18th Tuesday weigh-in

227.5 lb

Gain of 0.5

I have a new goal now: Lose 30 lbs by my birthday. I have been floundering around for a while now and need to get back on track or else I lose the XBOX. This will require a loss average of over 1.5 lb per week, about 1.75 will work.

I made it through the holidays and feel great about it. Now that the weather is not miserable and cold in the mornings, I should be able to easily continue to make it to the gym or at least to Hannah's treadmill very consistently. Some risks/obstacles I can plan for are:

• travel can wreck my sleep schedule (result: missed workouts or overeating)
• two kids are a big burden (if they get sick, even more) and may interfere with sleep (result: missed workouts or overeating)

If I can keep from overeating, missing a workout will be a minor issue. Once thing I have not been good at is making a full accounting of my food intake each day. I would track up through lunch then try to spend or use the rest of my calories for the day before bed by estimation only. I have not been recording what I ate after lunch and this must be where the extra food is slipping in and preventing a loss on Tuesday. A can of sprite here, a handful of almonds there, bag of popcorn, another sprite, some more almonds, hey some chocolate chips, why not? Bite by bite, one way or another, I undo the calorie deficit I need to lose the fat and get a scale number like the one above.

My original plan was to track calories on livestrong.com, so I have recommitted to do that. I also plan to use bigoven to plan meals so I am not having to wing it for dinner each night.
This should also help since the baby is here and his needs will be putting extra burden on Rebecca and I.

I hope you are doing as well or better than me on whatever goals you have set for yourself, and I wish you much success.