January 15, 2011 Day 231 of Year long Journey

I weigh 206 pounds now. I have lost nineteen pounds in thirty weeks. This is two-thirds a pound a week. My initial goal is to become overweight, one hundred and seventy nine pounds, from obese. That means I must lose twenty seven pounds in twenty one weeks. That means I must lose one pound and one-third a pound each week. My stretch goal of normal weight will not be obtained by day 365 of my year long journey. I am an analytical person. Losing the total weight of my initial goal of forty six pounds will be an A, 100%. If I lose only forty two pounds, that will be a B.

I have focused more on eating healthy and tracking my food. I love my food processor used to make green smoothies most days. If I drink two green smoothies, diet power gives me an A plus in nutrition for the day. I have been at the gym three or four times a week for an hour of strenuous exercise. I even got back on wii fit after two years. I am looking forward to a long healthier life.

January 5, 2011 Day 221 of Year long Journey

As a dear friend of mine told me, this is the biggest engineering project of my life to get a healthy body. I increased me efforts to lose weight quicker. I have used dietpower for the last three days. I have been around 1300 calories burning 500 to 800 calories at the gym. I have lost three pounds this year to two hundred and nine pounds.
I have twenty weeks left to lose fifty one pounds. This means I must work out two hours at the gym and keep my calories to 1300 to lose forty pounds at the end of this year. I will definitely consider that a success. I admit this has been difficult, putting the fork down.
It appears that my stomach has shrunken. I was only hungry for about an hour yesterday before lunch. I was stuffed after dinner of beef stew. Bringing boxes of wine is off the list for a while.

January 1, 2011 Day 217 of Year long Journey

I weigh 212 pounds, body fat 46%. I survived the holidays even the week long gluttonous feast at work. There were crock pots cooking all day and decadent treats. I plan to take the feast week off next year. My normal weight of 160 appears a bit more difficult to achieve. Fifty two pounds in twenty one weeks. I will accept losing twenty one pounds in twenty one weeks.

The shorter days helps me in eating only two meals a day. I will rev up the exercise when the days are longer.
Since I have been traveling for the last two weeks, it did not help my diet at much as when I’m home drinking green smoothies. Here I come Costco to get giant sized greens and produce.

HAPPY NEW YEAR