September 25-29

Ack, I did it again. Do not want to lose the discipline of keeping up with this.

Anyway, basic stats to follow:

25th:
Eat: 1950
Burn: 2989
Step: 8300

26th:
Eat: 2380
Burn: 2623
Step:  3100

27th:
Eat: 2300
Burn: 2931
Step: 7800

28th:
Eat: 2094
Burn: 2517
Step: 2800

29th:
Eat: 2741
Burn: 3015
Step: 9000

Comment:

Mostly OK. Need to be more consistent with my steps!

September 21

Diet: ~2500 cals. Higher than I'd like, for sure.
Exercise: A little better. Close to 7k steps.

Weight: -4.4 lbs

Comment: So last week was week four since I started blogging, and today is actually the end of week 5. So I'm *almost* at one lb. per week of weight loss, which is OK progress- not as much as I'd like, but again, I'm pretty much doing this at a time when this would be the hardest it could possibly be, so I don't feel too bad about it. Just got to keep pressing on!

September 17, 18, 19, 20

Ack. This is kind of ridiculous. So yeah here's a whole bunch of updates:

17th: 1895 cals, 2310 steps
18th  2261 cals, 5k steps
19th  2684 cals, 2000 steps
20th  2000 cals, 4300 steps


Comment:

Mostly OK calorie wise. However you'll notice my step counts are low (I've done some resistance work in there as well). This is on purpose: after last Friday's 12k steps, my left foot starting hurting a lot. I had this happen before: back in 2012 when I was living in Boston, I was walking way more, and my foot hurt so bad that I thought it might have had a fracture or something. Back then I let it go too long and my foot started to even swell up (it got better when I finally starting taking it easy).

So I took it easy the past few days, and it feels a lot better. Hopefully starting today I can get back in the swing of things.

September 14, 15, 16

Catchin' up.

I haven't measured yet, but I will do some stats and things.

So anyway:

Wednesday September 14:
Cals: 2000
Exercise: 10k Steps, chest exercises

Thursday September 15:

Cals: 3100 (ugh)
Exercise: 10k Steps

Friday September 16:

Cals 2800
Exercise 12k Steps


Comments:

Thursday was a bad day for absurd reasons. I'm living with gracious hosts as I've mentioned before, away from my family. But these folks can be pretty aggressive, and I'm too shy to hurt feelings by being insistent that "no, I had dinner or am simply not eating at the moment." On Thursday I was offered food, *actually said no,* and the response was "nope, you're having this." This is partly a cultural thing, I think. I just have to get better at putting my foot down.

At least I've been rocking the steps like a boss. I shouldn't be wasting progress even with a crappy past three days because I've actually been in a calorie deficit every day (because of all the stepping). Friday I hit a high a 12k steps. Which might have been because I got lost in the mall's parking garage. Maybe.

Some Stats:

Calorie burn, 30 day average: Just a under 3100. This is quite good. Past week: 2800.
Calorie Consumption Avg., past 8 days: 2400.

So I should still, despite my stumbles, be on pace to lose a pound a week.

September 13th

Diet: ~2300 cals.
Exercise: 10k steps

(no changes on measurements)

Comment: A little high on the eating but OK otherwise.

September 10, 11, 12

Catching up for the weekend and so forth:

September 10 cals and steps:

Cals: 2k.
Steps: Just a tad under 12k, one of my better showings!

September 11:

Cals: 2800. :(

Steps: 10k, and back exercises.

September 12:

Cals: 2000
Steps: 3k :p :p :p

Weight: -3.2 lbs

Measurements- (same, will measure on Thurday this week).

Comments:

Had a nice streak of getting close to or over 10k steps end yesterday. TBH, I missed my lunchtime walk at work because of "work stuff" and I just didn't find the time to recover the steps.

This Thursday marks week 4 of my efforts. Seem like I have a decent shot at a pound per week loss rate. I'll take more measurements and figure some stats too!

September 9th

Diet Compliance: ~2000 cals, not bad.

Exercise compliance: 8900 steps. "Why u stop right before 10k?" - I actually conked out on my bed shortly after 11pm and woke up Saturday morning. I'm getting old :p

Weight: -2.8 lbs
Measurements: --

Comments:

Did a better job getting steps in throughout the day. Still adjusting though; should have been trivially easy to get to 10k but like I said, I just flat out fell asleep :p

September 8

Diet Compliance: Better but not good enough (or not "on plan"). ~2300 cals.

