Ok, so a friend said theyd dropped weight for the first time in a year - sounded good.
WII fit is now cranked daily and walking the dog, currently twice a day rain or shine - o it's not just a dog walk, its 2.5 miles at a consistent 4 mph.
The scales arnt going up, but like all good weight loss programs theyre not dropping very quickly for the effort expended either - cest la vie - and like most of us I do like the odd biscuit with a cuppa and Im not one for calorie counting - if I want to eat I want to eat !
Anyway one of those Bucket List items is to perform a Marathon for a children's charity. So next years London Marathon is fully booked and no where obvious to apply for the 2011 event - are we destined to some lesser event like a Sheffield Marathon ?
Trying to track and trend data is a nightmare, its not that easy, WII fit will track weight, but most of the other fitness software wont, and WII fit itself is a little limited functionality wise - hoping WII fit plus is going to improve on this situation.
The Nike+ sportband is looking like a cool option to support workouts and track and trend data and set goals and targets to strive for.
Using handheld GPS to track distance over time, now if I could only turn that into calories burned ! Nike+ sportband does this effortlessly without having the rather large GPS swinging round my neck.
The other issue is punching through the majic week barrier, had EA Sports active for the WII with its many and various 30 day workouts and havent got to week two on any of them - week is always focused and then break at weekend and then dont seem to be able to get back on the horse in the second week - here's to next week.
Well - thats the diary entry for today - will update when progress is made, lets hope its not to long !#
24/10/2009
Ok - day six starting from last monday - just finnished this mornings session on WII Fit cardio workout and then let WII fit weigh me - 3lbs down in six days - this has been a hard slog - at least 1/2hr WII fit session each day and dog walking per notes above - have walked well in excess of 60K step this week and at least 75% of these have been at a decent walk rate circa 4 mph. Will be doing many steps today, but tonight is night off with a few beers and a giggle down the local.
Pushing onwards and upwards towards next week - this will be a particularly challenging, as its half term, which means there will be lots of stuff to distract from core fitness activities and its this distraction that has broken the cycle many times on the EA Sports Active 30 day challenge.
1/11/2009
Well, just about made it through week 2 - week 3 is gonna be a hard slog - tailing off towards the end of week 2 and losing motivation. Clocking LOTS of steps / miles per day and continuing with the WII fit cardio, although from thursday onwards dropped this off significantly due to having arthurgram
Been eating very healthily, but the beers last night wacked couple of lbs back on in the short term - but managed to stay away from the chippy !
Also, been watching the calories in stuff at the supermarket - not counting calories per say - this is a step way to far for me - but looking at alternatives - the difference can be incredible - low fat salad dressing can be a 10th of the calories of a regular dressing - WOW !
Todays weigh in was 3lbs down on two weeks ago, but the day before was 2lbs lower than this - hoping this was alcoholic fluid and can kick back down this next week as I hit the burn again.
Dog's almost at the point of hiding his lead - but he's enjoying it !
Actually get the odd day where I actually feel hungry, which is a strange feeling and fighting really hard to not snack between meals.
Onwards and upwards - update to follow - next week(ish)
11/11/2009
OK so the boil has dropped off a bit now !
But still exercising regularly on Wii - EA Sport Active most days - today is a rest day in the 30 day program, just started this yet again, lets see if I can get through the 30 day challenge - getting out and walking the dog, actually trying to flip some of the walk into a JOG and its VERY satisfying and very hard - but damn if I cant JOG / RUN 3 miles, about the distance I regularly walk the dog, how the hell am I gonna do this 10 times and do a marathon.
So this is day 3 ish of week four and havent even dropped 1/2 stone yet - although according to the scales this morning VERY close to that, but have seen the scales jump up 2-3 lbs in one day over the last 3 weeks !
Maybe I just like my food to much ? Just have to keep watching what were buying and eating and those DAMN snacks between meals and more importantly eating after 9pm, which is SO HARD when chill axing !
Been very disappointed with the amount of effort put in and the lack of weight drop.
BUT lets push on and see what happens in the next week or so.
Lets make it happen.
Later
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