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My first week back on Jenny Craig
This past week was a mix of goals met and goals missed.
On the “positive” side:
I did not eat out at any fast food place or restaurant all week. Yay! Woo Hoo. Go Team Tony!
I weighed myself morning and night so now I have full week of good data rather than estimates. Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Who da man?
I increased the amount of exercise that I’ve been doing, adding extra practices with my dance partner. Yay! Yippee! Yee Haw!
I followed the Jenny Craig menu for lunches and for breakfast. Yay Me. Woo Hoo! Happy Dancing!
I ate the foods I bought at Whole Foods. I try to buy organic, locally grown, foods. Bravo! Yay Me!
I took my bicycle to Bicycles Inc and had it serviced so it is now ready to ride. Tires aired up! Chain lubed. Brakes checked. Woo Hoo!
On the “not so positive” side:
I did not actually weigh and measure all the foods that I ate. I tried, and think I succeeded, in keeping the portions about right but I didn’t actually do the measurements. Goal for this week: actually do the measuring.
I did not ride my bike on the weekend as I had planned. Which is a shame. The Katy Trail runs right by my house. Goal for this week: ride my bike at least one time.
I did not eat the dinners that were on the Jenny Craig menu. This was by design though. I had food in the pantry and freezer that I did not want to go to waste, so I watched the portions and tried to make the calories come out right. Nonetheless, I didn’t follow the JC menu. Goal for this week: stick strictly to the Jenny Menu.
I did not do my “Program before the Program #1”. There is this really good book called “Getting in Shape” by Bob Anderson, Bill Pearl, Ed Burke, and Jean Anderson (ISBN: 0936070161). They have a new edition of the book called “Getting Back Into Shape” which includes an additional chapter on running. Visit their website for more info. The book has 32 programs designed to get you back into shape or into shape as the case may be. The programs start off very easy; the idea is that folks who are out of shape should start off easy because well, they are out of shape. Research as shown that often people try to do too much too quickly, get discouraged and quit. Hence the “Program before the Program 1, 2 and 3″ which feature light easy stretching, light easy lifting and movement”. Well, I didn’t do the stretching and lifting parts. the movement part, I do during my dance lessons and practice. So… Goal for this week: do the lifting and stretching parts.
So my goals for this week are:
- Keep doing the good stuff! Yay me!
- Stretch & Lift (Program before the Program #1)
- Ride my bike at least 1 time.
- Stick strictly to the Jenny Craig menu, weighing and measuring everything. (except for my Birthday dinner which actually took place yesterday — a friend took me out for my birthday.)
See ya on the dance floor!
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Day one on Jenny Craig… …again!
Okay, dear readers, my last post was bemoaning how difficult it is to get moving again after metaphorically “falling off the wagon”. To continue that theme, let me tell you how the last couple days have gone for me.
Thursday, I went to the Jenny Craig Center for the first time in almost three weeks. I work second shift on Mondays, Noon – 9p, so I had been going on Mondays during my dinner hour for my weekly weigh-in and to get my week’s food for the coming week’s menu. I’ve missed several weeks though because my work situation though has interfered; we’ve been very very busy at work and I’ve not been able to get away to dinner at a consistent time on Mondays.
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, I called the Jenny Craig Center and compared calendars and discovered that they had a Thursday opening at 6:30p. Since I get off work at 6p on Thursdays that works great. And since I have no dance rehearsals or lessons scheduled on Thursdays, that means I can go straight from work, to the Jenny Craig Center and then straight to Whole Foods where I can then shop for other food items I need to complete the menu for the coming week and then straight home to put everything neatly away! Go Team Tony! 🙂
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Counting up the Small Victories
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Ok, confession time… …I’ve not exactly been a “good boy” since coming back from Worlds. So, this past weekend, I got myself moving again, figuratively speaking.
I also have let you know that it is TOUGH getting moving in a positive direction after after falling back on old habits! Yes, friends and neighbors, breaking a downward spiral is tough. Really tough. I found myself thinking today “Gaining weight and getting out of shape is easy; loosing weight and getting into shape is hard. Very hard.” [Watch for a coming post on the difference between “being overweight” and “being out of shape”. They often are used synonymously but they are actually two different things.
So here I am, looking at the numbers this week on the scale and NOT feeling great about the numbers I’m seeing. I track both weight and body fat by weighing twice a day. For body fat, I use the TBF-531 Body Fat Monitor/Scale by Tanita. It uses the electrical impedance method of measurement.
I also use the Omron Fat Loss Monitor HBF-306. I take two measurements in the morning, one from each device and then average the numbers. And then I repeat the measurement in the evening, giving me four measurements per day. I weigh in twice a day and average those two numbers as well.
Well, that’s how I track my progress when I’m actually *ahem* tracking my progress and I haven’t been regularly *AHEM* tracking my progress (or lack thereof) since Worlds. Which brings me back to my original statement at the beginning of this entry “I haven’t been a good boy since Worlds” *SIGH*
So. Hello mild depression. Glad to meet you, let you introduce you to my good friend “mild frustration.” Oh you two know each other? I thought you might. *SIGH*
So what to do? Read the rest of this entry
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Once more dear poundage, “Unto the breach…”
It Lies!
With apologies to Shakespeare, here I am once again charging, or should I say waddling, forward. It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog so here is a quick update:
As I went into the UCWDC World Championships of Country Western Dance in Jan 2011, I weighed 238 lbs, a loss of of 37 lbs from my heaviest weight of 275. Yay me! I made it through the deadly months of October, November and December with its land mines of savory treats and communal eating. I made it through the stress of preparing for the World Championships. I was on track and although I had plateaued, I was at least *not* gaining weight.
I did pretty good at Worlds: 1st place (and a brand new World Championship title) with my dance partner in Couples Diamond III and 2nd overall in Couples Crystal III. Yay! I placed 2nd overall in Advanced Male Crystal Line Dance and Advanced Male Diamond Line Dance. Yay! I placed 2nd overall in Male Pro-Am Crystal and Diamond and 5th Overall in Open Male Pro-Am. Not too shabby.
I came back and… Read the rest of this entry
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The Week in Review or… “Ya gotta have a bag-o-tricks”
For the first trick of the evening: Being Strong without even trying…
I have to share a “moment” from this week from where I work I’m surrounded by a group of folks who like to bring in food and leave it on the break room table for everyone.
This is sweet and nice and generous, and it does foster a sense of community at the workplace, HOWEVER, for me those little offerings of friendship are sneak attacks! They are land mines on the way to a healthy me! They are evil incarnate! Basically they kinda suck eggs.
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 