Cord's Quest

I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Thursdays, and since I only use the scale at the doctor's office it is pretty easy to keep to that.

However, today I was at the doctor's office with my wife, and the siren call was too strong. I stepped on it and....

....296!

Woo-hoo!

Now, maybe it is just a low fluctuation, but I am taking it!
 
a big CONGRATULATIONS is in order!:party:

just 2 or 3 days ago you were down about still being 300, and now your 4 pounds lighter! out of club 300 for good! good stuff!

Cord the Seeker said:
I normally only weigh myself once a week, on Thursdays, and since I only use the scale at the doctor's office it is pretty easy to keep to that.

However, today I was at the doctor's office with my wife, and the siren call was too strong. I stepped on it and....

....296!

Woo-hoo!

Now, maybe it is just a low fluctuation, but I am taking it!
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Thanks, everyone!

It does feel awesome.

It's funny how much I have already changed my eating habits. I decided to celebrate busting the 300 barrier, and my 'reward' was a Subway 6 inch oven-roasted chicken breast sub, with sweet onion sauce. Weird, huh? It sure tasted good, though.

Afterwards I walked a 10k in 1 hour 40 min.

Now I have just finished supper (baked salmon) and am settling in for the evening.

Good day.
 
congrats man, keep working hard. Having just hit a milestone myself, i know that feeling of accomplishment swarming all over you when you hit a goal! can't wait til you hit the next mark (whatever you decided it to be)
 
kureransu said:
congrats man, keep working hard. Having just hit a milestone myself, i know that feeling of accomplishment swarming all over you when you hit a goal! can't wait til you hit the next mark (whatever you decided it to be)
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280 is next, followed by 250, I should think. One piece at a time, man.
 
Another day, another entry:

May 4

I've pretty much stopped entering stuff into FitDay - out of laziness more than anything else. I do think I have a good handle on how I am eating, which was really its primary purpose, right? Maybe I am just making excuses for my laziness.

Breakfast - buffalo burger (leftovers) - ww bun, just a dab of mayo and mustard, 1 banana

Snack - 1 pear

Lunch - Subway 6" oven roasted chicken breast on honey oat bread, with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber and sweet onion sauce (this was my 'treat' for getting below 300 lbs)

Supper - 6 oz baked salmon, 1 cup mashed potatoes w/butter, steamed veggies (broccoli, carrots, asparagus, corn)

Dessert - piece of hemp/blueberry/chocolate power/energy bar

Exercise - I walked a 10k; did it in 1 hour 40 min. Not bad but my foot hurt later that night. Have to get some decent walking/running shoes.
 
i get a double meat chicken breast on footlong wheat. jalepenos, onions and tomatoes. dry. perfect. oh i miss working there. kinda. not the money tho, that sucked.
 
Cord the Seeker said:
280 is next, followed by 250, I should think. One piece at a time, man.
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i was going by weight and 250 would ahve been my next goal, i will make a stop at 265, which will be 65 lost, half way to my goal. then 250. i am a little ahead of schedule and i am loving it lol. good luck on the rest of this journey.
 
kureransu said:
i was going by weight and 250 would ahve been my next goal, i will make a stop at 265, which will be 65 lost, half way to my goal. then 250. i am a little ahead of schedule and i am loving it lol. good luck on the rest of this journey.
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I was originally planning on 10-percenting myself to health - start by losing 10 percent of my body weight, which would have made my initial goal 280. Then 250. Then 225. Then 200.

It just turned out there was some significance attached to getting out of the 300's, and I decided to celebrate it when it happened.

Still making 280 the next milestone, though. That's a 10 percent loss.
 
Cord the Seeker said:
I was originally planning on 10-percenting myself to health - start by losing 10 percent of my body weight, which would have made my initial goal 280. Then 250. Then 225. Then 200.

It just turned out there was some significance attached to getting out of the 300's, and I decided to celebrate it when it happened.

Still making 280 the next milestone, though. That's a 10 percent loss.
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hmm never thought of doing it that way. 10 percent would have taken me to 297, which i think was the first number i hit under 300, so, i guess i ahd two parties in one! ironically, 20% would be at 264, and i plan on celebrating at 265... hmmm maybe i can wait for one more pound. i don't expect that til mid to late june though, one day at a time... thanks for giving me another way to gauge my losses!
 
Okay, been sloppy on the journal, gotta catch up a couple of days here.

Like I said in an earlier post, although I am still tracking my food, I am no longer counting the calories. I seem to be pretty well on track, and if I do start going the wrong way I have the food log to look at so I can see what happened.

