71st Tuesday weigh-in

223.0 lb

Worked out today on treadmill for 30 minutes at 11, the machine had puddles of my sweat by the end.

I have not been feeling great since about mid February, so I am trying to reboot my workouts now to see if it helps.

that's not the whole story... I've been thinking a lot about Steve too:

Pheysey, Stephen Grant Stephen Grant Pheysey Stephen Grant Pheysey, 23, 
died Saturday, May 7, 2005, at his home, of alcohol poisoning. Steve was a 
wonderful son, brother, and friend, and will be sorely missed. Steve was 
born on November 24, 1981, in Provo, Utah to James H. and Rebecca Duckett 
Pheysey. Steve attended Cascade Elementary, Canyon View Junior High, and 
graduated from Orem High School in 1999. He was awarded the Heritage 
scholarship to Brigham Young University and the Honors at Entrance 
scholarship to the University of Utah. He was currently a senior, majoring 
in Business Administration at the University of Utah. Steve was a brilliant 
young man with many interests and hobbies. He loved buying and fixing 
European sports cars, going rock and ice climbing with his brothers and 
friends, preparing gourmet and ethnic food for family and friends, 
flyfishing, bowhunting, and most outdoor activities. He loved learning and 
was an avid reader. He enjoyed using his talents and knowledge to help 
others. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Harriett Pheysey, 
Jack Duckett, Irene Duckett, and a younger brother, William Robert Pheysey. 
Steve is survived by his parents, Jim and Becky Pheysey, three brothers, 
Michael (April) Pheysey, David Pheysey, Matthew Pheysey, one sister, Andie 
Pheysey, grandfather, Herbert Pheysey, and numerous aunts, uncles and 
cousins. Family services were held Saturday, May 14, 2005, at Berg Mortuary 
in Provo. Interment was at Provo City Cemetery. Published in the Daily 
Herald on 5/17/2005.

I wish I had reached out to him and I want a do over, I want him to be rescued if not by me then someone else. I need a time machine.

68th Tuesday weigh-in

223.0 lb

Back up a bit from 221.0 lb. I have made a personal commitment to a 12 week body for life program, my free day is Tuesday. I have been successful on the body for life plan in the past, having lost 60lbs, my goal is to lose 6% bodyfat (17% bodyfat). I'll post some pictures at the end of the 12 weeks as well.

I plan to eat 5-6 meals a day six days a week, and have a free-day once a week. I plan to weigh in each Tuesday to track my progress on weight-loss. I will also take some pictures as well periodically during the 3 month program. Thanks in advance for your support.

66th Tuesday weigh-in

224.0 lb

Up 1.0 and I blame the deep dish pizza at Gino's East in downtown Chicago. At least I exercised at the hotel gym while I was on the road. By the way, traveling while sick really sucks. The best food I ate in the windy city was the deep dish pizza at Gino's followed by fantastic burger at Rock Bottom. I really hated the ribs at Weber Grill or whatever that place was called... I like moist sweet ribs but these were much too dry, spicy and tough, that didn't prevent me from eating them all anyway for some reason...

64th Tuesday weigh-in

223.0 lb

Up 0.5 again. So I was sick and stayed up too late and missed some workouts, and yes, I am like a broken record on my blog writing that. Winter sucks. Ran 3.5 miles in under 30 minutes today so I am still feeling good about my exercise, I just need to be consistent about going to bed and going to the gym. I am torn a bit because I want to work on a side project for my company (and my career) which cuts into my family/sleep time. I did track my food on the daily plate, but I really only track M-F and don't track dinner, which I plan to change to track EVERYTHING... the annoyance of having to input and track my chocolate-covered almonds should help me from eating them, right? I do feel good when I am able to track exercise on the dailyplate, seeing those extra calories show up is a nice bonus, seeing some better results would be nice too.

I hope when they say, "You change from the inside out", it is really true. Nothing big or earth shattering has happened to myself on the outside, body fat and scale measurements don't seem to move much for me either. But on the inside I am establishing a habit to exercise and monitor my food intake.

63rd Tuesday weigh-in

222.5 lb

Up 0.5 lb due to some illness and missing workouts. I have been keeping up on tracking food on the daily plate website (on weekdays at least). I have a new Golds corporate wellness personal trainer (no explanation for why the other trainer is gone), she is mostly a cookie cutter version of the previous one... with the same advice as trainer before. I am motivated to post better numbers, nothing I have done seems to have moved the needle on my body fat measurement, which I think is strange. At least over the past month I lost almost 2 lbs from the previous weigh-in.

She did have a good comment about workouts... you have to push yourself hard to make improvements. I think some of my workouts got repetitive and weren't challenging like workouts challenged me when I first started so long ago. I may need to try something drastic break out of the rut.

61st Tuesday weigh-in

224.5 lb

Up 2.5 lb. Did well on exercise and just slacked off on tracking food. Eleanor was up vomiting Monday night, we thought the worst was over then Wednesday around 6PM I got stomach cramps and at around 2AM I gave in and puked my guts out. This morning Rebecca is throwing up, oh and J threw up last night as well.

Despite all this, I still have it way better than those in Haiti..

59th Tuesday weigh-in

225.5 lb

Up 3.0 lbs! Yeah... I wasn't very cautious with portion size this last week over the holidays and ended up bloated for my weigh-in. I did well on my exercise plan and only missed on Christmas day. Today I forgot a belt and some old jeans of mine I was wearing kept slipping down, which is a great problem to have.

