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Weight - 251 lbs

Moving Average - 250.8 lbs

Work is really getting in the way of my getting back to my target weight.  I have been working so much I had to skip my Tuesday Morning hockey and my weekly basketball was missed from a site visit.  Then there is next week where I am going to be on site for most of the week so I am not going to be at home so no gym

I am going to have to do something to ensure that being on the road is not going to be too hurtful to the diet I am going to keep track of everything and not eat fast food.  I will try to get to the gym if there is one in the places that I am staying, but it is nothing like my local gym.

On another topic, and on the diet diary trek, I am working on an app for the site that will make it easy for you to keep track of everything that you eat. There will also be recipes that you will give you ideas on what you can eat depending on what you are interested in.

I have added a relatively new blog by a Toronto personal training and lifestyle coach which as it is continually updated has some really great tips.  If I was closer to TO I might even look her up.

But her most recent post about going out on the town, and her very strict diet, by choice, is something that I can’t do, even while I am trying to lose weight.  Basically when she is out on the town she is sure never to slack off on what she eats.  So she will not even eat fries, and when she does she thinks that she has failed. 

This is a very bad thing for people that are just starting a diet and they used to eat a lot of crap.  To someone like this, if they felt "bad" about every time that they eat something they like but is not on the list they are doomed to fail in the long term.

When I am on a "diet" and I use this term lightly because all it means to me is that I am consciously changing what I am eating to get a result, whether it is to lose weight, have mre energy, etc. But I still have a day, or meal that I can eat what I want.  This is a once a week thing that I know is comeing, but I can change depending on what is going on.  So on a Friday after work we go for beer and nachos, or maybe on game day we will have fish and chips, or burgers.  This is a meal that I keep track of, but I don’t count it as a failure. 

One high calorie meal every once in a while will help you lose weight if you are on a low calorie diet.  A low calorie diet will help you lose weight but it may also slow your metabolism, so that means once you reach your goal and figure that you can eat again, you will only bounce to your old weight.  Eating one high cal meal will lessen this jump. 

For this example, I think that she is always eating right which is something that we should all strive for, but I think that it is no easy to go from "good old home cooking" to eating right in one step.  So if you go out with friends I say eat up, if you feel like it, and if you do don’t lose sleep over it.  Just don’t go out often

As for the dislike of beer?  Well to each their own, but I LOVE MY beer, but at least she buys the local stuff, there is nothing like drinking the local micro

Cheers,

Jeff

Weight - 249.8 lbs

Moving Average - 250.06 lbs

Yesterday was my first day at the gym since I started keeping track of everything.  I had to work late so it worked out to be a very long day.  I played hockey in the morning as I have been since the new year, and then didn’t leave work till 7pm to go to the gym.  It was a short workout so I did get home by 8:15pm, I love living downtown so that I am so close to everything.

As for the training I focused on Chest and Biceps.  I did three movements for each, the first two I did 3 sets with one warmup and the last one I did 2 sets.

Since I have been playing a lot of sports lately I didn’t bother do much cardio and just stretched as it was a 20 minute walk in a snow storm to get to the gym in the first place.

I am feeling good today, not too sore, but I have that feeling that you get when you work out, the one that tells you that you did something.  I really missed that feeling.  I am going to get to the gym tonight I hope and then again in the morning.

Cheers,

Jeff

Weight - 253 lbs

Moving Average - 252.04 lbs

I am not feeling very good today, throat and head cold.  Nothing to bad but just enough that with the weather it makes me not want to leave the house.  I don’t think that I am going to make it to work today let alone the gym.  Hopefully if I get enough rest today then I will be able to get to the gym before I go to work tomorrow.

Weight - 251.5 lbs

Moving Average - 251.64 lbs

Played hockey as usual this morning.  It was a good day, there as a lot of people there so I didn’t get the ice time that I usually get, but it was a good skate none the less.

There was one thing that I did notice and that was I was very sluggish at the start.  I didn’t sleep very well Friday night so I think that was to blame but I think that I am going to be trying to get up earlier before I leave and be sure to have something to eat even if it is only a granola bar.

Sunday I am planning on going to work for a little while so I figure I will go to the gym on my way.

Weight - 252.1 lbs

Moving Average - N/A

This was my first Friday, and again there was no gym.  This is going to stop on the weekend, probably Sunday.

Today is the day that I go for beer after work, but I kept it to only a couple.  For supper it was a mess though, Steak Sandwich with fries, and onion rings to start.  Not something that you want to be eating when you are trying to lose weight but I figured that one day filled with food debauchery can’t hurt too much.