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Interesting how when you quit exercising, the mind fights getting started. Then when you get started, you have to fight the mind to scale back at times.

lol. I'm a flowchart kind of guy. But I still appreciate Sloth. Just have to dig through to find what I'm looking for.

Have a plan A, B, and C. I workout daily, but have multiple types of w/o's. Yesterday I wasn't feeling well, so I just did 5min treadmill + stretching. Anything to get movement in. Hardest part is starting. Great job for getting the ball rolling. Awesome. Keep up the momentum. Keep reminding yourself of that. I always say you age 2yrs for every yr after 50. And more as time goes on. I'm 57 now. My brain still wants perform like I used to, but the body comes up w/ a different ache to everyweek to remind me thats not possible. I'm just shooting for daily movement now.

Enjoy reading about your progress. Is a supinated pulldown when you lean back? Cable pulldowns are currently my favorite exercise. I do 5-6 sets and the back feels great when I get done.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 1/15 Wt: 185.4 Was my day a success? Yes. New low wt of 185.4. I figure the dramatic wt loss of 1lb over 1 day is due to my 1.5mi hike yesterday (or my scale is acting up). Thats twice now I had a huge loss after hiking. I still think its just sweat from walking. Although it was freezing yesterday, I had enough clothes on that I had to take my hat off part w/ through the hike so that I would cool down. Woke up w/ sore throat and upset stomach. Even though it felt like a "man" cold, I persevered through work today. I texted my wife that I had a man cold and she replied asking if I had called an ambulance to take me to the emergency room. Ate my first wrap today. It was not as good as the one from Avanti's, but it was still good and a welcome respite from my usual salad + meat. I have enough fixins to eat these all week. I cut off as much of the spinach wrap (the outer layer) as I could since the breaded wrap has 220 cals. Wife had homemade chicken noodle soup for me when I got home. Wish she had not made such a big pot as I want to get back on salad + meat within a day or to. Although I don't know what I would do for meat. The pork chops I grilled over the weekend tasted kinda funny so I threw them out tonight. Although I was feeling better by the time I got home, since I felt poor this morning, I did not work out tonight. NOT!. Went to gym, did 5min tread and stretching. Just something to keep the habit ingrained. Best news of all, I did not catch any appliances on fire like Sloth did. Of course, I didn't use any either. Workout: 5min tread + stretching. Eating: Breakfast- Protein shake Lunch- Chicken/bacon/romaine/tomato wrap Dinner- Chicken and noodle soup + 2 slices bread. Before bed- Probably a slice of cheese later, maybe one small piece of fudge. Or a banana or a pear. 1soda

Use this as an excuse to insist your wife does all the cooking when she is at home. Safety issue. lol. Now get on the trainer.

Can you "freeze" the top row of data? That way we could always see your starting stats (basically starting wt at Jan 4). Great progress. I haven't been recording waist size. I kind of just go by pant size and belt loop position. Right now I just want to be able to button my pants. I didn't want to buy new pants, so to make them fit, I leave them unbuttoned and let my shirt hang out. Also, why did the "Goal Waist" column figures change from 1/7 to 1/14? Thought the goal would remain the same. Or is that the goal for the next week? See you when we both reach our chosen state of "reduced-weightness". I'll be bitchen if you don't follow through with me.

Definitely a member of the Kick Azz club for your week. 8.5miles but was feeling tired. No biggie....for Xena.

Week 2 summary: Very happy with my second week. Eating was excellent everyday - my main meals were all salad + plain meat (I went to McD's once, but I'm OK w/ that). 7 days of workouts (twice on Sunday). Reduce intensity to prevent burnout and shoulder pain, changed some stretches to prevent back pain. 3.4lb wt loss (much of that was just getting my stomach from its normally filled to capacity condition down to just enough to get by to my next meal capacity). I'm so happy I'm going to get out of my box and post a gif: One again, I'm happy enough that I'm going to post a gif

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 1/14 Wt: 186.4 Was my day a success? Yes. New low wt of 186.4. Today I: Worked out twice. Hoping to solidify the drop below 187lb and get ready to move into the 185's. Ate excellent. Made my wrap for the tomorrow. First wrap I've made in forever. Forgot to add a strip of bacon. Don't want to unfold and add it as that might cause the wrap to start to crease and decrease the structural integrity of the wrap. Can't have my wrap falling apart. Also forgot to cut it in half like they do in the resteraunts. Got the internet working again. Wife is happy. Had to facetime with my son at college so he could help me get the Wii programmed to find the internet signal from the new router Frontier sent me. Workout: Back focus and 1.5m hike Eating: Breakfast- Protein shake Lunch- BLT only Dinner- Salad and porkchop. Before bed- Probably a slice of cheese later, maybe one small piece of fudge. Or a banana. 1soda

Since I've made the changes to my workouts (stopped one of my stretching exercises, reduced wt on the twisting resistance machine), the back pain seems to be decreasing. Hoping that will take care of it. I do #2 that Xena mentioned above. I do a version The Most Loathed told me about. First I squat down. Then straighten the knees as I stand but keep my fingers near the ground. Then lower into the squat again. And I've stopped trying to force stretching further. The first few reps my fingers are slightly off the ground. As I do more reps and my muscle loosens, my fingers are touching, sometimes my middle knuckles. I could press further, but like Xena said, I'm just going where gravity takes me. I'm sure as time goes by, I'll get further, but I'm not going to force it. My loving wife microwaves a couple lb's for me. I'll eat some w/ BLT, a couple strips w a salad, but never just snack on it. Proud Mary was the typical bad azz shoot-em-up where the good character never misses and the bad guys can't shoot worth a darn (even w/ machine guns they miss). Plus she can like an MMA pro, even while wearing hi-heeled boots. It was opening weekend and there were about 8 people in the theater. That should tell you something. I also saw Commuter with Lian Neelson (sp?). That movie was very typical for his roles. I like his acting and his movies and enjoyed this one. Opening weekend and the theater was crowded.

lol I like that.

