When I set my weight loss goal to reach 215lbs., it was with the thought that I probably wouldn’t reach it for awhile. That was in August. Since then I have lost an estimated 30 pounds (I really wish I had weighed myself at the beginning of this thing, I think I was about 268lbs). So here I am, past the halfway point and not even into the three month marker. I have five weeks left before the New Year approaches and if I continue at the current rate of loss (which has been roughly 2lbs a week) I could very well start 2009 with a New Year’s Resolution already completed!
Even more importantly, and considerably more likely, is that I will probably meet my 215lb goal by my 30th birthday in late January. This has me thinking about a lot of things. I was dreading the thought of turning 30, but I suspect that maybe my thirties may be what my twenties never were: positive and productive. These are thoughts for another blog entry, I think.
Anyway, my current dilemma is that I know I will have to introduce a more demanding level of exercise into my lifestyle if this weight loss is to last but I don’t know what I should do. Kim and I have had a gym membership and we just cant seem to maintain attendance, I think I would like to go to a gym if we had a membership to one that was closer to home. Given the circumstances of the times we live in, Kim and I are trying to cut out as much needless month to month spending as we possibly can. As much as I’d like to get a membership at the Gold’s Gym in Ghent (I could ride my bike there and back easily), we are more thrilled by the thought of not paying for a membership at all.
So I need to do something, and it needs to be cheap or free.
Update: I’m also aware that once I reach 215lbs that I will have achieved my goal and I think I need to find a new goal, probably one that doesn’t involve weight loss so much but some other measure of fitness.
I think maybe your next goal should be something like 100 1-handed pushups in 2 minutes!
100 push-ups in any amount of time would be goalworthy for me
Good for you guys! I have been wanting to lose weight for a while, but a stressful job, a house, 2 kids, a wife…I love exercising but don’t have the time to fit it in. How did you guys do it? (Sorry if you already blogged this, I’ve been offline a while).
I talked about it here: http://lowquality.net/2008/243lbs/
But the short and skinny of it
is we’ve been doing South Beach.
Hmm, I might have to try it…I’d love to lose 50 lbs or so…
I tried Atkins once but I couldn’t stand not eating pasta, bread, etc…
Is it hard to stick to? I haven’t read your post yet (I will when I have some time) but my main problem is I am a good cook and I like to eat!!
Get a 200 dollar exercise bike or similar piece of equipment, put a big cartoonish price tag on it so that you see everyday how much you paid for it, put on a kung-fu movie and ride it while you watch. Do this everyday. It will pay for itself in two months if you don’t have a gym membership, and you will be more likely to use it in the colder winter months than going to the gym. Seriously.
All of that stuff is ok, Drew, the idea is that you avoid white flour and enriched grains and potatoes and replace them with whole grains. It’s less about low carb and more about eating the right carbs. South Beach isn’t so much of a diet as it is a healthier lifestyle.
Congrats on the weight loss Kim looks good from the “vanity Pics” and I am sure you are not as ugly as before. Jenn and I have been trying to create a healthier lifestyle for a while and it is tuff but worth it when you are doing well. We just found out she is expecting again so I am sure I will gain 20 pounds before it gets here. I get some kinda of simpathy cravings and cannot get full when she is prego. Oh well have a good one you skinny fag…. Justin