53rd Tuesday weigh-in

226.0 lb

Aargh! The numbers on the scale sucked.. but I still fit great in my new jeans. I have exercised all 6 days faithfully and tracked my food 5 of the 7 days. It was fun to see Grandpa and Candace last night, but it was a bummer that Linc and Randy punked me and didn't show up. Next up: Hannah's birthday, Thanksgiving, ward party, work party, Christmas party, New Years party... but most importantly: more weekly posts with losses!

52nd Tuesday weigh-in

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225 lb

Gain of 2lbs... but, to focus on the positives, I am wearing size 34 jeans without too much trouble which is a huge improvement over size 38's. Blue cheese dip and pretzel crisps are probably not a good thing for me to have around... but it's worth it occasionally. Rebecca's birthday party had me eating cobbler and ice cream which didn't help me either. At least I am hitting the gym consistently. I am also tracking food I eat but I slack off on tracking food I eat on the weekend. It has been a year since I started weekly weigh ins. I will keep doing them as I feel it keeps me from gaining or getting off track and helps to motivate me to lose. I have a more energy than I used to and, with two kids, I need every femto-joule I can get.

47th Tuesday weigh-in

226.5 lb

This week I have been faithfully doing my ankle exercises and hit the gym all days but one, so 5 days. I missed one weight lifting day due to staying up until 2:00am gaming on Friday. Walking is so much easier with the heel lift, it was really miraculous, I walked out of the Dr. office faster than I have walked in years.. I can walk fast without pain through parking lots. Running is still sore on my ankle but it is not so painful that I limp-run. I am more a 'wince-runner' now. I have new duds on order from amazon. I would love to "buy local" but that usually means paying $40 more for the exact same pair of shoes, so 'local' can forget it! Last time I got a killer deal on overstock.com for my Brooks Beast's but this time they didn't have my size.
So I guess I am up 1.5 this week from last week. I have another weigh in with the personal trainer this month that I am preparing for. I was a little down last month and I want to be down again in October.

44th Tuesday weigh-in

226.5 lb

Strange to be up so much, I didn't overeat all week until Friday night when I had waaay more pizza than I should have. Then I took the family to the Pleasant Grove Hog's Heaven CookOff on Saturday night and enjoyed some nice ribs and pulled pork. We got leftovers so it was BBQ Sunday and Monday too. But I really don't think I am "up", just retaining water / extra food from the weekend of extra grease and salt. I don't feel heavy and did exercise the entire week consistently. If I can lose body fat and gain muscle, that is fine with me.

I am as motivated as ever to post good numbers here and at my monthly weigh-in with the "impersonal" trainer, Heather. Seriously she has been a huge let down. It has been like torture to get any kind of personalized help from her, she just wants to measure this and weigh that, then give me a pre-printed handout and a smile-see-ya-next-month-bah-bye. If anything she has demotivated more than motivated. So Heather gets zero credit from me for any progress I am making.

My plan for next week is to push myself at the gym on cardio harder than I have been. I also plan to eat midmeal snacks so I am not tempted to overeat at dinner. Finally, I like Rebecca's strategy to stop eating by 8pm, so I am stealing that one from her. Rebecca, by the way, has been rocking it in weight loss these past few months and is breaking out skinny clothes left and right. She really puts me to shame with her progress, her pants are loose and her figure is as stunning as when we got married.

42nd Tuesday weigh-in

226.5 lb

Up 1.0 lb from last Tuesday, synopsis is: travel sucks. Anyway I made some dietary u-turns and by Friday I was back to 225.5 lb despite the non-stop buffet available to me. I was hard to turn down my manager / client for dinner but I ate with him once that week and had planned on a lunch with him as well, enough's enough. I am proud that I didn't have soda or appetizers and that I worked out every day of the week of travel. Photo is me from 2008 Halloween party, probably the closest photo I have of myself back when I started my Tuesday weigh-ins in Nov 2008. I was a "farmer" for Halloween that year. It is fitting that I am eating a candy bar... that is how I got so off track, one snack at a time.

38th Tuesday weigh-in

226.5 lb

I did really well last week on exercise (6 days, 3 cardio, 3 lifting) but... starting on Thursday with lunch at JCW's with some friends from Novell, then dinner at Chili's with Rebecca on Friday, then french fries and game night candy+soda on Saturday and finally a roast dinner on Sunday... I am lucky to be back down to only 1/2 lb up.
My percent body fat is 29% so I think I am keeping muscle while doing this which is a plus.

37th Tuesday weigh-in

226 lb

Yuck I did not do well last week, even slacked off on posting this dismal weigh-in until a day before the 38th weigh in. Anything I write is just and excuse for too much food intake and not enough sweat output.

I tried out Lincoln's new stationary bike, it is silent, and by that I mean all you can hear while using it is your wheezing asthmatic breathing and thumping heart beats as it tries to pump blood through cholesterol clogged arteries. I did however dominate a 30 minute program giving myself a slight ego boost. The fear of losing my XBOX has kept me at the gym all the past week to stem the tide of gains. I have even downed over a gallon of water today to try and release any/all retained water.

35th Tuesday weigh-in

224.5 lb

Neglected to post the bad news of a gain, until now. The steaks and cake I had on Sunday are probably the primary cause of my gain on Tuesday but I think they were worth it. I have been much better this week (since Sunday) by eating shakes for lunch and dinner and eating much more fresh fruits and vegetables. I have a weigh in on this Friday with a personal trainer as well. I really want to show at least a fat percentage loss for that weigh-in as it will track my progress for the past month. I can establish a habit of consistent exercise and go for a long streak of consistent exercise but after a consecutive three days of slacking off, it is really hard for me to get back in the habit again.