Spacegoat’s Portal

Good morning.  I hope you all had a decent Thanksgiving.  Thank you Kim and John for having me over.  I had fun.  It certainly has been a challenge to resist indulging by not only eating too much but by skipping workouts.  While I did indulge a little on Thanksgiving, I did alright.  And I was able to get out and walk in Des Moines.  On thanksgiving I had a good 5 mile walk down Grand Avenue.

Of course the true measure of success is at the scale.  So how did I do?  Today I weighed in at 223.4lbs.  that’s a loss this week of 2.2lbs and a total of 141.6lbs. Cool.  After a 4.8lb week, that is a great weigh-in.  I was afraid last weeks loss would be invalidated by a gain.  Instead, I lost 7lbs in two weeks. wow.  I’ll take it.  At this point I’d say I’m a week behind my pace.  But I did finally cross my 225lb milestone.  My next milestone is coming up fast.  215lbs will mark 150lbs lost.  It was set for December 21st, but I will go ahead and move that to December 28th.  That’s 8.4lbs to lose in 4 weeks.  It can be done.

There will be pictures at 215lb.  As a matter of fact, 215lbs will be my last 25lb increment, and thus my last set of photos before my goal.  From 215 I only have 16 more pounds to lose.  I should reach my goal of 199lbs by February 22nd.  Almost there!

Alright, I’ll be going now.  I need to take advantage of the day since it’s my last day of my 5 day break from work.  It looks like we got some snow last night.  I’d say a good inch fell.  It might be fun to bundle up and take a walk around the lake today.

Hey folks.  Sorry I’m late.  I kind of wrote this post yesterday but then forgot to publish it.

The Month of November has been an odd one at the scale.  I started with a 4.2lb loss, followed by a 1.4lb gain, and then a 0.4lb gain.  And this week I lost 4.8lbs.  I weighed in at 225.6lbs bringing me up to 139.4lbs lost.  Something funny is going on.  If you take a four week average, I’m at 1.8lbs per week, which is a little below my target of 2lbs per week.  Make with that what you will.  I’ve been pontificating all sorts of explanations for this anomaly, but I can only guess right now, and hope I can get back to a steady moderate weight loss trend.

I will say that much of my big loss this week is thanks to working my ass off at the gym.  I did an hour split between the treadmill and the elliptical trainer for four days last week.  I definitely have pushed myself a lot further this week and I’m happy to have lived up to the challenge.  Hopefully I can keep it up.

So I haven’t quite reached my goal yet.  I’m off by over half a pound.  With any luck I will be two weeks behind schedule.  I will have to take a look at my calendar and maybe move my goal dates around.  I still think setting goals will help me see this to the end.  They do need to be realistic goals however.  At this point I don’t think I could make up for two weeks.  And the closer I get to my goal weight, the more work I need to do to keep the calorie deficit up, and the slower the weight will come off.  The next few weeks should be interesting for sure.  As I (hopefully) move out of this cycle of feast and famine, what kind of pace can I expect moving forward?  Is February still realistic for my goal weight, or will I go into March at over 200lbs?

One thing is for certain.  We will find out.

Ack!  I’m losing control here. I weighed in at 230.4lbs for a gain of 0.4lbs.  I’m starting to think my scale is broken because I can’t think of another explanation.  There are some things that may have contributed to this plateau but they just don’t seem that significant.  I started drinking coffee a few weeks ago.  I figured it would be a benefit, but maybe the nonfat non-dairy creamer is adding up.  I figure it to be no more than 120 calories a day though, so it can’t make that much difference.  I need to figure things out, because somehow I am eating more calories than I’m burning, and those calories are coming from somewhere.

I joined a gym on Friday. It’s in walking distance and right off the bus route.  I went there Saturday and today, doing weights.  I am very sore today actually.  But there’s one way of breaking out of this rut. Up the ante on the exercise part of the equation.  I need to start pushing myself harder.  My daily hour walk is too easy.  I need to start challenging myself.  So I’m working out a 4 day a week schedule where I will go to the gym and lift weights and run on something.

Today is my goal day.  I was shooting for 225lbs today, but I didn’t make it.  I didn’t even come close! It is discouraging, but I’m not quitting.  I’ve been at this for a very long time.  I’ve been fortunate to have had such a trouble free go of it.  There have been bumps but I’ve kept up.  Not this time, but perhaps these last 30 pounds will go quickly once I break out of this funk.