Dustins Fat to Fit Diary

Hey there, just finished reading through your journal, and it seems like you got it down as far as exercise is going. I like that you're putting down your sleep as well, since that's more important than a lot of peopel realize. A bit of info I gained from some sleep problems I was going through.. from the person I was talking to about it, we regain our energy when we sleep, that's our recharge. If we're short on sleep, the body is going to look for alternate energy sources, usually, food. Looking back on things, that's usually when I had some of my most calorie heavy days, when I was short on sleep. There was a good period of time when I was running on 4 hours of sleep a day, yeah, I packed the weight on with both hands those years.

I have some bad shoulders as well, best thing I can say, check with a doc or exercise specialist, let them test you out and they can recommend or modify some exercises for you. Free weights would be best since they also exercise and challenge all the various surrounding stabilizer muscles in the area. As with any effective program, start light, use perfect form, increase intensity, overload.
 
Glad to see your Christmas food didn't ruin ya! :) I've been piggin out on chocolate.. Horrible... anyway, welcome back :D
 
I've been using the in my gym/training place. That has helped strengthen my shoulders alot, including arm endurance.

The Christmas food did ruin me. I think I weighed as much as 259 during the Christmas days. :( I was so pissed.

I've been keeping up my log every day (my wife printed out of my workout book) but sometimes forget to add online.

I am thinking about joining the 6-week biggest loser challenge and also thinking about documenting my progress pics as well.
 
Dustin, you should DEFINATELY join the challenge. Its always nice to have other people with the same time frames, etc. Tomorrows the cutoff, do it!
 
I don't think I can. I want to cut out checking the scale to once a month and the weekly weigh ins will screw that up. :(
 
I've had a perfect streak of being in the gym every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this month for weight lifting. Today - Last day of December - my keycard doesn't work. Seems they are being very anal about the membership policy. I couldn't do my legs workout and have to push that back to Saturday. Doing upper body tomorrow if the card works.

Made me a little mad they couldn't wait until Midnight at least.


Sooooooo. I'm making today a rest day. Trying not to gorge that much tonight on food. My wife thinks I am over-doing the training/diet thing because she buys a bag of chips for tonight, and I get a 100g pack of turkey meat.

Some goals for 2010 :
Get to 212lbs (or in the 215-220 range)
Play handball again
Walk/Hike/Jog a total of 3,835km from January 1st to December 31st, 2010.
Stop counting calories
Weigh once a month (last day of the month).
 
Just be sure you listen to your body so you don't hurt yourself with your outstanding determination.
 
Wow, you have the most organized journal I have ever read. I couldn't tell you the last time I made note of how many reps at what weight! The food thing I have got down, just don't have the time to retype in here every day but exercise logs, that's a whole new topic.

Congrats on all your hard work so far. Just remember to give your body down time to rest and enjoy the benefits of all your efforts!
 
To help me stay organized, I made this before Christmas.



It's actually a whole year's worth of Weight Training and Cardio. The overall goal is to do every page in that book. :)
 
Just finished the traditional Norwegian new years eve feast. Next is watching 2 movies and eating chocolate. :)

I've also noticed half of my love handle size has decreased. Starting to get tighter along the sides. Not quite a thick V shape, but almost a solid rectangle. lol.

Might hit the heavy bag tonight, but unsure.
 
DustinB said:
Just finished the traditional Norwegian new years eve feast. Next is watching 2 movies and eating chocolate. :)

I've also noticed half of my love handle size has decreased. Starting to get tighter along the sides. Not quite a thick V shape, but almost a solid rectangle. lol.

Might hit the heavy bag tonight, but unsure.
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hahaha...I love how you call your "extra" by "Shapes"!!! hahah...Rectangle!!! :smilielol5: You are too funny!!!....If you notice, a lot of people call their fat or weight extra names...hahah! Pretty funny the attachments we correlate them with. :p Wish you the best!!!...That chocolate sounds fantastic with movies! Portion control right!?!? ;)!
 
