Normal Guy Fitness & Weight Loss

I did not get on the scale this morning. I hurt my foot earlier in the week and I have not been able to do an actual workout all week. My foot is healing so I hope to be back in the routine early next week.

I have still done pretty good this week with watching what I have been eating. Been having a couple bowls of fruit a day and drinking a lot of water. I feel pretty good. I have had some slips with my smoking but I am determined to quit and not slip, will keep working on that.

I do not think I did to bad this week, even with not being able to workout but I just couldn’t get on the scale this morning, was worried that I might have slipped too much and that would be pretty discouraging. Hopefully everything will be back to normal next week.

Sunday night I cut my right foot. Not a small cut, a huge gash, that bleed like you would not believe.

It hurt like hell and bleed all over the place. I am probably going to have to stay off the eliptical machine for at least a few days so I don’t expect this to be a week that I lose much weight.

My eating is going pretty good. I am eating more fruits and drinking several bottles of water a day. I have cut back the sodas from around a six pack a day to one with lunch and then just 2 in the evenings.

I do feel a little better even if I am not losing much.

Hopefully I can get back into my exercise routine in the next couple of days after my foot heals a little.

Howdy all, it has been a pretty long week. Things have been busy at work and at home so I have not had time to post any thoughts this week. I will try to do better next week.

I had a pretty good week. Been trying to eat better and I have been drinking a lot of water during the day. Working out every afternoon and feeling pretty good.

Weigh in: 227 lbs.

I did not lose any this week, in fact I am up a pound from last week. Not sure how that happened but it doesn’t discourage me. Going to take a good look at how I am eating and see what I can do better.

I feel good about the progress I have made this week. I am really starting to get into my routine. Exercising in the afternoon and controlling my portions better. Still eating basically what I want just not as much.

I have also started drinking more water. It is not to bad, I still prefer diet sodas. I have cut down to only 2 or 3 diet pepsis a day and I am drinking several bottles of water.

This weeks weigh in: 226 lbs!
Thats down 3 pounds from last week!
Like I said I feel good about the progress I have made this week.

Things have been going pretty good. I am getting into a good routine of exercising in the afternoons. I am doing at least 45 minutes on the Eliptical machine and I am feeling pretty good.

I am also getting a bit better at controlling my portions and making sure I eat smaller portions several times a day instead of just a huge dinner. I have been eat ing some fruit at least once a day and I am also trying to drink more water and less diet sodas.

Tomorrow is my weigh in and I am hoping for a little better results than last week. I know it is going to take time and I am not discourage I am going to keep working at it.

We had a great weekend in Ocracoke. It is a great place to just get away and relax, especially this time of year since there is really no one else there.

Saturday we rode bikes around the island and took a good walk on the beach.

I didn’t eat too bad, even though Howard’s Pub is a real temptation (Howard’s hush puppies are awesome). We did eat at Howard’s both nights (it’s the only thing open this time of year) but we did not over do it. I had a fish sandwich on Friday night and a couple of crab cakes on Saturday.

We carried some healthy snacks with us to keep us from going to the convience store and buying a bunch of junk. Some 100 calorie oreo cookie packs, a few oranges, bottled water, and diet pepsi. When we don’t have snacks with us we end up at the general store buying bags of chocolate dounuts. I am digging the oranges and I am almost out, need to stop and pick up some more.
Now it’s back to work and back to the routine. Weighed in this morning and I am still holding steady at 229 lbs. I still have a long way to go but I will get there.

Had a pretty good week I think. Did not lose a lot of weight as you will see in a minute but I did start getting into the routine of working out in the afternoons.

Friday 2/23/07 Weigh In: 229lbs.

OK so that is only 1lb down this week. I am a little disappointed because I did work pretty hard this week and I have really tried to stay on track with eating better, but I think getting into the routine is just as important as losing the weight. I will keep working at it and eventually I will get into a routine and get a handle on my diet, then I should see better results.

Sandy (my wonderful wife) and I are headed out of town for the weekend. It has been a really stressful week at work for the both of us and we just need a break. We are headed down to Ocracoke Island, NC - one of our favorite places to go. We are packing some healthy snacks and I will try to control myself at Howard’s Pub (the food there is AWESOME). Will do a lot of walking and bike riding around the island so it should be a good weekend.

Have a good weekend. Be back on Monday.

I have smoked cigarettes and cigars for as long as I can remember. Since high school actually. Remember when smoking was not a big deal? What about when anyone could be cigarettes? I am not anti-smoke. If you want to smoke, by all means smoke. I even enjoy being around people who smoke. I still enjoy the smell of a cigarette or a good (or even a bad) cigar.

On January 1, 2007 I decided to quit smoking. Yes I know it is corny but it was my New Years Resolution. I have tried to quit several times in the past and have always been unsuccessful. The longest I ever actually quit for was for a week, one of the longest weeks of my life. This time though I decided I would try to get some help from a patch.

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I try to eat pretty decent and I try to eat at least 3 meals a day. Yesterday was a good day.

I had my usual breakfast, a bowl of cereal (Lucky Charms, hey they are magically delicious) with skim milk. Around 10 AM I had an orange for a snack. For lunch I stopped by the Food Lion and picked up a thing of fresh pineapple. After my workout I had a couple more chunks of fresh pineapple. Then for Dinner we all went to Firehouse Subs and I had a “small” club on a sub.

My wife and I eat out a lot, I mean a whole lot. We go out to eat probably 4 nights a week. Most of the time it is to sit down restaurants, but sometimes it is fast food.

My whole out look on this is I don’t want to really change what I eat, I don’t think I eat that bad. I do however need to work a bit on portion control. Just like lastnight at Firehouse Subs - I had to make a decision between a large sub and a small sub.

The large sub would have been good and I could have eaten it all and been very satisfied, instead I went with the half-size. The half-size sub was also very good, it had all the same stuff as the large one - ham, turkey, bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato - and after I finished eating it I was just as satisfied as I would have been if I had stuffed down a whole sub.

Portion control is what I want to focus on and it is probably going to be one of the hardest things to get a handle on.

I just finished my afternoon workout. I try to do at least 45 minutes on my elliptical machine 3 or 4 times a week. I enjoy working out on the elliptical and I always feel good when I complete a workout on it.

I currently weigh-in at 230 lbs. Now this is not the heaviest I have ever been, several years ago I was pushing nearly 300 lbs, but I have also been right much lighter. My goal is to get down to (and maintain) somewhere around 195 lbs.

The purpose of this site is more for myself motivation, to help me try to stay on target, keep track of what I am doing. If someone else enjoys reading it or maybe even gets some useful info out of that would be a plus.

I am not sure exactly what I am going to write about here. I am not a writer by any means, if you read this you will probably notice that my grammer and spelling are just shy of terrible. I will probably try to post a few times a week, if not more often. I think I will most likely post at least one weighin a week and I will try to pick an afternoon that I am able to post this on the samel day every week.

Later this week I will probably post a bit on what I think about diets and gyms.

Now it’s off to the shower and then to figure out what is for dinner.