Current wt 255lbs
Measurements : (have to get from home, then i'll edit this in)
Nutrition Goals:
from the research I've done, i need to eat 1900 calories a day for fat loss. So my goal for this is to maintain approximately 100+/- calories
Fitness Goal:
1) I began biking to work (1.5 miles) last week, i want to maintain this 4 times (to work in morning, home for lunch, back to work, then home for day) at least 4 days a week, with rain, hail, tornadoes, etc. being resonable excuses to drive. i will also allow myself to share rides, e.g. if i only ride two times one day, as long as the one day i could have driven, i ride two times, then i'll still meet my goal. this is not transferable from week to week though, if i ride five days a week, 4 times a day, for 4 weeks, i can't take a whole week off.
2) I'm currently doing the fat loss workouts, in NROL, and i want to stick to this 3 days a week. i generally workout on M,W,F, but will allow one week off during the 61 days, as i am on scedule for one june 27-july 2 (going fishing in minnesota at that time, well deserved break i think, but we use row boats and do a lot of 4 wheeling and dirt biking, so i'll still be getting a good workout)
Personal goals:
1) I'd like to lose 10 lbs
2) at last measurement (about three weeks ago) i had lost 12 inches i believe overall, by the end of this, I'd like to increase that to 20 inches overall
3) catch at least a 3 lbs walleye, at least a 30 inch northern, and at least a 3 pound bass while fishing (is this a realistic goal? or an uncountable personal goal?:p either way, i'm hoping for it)
Competetive goal:
Don't know yet, will have to do some research and see what's available
Well, guess i'll get started to get the habit in place,
breakfast: whole grain cereal with skim milk, 15grams protein powder, green tea, water
rode bike to work
snack large carrot
have had about 40 ounces of water so far
They will not all be detailed as i will not post over weekends, but i will try and post while at work, and give a synopsis of weekends or nonpost days when i can.
lunch - 2 eggs, 2 sausage links, 2 bacon, water (all you can eat buffet at country kitchen paid for by my work, i think i did ok considering i could have had all you can eat, i think the food temptation devil must have known i was starting this up today, darn them)
rode bike home for a break
rode bike back to work
Also i take some omega 3 supplements, vit C, glutamine, arginine-lysine, goat weed, and a multi vit 4-5 days a week.
and it wouldn't let me edit my first post after i started the second, so here are my measurements
Start is october of 2006 at 255 lbs, i wasn't very regular with any kind of routine until end of february, but i didn't measure myself then, but it was probably pretty close to october's measurements, and now is today.
chest start 47 1/2 Now
waist start 47 Now
hips start 50 Now
biceps start R 17 L 17 Now R L
thighs start R 27 L 27 1/2 Now R L
Last edited by joshuaseu : 05-31-2007 at 11:43 AM.
I'm going to change my format here, to one along the lines of others i have seen, i want to maintain clean eating for 110 points. if i give myself credit for something, and someone disagrees with it, then let me konw and i'll reevaluate it.
Personal goal (no, i'm not changeing the fishing one)
for inches lost, i'm going to revise this to 10 positive inches. e.g. if i lose 5 inches from waist and 2 from hips ( fat loss ) and gain an inch to my biceps and thighs (muscle gain ) then that will be a total of 11 inches of positive changes and i will have exceeded my goal
supper 10 oz pork steak grilled, fat trimmed, grilled green pepper stuffed with diced carrots and barbecue sauce, nig glass green tea unsweetened and water
walked a 2 mile track pushing one kid in stroller and chasing other on his big wheel, lots of back tracking, prob went about 2.25 miles
snack artichoke with tablespoon butter, water
well that's gonna be the day, i made my goal of riding, i think i ate pretty well for the day, and i got some extra exercise in with family included, so i'd say it was a good day.
Tommorow, i'm not working, so i'll ride my bike to the gym, work out (make an increase in at least two areas, my permanent workout goal), ride home, continue to eat clean, maybe take my bike to the track and go around once to get up to around 6 miles i would have gone for work. here's hoping for success for me.
