Down a few more pounds. 🙂 Still haven’t started back exercising but plan to this upcoming week. Just don’t think I should start running again until I get the weight under 190.
So I’ll be hitting the weights, elliptical, and possible biking to get my calorie burn on.
Heading to Gulf Breeze today for Rachel’s mom’s 60th birthday party, but neither of us want to stay the night so we’ll be heading back after the party. So looks like there will be a lot of driving in my near future.
Down nearly a pound from yesterday by simply monitoring what I ate. My goal for the next few months is to lose 12lbs per month, which equates to 3lbs a week. It would be a lot easier to obtain if my knee wasn’t messed up and I could do some cardio. But it is what it is and I must make the most of it.
Another thing I want to see is to no longer see a weight gain on the scale whenever I weigh in. It can remain the same or be less, but I’m going to try to avoid seeing that number go up ever again. I believe proper nutrition week be the key. More now than ever since I cannot do any cardio exercise.
Focus T25. 25 intense minutes!
Thinking about joining the Beachbody Challenge. Anyone know anything about it?
Per the rules of FitBet II, I have to post my weight each M, W, And Saturday. So here is today’s weigh in. 221.6. About the same as yesterday.
I ate clean all day except that I did have one Coke with my lunch yesterday. So nothing else to report.
Officially started Focus T25 yesterday. It’s a home boot camp style workout similar to Insanity or P90X. The beautiful thing about this workout is that it only takes 25 minutes. However, there are no “official”breaks so it is tiring and you do sweat a lot. But it’s fun so far. 5 days a week, for a total of 10 weeks.
So I weighed in at an astonishing two-hundred and twenty pounds this morning. I’m well off my target weights and somewhat spiraling out of control. I told myself I’d never let my weight get back into the 220’s, yet here I sit.
My diet has been shit lately (of course). It’s no big mystery how I gain weight back or how I stall my weight loss. All I have to do is look at what I’ve been eating. Laziness and complacency have been my biggest enemies.
As I’ve said in recent posts, the FitBet was supposed to create a sense of urgency to lose weight, but as I got behind on my weight loss, it became obvious that I won’t win the bet. Now I’m in limbo. I still want to lose the weight and get back to being fit, but I no longer have that beacon guiding me. It’s kind of like going to college but not knowing what you want to do with your life. You take some classes here and there to make it feel like you’re doing something, but you’re really just spinning your wheels because you don’t have that ultimate goal to guide your path.
It’s funny, because in a recent post I thought the constant reminder of the clock ticking and counting down to a deadline was too stressful, but it seems that’s exactly what I really need.
What’s my ultimate goal? I’m not really sure any more. I know I’d like to get my weight down to around 175. I’d like to be able to run races more often – not necessarily to compete against other people, but to set PRs for myself – although I would like to one day be competitive against Rick again.
There are still many other fitness goals that I’d like to achieve (look under the tab “Gator Strong” above), but without an attainable fitness bet pushing me, I’m stuck taking classes without a major, so to speak. It’s not fair for me to ask Rick to postpone the FitBet Deadline again. He’s done about everything he can do to motivate me.
I had a major setback when my mother passed away, and it’s been tough getting back on the horse, although I do feel that I’m not that far away. I’m teetering. I just need that extra little Push. That incentive that will fire me up again. In the back of my mind I feel like I’ll ultimately reach my fitness goals, but without a time urgency (like FitBet) reminding me to “Get up and Go!” I’m simply continuing to slack and put it off like I had been doing for years leading up to the start of this blog.
Hoping to find resolution soon…
My weight has remained stagnant for several weeks now. Just teetering below the dreaded 220 mark. I’ve done just enough to make sure to not cross that barrier again, but not nearly enough to start losing the fat on a regular basis like I was early on in my Fit Gator journey. I really wanted to get under 200 lbs for my trip to Gainesville, but that is fast approaching in only 15 days. Blink and it will be here before you know it.
I wasn’t really sure why I’m not losing weight. I mean, yeah, I know physically it’s because of poor nutritional choices and not exercising as much as I should. But I was trying to go deeper. To figure out what mental block has been holding me back. Where is the drive and determination that I used to have? Where has that desire to be the Fit Gator gone?
Some days I have it – that spark. I’ll eat well and exercise my ass off. I’ll lose a couple of pounds and breathe a sigh of relief, “I can still do this.”, Other days I don’t have it. I don’t get enough sleep and I get super lazy and complacent. I don’t prepare or plan out my meals so I eat crap like Subway or Chick-Fil-A. And because I’m so sluggish, I’ll down a Coke in hopes that the caffeine will perk me up. But the sugar rush usually gets me crashing about the time I’m home from work and need to do my Insanity workout. I do the workouts, but often I’m so lethargic that I’ll half-ass them, taking unauthorized breaks when I probably don’t really need to – definitely not ‘digging deeper’ as Shaun T yells at me to do. Then I’ll skip my late night cardio sessions. All this usually leads to a small weight gain the next morning. I see 220 approaching and I force myself to dial it back to make sure I never weigh that much ever again.
On a positive note, I guess that’s better than it was, when there were many more days that I didn’t have any motivation than when I did. But “better than I was” is far from where I need to be. It’s not good enough. It’s still shit. Ah, but there is light at the end of this tunnel…
I had a good talk with my wife Rachel the other night. We analyzed the mental barriers that have been holding me back and how to break through them. We acknowledged that deep within me, that flame of desire still burns. The Fit Bet, the side bets, all of that was there to help motivate me, but they’ve come to discourage me. The countdown of days until the deadline, which was supposed to create a sense of urgency, has ultimately backfired.
