Week One Update

Hey Everyone!

So it's been about a week since my last post, so I think it's about time for an update.  There has been some good progress and a few set backs, but I'm still more or less on track so I feel like that is overall good news.

First the good.  I got all the flooring in in the living room, kitchenette type area and the the hallway.  I still have the closets and the bedrooms to do, plus all the moulding and painting to do.   I have two weeks left so I've really got to get on it.

The unfinished parts of the photos are finished now, but there is stuff there now so an updated photo wouldn't show much

I also have completed all my scheduled workouts since I've started back up again, having done my 4th workout today.  That is going well so far, I'm in a little better shape than I initially thought, but there is still a long ways to go.  I think I need to do something about my scale, it varies wildly depending on where I put it on the floor.  Our bathroom is too small to leave it in one spot.  Once I get the floors done in the bedrooms I might put it in our room and not move it.

More days than not I ate reasonably healthy, and that has been a vast improvement over what I have been doing.  Pretty much every day I crave a cheeseburger or some such and I've been able to resist that urge more or less.

For the not so good.  While my diet is improving, there were a lot of back slides, notably this weekend.  Audrey had to work on Saturday, and when she got off, we went out for pizza.  Sunday was all around bad, lying around the house all day eating junk.  That said, I'm back on track today and will hopefully do better next weekend.

I'm doing a little better than this

On my off days of strength training, I'm supposed to go out for walks or do some sort of cardio, but I've had excuses for pretty much every day.  It's been either too cold or too wet out.  I need to just get over that and get to work.

One of the biggest things I need to work on is getting an appropriate amount of sleep, especially on nights before work.  With Audrey working until 11:15 ish at night it is really hard.  Last night we went to bed around 2ish and I got up at 6:15 to go to work.  Getting that little sleep definitely takes a toll.  On Friday I really felt it at work, and it showed.  It also makes it hard to want to work out, cook, do chores, work on the floor, pretty much everything.  So my goal is to get Audrey off second shift!  Also, to get more sleep. :)

At some point I'll post some before pictures and take some real measurements, but for now, I'm just going to try to keep plugging along.  That said, I do have some measurement related goals.

1. To have a healthy blood pressure ASAP (I haven't had it tested in a long while, but last time I was this fat it was high, and when I was doing well and losing weight it was healthy, so I think it is safe to say it is high again)
2. To fit into 38" waist pants by graduation
3. To fit into 36" waist pants by the end of the year

I have a few others on the back burner that I'm trying to flesh out, but those are the major ones for now.  I don't have a set weight goal, because realistically I don't really care how much I weigh so long as I'm healthy, fit, and get rid of this gut I've grown.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully not all posts will be this long.

Back at it

It's been about a year and a half from my last post, but seeing as I;m getting back on the wagon it seems like a good time to start up again.  I think documenting my progress last time helped keep me on track, so hopefully that will work again.  Did my first workout in a long while yesterday, and I am crazy sore, some of that might be from working on the floor though.  Either way, I can't wait for this part of exercising to be over.

I'm basically back where I started from.  Starting attending classes turned out to be more stressful and time consuming than I initially thought, and I fell pretty hard.  I stopped riding my bike, in large part because I was getting flat tires every couple of days.  I'm not sure when I'll get back on it since work is about 11 miles away and I go straight from work to class, but hopefully soon.

With any luck, this is my last semester, and I'll be graduating this May, 135 days left.  Since my last post, I've started work at a small local accounting firm, J.A. Solari and Partners.  It has been a great place to work, and I've learned a tremendous amount in the few months I've been there.  When I was hired, they said that assuming everything is good, they intend to hire me on full time upon graduation, so between those two things, a tremendous amount of the stress I've been holding on to is lifting.

During this winter break, I've started replacing the carpet in the house with laminate.  It's been a lot more work than I remember, but it is slowly getting there.  I had to take today off since I am so sore from exercising yesterday, but I'm probably about a third of the way done now.  It's looking good and I can't wait for it to be finished, I think it will make a big difference in how our house looks.