Well, for the rest of thday i did well until supper, we went fishing, and caught a nice limit, and i caved in and had to fry them. i fried tem in olive oil at least with just a light dusting of flour and seasoned salt, and had two light beers. but other then tht, i met the goals for the day, including getting in a good workout and upping my squat and push press.
so i guess i lost a point for supper.
tommorow i have a volunteer project at church, it'll be a lot of yard work, digging trenches, pruning trees, and it'll take about 5 hours. then to a wedding in the afternoon.
i'd like to try and maintain clean eating again, ( i don't care for cake, so that should ot be a problem at the wedding, and they're not serving any other foods.)
bad - ate well most of the weekend, family ordered pizza one day, but i ate very clean the rest of the day and when it came i drank a lot of water beforehand, and was happy with two of the smallest pieces and one beer.
real bad - found out my brother was crushed under a pile of dirt on his job site and fractured his pelvis, so that's been a little bit of a stressor, he lives about 7 hours from me, so i'm going to go down and help him out this weekend.
good - got the volunteer thing done, worked hard for about a 9 hour day, the wedding went well, only had a bite of wifes cake. then went fishing, did a lot of walking, and caught a 24" long catfish. (woohoo) long fight with that one. and then the next day i got a 19" bass. (another woohoo) i
good - brother inlaw's family was there as well, he has a spanish wife, so we ate real tacos and fajita's, lot's of fresh vegetables, i went sparing on the tortilla's, and stuck to mostly meat and vegies.
good - got in my workout friday and some more biking and walking over the weekend.
good - woke up this morning and am down 5 pounds from last monday (another woohoo) i think this biking to and from work is paying off
monday was great, ate great all day, got my workout squeezed in, albeit not until 9pm, but i got it, rode to and from work both times. got in some good time with the kids and wife. and talked to my mom and brother. good day all around, all goals met.
Alright, learning as i go here. i'm going to use a format i see people using that i like to keep up to date on my goal progress.
Nutrition 8/10 / 110
Bike rides (one trip, from home to work, and back again is one point) 4/4 / 64
workouts 2/2 / 26
wt loss 5/10
inches change ?/10
Fish caught 1/3 (got the 3 pound bass)
Nutrition 9/11 110
Wife wanted pizza and ice cream for supper last night, but i only had a single slice of pizza and we split a small cone, i didn't eat any of the cone
bike rides 5/5 64
thought i might miss this one this morning because it was pouring rain, but when i was ready to leave, it stopped and the skies cleared up, made it all the way in and it was a cool crisp ride to boot
had to go to bed early, up at 0230 to head into work, today might get messed up a little bit, drove in this morning, try and make up the rides later in the day, gotta work a long day, then this afternoon heading to arkansas to help out brother. so, if i don't get rides in today, i'll prob miss this one this week, unless i can find a bike down there to ride. found a good body wt exercise program to do for friday and monday's lift's while i'm there, so i can stay on top of that.
Bike rides 10/15 (-5) goal 64/86 rides (22 that i can drive)
Workouts 4/5 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days
As i said in the check-in section, had a lot of pasta's, white breads, pizza, mainly for suppers, i was very careful about portion sizes and kept that under control, but i was not clean by any means.
There was no bike down there, and i didn't bring mine, but i'm going to give myself credit for 2 rides, one for cleaning out his truck, did the full service, vaccuming, shampoo'd carpets, armor all'd, washed and waxed the outside. so that's one. and the second, i spent a few hours packing his stuff and carrying out furniture, bed's, tv's, etc, and worked up a good sweat. that was probably more d/t the 90 degree 90% humidity though.
and i got in one body wt workout, the next workout day was monday, but i was on the road coming home, so, i ddin't get it squeezed in, but i plan on making it up by swithing my days to Tues, Thurs, Sat this week, and get caught back up, but until then, i'm gonna count one against myself to give me more motivation to stick to what i'm saying.
Nutrition 19/27 (-8) goal 110/122 points (12 points free)going wellsince back from vacation, but the wife wants to go to des moines saturday to go out with her family, gonna have to be strong.
Bike rides 14/17 (-3) goal 64/86 rides (22 i can drive)made up a few rides yesterday, needed to go to grocery store after work, so i rode instead of drove, and tuesday, i took kids out to park and rode around track with them. so cut my defecit to 3 from 5)
Workouts 5/6 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days - holy cow, took to many days away from the gym, then tried to come in and increase my wt's by the same margin i'd been able to before, and it wiped me out, didn't even finish my final sets cause it hurt to much to pick the wt up, and today, my legs are sore, my chest and back are sore. my leg's were so sore getting out of bed, i was worried about riding my bike to work, but once i got on, it amazes me, it's like, what i needed, they're a little sore at first, but working them like that get's the blood flowing, and by the time i get to work, they feel much better then when i get out of bed, still a little sore, but much better. today i'm going to be starting a new lifting routine, so i'm prob gonna be in for a few days of soreness.
