Fitness
Took the Summer Off, but Held the Line
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- Published on Monday, August 01, 2011 09:24 am
- Written by Ken Morgan
Looking back at my blog, I've been lax. I've had no posts since the beginning of June. It's amazing how quickly the time goes, especially when you're busy.
It's not just the blog, but my fitness program as well. I have not tracked anything I've been eating at all. I ate what I want, drank what I want, and have not had any real exercise. The bad news is that I have not lost any more weight in the last two months or so.
The GOOD NEWS, however, is that despite my actions, I have not GAINED any at all. I'm right where I was two months ago, no more, no less.
Today is August 1st, and I am BACK ON PLAN and ready for more losses. 32" here I come.
June 5th, First Weigh In of the Month
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- Published on Sunday, June 05, 2011 04:17 pm
- Written by Ken Morgan
First weigh in of June this morning. Knocked another 1.4 pounds off the scale. Sure, I was hoping for more, but I know what happened.
The short answer is two fold: Not Tracking and Coca-Cola. I've been VERY lax in tracking what I eat, and I've been letting soda sneak in too much. That changes NOW.
I'm very close, relatively speaking, to hitting 226. That will be two milestones for me. First, I will have lost 10% of my starting weight, and second, my BMI will be out of "Obese" and into "Overweight." The next goal after that will be 215, when I'm officially under my lightest weight the last time I did this.
First things first, 226, here I come.
Weigh in for May 29th - Mixed Feelings
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- Published on Sunday, May 29, 2011 01:25 pm
- Written by Ken Morgan
Mixed feelings about my "official" weigh in this morning.
WI at 234.4 lbs. While that's down 1.6 lbs from last week, and after 3 weeks of either no change or going up 1 lbs, it's still frustrating. Sometimes I'll step on the scale during the week. Same time each day, first thing AM, for consistency's sake. Yesterday I was at 232.6, almost 2 lbs lighter that would have put my weekly loss to 3.4. I don't know if it was leftover pizza, or not as active as I could have been, or just my body holding on to water. Either way it was disappointing knowing where I could/should have been.
In the end, it's down. I should easily be able to get that 2 lbs back plus some for next week.
Couch to 5K
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- Published on Saturday, May 21, 2011 09:58 pm
- Written by Ken Morgan
Physical fitness was never a priority to me. Oh sure, in college and after I toyed with going to a gym. I even tried to jog once or twice, I even took Jogging as a PE credit. I never went to class and squeaked out with a 'D'.
As I mentioned in my post, Making a Change, I had a moment where I knew I needed to do something. Over the last several weeks, I had been eating differently and increasing my physical activity. Using the Jillian Michaels ifit program for our treadmill, I had been fairly regular with walking several times per week. Recently thought, that wasn't cutting it.
Making a change
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- Published on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 09:12 am
- Written by Ken Morgan
For most of my life, I really didn't have a problem with weight.
My metabolism always kept me well below 200, but not being very athletic I didn't have a lot of muscle mass either. Simply put, I was a skinny kid pretty much through college. My sister always joked "One day your metabolism is going to slow down and I'm going to be right there laughing." Well, it did.
At my heaviest I was 250 pounds. Now, in America today where we see obesity reported on the news daily, and shows like The Biggest Loser focus on people 300 and 400 pounds, 250 doesn't really seem like much. Unfortunately, the reality is that is still over weight. In fact, by most medical scales, I would be considered obese at 6'1" and 250 pounds. We've become so accustomed to the extreme that we accept the lower range as "healthy" or "normal" weight. But it's not. It's just not.