Overall, I seem to be slacking off on my exercise the last couple days - have to get rolling on that again. Life has been complex, and I have been a little stressed out.

May 5

Breakfast - 1 banana, 1 chocolate cake doughnut (I succumbed to old habit after dropping my daughter off for kindergarten), 2 eggs, 2 slices ww toast with butter

No lunch per se, just snacking throughout the day - 1/2 cup apple juice, 1/4 of a hemp seed/chocolate/blueberry power/energy bar, 1 wrap (whole grain tortilla, roast beef, lettuce, a whole tomato, light cream cheese), 1 mug cocoa with 8 graham wafers

Supper - a lovely pasta primavera with salmon

Exercise - I was pretty walked-out after the 10k the day before, but my wife wanted to walk on the river valley trail so off we went. Ended up walking for 1 hour 20 min - not quite as fast as when I walk alone, but still pretty quick as my wife walks fairly fast too.

May 6

Bad day for stress - I faced a Board of Inquiry at work in the morning, which is not exactly a fun thing. I then had to go back again that afternoon for an evening shift 3:30 -11:30. I was really stressed out. Got very little sleep the night before as well, due to stressing about the upcoming Board.

After the Board, I went off to a diner to stress eat. It could have been worse, but it wasn't a good thing. - 2 eggs, 1 hamburger patty, hash browns, 2 slices white toast w/peanut butter, 1/2 an order of fries, 1.5 cups chocolate milk. Oh, and a 1/2 a banana beforehand.

When I am working evenings, lunch/supper/snacks all tend to merge into grazing throughout the shift - 1 cup dry cereal, veggie plate ( 2 celery stalks, 1 tomato, 1 carrot, hunk of cucumber, handful of snap peas), 4 pieces of oven-fried chicken (2 thighs, 2 wings, skin _on_)

Nighttime snack after getting home - my wife made some fantastic banana chocolate chip/cranberry/pecan muffins while I was at work, and I had two with 1/2 cup of chocolate milk mixed with 1/2 cup of 1% milk.

Exercise - I took the 20lb DB's to work, and tried them out. They were tough, but I got through a slightly abbreviated version of my standard workout:
3x8 curls
3x8 tricep extensions
3x8 arnold presses
3x8 front raises
3x8 squats
3x8 flat flys
3x15 bench presses
3x8 lunges (got pretty unsteady near the end of those)
3x8 hammer curls
3x8 lateral raises (barely made it through those, and form bad at end)
3x8 overhead presses
3x8 tricep kickbacks
3x8 punches (Oh My God those hurt)

Today (May 7), I had my regular weigh-in and came in at 295, 1 pound less than on Monday, for a total of five pounds lost in the last week.
Yeah, I'm okay with that. :)
 
Sup Cordmeister. Just a point on the fitday. I do think its best to keep doing it as it is just too easy for calories to slip in if youre not keeping close track. Myself, I feel I could do without it as I've become familiar with the number of cals in the food I usually eat, but at the same time, seeing that number keeps me honest. I just know if I stopped using fitday, some would slip under the radar.

Good to see you're still going strong. But please slow down else you'll pass me out!!
 
Feenix said:
Sup Cordmeister. Just a point on the fitday. I do think its best to keep doing it as it is just too easy for calories to slip in if youre not keeping close track. Myself, I feel I could do without it as I've become familiar with the number of cals in the food I usually eat, but at the same time, seeing that number keeps me honest. I just know if I stopped using fitday, some would slip under the radar.

Good to see you're still going strong. But please slow down else you'll pass me out!!
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Yeah, maybe you're right. I'll start catching up on FitDay. I still write everything down so I have the info already.

And I have no intention of slowing down - you'll just have to catch up, buddy! Or eat my dust! (bonus - dust has no calories)
 
Trusylver said:
Nice effort working out at work :) well done
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Thanks - that means a lot, coming from you.
I spend most of my work time sitting at a desk with a microphone in my hand. Not a lot of moving around. So, on late evenings and midnight shifts (and days when I am alone), I use the DBs during the slow times. I also have a workout mat for doing pushups, crunches, etc etc.
 
May 7

I didn't get a chance to do any cardio at all today, feel pretty bad about that. But I worked out a little more on the dumbbells to compensate slightly.

