Every Saturday I'm going to take a couple of photos to help show how I'm doing. I'm also taking some measurements too, but I'm going to keep those to myself for right now until I get about a month or two's worth. Then I'm going to make graph and post it. Yay graphs!
Now for the photos...I started this current effort on April 22, 2015, but did not take photos until last week, although I do have photos from a previous attempt in January. If anything I had gotten worse from January to April, but I'll post the January photos for the baseline anyway.
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| May 31 |
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I think you can see the progress, especially since January. Subsequent progress posts shouldn't be so picture heavy, but I wanted to throw em all in and back dating posts seemed like not a great idea.
So what I've been doing since April is take very small steps to clean up my diet, and ease my way into exercising. I started by stopping going out to eat for lunch most every day. I mostly eat a turkey sandwich, a piece of fruit and a small handful of chips (I actually weigh it out for 1 serving, usually 1 oz.) I don't usually eat breakfast, but when I do, it's 1 serving of cereal, usually 3/4 of a cup, and no milk. Not because I think its bad, but I don't like milk in my cereal. :) Or two eggs. I'm currently working on moving more towards eggs when I eat breakfast because of the less sugar and higher protein thing. Dinners usually consist of some kind of protein, and some vegetable instead of going out to eat most nights. I've curbed my drinking considerably to only a couple on the weekend instead of a couple most nights. I'm still working on improving my diet all the time, on the occasions where we do go out, I still struggle trying to pick healthier options, and it's tough sometimes to say no to going out after a long night at work and getting off at 8 doesn't help, so there is still plenty of room for improvement, but I'm getting there. One of my bigger problems right now is actually eating enough. An average good day for me is between 1,000 and 1,400 calories, which when added to intense workout isn't really enough, so that's another thing I need to do is add in healthy calorically dense food items to bring that up, preferably with some good protein. Might add almonds into my diet...
As for exercise, I started my walking a mile every morning and eventually making it a jog. I was doing alright, even had a sub 9 minute mile one day, but when I decided to step it up and add body weight exercises as compiled by my friend Wayne, the personal trainer, I've been sore and tired most days since then, so I'm thinking I'll take a step back from running and go back to morning walks until my body adjusts.
In addition to the basic goals of wanting to be healthy, live forever, not be tired and winded doing simple stuff, I have a more short(ish) term goal. I want to be fit and trim by October for the
Spartan Sprint race. My friend Jared is coming down for it, and I want us to kick some ass on the course. If anyone wants to join us, let me know, I suspect it will be awesome!
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