So I’ve been trying to shed weight.
Not just to remove the unsexy love handles, but lack of belly flab sure helps with inside-the-waistband carry. 🙂
I’m presently at 212 lbs (6’3″ tall). Not obese by any stretch, just a little belly flab.
The thing is? I was about 4-5 lbs. lighter a couple weeks ago. *sigh* Â I know why. Vacation, time off, slacking on the diet, drinking too much beer on vacation. It’s all a matter of high caloric intake and not burning enough off.
But I’m back on the wagon. Still doing the up-day-down-day approach because it works well in terms of pure results but also just the mental impact to get through it all. I’m also going to pick up the physical activity. I’m tired of being out of martial arts practice, but even if nothing else, ensuring puppy gets a good walk every day (and me being the one doing it, not just Wife or Kiddos). So, caloric intake reduction, caloric burn increase, that’ll be a win.
Next two weeks will be tough tho. Since I’m essentially starting the diet over well, I’m truly starting it over. That means for the next two weeks each down day will be restricted to 500 calories. That will be tough, but it’s necessary to make this happen.
My true goal is to get down to 190 lbs, but passing 200, being such a pretty round number, will be a nice milestone. Once I get to 190, I’ll reassess where I am and if I need to go more or can stop there. Meantime well… I started at 225 lbs so I’ve technically dropped 15, and if I’ve been able to slow and steady drop 15, that means the next 12, and then 10 after that? Should be do-able by summer so long as I stick to it. But then, sticking to it is the trick isn’t it?  🙂
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Get you a watch with a stopwatch and time yourself when you take doggie for a walk. Get you a word or notepad list going of the times you went for a walk. That way you can document and keep track of the exercise you do. If you want to focus solely on walking, buy a pedometer (a good one will cost around $10) and keep track of that as well. I’ve found (for me at least), the more I document what I’m doing, the more liable I am to keep doing it. Even if no one cares or even reads it, it puts pressure on me to keep doing it, day in and day out, because I have to post it. If you can, I’d say get the family involved as well. They may not need to lose weight, but exercise is a great way to stay healthy. I know I feel a lot better now than when I started all those weeks ago. Plus, it keeps you on it and keeps you doing it on the days you may not want to do it.
Better yet, hit up Google Maps and plan you and doggie a walking route, even if it is just walking up and down the street a bunch of times. I found a nice easy 3 mile walk around my part of town, with hills to climb too.
Every day I’m usually either doing my Couch-to-5k exercise (which is around 2.5 miles of walking and jogging) or going for a 3 mile walk. Since I started in the middle of December, just by watching what I eat and exercising, I’ve already lost roughly 10lbs and I’m still losing more on a daily basis.
Then again, I have a lot to lose. The day before I started exercising, I was 5′ 9″ and weighed 228 lbs.
Documentation is good, no question. I’ve done that a lot in the past depending what I’ve done, be it weightlifting or whatever. So I know that.
But right now, the walk with the dog is a time to be leisurely or work on her obedience stuff. That it gets me exercise is secondary. I don’t feel like bogging it down with too much thinking… got enough on my mind already.
But oddly, the other day I was doing some pace changing with her and started to run and she seemed to dig doing that with me. So…. I don’t know. If I start doing something like that (go for a jog, and she comes along) yeah, I’d likely track that.
And hey, 10lbs down for you, Most excellent!
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