To exercise or not

Monday was weigh in for me and I have lost 2.2 lbs this past week with the total being 16.4 lbs. I am thinking that this is going to be an average weight loss as long as I to what I am suppose to do, meaning not go past the Points that I am allotted.

I need to start exercising some, doing anything is better than nothing. I have a membership to 24 hour fittness but I always have some excuse not to go. I think I need to change my mindset to start going after work (I pass it on the way home) and at least try and make 3 days a week. I used to go 4 times a  week and I would walk a mile on the tread mill and then do the weight machines till I got tired.

I would keep track of what I did. I think that when I keep track of things I remember them better outright and I have a log book to double check my things with.

Lost a little more

Went to Weight Watchers last night for my weigh in and was not expecting too much, I went and had chicken fried steak smothered in Cheddar cheese and gravy, fries and pinto beans this past Thursday as it was my birthday.

Not really a good way to help with the weight loss but with WW you can still eat like this if you plan for it as I did, I also ate a ham and cheese sandwich with fries from Hooters Friday night, again some planning helped out again.

So it is really about planning the meals and keeping track of what I eat that has been helping lose the weight, oh and I lose 2.6lbs this week bringing the total loss to 14.2lbs.

Little by little

I went for my weigh in at Weight Watchers Monday and the scales topped out at 268 lbs. A loss of 2.8 lb, bringing the total loss to 11.6 lbs, it is not much on a fat man but an 11.6 lb brisket is a good size brisket. I say that because I compare the weight loss to food, since that's what created it to begin with, well that and being a couch potato. My loss this week was compared to 2.8 lbs of butter.

I have been keeping with the program so far this week which hasn't been easy when you throw in Valentines Day and my birthday, which is today. I am going out tonight and will most likely blow it, I will get back on it tomorrow. The way I see it, I didn't get this fat overnight and I will not lose it all in a day.

Still old and fat at 270.8 lbs

Well I went to my weigh in at Weight Watchers last night (Monday), and I was 8.8lbs lighter. Now I know that the majority of the loss was water, but it still a nice loss. I have been (tracking)writing everything down that I consume except for water, and I will start writing that down this week.

Doing this WW thing will be ok, I wasn't hungry but a couple of times and when I was it did not take much to make that go away. I almost cut fried food out but succumbed to hash browns twice and Hooters fries once. And the taste of sugar was almost nonexistent but the Superbowl happened and I fell for a slice of cherry pie and 2 brownies. Now this could of spelled disaster but they were all within my daily points allowance. I have also come to the realization that if I only have a small lunch that I will not perish, there is always a thought in the back of my mind that I will starve to death.

So in the time of a week I have figured out that if I write down all my eats that I am more aware of the things I eat, that I will not stare and perish and losing water weight is a good thing.

Old Fat Man

Here I am looking at a birthday, I will be 52 in 2 weeks, it is something that I had not envisioned when I was young. I thought that we might have a nuclear holocaust, then I started living a wild child life, anyways, had I known I was going to live this long I would have lived a healthier life. Well, it is what it is. So here I am, at 52(almost) yr old, weighing 279.6 and needing to make a few lifestyle changes.

We had a plumbing leak last week, where the water comes off the water meter a PVC fitting come unglued. Now this is usually not a big problem, you turn off the water to the house, you dig a hole, get the mud and water out, cut the old fittings off, slap on the new fittings, glue it up, wait a bit then slowly turn the water on. So I dig out some mud and use a hand pump to suck the water out and this is where things went south real quick, fat man issue #1, I would pump out the water and be so out of breath that by the time I caught my breath the hole had filled up with water from the surrounding area, (we had a record  1 day rainfall for the month of January). So then a dug the hole deep so that when the water filled it back up I still could work, now here is where fat man issue #2 is, I had to lay down to remove old stuff and was rolling around like a walrus, could not lay down on my belly because of the roundness, I had to do all the work on my side. Now at this point I made a plan to join Weight Watchers, I have lost weight 2 different times before at WW. So on the Monday, Jan. 30 2012 I joined for a third time.

I have been told by my heart doc that I need to lose weight as well as by several other folks in my life but it took a plumbing leak for me to do get with it. I made the plan and figured that if I paid $13 a week I might be able to stick with it, although I have a yearly membership at 24 hour fitness I never seem to have the time to get there. I weigh in on Monday nights and the first weigh in was 279.6 lbs