another month and better fitness

By jelly | June 3, 2009

I haven’t updated this for a while. Well I’ve continued on with the good lunches. I don’t think I’ve had fast food in 2 months :). I’ve also not had a coffee at work since then either. I have an occasional one at home on the weekends but mostly just if I got get one for the wife.
I’ve started playing hockey which is probably the best thing I could have done. it gets me a lot of exercise and burns a ton of calories.

I’ve hit my first big goal today, after hockey last night this morning I weighed 189.7 which is probably the first time I’ve been under 190 in 15 years.

I don’t have a hockey game scheduled for the next 2 weeks so I’m going to see if I can get a pickup game going somewhere.

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health surprise

By jelly | April 28, 2009

I’ve been doing pretty good with getting minimal exercise. but I have been doing go about eating better at lunches. The weekends are kind of train wreck as I munch more and eat worse than I do during the week. Also I allow my self to drink on weekends so I’m sure how much that hurts.

Well today I got on the scale and had a big surprise. I only weighed 194.5
which would be a 2 pound drop from last week. I didn’t expect it, in fact after the weekend I kind of expected to go up. Hopefully it wasn’t something weird in the scale, I will trust it more if I’m the same weight or lower tomorrow.

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update on health

By jelly | April 24, 2009

Well I’ve sort of got back into it, just in time for the weekend to throw everything back into disarray. I did about a 15 minute kettle bell work out last night, had a big dinner, and still in the morning, I’m down to 196.6.

So I’m still losing weight which is good, however I’m not noticing where it is coming from. I’m determined to either hike, ride, or run this weekend to see if I can speed this process up.

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health

By jelly | April 23, 2009

With losing the power this weekend I kind of fell off everything. All the food was cooked in the micro and I was drinking beer because there was nothing else to do.

But I jumped on the scale today and I’m at 197.7
I did the wii fit a lot last night which probably helped and then I’m planning on doing kettle bells tonight. So hopefully I’ll be back on track

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Weekend

By jelly | April 23, 2009

We got around 30″ of snow on the weekend.
Not the biggest deal since it was the weekend and I didn’t have to get out to go to work and could be home to plow and make sure we had a way to get out if we needed it to be
however that all changed when on friday night we lost power.
We have lost power before but the longest it has been was about 5 hours. This time it was for 2 1/2 days. Luckily we decided to buy a generator from home depot on saturday morning and it really saved us. It was kind of surreal sitting at home on sunday night with now electricity but watching tv while surfing the internet

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weekend

By jelly | April 13, 2009

Weekend was kind of a flop for me. I had beers on Friday, only 2, and then I went skating, however not much exercise since I was skating with my daughter.

saturday and sunday I didn’t drink at all and ate pretty good. however since it was snowing all weekend, I didn’t get much exercise. I did a little with the kettle bells last night but that was about it.

I’ll see what happens this week. I didn’t have time to shop for lunch today so I had quiznos, but at least that is better than other fast food places… I think

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another day

By jelly | April 8, 2009

so day 2 came and went, I went for a 3 mile walk at lunch that was good, although I wish we had better walking trails out here. It wasn’t bad but I’ll keep looking.
Lunch was not fast food and no alcohol or coffee for me. in the afternoons I’m really getting tired. I don’t know if that is my body being used to the caffeine or not but I hope it starts getting better. It was honestly a struggle staying awake in the afternoon.

The night I got a bad headache. I don’t know what for but I’m not going to think too hard about it unless it starts happening alot.

I woke up to oatmeal again today, this definitely helps hunger in the morning. I’m going to try to find something in the way of exercise to do during lunch hour.

weight this morning was 199.2

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day 1 is over

By jelly | April 7, 2009

So I’m trying again to see if I can get in better shape and see how I feel
yesterday I had no coffee (I think I usually have about 8-10 lattes )
yesterday I had no alcohol (I usually have at least one (double) hard drink and a few beers)
yesterday I made advocado and turkey wraps instead of my all too normal double cheesburgers from either burger king or mcdonalds.
last night I didn’t do too much exercise but I did do about 15 minutes of tossing around the kettle bell doing clean all kinds of presses. my back and shoulder are a little sore today so I did get some exercise in.
I drank alot of water instead of the coffee and beer. which doesn’t taste nearly as good ;-). I really need to find a good alternative beverage, I don’t want to switch out coffee to some sugary beverage.

When I got home last night he daughter wasn’t home yet so dinner was later…. to hold my self over I ate chips, not good :(. anyhow I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 199.5lbs. not a bad weight, I mainly just want to loose the belly so I’m not that interested in the weight as much as the inches. I think that I’ll have to get down to about 185 to see the belly that I want.

I started today with a bowl of low cal oatmeal. hopefuly that will jump start the metabolism. I’m planning on either going skating or walking at lunch. So hopefully that will help. I’d love to go running at lunch however I don’t have a place to shower.

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weekend

By jelly | April 6, 2009

Well I went skating on the weekend. Not alot of skating, only for about 10 minutes after my girls lessons but one thing I figured out is. I can’t skate like I used to. I’ve skated once in about 8 years so its not that surprising but I wasn’t as stable as I used to be. I can skate fine, speed, control turning is not a problem. Mostly when I’m standing still and just moving around I feel unstable. It maybe the time, or that I just got new skates, or maybe even just a tentative thing.

I’m going to try to go skating at least one lunch hour this week, maybe two, maybe on my own I can get back into it to where I can get to a point I can play hockey again.