Made a mistake this morning, wanted more then a bowl of cereal before taking off for work, so i made myself a couple eggs with cheese, then went out and got on my bike and realized the mistake i'd made. i was sluggish, almost went down once, even. and it was slow going, i know it took me a good 4-5 minutes longer then usual. kind of a downer from yesterday's good things, but, i still made it. stinkin bike is giving me some nasty callous/blisters on my palms as well, gonna get some gloves this weekend, and a helmet, car's don't look very hard for bikes. and i'm going in to get my bike fitted proffesionally, cause i'v gotten rid of the back pain, but now i'm leaning way to hard on the handle bars.
Bike rides 16/19 (-3) goal 64/86 rides (22 i can drive) yesterday i took a different route, had some huge downhills, some offroad, even a jump, and i cleared through all of it, the jump rattled me a little bit, but this is quite a lot of weight to get propelling through the air on a large jagged piece of metal, so, i was happy i didn't wipe out.
Workouts 6/7 (-1 but i'll prob workout on saturday and make this one up) goal 26/26 days
You definitely need to get your bike properly umm.. yeah, I don't know the word but you know what I am talking about. How is your brother doing? What are you looking at for your new lifting routine?
Newman
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Got the bike in to the shop and it's working much better, need to get a pair of gloves and i should be all set now. weekend was great, went to brotherinlaws, he had a bike trailer that he let us borrow, and we went out sunday, and the kids loved it, almost to much, i rode for about an hour with them, and when we got home, they begged and begged to go a bit further, so we went out again and i rode for another 30 min until they both fell asleep, and it felt really good. im glad we got the trailer. i got caught up on my workouts over the weekend, got in some bonus bike rides, ate well. took the kids to the pool for a couple hours, went and did some work at our church, and i have a short sermon to give this tuesday that i already have prepared, practiced 3 times, and i think i got it down to a T.
Bike rides 23/27 (-4) goal 64/86 got in my rides the last couple of days, but yesterday i got really tired on all the rides, legs were hurting a lot throughout, which at the end of last week they weren't, could be because i added a fifty pound trailer to my bike for several rides this week, so i'm going to take today off from riding to give my legs a little rest, then ride the rest of the week, then i won't be able to ride again sat or sun, then i'll get about 6 days off when i go to minnesota, then i'll be rowing boats all day long. but my legs will get a nice rest.
Nutrition 31/39 (-8) goal 110/122 going fine, nothing to really report these past couple days. i got tired of doing the full diary thing, don't really have the time anyways. so, i guess this will be a documentation by exception, if alls good, it's short, i'll only tell when i fall.
inches, don't know yet, wt is still the same, but i pulled an old pair of slacks for a suit i used to be able to wear out of the closet, and they fit, a bit snug, but that's better then what they were(about an inch between button and hole) and another pair that i was having to wear a belt for, i got told that it looked like i had two pair of pants folded together, the fabric was so bunched up. so i retired those pants away. so i'm gonna try an remember to get new measurements this afternoon.
Ell, like i said in my post on the thorns and roses, i hvae been keeping a written diary, but since i was out in the middle of nowhere in minnesota, i had no access to internets, tv's, no cell phones... it was great but now i'm back to work and have gotten caught up, so i shuld be on here again daily or close to that to keep this going.
Nutrition 60/76 110/122 (-16, goal was -12) Well, i blew this while i was there. the people i was there with fried everything, and i got away with good breakfasts and lunches everyday when we fended for ourselves, but when the cooked the other nights, they fried fish, and they brought tons of pop. no diet, i brought 25 bottles of diet nestea green tea, which i was able to drink most of the time, as well as a lot of water, but when i didn't bring enough, and after being on the boat in the hot sun for ten hours, the coke and mountain dew and beer started looking really good, the good thing though is, that, while i didn't lost any wt while gone, i didn't gain either, so i guess the hard work we did balanced me out, bu tit's a good thing i was good when i could be, cause after words in talking to them, everyone else gained a few pounds while there.
