I have been consistent with my exercise and monitoring my nutrition.

I have yet to be really hungry and I am not craving all the stuff that I  consumed to eat myself into obesity. I have to remain vigilant with food though, and always remember why I got so darn fat...

The weights are becoming more challenging too... Which is good, because another of my goals is to try and become as strong as I can in as safe a manner as I can too..

I think my metabolism is back in sync after that weight yo-yo incident a few weeks back, but I understand that can happen with ones weight and I will not get freaked about this and start crying and stuff...

I also bought a weight-belt and chalk...

255.5

sunday update

 While my weight isn't the main tracking number I adhere by, it's a pretty darn good one to acknowledge.

 It's funny, I have been doing the same stuff for the last bunch of weeks...and last week I gained weight and this week I lost weight!

I won't question this, I will just stick to my program of exercise and smart eating.

I am feeling pretty good, all in all...There is some course correction I still have to do with some of my lifts, but's that's ok!

260 lb

two month update!

258.8lbs

granted I just finished a brutal 10k row, but afterwards I also drank three glasses of water, ate a grapefruit and two turkey pepperoni sticks...

So I will take today as my two month update! :-)

I will also post my Sunday update tomorrow and that will be the "official one"

 My body is telling me something and I am not sure what that is...

I have been diligent with moderating my daily caloric intake as well as my exercise... In fact, I broke my PR's in my rowing for the 2000m, the 30 minute and the 10km!

Yet, I seemed to have gained 2.75 pounds...

I won't let this set back discourage me and I will stay on track...

 264...fuck

Starting something new... 49.5

while I am within my daily calories, I am going to tweak what I have been eating...my current diet is a little too heavy on the fats..

 I have maintained my discipline with both food consumption (daily caloric intake) and my work-outs...

This is my work-out schedule

Mon-Wed-Fri I do strength training, I am using the "StrongLifts" routine.
A progressive strength building regimen relying on compound lifts with the barbell.

Basically, I do a lot of squats, dead-lifts, bench press, overhead press and bent over rows...

the workout ends up being three exercises, 5 sets of 5 reps.
The weight has to remain the same for all five sets, you also have the correct form on the first rep of your first set and the last rep of your last set, other wise the weight is too heavy.

 The kicker is, each week you have to raise the weight up by a moderate amount, anywhere from 2.5 to 5 lbs...

http://stronglifts.com/

On Tues-Thurs-Sat

I row like a sweaty, old, fat bastard!!!

 I try and mix it up with the rowing workouts during the week. One session I will row for 30 minutes, one session I will try a suggested work-out from the Concept2 rowing website and on Saturday I will row 10K or time.

Rowing will challenge both your cardio and the anaerobic fitness levels. I won't say that I love doing it...

but...

I love doing it!

I want to learn more about rowing technique and strategies...my current methodology is to row as fast as I can....but I suspect that there is more to it than that... :-)

Medical Scale 261.75


Digital Scale 261.2

As always, I couldn't be this far along if it wasn't for the support and partnership of my wife!!!