October 10

Diet: 2250 Cals
Exercise: 7000 steps

Comment: My goal this week is to cut back about 300 cals a day, since I've allowed my daily intake to creep up to ~2300 most days. I need to be *really* at 1800, but I probably make progress if I'm at 2000-2100 (as long as I'm getting close to or near 10k steps).

October 6-9

Oct. 9:

Cals: 2490
Steps: 1500

Oct 8:

Cals: 2200
Steps: 1800

Oct. 7:

Cals: 3300
Steps: 10,000

Oct. 6:

Cals: 2254
Steps: 6100

Comment:
I'm overdue on some new measurements. Coming soon.

October 5th

Diet: ~2500 cals.

Exercise: 6100 steps.

Comment: Not terrific not horrible, which is sort of where I've been at the past two weeks.

October 3 and 4

Oct 3 Diet: ~2700 cals
Oct 3 Exercise: ~3500 steps, back exercises

Oct 4 Diet: ~2200 cals
Oct 4 Exercise: 12,100 steps

Comments:

One of the things that always derails me during October and beyond is once birthdays kick in (it was my birthday Oct. 2, then my wife's next then my oldest kid, all in one week) my diet goes out of control. Being out of town this was easier, but it was still in danger of happening when my coworkers bought an AMAZING (but extremely calorie dense) peanut butter cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory. It's "bad" enough that they did that, but they also let you keep the cake afterwards, and there was a TON of it left.

So it was important that on Oct. 4 I had something of a bounce back. 2200 cals is still about 300 too high for a typical day for me, but I also had a very high step day: over 12k steps.

October 2

Exercise: 10k steps
Diet: ~3200 cals

Comment:

So today was my birthday, so I allowed myself more leeway and ate some junky food. It wasn't necessarily my intention to eat a ton, but usually when I say, "ok today you can cheat," that's what happens. I did walk my 10k steps though, so it shouldn't damage my efforts very much at all.

October 1

Exercise: 9k steps
diet: ~2600 cals

Measurement update:

Chest -2" (same as before)
Waist -2 2/3 " (down 2/3 of an inch)

Comment: Some nice progress on my measurements today.

September 30

Diet: ~2100 cals.

Exercise: 10k steps and chest exercises. Hurray for the many malls here for walking :)

Comment: trying to not fall into the "let a bunch of days pile up" trap. Also trying to keep cals down a bit more, while keeping the steps up.