Exercise Compliance: Better, but still finding ways to get the steps in during actual work days is going to be a challenge. 8300 steps. Did my leg exercises.

Weight: -2.8 lbs

Comments: Week three is in the books, and while kinda sorta getting to a pound a week lost isn't great, it's still steady progress, and progress in the face of pretty hard core challenges.

September 7th

Diet: ~2500. Not very good.

Exercise: ~3300 steps. TERRIBLE.

Comments: Was pretty tired from, to be honest, new job butterflies. I haven't done a very good job adapting my diet and exercise goals to the new routine, so hopefully on the 8th I can wrench everything back to "normal."

September 6th

Diet Compliance: yep, right at 2000k, despite a huge company provided lunch.

Exercise: I forgot my fitbit in my pants pocket for the second day, but I did do my chest exercises.

MEASUREMENTS!

Measurements Weight: -1.0 lbs
Measurements Chest:  -2"
Measurements Waist: -2"

Comments:

HOLY NON SCALE VICTORY, Batman! Despite weighing in at a paltry -1 lbs from the start (I'm just shy of three weeks in, so if this sticks it'll be a awful .33 lbs per week loss rate), I had a more important loss, that is inches. I measured myself and I am down 2 inches from the start measurement, both waist and chest. WOOOOOT.

The scale number isn't even too terribly important because it's a new place and a number being influenced by a crappy two day span and, to be, uh, honest: travel oriented constipation (not enough to BOTHER me, but it's definitely a thing). So yeah, I do expect to get on the right track on the weight also.

 

September 5th

Diet Compliance: Yes, though since my main meal today was home cooked (I have amazing hosts) there is just going to be some variance. I estimate I could have been at 1800 or 2200, but either one is OK.

Exercise Compliance: Yes, 10k steps again.

Comments: No measurements yet, I will tomorrow... before my first day at my new job! Glad to have a couple of days of good eating and exercise to get back on track.

September 4th

Steps: 10k. Woot. Also did my back exercises.
Diet Compliance: YES. 1800 cals.

Measurements and such should return tomorrow morning (probably won't be pretty...)

Comments:

Much better today, and thankfully some semblance of a routine is coming back despite my rather, uh, different situation. Hoping it can continue!

September 2nd and 3rd

Welp, this is going to be difficult.

So I'm a house guest to an incredibly nice couple (parents of a friend) and they are trying super hard to be kind and generous, which is awesome, but it is making it hard to control calories. Yes, yes, (mostly saying this to one reader now) you can always just say "no" or "I'm on a diet to lose weight" and perhaps it may come to that, but on day one, you just don't want to be argumentative, you know?

So anyway, the last two days were *not great* and I'm looking forward to getting into a regular routine again.

Sept. 2nd cals: ~2400 Not too bad considering the same issue existed but with different friends feeding me.
Sept. 2nd steps: ~3500 crappy, despite taking some discrete walking breaks during the long drive.

Sept. 3rd cals: ~3200 DISASTER. Ugh. The big tactical error was eating lunch, thinking that "no prob, I'll just eat a light dinner." Nopity nope nope. My hosts were pretty much like, "EAT EVERYTHING." No, I wasn't forced. Yes, still 100% my fault. Yes, I could just say no, blah blah blah.

Sept. 3rd steps: ~4700 terrible.

Comments:

Nothing else to say than I need to get as much of my regular routine back as soon as possible. I haven't weighed or measured since I left (I'll do that tomorrow, and probably cry acid tears of bitterness). The neighborhood here seems quiet and safe and should certainly be good for walking.

August 31st and September 1

Quick in transit post (staying in a awful hotel- not hot water- egad!):

Aug 31 Steps 6k Calories 1900
This was an OK day. SO HARD getting steps in when driving 90% of the day.

Sept 1 Steps 5k Calories 2800
Not a great day. Well, a fun day but not a great day health wise. In the past I would consider a day like this "Ok," I realize now that I *gain weight* on days like this. No excuses for traveling, I sucked and need to do better.

So far, the stress of traveling is having the effect I feared it would have. I'm going to have to work hard (despite needing to haul another 11 hours) to counter this.