Dusting the couch?????

Do you have to get recertified every year?

I missed your succesful first week. Great job and hope to hear about another successful week. I like achievers so I'm following.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 1/13 Wt: 187.0 Was my day a success? Yes. Any day I continue to develop the exercise habit is a success. While I want to lose wt, my definition of success this month is daily exercise. Snow was all melted and ground was frozen so I put the new Merrill hiking shoes on that I got for Xmas and hikes the 1.5m trail near me. Very nice hike despite the cold temps. Got prepared for this weeks meals. Restocked what I needed for salads. Bought some porkchops and grilled them. I'm going to make "wraps" for my lunch this week so I bought what I needed for those - spinach wrap, peppercorn ranch dressing, chicken, bacon, and tomato. Yummy. Went to work and did some SolidWorks training. Wish we had laptops where I worked so I could train on it at home. Thats about it. It's been very slow on NF lately. Lots of people barely posting. Workout: 1.5m hike Eating: Breakfast- Protein shake Lunch- BLT only Dinner- Salad only Before bed- Going to movie tonight so small popcorn and soda. (Going to see Proud Mary. Probably a dumb movie but I'm a sucker for shoot-em-ups.) 1soda

Actually, I think it is 39 on the way I take to Wausau. There was one place that my friend and I always laughed at where there were 2 buildings in the middle of a long stretch right next to each other. You could buy cheese in one and get porn in the other. There was also a sleazy run down motel next to them.

Looking forward to hearing more about your workouts and progress. I'm learning a new program as well (SolidWorks). My only access to it is at work so I do a training module for about 30min each work day by going in early. I also go in for an hour Sat and Sun. They think I'm really gung-ho working all the extra time. Little do they know the reason I'm developing this skill is to increase my skill level and then look for other work. I have more of a boring flow chart personality. There is no vibrating in my life. lol

1/12 Wt: 186.8. Was my day a success? Yes. Wt hit a new low of 186.8. Continues to trend down. My goal was a 5lb loss for the month, but now I'm thinking an easy 8lb loss. Eating was on target. Will be working out after this post. Going to a movie so may not have time to post later. It's amazing how they are always trying to get me to join there "club" so I can get free upgrades on my popcorn and soda. Really, the upgrade is about 3/4 of a gal of popcorn and a good 32oz of soda. Does one person need that much? Certainly not much exciting happened at work other than one of our key engineers is leaving the company. At a small company, that hits hard. Plus another guy who does a lot of record keeping based on the engineers works is going to be off for a month or two. And I continue to learn SolidWorks which increases my skill level and opens opportunities at other employers for me. I'll probably be there at least 6 more months though. Workout: Chest focus Eating: Breakfast- Protein shake Lunch- Salad and burger patty Dinner- BLT only. Before bed- Going to movie tonight so small popcorn and soda. 1soda

Last night I was dreaming that I was eating chocolate peanut clusters and over snacking.

I re-found you. Looking for inspiration.

TALK IS CHEAP. ACTION IS ALL THAT MATTERS. 1/11 Wt: 187.0 Was my day a success? Yes. Wt hit a new low of 187.0. Eating was on target. Got my w/o done. Treated myself to a BLT and a small handful of chips for dinner. Tasted great. I love BLT's. I have definitely decided to lighten up on the intensity of my w/o's. Have to remember that 11 days is not really enough to go from not doing much to trying to go full throttle 7 days/wk. I'm experiencing lower back pain which I wasn't before I started exercising. Not enough to stop me from exercising, but enough to say "slow down and let the spine heal a little". So tonight, for my cardio/core w/o, I dropped my speed on the tread from 4.6 to 4.4. 4.6 is the fast speed I can powerwalk before I have to switch to a job. Jogging on treads is another thing that hurts my spine, which I learned a few years ago. I also reduced the wt on the resistance twisting machine, and tweaked a few other exercises. Still enough to raise the HR significantly and increase my breathing rate, but not like I was doing where I was sweating and panting. Definitely felt better. I like the idea of everyday exercise, but you can't go all out every day. Worked on SolidWorks module this morning. Always a win. Lost my car key in the snow at work last week. Finally yesterday after the snow had melted, a co-worker found it. All the buttons on it actually still worked. Workout: Cardio/core Eating: Breakfast- Protein shake Lunch- Salad and pork chop Dinner- BLT and a small quantity of chips. Before bed- 1or2 slices of cheese. Dang pears just won't seem to ripen. 1soda

I love it when a plan comes together. Great job on working out and pushing forward on your progression. Thats why I come here. You say you are going to do it and then get it done.

For the hiking, skiing, camping, whitewater kayaking on great rivers + one of the best man made courses there is in Wausau, lakes, mountains, rivers, etc. I love coming up to Wisconsin. (Found out I am classified as a FIB in Wisconsin, lol). If I had to move somewhere, that would be my choice (besides maybe Colorado). Oh, and they have more adult books stores along the highways than just about any place I've been to (just an observation).

I'm out of control. lol