The Diet: Week 4 weigh in
June 27th, 2006
Another week gone by, another weigh in. This also happens to be the mile marker for our first full month of being on the diet. There has been an overwhelming response to what started out as a simple challenge between some friends.
Almost every day I’m motivated by people like James and Ana. It doesn’t matter what they lose or gain each week/day/month but the constant drive they have to reach their goals is an inspiration to me.
The Diet: Week 3 weigh in
June 20th, 2006
This week was much better than last week and even though I didn’t lose as much weight or inches I’m still proud of myself. If you all remember, last week, I experienced a bit of a setback — well, not really a setback, more of a mental setback.
That was mostly due to my flagrant misuse of restaurants and fast food joints. Week three was different. I avoided fast food and was much more conscious of what was going in my mouth.
The Diet: Week 2 weigh in
June 13th, 2006
Well, I’m going to keep this short because I’m not impressed at all with myself. For the most part week two went very well, I was managing my food intake and had started doing exercise. Unfortunately the weekend changed everything.
On Saturday it was a friends birthday and the festivities were held on a rooftop patio at one of the local bars. It was a supper gathering and I even chose to have a salad with Italian dressing as the side dish. It all went down hill when someone else ordered nachos — which arrived before my food — and another person ordered some potato slammers — which also arrived before my food, both by about 10 minutes.
Getting physical
June 8th, 2006
After my dismal showing for the first week of the diet challenge, I decided to add some exercise every couple days. Push ups may not have been easy the first day and they certainly didn’t get any easier after that.
Physical soreness is either a welcome or unwelcome side effect of overexerting your muscles. For all the nay-sayers out there I’ll just say that if you’re playing a sport and you get some muscle pains you know it’s time to stop, that’s one example of soreness being a good thing.
Rollerblading = fun, especially by the river
June 6th, 2006
Tonight, after all the weighing in and talking of exercise, I decided to take a leisurely rollerblade ride down one of the many paths we have in b-e-a-utiful Calgary. If there was only one type of exercise I could do for the rest of my life, rollerblading would be it. The path I chose was one close to my house — weird how that works out eh — which just so happens to be very close to the South Saskatchewan river.
Because of some prodding by Chris and Colin, I’m testing out Calorie King’s Nutrition and Exercise Manager (Windows version here). The king suggests I do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day so I anticipated a 15 minutes out, 15 minutes back type of trip.