Well... My wife got a 300g bag of candy, a 200g bag of potato chips, and a 16oz pepsi. I got me a 11oz coca-cola and 75g of candy (a kit-kat type, and some small chocolates like snow-caps). :) After that, it's straight fruit and water for the rest of the night.
 
Got tired of sitting on the couch playing video games. Hit the basement for a 30-minutes heavy bag workout. Broke a sweat + high heart rate = Good workout. Now I can watch some movies and listen to the fireworks go off out here. :)

Another goal for 2010 - ONLY WATER as a drink. No soda, hot chocolate, coffee. MAYBE tea, but not sure yet. In 2008, I stopped drinking soda for a month and it sped up my fat loss. Now, I can't seem to put the stuff down. Can here, bottle there. TONIGHT IS THE LAST NIGHT. :)
 
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Damn gym card didn't work today either. Now I have to push two workouts to a weekend and try to get back on track.

After Hawaii, I am dumping this place and going to the more high tech facility in my area.
 
Starting my distance long with Goals. Went for a walk tonight.

Code: 
2010 Distance Log

This is my log to see how far I can walk, run, and/or hike during the 2010 year. 
It will be updated daily with the distance. All trips must be for the purpose 
of fitness. Walking to the nearest gas station doesn't count.

I have various goals to achieve throughout the year, and one big one. 
All goals are something I am familiar with.

Goal A - Hometown to Capital (Oslo) - 515km
Goal B - Blue Ridge Parkway - 755km
Goal C - Southeast Coast : Virginia Beach, VA to Miami, FL - 1,600km
Goal D - The Appalachian Trail - 3,505km
Goal E - Coast to Coast : Virginia Beach, VA to Venice, CA - 4415km

All distances tracked with Google Maps. 

JANUARY

01-01-2010 | 10.5km
 
Soo...

My card finally works in the training place and I went today. Didn't really feel motivated until I finished the first set, then I was ready to dive straight in. I was by myself. I've had a strained left inguinal ligament for the past month and it flared up today on pull downs. I "kinda" took it easy through the rest of my workout.

55:00 - Upper body weigh training
60:00 - Cardio

Once I get my workout back in gear, I'll start posting my full log from the official "Day One". Stopped looking at the scale and have no interest in it.

For dinner, I had onion rings and chicken nuggets. I used to eat 300-400g of Chicken Nuggets on Saturday night with 200g of Onion Rings. I had room in my daily calorie intake (Goal Max is 2000) but I decided I would have half of my normal portion. Saved the rest of the nuggets to go with my salad tomorrow. I also bought little Christmas chocolate balls on sale - the ones wrapped in foil - not worried about eating so much of these as unwrapping them is annoying.

No one is allowing my to go for my distance walk tonight. It's -13C outside and gets as low as -18C in the valley. Looks like some goose eggs on my chart, but once spring comes...oh boy, 20km hikes :)

Code: 
2010 Distance Log

JANUARY 2010

01- | 10.5km
02- | 00.0km
 
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Back to work tomorrow. It's going to be great to get back into the routine.

Work in a door factory in the machine department. On my feet walking around for 7.5-7.75 hours a day. Then walk to the gym. Weights for an hour. Cardio for an hour. Calorie burning to the max. I missed it.
 
Ohhh man, I'd be PISSED if my gym key didn't work... I know my sister joined and the very next day it didn't work, but I think thats the only problem we've had with our gym. SO FAR! lol. Keep up the great work, glad you're at rectangles now. :D
 
Snow and Cold temperature has ruined my progress on the Distance goals. Knee deep, 0C, and it keeps coming down.

:(

Code: 
2010 Distance Log

JANUARY 2010

01- | 10.5km
02- | 00.0km (Snow/Cold)
03- | 00.0km (Snow/Cold)
 
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