Grey Ghost Hunter's Diary

Well I added something new last night. Besides doing an hour on the elipticle I started doing different AB routines. Let me tell you I am paying for it now. It's been a long time since I did anything close to a crunch.
 
HI! Good fo ryou adding something new. It always switches up the workouts. I know what you mean about them crunches. The next day I am hurting :ack2: I can't even eat. LOL! Okay, I lied I can eat but it still hurts. LOL!

Wowo, It's neat to hear you were stationed hear at Ft.Hood. I'm very sorry to hear about your Kidney Disease. And 20 years this month. Goodness, Once again. Thank you for serving that long. My husband is set on going the full 20 years as well. He is a 88M and he is in 1id ( Big Red one). Which you already know. LOL..

Now and days we meet alot of soldiers who are not dedicated and try yo get out for every reason possible. Thank goodness My husband has his heart in it. In these six years he has moved up to Staff Sgt. of this year.
 
Well another week and another weigh in. Lost four pounds last week. Down to 195. I didn't get to do any type of excersicing this weekend and I can feel it.

Also didn't help with the fact that I think I cheated a little to much yesterday. We woke up with no power in the house due to the storms from the night. Anyways, since we had no stove we went out for lunch and I broke down and had a horseshoe. Even for a cheat day it that was way over what I should of ate.

Well at least I'm still on track for my goal date.

Talk to you later.
 
Oh I know. I'm not putting myself down for not excercising. Just stating that I didn't get it in like I wanted to.

Thanks for the post anyways. Always good to hear other's opionions and suggustions.
 
Hello :patriot:

You know what would make you feel better.. Drinking some WATER! :) Cheer up. Give yourself that day and work harder this time. You have a good day..
 
Ok, so today while at work one of my coworkers comes by with his daughter and a large box full of bags. About that time I realized what it was. MY GIRLSCOUT COOKIES HAVE ARRIVED. I ordered them prior to starting my diet and forgot about them until now. Anyways, I stuck them in my desk drawer to hopefully deter me from busting them out and eating them.

So now it's 7:00 p.m. going in to my 11 1/2 hour at work and I came to work not planning to work overtime so I didn't bring anything for dinner. Well, them evil things in my desk drawer are calling my name. :drool5: Now I know 1 or 2 won't kill me, but once you start GS cookies stopping is next to impossible.

Just thought I would share that little funny situation.:)
 
Dont do it!!!!!!!!!!! Okay one or two and That's it. Sell a box to a co-worker and then with the money you get go buy a healthy dinner. :smilielol5:
So habg in there. Have a good night. Drink alo of WATER in between cookies :)
 
Well, last week was my first downfall (or was it).

I didn't get any exersicing done at all. My schedule was a busy one with work and personal things. But I was able to stick to my diet pretty close until Saturday came around. The wife and I went and did some shopping and we ended up at Red Lobster. Well I ordered the Steak and Shrimp dinner, along with appitizers. I way over did it. Then on Sunday I spent the day building a open pit BBQ. During that time I was the typical guy who spends the day building something outside (You gotta have something to drink). Well I had my share of beer, knowing that I should know better, but I did anyways. And with that, I paid the price. When I got on the scale this morning I came to the realility that I over did it on the weekend and I gained weight. To back up some I weighed myself earlier in the week and I was at 192. Well, this morning I was at 196. So over all I went from 195 last monday to 192 before the weekend to 196 this morning. And I really can't blame anybody but myself.

Now for the good part. As I was at work this morning I was thinking about what I didn't do last week, and how and where I went wrong. Then out of nowhere, I got into a really good mood. It then dawned on me that what happened to me last week wasn't a bad thing. Matter of fact it was a good thing. It was like I was re-motivated. I now have a different outlook of my weight loss. I now know that I can't take advantage of what I have accomplished because it could turn around on you just as fast and I could end up back to where I started.

So this week (and beyond) I am taking a whole new approch to it. To stay more positive and more dedicated to dropping the weight and getting healthy.

So lets hope for the best.
 
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it's good to see the weekend didn't get you down and it re affirmed your motivation :)
 
Oh yeah, I forgot to add something to my previous post.

And it was the best thing of all.

As we were out shopping my wife decided that I needed new jeans due to the fact that I only had two pair left. Now if you knew me you would know that I am not a big clothing shopper. To get me to go shopping for clothes, the clothes I already have need to be pretty much falling apart (ie. the reason I only had two pairs of jeans).

