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2011-07-28, Week 2, Weekly Stats
At my Jenny Craig weigh-in yesterday, I lost 2.2 lbs from the week before. However, my weight at home was pretty much flat. A tiny increase in weight and body fat. That is strange. Usually the loss ration is about the same with my weight at home being a steady 3-4 lbs less than at Jenny Craig, because at Jenny, I wear clothes and at home I don’t when I weigh-in.
This coming week will tell the tale. I go full force onto the Jenny Craig menu, following it exactly, weighing and measuring everything.
Here are this weeks’ charts:
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Getting Healthy is complicated and it takes time… …lots of time!
Ever wish that you could just have three months off from your life to get your life organized?
Yep, I thought that might resonate. 🙂 Loosing weight is complicated because life is complicated. Life throws curve balls. And when you are trying to do something as fundamental as “get healthy” it means that every part of your life is either affected by the effort or affects the effort. In other words your whole life changes, not just a tiny bit of it.
Using myself as a case study of one in time management…
Stay with me here, you’re about to follow a chain of thought and interconnections and since this basically is inviting you inside “Tony’s Head” the experience could be frightening. 😉
Step one..the starting point. THE GOAL <drumroll please> is to be fit and healthy. For me, that means loosing weight, becoming more flexible, increasing my cardiovascular capacity, increasing muscle mass.
However, this immediately connects with and to some degree conflicts with other top level goals. I dance. I love to dance. I enjoy competing in dance. To dance requires that I have some disposable income for lessons, practice fees, travel expenses to attend competitions, more cash to pay for my pro’s travel expenses to attend the competitions to dance with me, costumes, and dance shoes.
Which means I need a job. Or a sugar daddy. (The sugar daddy position currently is vacant…applications now being accepted. I think I could easily get used to being a kept man.
Ok, so I need a job not only to pay for my dance habit but to pay other things like food, Read the rest of this entry
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2011-07-21, Week 1, Weekly Progress Photos
I’m back on a renewed effort to become a healthier, fitter, slimmer me. This pair of photos are the official “Before Photo”. I’ll post one pair of photos each week.
Link to my Flickr Set: 52 Weeks-52 Photos: A Photo Log of My Fitness Journey
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
![Man weighing himself on a scale [CC]](https://txcowboydancer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/weigh-in-time.jpg "Man weighing himself on a scale [CC]")
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
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 