Goal: Lose 10 Pounds in April
April 1 - 272.0
Today's Weigh In: 269.8
2.2 down, 7.8 to go!
A few things to note today. First off, of course, is today's weigh-in. I snuck JUST underneath 270 today, a milestone. I've done this a few times before, and I've popped right back up. In fact, my "new low" was 266 - and that was probably 4 months ago - so I'm not getting too excited about anything yet.
There's a few things working in my favor right now - first off, I'm convinced that this Metabolife thing is working.. in conjunction with working out and eating right. It's not a magic pill, and without the hard work being put in, I don't think I'd see the results that I am. But, perhaps it was the catalyst.
Secondly, I got a new toy for my birthday. An Ipod Nano with the Nike+ chip. If you don't know how this thing works - it's a little chip that connects to any Ipod Nano and it records your runs. It's kind of like GPS - I set it when I go for a run, and it tracks how far you've gone, your time, your calories and your history - so you can try to beat your 'pace' next time. It's a cool toy. Also, you can connect it to ITunes and upload your information and it'll give you cool graphs like the one above (click on it or the link to make it bigger) to illustrate how you're doing and let you upload your runs to 'challenge' others. It's a pretty incredible technology.
And besides, it's a new 'toy' so it makes me want to go out and run just so I can use it.
And now that the weather is getting better, I'm wanting to get out more. Kevin's wanting to play some hoops this weekend so I hope I'm able to do this, but softball season is right around the corner, and we're playing basketball on Tuesday nights from 7-9 (anyone local to Detroit is invited, hit me up), so I'm looking forward to the springtime.
Not much else - just staying strong. Hope you're all with me. Amazing April everyone. April 30th's my 3rd wedding anniversary, so I'm hoping to celebrate it under 262. Only one way to accomplish that - hard work and determination with NO slip ups.
6 comments:
nice job! I can think of several positive choices you have made in the past few days alone (last night's dinner!!) and am really proud of you.
~ekt
wow man, great job...I bet your heart rate went up a bit when you saw it under 270. If you're not going to get excited yet, I'll get excited for you! Great job man, espcially considering all that you had going on this past weekend. I can't wait for softball season, it's going to be awesome, we start in may, I will just need to keep the drinking under control...espcially compared to last year. Anyways man, awesome job, and you'll be under 262 for your 3rd anniversary (congrats) with the mind set you have going!!
keep us posted on what u think of the Nike plus thing. I am considering getting one but have seen mixed reviews. I have a friend who is training for a ironman and he thinks the milieage seems off. In theory it looks very cool to me. Congrats on the 269 number but don't get lax like you said you have been there before.
Rip, after one race I really like it.
There's a feature that calibrates the mileage for you - go somewhere where you know the EXACT mileage (a track, etc) and it'll calibrate it.
Personally, I love the thing so far.
Congrats Rob. You are well on your way. I wish I lived near Detroit so I could come up there and school you guys on some dribble drive motion offense! ;) I've been watching way too much March Madness.
Do it, Rob! As my sucky past two weeks have shown, it's easy, easy, easy to think that we've made it once the scale drops below a certain mark, but like you said, you've gotta keep the focus, so you don't track back into the 270s.
Let's see the 250s! Come on!!
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