Step Away From the Cake

These are the top droppers for the month of January: My Gypsy Goods Alteredevents Better Spines Health Eagle Laane on the World Losing It, Getting Fit Paul's Health Blog Medical Technology Health by Dratiffarid Skip Ratt's Mountain Bike Blog Thank you all very much for dropping so regularly. The best part about this is that most of these blogs have become some of my favorite reads. Entrecard is great for so many reasons.

My template that is. After I made the header last night I realized that I hated that template. I wanted something that was uniquely me. I searched for a template that had all the elements I wanted and then went on to customize it. I love it and it's not like anything else out there. Wow, I totally amaze me sometimes :)

This week was an experiment. I needed to get a baseline so to speak on my food and activity levels. I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary but I kept track of everything. First, let's finish out the week: Thursday Consumed: 1870 Burned: 2027 Friday: Consumed: 2065 Burned: 2038 For the week we have: Consumed: 13,365 Burned: 14,677 Deficit: 1,312 Start weight: 181.5 lbs Today's weight: 182.0 lbs Start fat %: 38.0 Today's fat %: 37.5 Evidently I did not have a large enough deficit to lose even 1/2 a pound this week. In fact, the numbers on the scale went up. Note: I don't put a lot of faith in the numbers on the scale. I weighed myself every morning this week and there was as much as a 2.5 lb difference day to day. I know that I cannot lose or gain 2.5 lbs overnight so I don't put a lot of weight in the scale numbers. I use them strictly as a basic yardstick. The scale does show a 1/2 lb gain from last w

I made a new header! I'm squealing like a little girl and dancing around my room here. I am soooo excited by this..... I did it all by myself... Well, okay, technically I had help from a program but I did it......

Okay, I have a lot of catching up to do here, but first I want to talk about my exercise experiment today. I went to school and got home around 10:15. I immediately changed and went to workout. I worked out hard. I mean hard. It was great. I think I'm on to something here. I'm going to get up in the morning and do the elliptical or bike for 30-45 minutes, then do my strength training when I come home. I think this will work out well. So that's going to be my plan for the next week or so, see how it goes. Now the numbers. I have not had time to really calculate these and I've been avoiding doing it. I knew it wasn't going to be great. But I forced myself to sit down and do it tonight. So here it goes: Sunday: Consumed: 1850 Burned: 2250 Monday: Consumed: 1750 Burned: 2100 Tuesday: Consumed: 1830 Burned: 1980 Wednesday: Consumed: 2200 Burned: 2100 Do you see a trend here? My calories consumed slowly increase and the calories burned slowly go d

I may have mentioned that I'm currently unemployed :( but for my teaching degree I go to a high school 4 mornings a week. What I've been doing is getting up at 4:30, working out at 5, and then getting ready and going to school. What I've noticed is that while the 5 am workout is hard I work much harder a little later in the morning. Yesterday I didn't have to go to school so I didn't work out until 10. It was great!! I pushed hard and could really go the extra mile. Definitely one of the best workouts I've had in a while. So I've decided to try something new. Today I get out of school at 9:30. I'm saving my workout until I get home. I got up at 4:30 but I could just feel my body wasn't awake and ready to go hard. So I'm going to do it this way. I think it will be a lot better. I used to work out in the afternoon/evenings and really liked it. Maybe it's time to go back to that???

There probably won't be much posting here on Mondays and Tuesdays. On those days I go to the high school in the morning and grad school at night. The few hours in between are spent doing school work. So on those days I'll be scarce. I will get on tomorrow and update all the numbers. I don't know what they are so I'm looking forward to seeing them. Now, I have to relax and go to bed. I'm tired.

I'm studying to become a high school teacher and because of this have to spend time in a classroom. I am in a biology and a human physiology class. I was sitting in the classes today and I noticed that there were very few students who are overweight. In the human phys class there is only 1 girl. In biology there are 2. That's pretty good. As I walk around the school there are some overweight kids, and some kids who are just large, but by far normal sized are the norm. Interesting. I just thought I'd share that because I'm watching Oprah with the overweight teens.

Okay, I've decided to get really geeky with the numbers. I know I've said it before and then chickened out. Well, not this time. As boring as it will be for anyone who may read this, I have to post the numbers to make it public and keep me accountable. So you can skip these posts, I won't be offended :) Okay, so I'm kind of using yesterday as a start point just because I need to start somewhere. I took weight, body fat, etc. I also took pictures but I'm not that brave yet. I figure I'll post them after I've lost some just for comparison. So the numbers, {{sigh}} Weight: 181.5 (this is the highest I've been in 10 years) BodyFat; 38% (Hello!!!!! I'm carrying 69 lbs of fat around. Please!!!) So on Saturday or Sundays I will post the weakly numbers (that is not a spelling error). I've also started using the BodyBugg again. I have some goals and I'll share them now. I'm aiming for going to burn at least 2500 cals a day. That wa