I am going to be doing weekly weigh-ins on Sunday mornings. I will post them either on Sunday or Monday. I’ll post this week’s quickly because I have to teach in five minutes.
Highest: 245.0 lb
Last Weigh-in (6/1): 214.0 lb
This Weigh-in (6/20): 211.4 lb (-2.6 lb)
Total Loss: 33.6 lb
Delicious foods and sitting very still are two of my favorite things…these are the main reasons why I am fat. I wouldn’t say that my goal is to be skinny, just closer to skinny than to fat. I would like to be less fat for a multitude of reasons thus the need for skinnification. I think I would like to weigh 183, I am a large person and 183 just feels right…just far enough away from 200.
Unlike Eve, I would not like to be a runner. I would even go as far as to say that I hate running. Yet, I do have a goal to run a marathon when I turn 30, just so I can say I did it. For the short term…I need to get in shape so I can compete with my friends in this beastly mud run thing next year. This is good motivation because I HATE losing or being the worst at anything.
I would just like to further mention that it is too hot in Texas to be fat. I will elaborate on this point in future posts.
PEACE
I am always going to be fat. At least by society’s standards. I have a combination of genetics, medical history and the existence of butter working against my desire to be thin. With this in mind, I would very much like to be less fat. I don’t have any specific numbers in mind yet. Maybe low enough that my doctor won’t tell me I need to lose weight when I go to get a sinus infection check out. According to the body fat percentage scale at my Taekwondo do-jang, my idea weight is 147 lb. based on the muscle I already have in my body. To get into a healthy BMI range, technically I should be 145 lb. These sound like nice reasonable numbers but the final goal could be higher or lower depending on how it goes.
Besides losing weight, I would also like to become a runner. Similar to being skinny, I will never be fast. However, I’d like to run a 5k without dying. That seems easy enough, right? Soon I’ll be restarting the Couch-to-5K running plan for the millionth time.
That’s all for now. Hopefully this won’t be my last post.
The simplest and most basic rule of weight loss is that you need to burn more calories than you consume. For the first week of this attempt, we will begin tracking our food. Write down what you eat and how many calories are in it. Don’t worry about fat, carbs and protein for now. Just the simple stuff for the first week. We will post a response about how the task went at the end of the week.
Basically this site is a weight loss weblog. There is no one focus in terms of diet or exercise. Both of us have a lot to lose. It will take a long time and a lot of effort. We’ve both tried to lose weight one million times. Hopefully, this will be our final (successful) go at it.
Every week we will be posting a task. The task is just a small goal for the week that should be easy to sustain and build upon. Most people agree that small steps are the key to long term success. This is our way of following that strategy.