The Waking Badger

Well, it has been a while since I posted last and even longer since I posted weight loss details. Luckily, that isn’t because I have been gaining

Here are the details:

• 10/09/2007 - Lost 0.6 pounds bringing me down to 326.6 pounds
• 10/15/2007 - Lost 1.2 pounds bringing me down to 325.4 pounds
• 10/23/2007 - Lost 1.6 pounds bringing me down to 323.8 pounds and pushing me past 10% loss off of my initial weight. I am now 36.8 pounds down…yeah! But, it still isn’t fast enough for me and it looks like I will not hit my goal of 299 by year end, it will likely hit sometime in January at this rate. Not the end of the world, but …

Note the above picture is only for the last 3 months…

Weight Tracking 2007.10.02

Originally uploaded by Bill Vinson

Progress for this week is a decline of 1 pound from 328.2 lbs to 327.2 lbs. 33.4 pounds down from where I started.

So, last week I backslid 0.6 pounds to 330.0 pounds and this week I went down by 1.8 pounds to 328.2 pounds (or 1.2 pounds below the lowest point I have been). The progress sure does feel to be slowing down, but that isn’t horrible. I think I am going to join the YMCA so that I can drop by the one near my office periodically and do some weight training to help augment the walking I’ve been doing. I don’t think I can fully get into a running program until I lose a bit more weight. I can feel the stress on my body, joints, and lungs when I try to run for more than a few minutes. I will just keep trying it to see what’s possible.

So, I forgot to update last week and that may have been a sub-conscious attempt to avoid bad news as I had gained 0.8 pounds resulting in a weight of 334.2 pounds.

Well, this week has gone much better. I lost 4.8 pounds taking me down to 329.4 pounds.

Yay! I hit my first mini-goal. 29.4 pounds left to go to hit the first full goal. Given that I have already lost more weight than that, it seems less daunting now. Only the upcoming weeks can confirm my assessment…

Well, it has been a somewhat positive week for weight loss. I’m down another 2.4 pounds or 27.2 pounds overall. This leaves me at 333.4 pounds this morning. I am just shy of the first mini-goal of 330 pounds. Maybe next week?

BTW, I also threw up the legend to explain what those little stars mean

Well, another week in the plan where I made it out and met the plan’s requirements. I stuck to my point totals by the thinnest of margins. Free pizza with my favorite toppings at work last Friday nearly did me in

So, I am now at 335.8 pounds and that is down 2.4 pounds from last week. Hopefully, by this time next week I can post a graphic showing a coveted “25 pounds lost” star. I could conceivably even hit my mini-goal of 330 pounds. The first major goal of 60+ pounds lost is looking more and more possible by the end of the year. I am concerned what havoc winter may play with my progress. Summer has already made getting out and walking difficult, but I imagine winter may be worse. I guess I will just have to wait to see…

So, it’s now time for another weight report. With Heather & Ben out of town this past week, I assumed I wouldn’t do well as I tend to eat “bad” foods when I am bach’ing it, stuff like potato skins, pizza, chinese, etc. Well, I did do that, but I guess I kept to moderation well enough to still lose weight.

I’m now down 2.8 additional pounds at 338.2 that brings my running total to -22.4 pounds. This has not been my best week, but I will gladly take a loss any week. If I can at least stay moving in the right direction, hopefully I’ll get to the end goal sooner or later and I’m just a wee bit off of my first goal of 330 pounds.

For those of you that know, I have been getting involved with Weight Watchers in the past couple of months.

Well, I have now decided to stop attending the meetings. They simply weren’t doing anything for me and to be quite honest, Weight Watchers isn’t tuned at all for men (at least from the meetings I have seen). I am still doing the program and am quite happy with it so far, but that is due to the fact that they have some nice for-pay web tools that allow me to geek out over my diet tracking. Well, in an effort to remain accountable, not just to myself, but also others, I have decided to start posting some of my results here. At one point I may have been embarrassed or considered this too personal, but the reality is that I am a big guy, but I am making decent progress towards being a smaller bug guy.

So, without further ado, here is my latest weight chart…

I started at 360.6 pounds and as of my weigh-in this morning, I am at 341 pounds or a 19.6 pound loss.

The goal listed above is definitely not my end goal, but it is where I would like to be at the end of 2007. It is aggressive and I’m not fully sure it is attainable, but hey, they don’t call them “stretch” goals for nothing. My next goal is to hit 330 pounds with the year end goal to be 299 pounds.

I’ll update every week or two with were I am.

[UPDATE: Just for info, the stars in the chart above are milestones within the Weight Watchers system, i.e. first 5 pounds, additional 5 pounds, etc.]

No seriously, Wendy’s is really trying to help their image among the healh-conscious. Check this out. Still not great for you, but having new options outside of French Fries is a great thing. My main excitement is that they spent time building an easy to use web interface that tells you exactly what the nutritional value of the meal is down to the condiments.

Anyway, if your not counting calories/fat then this probably is very dull

And yes, I do realize how much of a contradiction it is to read about healthy eating on this website…