Weighing In And My First Interview

It’s been a few weeks since I last weighed in. As I said yesterday, I was on vacation for a while and didn’t eat perfectly. Let’s get on to the weigh-in to see the damage:

Previous Weight — 287.8 lbs
Current Weight — 288.4 lbs
Change In Weight — +0.6 lbs

That’s a gain of a little over half a pound … I’ll take it and move on. I wasn’t expecting a loss this week, especially given that I took 9 days off from tracking or watching like a hawk what I ate. I knew it was mostly a water weight gain but it was still a gain. It’s certainly a testament to circuit training that I was able to drop 3.4 lbs of water weight in 2 x 20 min circuit training workouts and 1 x 40 min weight training workout. I would have done more but I’ve been kinda time constrained lately.

My goals for this coming week is a really clean food week with lots of exercise. At least one workout session per day and if I can fit two then even better. Usually when I do two it means a long walk with the family or maybe a bike ride with my daughter in the trailer. I also want to make sure that the holiday weekend doesn’t blow up into anything more than a nice opportunity for some healthy BBQ’ing.

Do you have some holiday weekend goals?

My First Interview

If you’ve been reading me for a while you know I’ve posted a few times on my use of Lose It to track my food and exercise. Heck I even wrote up a detailed review that was picked up on twitter and the Lose It facebook page.

It turns out that the creator of the awesome Lose It iPhone application recently signed a book deal to turn Lose It into a book. I know it sounds weird but Lose It is about the tracking and usage of the dietary and exercise information combined with the creating of the community more than it’s about the application itself.

Anyhow, as a result of my success with their application and because they saw my review they asked it I’d be interested in an interview to possibly be included in the book. You can guess what I said … YES!

This was my first interview by anyone about my weight-loss so I was very excited. It was about an hour long and was the first with maybe more to come in the future. I pretty much just told them my story from start to finish focusing on the last 18 months using Lose It and how I lost the weight. We discussed details of what I ate, how I worked out, when, and other things like motivation and community support. It was a lot of fun to talk about and I can only hope I didn’t blabber on or mumble too much (I tend to mumble when I talk fast and get excited about something).

Wish me luck, I hope they include my story. Have you ever had an interview about your successes or journey in health & fitness?

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