Get down to 300 pounds

I have been trying to drink less coffee and more water lately. Only two cups of coffee in the morning now instead of 5 or 6 throughout the day. Later in the day … Four or five 12 ounce cups of water. I have lost about seven pounds over the past couple of weeks. Now I need to start exercising… whatever that happens to be. ;-)

According to the doctor, my cholesterol level is around 298. Way too high. I am now on a low fat, high fiber diet. He also mentioned something about exercise, but I am not really sure what that is. :-)

Anyway, my goal is eventually get down under 230.

But I have made a little progress. I’ll just have to see how close I can get . . . and how long I’ll have to brown-bag my lunches.

I believe I can be below 315# by the end of this week.

I am not doing so well right now. I am not sure if it is because I am bored or because my wife is pregnant and I am keeping up with her, but I might have lost a pound or two since starting this goal. I need to quit having the late evening cereal and ride my incumbent bike at night while I am reading.

With only 49 days left, and 20 pounds still to lose, I need to get more consistent. When I do the things I know I need to do, this is not a tough pace (just under 0.4# per day) . . . but I need to sustain this over a longer period.

I’m ending this month a couple pounds heavier than when I started it, after four weeks of minor ups and downs. Officially, I’m at 319.2# as of this morning.

The news isn’t all bad, though. I’ve kicked my exercise regimen up a notch, adding variety to my cardio workout with time on the exercise bicycle and in the pool. We joined the YMCA, and I go almost every morning before work (and sometimes on the weekends as well).

March needs to be a good month. I’m setting 308# as my target for March 31.

I am headed in the wrong direction! ;-(

I made an appointment with a new doctor (a thin one, this time), partly as an attempt to get someone on “my team”. I let him know where I had come from and how much progress I’ve made, what my health concerns are, and what changes I was making in my life to support a more reasonable weight.

He thinks I should get surgery.

Frankly, I’d rather keep working on the software and let the hardware take care of itself. So far, I’ve had the good fortune to be a very healthy fat man.

As much as I had hoped to make it a ten-pound month, I couldn’t quite get there this time . . . I’m currently at 316.4#, down 9.6# from January 1.

My weight has been pretty flat for the last two weeks after an initial surge. I need to kick my physical activity up a notch or two to get things rolling again, since February needs to see me through to 310# to stay on target. That hasn’t been easy this week, in the face of an arctic blast that took the temperature below 0°F and kept it there for three days.

I still eat lunch out with the guys every day, and still have some bad habits (e.g. eating beyond the point of satisfaction, choosing fried foods over fresh) that are, without question, holding me back. And part of this challenge is to find a way to have that social time without keeping the weight.

I like this goal. Being a software developer who gets not much exercise, this goal is not too far reaching for me. It would help me get started on the track of losing weight. I am currently around the 315# mark.