Bike rides 44/44 goal 64/86 got caught back up on these, as i said before, i was going to allow my rowing boats while at the cabin count in for bike rides, i counted two per day, although i'm sure i rowed much further then i ride my bike to work. then after getting back, i took the kids on a couple bike rides after workl, one of them going 16 miles in one shot, pulling a trailer with 60 pounds of kid in it. i haven't ridden to work yet since i've been back, but i have been riding a lot after work, tommorow, i'll start with the work rides again. gonna kinda suck, as it's been 85 degrees when i wake up at 630 am, and 95 by lunch time.
Workouts 14/16 goal 26/26 well, these suffered a little while i was gone, i got in a few body wt routines while gone, but in the rush of working 16 hour days trying to get things done so i could go on vacation, i missed two workouts, and am too late to make them up now. so, bummer. i'll just try and get back into my routine again.
Fish caught 3/3 woohoo, blew this out of the water caught several more 3+ pound bass, got a 6 pound walleye, and a 34 inch northern pike.
so thats the short version of what i did the past week and couple days. it was a great rest, sometimes i wish i could go up there on myown or with just my wife though, cause if i could eat healthy along with all the activity we do, i bet i could lose a lot of wt from that trip. i really wish i could be out on that lake right now though, i miss the cool water, the hot sun, and the quick tugs on the end of my line that tell me i'm in for a good fight.
Bike rides 46/47 goal 64/86 we've got a big group going on a bike ride this afternoon, about 20 of us with kids and trailers and all, so i'm gonna save myself for that, the route i picked out is about a 20 mile round trip, so, it's just gonna come down to how many of us can make it. most of the people haven't rode a bike since they were kids, or if they do, it's just to go out and around the block, and they're done. so, i'm gonna have to do some major pushing
65/81 goal 110/122 nothing special and no major challenges here
bike rides 49/49 well, we got 4 miles down the trail, and a few people started complaining, we got to 6 miles, and the majority of the group wanted to stop to rest, so we took a break, and after that, we decided that we should head back, d/t some of the group looking like they were going to faint. on the return trip, we had to stop two more times, there were a few of us that were still feeling really good about going, so we may try again later with just a few this time. but it was positive overall, most said they'd like to keep trying to get built up to be able to go the whole 20 mile trip, and doing 12 miles, i'd say were off to a pretty good start.
bike rides 56/72 goal 64/86 well, this sucks, i got into an acciddent yesterday and totally destroyed my bike, so, i'm going to have to ask if i can switch out bike riding for walking and hopefully i can get it repaired or get a new one before the challenge is over
nothing else to post, no bike ride this morning, due to loss of bike, i actually might be able to get a new one today, we'll see if iwas nice enough to my wife yesterday or not :p
91/107 been really sick the past few days, so i haven't been able to eat much, been all vegetable soup and as much meat(which ain't much) as i can handle.
nothing else, see my entry on roses and thorns for this week for more details
Nutrition, again, and nothing else, 95/111. went to the chiroprater yesterday d/t some horrible headaches i've been having since sunday, he said two vertebrae in my neck are about as far out of whack as they can possibly go, he said it's probably going to take 2 or 3 treatments to get them back in line, great, that'll be another 100 or so bucks down the drain. other then that, nothing. nothing at all.
Alright, Last week, and i got some changes besides utrition to make!
Nutrition 103/119, goal 110/122, gonna be below, but not horribly
Workouts 20/25 goal 26/26 got over the sickness finally and saturday i did a body wt routine, it wore me out, i felt like i was gonna pass out, but the day after and today, i feel fine, so tonight, i'm gonna actually hit the gym and lift for real, restarting slowly
bike rides 59/83 goal 64/86 felt so good about getting the workout in, i went for a bike ride and got in on a pickup game of volleyball, and kicked some major butt! woohoo.
wt- 245 goal 245! i think this had something to do with the fact that i couldn't eat more then a quarter plate of food at a time for a week. i'm afraid it's not gonna be all good loss.
Joshuaseu's Training log for 61 day challenge
but now i'm back to work and have gotten caught up, so i shuld be on here again daily or close to that to keep this going. 
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