Last month I decided to start a mini-year resolution – no more (flavored) sodas for the rest of the year.
So far so good. Only tea, water, coffee and carbonated water for me… And maybe an occasional fruit drink.
Today I decided I’m upping the resolution. 50 pound weight loss by Dec 31.
Sounds daunting but when you break it down I’m gonna be upset if I don’t hit the goal.
8 lbs a month – 2 lbs a week – now till Dec 31?
We got this.
For your viewing enjoyment – tonight’s bike ride.
10 miles in just under 50 minutes.
For the record – 342 is ALL uphill! Doh!
Found Livestrong.com today thanks to the brand new BlackBerry App Store.
Very cool!
The site has lots of great hints/pointers for living healthier and tracks your food/caloric intake throughout the day as well as what you burn with exercising. I was surprised at just how many nutritional facts could be found for various foods on the site. Things like Costco’s brand foods, a random can of green beans, various food from restaurants etc., etc. In addition to the basic tracking, the site itself has loads of free tools and offers additional tools with a paid subscription.
Add to that the BlackBerry or (iPhone) app and you’ve got one amazingly powerful tool.
Speaking of, here’s a chart of my day one intake…
That yellow slice of the pie, 45% of my caloric intake for the day, is literally a slice of pie! One slice of pizza pie that is – 776 calories!
Good thing I avoided the Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit from Whataburger this morning. Saw that it was 663 calories before I left home this morning. Add 200 calories from the hash browns that come in a combo meal and you’ve got half your day’s recommended calories. I opted for the Bacon and Egg Taquito (387 calories) instead.
But looking at what you’re eating in a visual manner like this is sure to be handy.
What have you found to help you?
20/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell
tubby tuesday #3
down .6 pounds from last week.
3.4 total since beginning in Oct.
oh and looks like bigfoot on the scale with those wooly socks 🙂
cardio
So I usually feel decent about my cardio abilities — at least when it comes to walking or riding my bike. Last night I decided I’d try 5 to 10 minutes of jumping rope to get some exercise going.
Let me just say — I am out of shape — and I have no rhythm.
I was super winded when I finished and I was unable to jump rope more than 24 times in a row. There was a lot of restarting and getting to 10-15 before the rope hit my head or one of my feet. Geeze.
But I’ll keep pushing on. Maybe I’ll get up to 26 jumps in a row before all this is over!
13/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
tubby tuesday #2
Don’t look happy about it but I lost 3.6 lbs this week. Good for a week I spose, so far I’ve been working on watching what I’m eating — need to add some activity in there somewhere.
So, here are the stats.
This week — 3.6 lbs
Net weight loss since starting the challenge with Thomas on Oct. 10, 2008 — 2.8 lbs.
