Weighing In Before A Huge Milestone

It’s been an rough few weeks and today was weigh in day this morning. I have a fairly huge personal milestone I’m working toward next Wednesday, being under 300 pounds. First I’m just going to get the numbers out of the way.

It’s been a few weeks since I last recorded my weight here (other than the sidebar), I was kinda busy last week and before that I have no idea. Anyhow, here we go:

Previous Weight (03/03/2010) — 311.4 lbs
Current Weight — 302.6 lbs
Change In Weight — -8.8 lbs in 3 weeks, or -2.9 lbs per week
Lbs From Milestone — 2.7 lbs

Overall I’m extremely happy with those numbers, especially considering last weeks challenges and my feelings on a lackluster performance. I certainly was surprised when I stepped on the scale middle of last week that I hadn’t slid as far as I mentally felt I had. For once my own mind was harder on me than the damn scale, score!

Random scale observation

An interesting little tidbit about my weight, especially consider all the random scale weight conversations on twitter as of late. I was at the doctor office last Friday for Bradley’s first appoint, he’s doing awesome so far. While we were there I decided to step on the scale … I know the sign says not to do it without the doctor or nurse present but I’m a rebel and fairly adult like. Anyhow, the scale said I weighed ~303 lbs which is a far cry from what my scale said that morning which was 309.

I share this not because I don’t trust my scale, but because it highlights how arbitrary and random the whole scale thing is. It’s about your overall better health and fitness, not random scales spewing numbers and certainly not a single measurement at a moment in time. Who knows why your weight is what it is? Anything from delayed bowl movements, salt consumption, or too many carbs can throw some peoples weight into a tissy. What’s more important is if your getting healthy and fit over time and how you feel in your new body.

Musings on the last few weeks

I went back to work on Monday after only a week off which was a huge mistake. If you ever have a child or are planning on having one I can offer one piece of advice, take more than a week off. Part of me wishes I worked for one of my previous companies that gave 12 weeks paid baby time off for men and women. But I don’t, I work for myself, and I’m dumb and promise too much to my clients. But I digress …

I was sitting at my desk on Monday and it finally started hitting me that I have another child. I have another responsibility and little person looking up to me to care for them. It was then that I started getting worried about consulting. Sure it’s helping us get ahead a bit financially but at what risk? I know that few companies now days truly value their employees and that stability is often a perception more than a reality. The first few bad quarters and they start cutting jobs, usually the consultants.

I’m fortunate that my wife and I are fiscally responsible and that we were able to dump our investment home in this market. That goes a long way to making consulting viable, without the planning and financial security I don’t know that my head wouldn’t be exploding right now. With the new baby, my daughter growing up so fast, me trying to find time to get healthy, and lots of random stressors at work I’m being pulled in a million directions.

Writing it all down certainly helps … thanks for listening.

The Upcoming Milestone

On to something a bit more fun and invigorating. I know I just got done telling you that the scale isn’t as important as your overall improved health but reaching weight goals is also very exciting and invigorating. This time next week I plan to be announcing that I’ve broken through this 300 pounds barrier. It’s going to be very huge seeing that number in the 200′s.

It’ll be the culmination of everything I’ve been working on this year. I’ve really changed a lot of things from previous attempts at get healthy. Heck, I will have dropped over 45 pounds this year when I hit this milestone … somethings working!

I’ve been blogging more, talking more, eating tons more whole real food, and doing a lot of different types of exercises. I’ve really strived to reinvent and reinvest in me this year. Out with all of my old inefficient and ineffective patterns that weren’t getting me very far very fast.

Wish me luck this week, your motivation helps keep me (and so many others) going.

Have you done your new year or spring cleaning retrospective to cleaned up your lifestyle yet?

• New Year, My First Weigh In
• An Interim Midweek Weigh-In
• Weigh-In Friday, Triathlon Update
• Friday Weigh-In, Turning It Up A Notch
• Quick Doctors Checkup, High Blood Pressure