Any ways as I was trying on my regular size jeans (38's) I noticed that they were way to big so on a hunch I grabed a pair of 36's and 34's. Well guess what I was actually able to get the 34's on. I couldn't believe it. Talk about making my day. I haven't been able to put on 34's since I was in the Army. I ended up with the 36's only because even thou I was able to wear the 34's they were still just a little too snug. But still the same I was as happy as a kid on Christmas.

:party:
 
:party:YAY!!!! That is just Awesome. Dont you love the feeling of getting into a smaller size. I am soo Happy for you. You are on the right track and you are going to get where you want in no time. I hope you have a WOnderful day and you better Stay Positive. And dont forget to drink your WATER! :)
 
Well I woke up this morning at 6:00 to the sounds of my natural alarm clock (My dog howling as loud as she can at the end of my bed). You don't need an actual alarm clock with her in the house you can tell the time by when she wants to go outside. And trust me she will definately let you know when she wants out.

Anyways, after letting her out I couldn't get back to sleep. So after an hour and a half of tossing and turning I decided to get up and exersice. But instead of making noise with the eliptial I decided to try for the first time in ten years to go for a run. My goal was to try to run 1 mile. Well I did it. I couldn't believe it. And what was even better was that since I now live out in the country within a forest with no fields within 2 miles in any direction. It was the first time that I have ever ran out in the country. There is nothing like running down a country road in the peace and quiet of a country morning.

What would of made it even better would of been if I had seen some deer as I was running. Or any real wildlife to that fact.
 
Not much to say today. I weighed in at 194. So I guess you can say that it is good that I was able to lose this past week.

I did get my VA appt. notice in the mail last week. I go see the Doc for my quarterly exam on April 9th. I'm hoping to be in the 180's by then, and also can't wait to see my numbers, (ie. LDL, HDL, Glucouse, BP, etc...). The last time I was there they weren't the best in the world, but since then I have started my diet and exercise and have pretty much have cut out all fat and anything else that would be bad for me.
 
Had a little wrench thrown into the routine tonight.

As I was working out on the eliptical tonight I started hearing a knocking sound coming from the flywheel. Next thing I know there was a loud pop and the whole unit locked up. So I opened it up to discover that the flywheel warped and bent all to hell.

33 minutes and 30 seconds into the workout my eliptical died.

THIS SUCKS.......:banghead:
 
Well since the eliptical died last night I decided to hit the pavement. So I walked out a mile, then turned around and ran back. I was hoping to run it around about 10 min. Well I did it in 9:46. That made my day since I really haven't ran for over 10 years. After that I walked about another mile with the wife.

So now I have decide to start setting time goals, and try to get down to my army times of around 13 to 14 min. for 2 miles. But for now I'll keep working on the 1 mile time.

So I think I'm going to set a goal of 9 min. mile. Then work from there.
 
I ran again last night. This time I ran a 9:28 mile. It felt great. What I'm really kinda shock about it that I'm not one bit sore like I was the first time I ran last weekend.

This morning is kinda werd one thou. Once I got up I decided to weigh myself and seen that I am at 190. WOO WOO. But for some reason, I don't feel like it. For some reason I just feel like I have this full heavy feeling. Almost feels like I gained weight, even thou I didn't. I don't know, I'm clueless.
 
I swear my scale has a mind of it's own and is totally screwing with me. Last Friday I weighed in at 190. This morning it said 194. What the HELL is going on. I can't figure it out. Short of not being able to workout this last weekend I didn't do any cheating except for going to BWW on Friday night. For the rest of the weekend I keep to my diet. The only snacking I did was some pretzel rods. I did have a couple of beers this weekend but not enough to add 4 pounds in 2 days.
 
Two things just popped up in my head that may or may not have any effect on my weekend.

The first thing is I am currently (along with many other pills) on a water pill. Well I never took it yesterday. I don't know if this would have that type of effect or not.

Secondly, my brother was over yesterday and after he came out of the bathroom he made the comment that my scale was way off. And made the comment that it showed him at 98 pounds with hiking boots on. Now he is a very small framed and wirey guy so it wouldn't suprise me that he was at that weight. Until this morning, now I'm starting to think that he screwed with my scale. I'll kill him if he did. He is one of the family reletives that isn't so supportive of my health and diet change. Always making comments that I won't stick to it and will be back to my same self in no time.
 
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