Weighing In And No More Excuses
As you might remember it was a rough weekend of food choices but I vowed to really push it at the start of the week. I managed to get in three workouts, all circuit training, since I last ate bad on Sunday night. I sweated hard, pushed my limits, and while I wanted to do more I only had 2.5 days … not even I can make more than 24 hours in a day. So let’s see if it paid off.
Previous Weight — 289.0 lbs
Current Weight — 287.8 lbs
Change In Weight — -1.2 lbs
Wow, like I said on Monday I’ll take any loss this week and run with it. The funny thing though about the loss is my historic trend which is now -1.2, -1.2, -3.8, -1.2. Does anyone else find this weird?
My goals for this next week are to eat clean all week and weekend excluding my standard free meal. I want to see if I can’t jumpstart the next few weeks now.
No More Excuses
These past few weeks have been far from stellar in terms of random meals out and giving in to food cravings. It never fails that at the exact same time every year, usually around April or May, I relax a bit and everything falls apart. I let a few indiscretions creep in here and there, what harm could it do right? Wrong! As can be seen from my weight-loss timeline it’s always resulted in destruction, chaos, and failure.
Not this time, not again, I’ve worked to hard this year to see it fall apart again.
I won’t make excuses any longer
I won’t accept failure
I won’t have a bad snack because I’ve “earned it”
I won’t over consume because it’s a holiday, moderation works best
I won’t let my food pleasures or free meal cascade
I’m so close to my goal weight and while it may seem like I’m being hard on myself I have to prevent this pattern of action from propagating further. I’m at a critical stage where I need to stay focused and on track. I know what works and what doesn’t, I know what’s right and wrong, I just fail sometimes to make the right decision after I’ve seen success for a while.
Not any more, I’m making no more excuses from this point forward. It’s back to basics baby!
Running Duallie Style
In an attempt to get my running groove on and get some quality cardio in with my wife we’ve been shopping around for a quality dual running stroller. If you can’t work around the rug-rats schedule then just include them in your workout right? Anyhow, if you know of a good one please drop a comment. We’re leaning toward the one on the right, it’s a BOB Revolution Duallie Stroller and has some great reviews. We’re going to check it out tonight at REI and see if it’s all everyone says it is.
One thing we did notice while testing out the different ranges in strollers last night, it’s night and day difference the more money your willing to spend. The lower end $240 stroller is not even close to the $650 stroller. The smoothness of the roll, the built in brake, the front wheel locks, the quality of the seating, the storage, and more … like most things you get what you pay for. I’m hoping to find something middle of the road like the one from BOB. Whatever we do decide to purchase you can be sure I’ll post my thoughts on it.
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Last night my wife had a bunch of work to get done, so the only way I was going to get my C25K run in was if I brought the kids along. So I loaded them up in our double jogging stroller and I did just that. We have a pretty basic one we bought off Craigslist last year, I’m not even sure what brand it is. It doesn’t have a hand brake, but that would be a nice extra.
One thing I would heavily recommend if you’re going to be doing running with it, is to get one with a front wheel that locks in place. Ours does do that, thankfully. With the front wheel free to move, the whole thing can kind of wobble out of control when you get going too fast. Having the front wheel locked in place makes it much more stable, albeit a bit harder to turn.
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