Breakfast - 1.5 cups Heritage O's, 1 cup milk

after that I was still hungry and in particular craving protein so:

Second breakfast (or maybe it was just an early lunch) - 2 chicken breast halves (skin on, oven-roasted), 1 cup milk (1/2 white, 1/2 chocolate)

Afternoon snack - 1 tablespoon ice cream

Supper - 1.5 cups brown rice, 1 cup mixed cooked veg (corn/peas/green beans), 4 oz various chicken bits (oven-roasted, skin on), teriyaki sauce

Evening snacks - 1 pear, 1 orange, 1/2 cup dry cereal, 1/4 of a hemp/chocolate/blueberry energy bar

Exercise: 20lb Dumbbells:
3x10 curls
3x10 squats
3x10 shoulder presses
10/8/10 tricep extensions (failed at 8 on the second set)
3x8 woodchoppers
3x10 shrugs
3x10 flat flys
3x20 bench presses
3x8 lunges
3x10 wrist curls
3x8 scarecrows (my left shoulder didn't like those much)
3x10 tricep kickbacks
2x8 lateral raises (couldn't even start the 3rd set)
10/10/7 punches (failed at 7 last set)
3x10 crunches (who would have thought that adding 20lbs onto your chest would make such a difference?)

I try to work as many muscle groups as I can during thses workouts. Given that I am trying to lose weight and retain muscle (while building strength and endurance at the same time), and not bodybuild (yet...), is that a good approach or should I be doing heavier workouts on one muscle group at a time? Any expert (or experienced at least) opinions?
 
Hey everyone. Another day, another entry:

May 8

I was emotionally uneven this day, and I'm not really sure why. Part of it was that life kept interefering with my workout plans, and it was making me irritable, and then I was feeling guilty about feeling irritable, and then getting resentful for feeling like I was being made to feel guilty (when really all these feelings have their source inside me and nowhere else), then feeling guilty about feeling resentful, and so on , and so on.... add to that the fact that my wife has the flu and is kinda cranky, and my daughter needed lots of attention....
It actually all turned out okay in the end. Just kind of a rough morning/early afternoon. Everything smoothed out once I went off to work. :)

Breakfast - 1 large piece of cornbread (2" x 4") w/margarine, 1 chicken drumstick and approx. 2oz chicken breast

Lunch - 1 hot dog, 1/2 a chocolate cake doughnut (there was a charity fundraiser hot dog stand outside the grocery store - couldn't resist eating bad food for a good cause)

Supper - 2 wraps (whole-grain tortillas, 4 oz roast beef, tomato, lettuce, lt caesar dressing), 3/4 apple (part of it was nasty and bruised), 1 orange

Late night snack - 1 small white bun w/butter, the other 1/2 of the chocolate cake doughnut

Exercise - took my daughter to the playground for an hour or so. While watching her I tool the opportunity to do step-ups on the picnic bench. 50 step-ups leading with each leg. I don't know how high the bench is on the picnic table so I don't know how high I was stepping.

Before heading to work I squeezed in 30 minutes on the NordicTrack, which left me drenched in sweat and gasping for air. The machine says I burned 400calories, but it doesn't adjust for age or weight so hard to say what I actually burned.

At work, I broke out the 20lb dumbbells:
3x10 curls
3x10 shoulder presses
3x10 tricep extensions
3x10 shoulder squats
3x10 scarecrows
3x10 woodchoppers
3x10 flat flys
3x20 bench presses
30 crunches
30 shrugs
3x10 punches

Today I am pretty wiped. Got off work at 11:15 last night, and started back again at 7:05 this morning, so less than 8 hours to go home, settle down, sleep, get up, shower, pack for work, go to work. I took stuff to make breakfast at work as I didn't have time to eat this morning.
So work today may be just work, and no exercise. I may need a bit of a rest.
 
I was very much an emotional eater. It was really difficult to find way to cope with stress other than eating myself to death. But I think you're on the right track because you recognize it and once we become aware of a pattern we can slowly start to fix it. My "Ah-Ha" moment was after a fight with my mom, I went home and noticed that I kept going to the fridge and opening the door. After about the 5th time of doing that, I thought, "WTF is going on here??? Ohhhhhh!!"

When I get stressed now, I exercise or do something that is not only healthy, but that will also distract me from food. Popping a piece of gum in your mouth or having a low calorie drink helps too.

I understand how difficult it is, but like I said, you're already making huge steps since you're aware of what some of your eating triggers are.

Anyway, I think you're doing a great job. Getting below 300 is no easy feat, but you did it. There's really no stopping you now. If you want it, it's yours! :)
 
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