Don’t tell the kids about losing weight this weigh (pun intended).

You should find it ironic that I post a link to Patty’s weight loss plan while I splatter paid weight loss programs all over this site.

So be it.

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Running With The Dog

Blogs. I enjoy reading blogs about people who are into running, or losing weight. It can show the ups and downs they go through, and you can learn from their experiences.

Yep - See the Zen habits 31 ways to motivate yourself to lose weight. I’ve highlighted the salient points.

An exercise log/graph. For some reason, writing it down is extremely important. Really. Do it for a week and you’ll see what I mean.

Yep, look on the right hand side for my current weight and here is a weight loss chart.

Your before picture. You often don’t realize how far you’ve come. Take pictures.

I plan on posting an “after” picture in January 2008.

The scale. It’s not motivating to weigh yourself every day, as your weight fluctuates. But if you weigh yourself once a week, you’ll be motivated to have it keep going down, instead of up. Combine the scale with the measuring tape, and measure your waist.

Yep again. See my beautiful scale.

Reaching a goal. Set a goal for weight, or your waist measurement, or a number of days to work out, or a number of miles to run this week. Setting and tracking a goal helps motivate you to complete that goal. Make it easily achievable.

Yep. Look at the top of this page and see what my goal was is.

Posting it on your blog. Tell people you’re going to lose weight or exercise daily, and report to them. You’ll make it happen.

What do you think I am doing now?

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Leaving Weight Loss Alone For The Holidays

By that, I mean back on the ergometer. It has been about five weeks since I sat myself down for a good row. And what a great night to do so. Classic fall weather - leaves blowing, rain falling and dark early. Sent myself over to the local YMCA for 10,000 meters of pure rowing pleasure.

At least that’s what I told myself when I was rowing to beat the band.

Without further ado, here are my results for 10k of rowing. 41:33.0, 2:04.6 minutes per 500 meters at 22 strokes per minute.

8:16.9 2:04.2 23 2000m
8:18.0 2:04.5 23 4000m
8:21.3 2:05.3 22 6000m
8:22.5 2:05.6 23 8000m
8:14.1 2:03.6 23 10000m

And just to prove that I am a weekend warrior, I did the longest mountain bike ride ever, 40 miles on the single speed Ibexx up Bogus Basin road, down Eastside trail and Sweet Connie on Sunday. And just for good measure, I did the single speed up Corral’s and over to Sidewinder on Saturday.

Who-ahh!

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Daily Exercise Again

It’s getting time to get serious about weight loss.

For the last few months I have been hovering around the 165 lbs range - a little above and a little below. My original weight loss goal was to lose 23 lbs by the end of 2007. I hit that goal sometime in May 2007, well ahead of the target date. Wisdom says that should set another goal to keep the momentum going.

The current goal is to lose another 35 pounds by the end of 2007. I have barely made a dent in the new goal. What’s going on?

On the plus side, I am happy to say that I haven’t given back the gains (or losses depending on how you look at it) from my effort to shed a few pounds. Unfortunately, I really haven’t made any progress to speak of. Arrggghhh!

Might be time to notch up the efforts by consuming less food. This is the part I have been dreading, actually cutting back on my food consumption. Up until now, I have lost weight by making “lifestyle” changes. For instance, not eating after dinner and drinking a lot of water each day. I could still eat pretty much what I wanted.

Now might be the time to cut out the snack before dinner, or the donuts on Fridays, or the pantry grazing on the weekends. Additionally, I am going to need to keep up the exercise effort, the type of exercise that gets you good and tired. And not just the weekend warrior type stuff to make up for not exercising during the week. At least a few times during the work week, I’m going to have to do something like hit the YMCA and use the ergometer for one of those torturous rowing sessions.

Consider this a note to self to getting going again.

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