June was a disaster – I gained 1.4 pounds. I finished the month weighing 168.6 lbs. Oops!
With that said, I’m not overly concerned or surprised. I’m not concerned because this is just a blip on my weight loss effort which is simply part of the rest of my life. I’m also not surprised since my behavior was not helpful in the weight loss department.
Remember my thirty day goal of lifting weights twice a week for thirty minutes. That didn’t last long. It just didn’t reach out and grab me; sorry, not exciting enough for me.
Plus, we went on vacation for the last week of June. And you know what happens on vacation. That’s right, the diet gets thrown out the window. We visited my brother in White Salmon Washington (across from Hood River – or as I like to say “Bingen Heights” – inside joke). We then traveled over to the coast for five days at two different campgrounds – Cape Lookout and Beachside. Great weather for two of the three days at Cape Lookout. Crappy, rainy weather for most of the time at Beachside. In the eating department, we lit up a campfire each night and roasted marshmellows. You should also know that we bought my wife a Weber portable barbeque grill for Mother’s day that she absolutely used. We put that to good use by baking cookies just about every night. We all know how good that it for the weight loss effort.
It was worth it – we had a great time as a family spending all of the time together that we did – hiking, playing on the beach, driving time (tip: books on tape are great), camping at Crater Lake.
Crater Lake Boat Launch
Since we are starting a new month, I have renewed my vows – that sounds a little too religious for my liking – lets just say that I have renewed my weight loss effort. Remember, my new goal is to weigh 155 lbs by the end of December 2007.
I visited the local YMCA for a torture session on the good old ergometer for 15,000 meters. And like a true stat geek, here is my total time and split times.
Completed the 15km in 1:03:26.7 averaging 2:06.9 per 500 meters at 25 strokes per minute. Did the first 5km in 21:12, the next 5km in 21:06 and the last 5km in 21:09.
8:25.6 2:06.4 25 2000m
8:29.5 2:07.3 25 4000m
8:27.8 2:06.9 25 6000m
8:28.5 2:07.1 25 8000m
8:26.8 2:06.7 25 10000m
8:32.5 2:08.1 26 12000m
8:31.9 2:07.9 26 14000m
4:03.9 2:01.9 27 15000m
I’m back in the grove for July. My July plan is to row 100000 meters in 8 days at the beginning of the month (15km per day for seven of eight days) and then again the same thing towards the end of the month.
[tags]ergometer, camping, crater lake[/tags]
