The End of the Mark Gregory Challenge

And just like that, our mini-vacation to Glenwood Springs has dashed any hope I had of meeting the Mark Gregory Challenge.  While I will still do everything I can to get close to 220 by Saturday, barring a miracle it doesn't look feasible.  

The weekend was awesome... as all of our vacations, even the short ones, tend to be.  But, I have still yet to figure out how to eat well while on vacation even when that is my intent.  Two great hikes, one to Hanging Lake and the other one around Maroon Bells were not enough to offset two restaurant dinners and two large hotel breakfasts.  Whatever happened to staying at hotels that just had continental breakfast?!  I can only imagine the weight I could have gained had we not been active throughout the trip.

I was thrilled that our vacation was actually planned around hiking and not eating.  But, somehow that eating still nudged it's way in to our plans.  The failure in our plans was not scheduling this trip for the beginning of November...

All is not lost.  I will still, hopefully, be in my low 220s by Saturday.  In the end, October will be about moving the needle from hovering around 230 to hovering around 223-224.  I will make it my new goal to get under 220 by November 8, a week late.  And, I will still try to hang on to a little of this momentum through one of the hardest periods of the year.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 227.2
Change from previous: +2.8

Total: (51.2)

Total Days: 262

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 227.2
Pounds lost: 3.8
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (5.7)
Pounds to go: 7.4
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 5

224.4

Up 1.6 pounds.  But, that weight is not an indication of how I did yesterday and more an indication of how much salt I consumed.  Too many salty snacks yesterday.  Still feeling confident knowing that weight will be off by tomorrow and is an anomaly.  Of course, it still stings a little bit...

So, here is where I stand in the Mark Gregory Challenge.  I have 8 days left with a final weigh-in on Saturday, November 1.  Glad it's on a Friday!  I am out of town this weekend and won't be able to weigh.  In addition, I will be challenged to show some willpower while enjoying my weekend.  If I can get through this weekend and start Monday somewhere around 223, then I think I will get there.  So, that is my goal.  That would leave me five solid weekdays to lose about 3 pounds.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.4
Change from previous: +1.6

Total: (54.0)

Total Days: 259

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 224.4
Pounds lost: 6.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (1.9)
Pounds to go: 4.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 8

222.8

Down 0.6 and under 223 for the first time to a new recent low.  That puts me 3 pounds away from breaking 220 and 0.1 ahead of my MGC pace!

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 222.8
Change from previous: (0.6)

Total: (55.6)

Total Days: 258

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 222.8
Pounds lost: 8.2
Ahead/(Behind) pace: 0.1
Pounds to go: 3.0
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 9

223.4

Down 1.0 pounds to a new recent low and my lowest weight since September 22, 2011.  That puts me down 4.6 pounds over the last five days and puts me close to being back on MGC pace.  Ten days left to lose 3.6 pounds.  That also puts me down 55 total pounds since February.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 223.4
Change from previous: (1.0)

Total: (55.0)

Total Days: 257

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 223.4
Pounds lost: 7.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (0.2)
Pounds to go: 3.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 10

224.4

Down 0.8 and back to my recent low.  That still leaves me 0.9 behind my MGC pace.  But, I am gaining ground.  Hopefully, tomorrow I will drop below 224 for the first time in a long time!

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 224.4
Change from previous: (0.8)

Total: (54.0)

Total Days: 256

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 224.4
Pounds lost: 6.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (0.9)
Pounds to go: 4.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 11

225.2

Excellent!  I start my week down 1.2 from yesterday.  The better news is that I am down 2.8 from Friday's weight and 1.0 from Saturday's weight, which is typically the low weight of the weekend.  While I will have to work a lot harder than originally anticipated, I have yet to give up on my November 1 goal.  This still leaves me 1.3 behind my MGC pace.  

Time to set some new lows this week...

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.2
Change from previous: (1.2)

Total: (53.2)

Total Days: 255

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 225.2
Pounds lost: 5.8
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (1.3)
Pounds to go: 5.4
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 12

226.4

Up 0.2 pounds... never a bad thing after a Saturday.  And, that's all I have to say today.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.4
Change from previous: +0.2

Total: (52.0)

Total Days: 254

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 226.4
Pounds lost: 4.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (2.2)
Pounds to go: 6.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 13

226.2

Down 1.8 after a very good day and feeling a little less sucky.  The best part is not wallowing in my suckiness and sucking any further.  Instead, I buckled down and now keep a glimmer of hope to meet the MGC Challenge goal.  Still two weeks to go.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.2
Change from previous: (1.8)

Total: (52.2)

Total Days: 253

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 226.2
Pounds lost: 4.8
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (1.6)
Pounds to go: 6.4
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 14

228.0

I suck.  I know this is a duplicate blog post.  But, it's true.

I guess the motivation I found in my fake challenge was only temporary and I have truly not gotten past my bad eating habits.  Bad night last night that left me 2.4 pounds up, close to 230 again, and far behind my pace for the MGC.  My only hope is to pretend the weekend is a weekday and see if I can reverse the trend of late.

I suck.

But, I am still down from October 1!

But, I still suck...

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 228.0
Change from previous: +2.4

Total: (50.4)

Total Days: 252

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 228.0
Pounds lost: 3.0
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (3.1)
Pounds to go: 8.2
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 15

225.6

Not a great day.  But, managed to limit the damages to 0.2 pounds.  That leaves me slightly behind MGC pace by 0.4 pounds.  Sixteen days remaining.

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.6
Change from previous: +0.2

Total: (52.8)

Total Days: 251

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 225.6
Pounds lost: 5.4
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (0.4)
Pounds to go: 5.8
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 16

225.4

Back on MGC pace by 0.2 pounds!  Down 0.8 from yesterday.  And, trying to muster up all of the positive energy I can find to carry me through the dreaded weekends!

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 225.4
Change from previous: (0.8)

Total: (53.0)

Total Days: 250

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 225.4
Pounds lost: 5.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: 0.2
Pounds to go: 5.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 17

226.2

Time to make up lost ground on my MGC pace.  Down 1.2 after a decent day and 0.3 pounds behind my pace.  

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 226.2
Change from previous: (1.2)

Total: (52.2)

Total Days: 249

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 226.2
Pounds lost: 4.8
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (0.3)
Pounds to go: 6.4
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 18

227.4

I started the weekend irritated and it got worse from there.  After going to the club Saturday morning, I weighed the same as I did on Friday night.  That bummed me out.   I ate great on Friday and exercised Friday night and Saturday morning.  Not a good start to the weekend.  It got worse...

Saturday night I enjoyed myself way too much at a wedding reception.  Stupid young kids getting married.  I thought these parties were over when they all graduated.  Now, they are all getting married!  I ended up gaining 1.6 pounds.

Well, that bad Saturday continued on in to Sunday.  No exercise.  Tons of bad choices.  And, another 1.4 pounds up this morning. 

So, 3 pounds total gained over the weekend and all of my progress on the MGC wiped out.  A single weekend and now I find myself 1.2 pounds behind pace and far less confident about getting to 220 by the end of the month.  

Back to it...

Starting weight (this time): 278.4
Current weight: 227.4
Change from previous: +3.0 (via no change, +1.6, +1.4)

Total: (51.0)

Total Days: 248

Mark Gregory Challenge (November 1, 2014):
Starting weight: 231.0
Current weight: 227.4
Pounds lost: 3.6
Ahead/(Behind) pace: (1.2)
Pounds to go: 7.6
Goal weight: 219.8 (11.2 pounds total)
Days remaining: 19