Inside my mind, knowing how far behind I got on my weight loss after my mother passed, has caused me to think very negatively. Like “Why even try? There’s physically no way a 40-year-old man can lose that amount of weight in this remaining amount of time.” So I talk myself out of exercising. I talk myself into eating fast food. “I can’t win the bet, so why try?” But Rachel helped me see the big picture. This isn’t about buying Rick some beer or wearing a stupid t-shirt. This isn’t about just hitting a goal weight. This is about getting healthy. This is about adding years to my life. This is about being a role model for my kids. This is about a lifestyle change. This is about living!
SDV.
Rise and shine. You know I’m kind of sick going round and round on my weight here. The other day I lost 4 and a half pounds in one day by combining calorie restriction and hella amounts of cardio.
Then I made the mistake of going out with my buddy Will for beers on Saturday night. Sunday morning I went golfing with another friend and knocked back tons of soda due to the heat on the links. Weight was up to 217.6 yesterday morning. In addition to my Insanity workout, I only got in that little amount of cardio while sleep running last night (see my last post) and now am down just shy of a pound.
There are now 24 days until Gainesville. As I mentioned in earlier posts I’d really like to get down below two bills by then. If I shoot to lose a pound a day (on average) from now until then o think I can do it. I’ll really to need to focus on my diet. I’d also like to get in two full cardio sessions each day.
So for the next few weeks, I’m not going to worry about any fitness bets or ultimate goals, I’m just going to focus on that magic number, 199. Put all my energy into reaching that by August 30th. It will be my lowest weight to date and the first time in 14 years that I’ve weighed less than two hundred pounds. A milestone.
218.6
Yep. Sad I know. I was actually up to 219.6 yesterday. Had to stop this train wreck just shy of falling back into the 220’s. But that is not going to happen, I assure you.
There are now exactly four weeks (28 days) left until I go down to Gainesville for the opening weekend of college football. Although the FitBet Deadline has been pushed back an additional month to the end of September, I would like to be at my lowest weight yet by this first trip down there. I know I won’t be able to lose “30 pounds in 34” days as I so optimistically hoped for in my post six days ago. A more realistic approach, albeit still lofty, is to lose 20 lbs in the next 28 days. That will put me below 200 pounds, and back into “Onederland” for the fist time since 1999! I will be at my lowest weight yet on this FitGator journey and well on my way to obtaining my ultimate goal of getting my weight back down to the 170-175 lb range. Plus if I can do it, this will break the rut I’ve been in for a few months now, which I desperately need to do.
That being said… I will be going underground for the next four weeks. You will not see any posts from me until August 30th arrives. Now I will still post to my blog periodically, but I won’t “publish” it until August 30th. Once 8/30 hits, I’ll publish all my posts that I’ve made up to that point from here on out. The main reason I’m doing this, is because I want there to be some suspense. Some drama. Can I actually do it? Rick and I spoke (and I posted about this early on) and it was decided that I would go “silent” the final month of the journey. Much like they do in The Biggest Loser, where we see the contestants weigh in each week, but then they leave for 12 weeks on their own before the finale. We only get to see what they’ve accomplished on the final show.
I know this isn’t the end of Fit Bet, that comes at the end of September. I’ll likely post normally again the final month after this initial August 30th deadline. I have a couple of other really interesting ideas on how to continue on my Fit Gator blog once I reach my goal weight. And make no mistake, I will do it. Come Hell or high water, I will do reach my desired weight – even if I fail to do it by the FitBet Deadline. I’ll know that I’m on the right path. I’ll be healthier (and lighter) and fitter by the time that comes around. Even if I lose the bet and have to wear that Godforsaken t-shirt to the Vanderbilt/Florida game, I will still be overwhelmingly happy at how far I’ve come and excited about the direction I’m heading.
I will still be following all of you other fitness bloggers out there, and I’ll be updating my Fit Gator blog behind the scenes as this next month presses on. Just remember that I’ll release all my new blog posts for anyone who’s interested, on August 30th.
So until that day arrives, I bid you adieu. Stay fit my friends.
Sacrifice. Dedication. Victory.
Down a pound and a half since I issued that warning to myself two days ago. There are now just 34 days until I go down to Gainesville for the Toledo game. And even though we’ve extended the FitBet Deadline to the end of September, I’d still like to lose as much weight as possible by this first game.
So my lofty goal for the next 34 days is to lose 30 pounds. I know, I know… Impossible. But I have to set the bar high enough to really push myself. I can just imagine being 187 lbs when I get there! That’s crazy! And would leave me 12 lbs away from winning FitBet with a month to go.
The Fit Gator ran with MapMyRun! Distance: 3.16mi, time: 35:06, pace: 11:06min/mi, speed: 5.41mi/h.
http://mapmyrun.com/workout/338942875
Then the humidity got the best of me yet again so I decided to walk a little bit…
The Fit Gator then walked with MapMyRun! Distance: 2.85mi, time: 51:17, pace: 18:01min/mi, speed: 3.33mi/h.
http://mapmyrun.com/workout/338987203
Tomorrow’s weigh-in target is 216.0
Well I didn’t get below 213, but I’m still making progress. Down roughly another half pound for a total of two pounds in two days. I’ll take it! Would be awesome to average a pound a day, but I know that’s highly unlikely so I’ll just keep chipping away at it.
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