tracking

There's a simple website called Joe's Goals that I use to keep track of various daily tasks. It's quite customizable, tracking good habits and bad. I don't think the "Reports" are very well implemented, and you can only view it by the week, but for my purposes that is sufficient.

So, for example, in the 7 days before our Week 3 Weigh-In, I can tell you that I:

• kept track of my food intake: seven times


• exercised: twice


• took vitamins: five times


• drank this volume of water: 9 glasses and 2.5L

I think I'd like to start making this a regular part of my weigh-in, as it really pulls into focus what I have accomplished, more than a (not-so) little number on a scale.

checking in: Week 3

Weekly change: 0
Net Loss: 4

I seem to be on a plateau again. What is different about now and two weeks ago, when I had a spurt of weight loss?

I actually visited the doctor yesterday (my birthday in fact; bad planning on my part), for an unrelated issue. We talked a bit about my trying to lose weight, but it wasn't the main topic of the conversation.

Week 2 Weigh-in

well, I had a net gain of 1 since last week. Guess when my weight shot up? The day after my wedding anniversary. The day after my darling loving husband convinced me to go out for both breakfast and dinner. We did go to the gym the next day too, but it was too late. My exercise schedule was also thrown off last week.

New Leaf!

ooh pretty

May Day Week 1

Wow, so looking back at my weight logs (a tip I stole got from Jeremy Zawodny, just as a method of collecting data), I was on a plateau since April 1 to -- you guessed it -- May 9. What causes a plateau? Why does it break? Maybe it has to do with stress, or how I wasn't able to hit the gym so often on account of work. Maybe my body just had to adjust.

In any event, I'm down five whole pounds from where I was on May 8.

Here's my reward!

a purpose for this throwaway blog....

How does it work? On Tuesday, May 8th, you post on your blog how much weight you want to lose, and your weight history, what other goals you may have for this challenge (creating activity, cutting out soda, etc.) and any weaknesses you have. Come back to this site and sign Mr. Linky. Begin your diet. You have one week from today to plan your diet and prepare yourself for finding the skinny girl inside of you. She's in there and she wants out.

okay I'm a day late here.

Goal: lose at minimum 50 pounds, maximum 75 pounds.

History: I have never been small, but I recently saw a picture of myself as I was about to graduate high school, and in comparison I looked surprisingly trim. At the time I was size 16 in jeans, 12? in dresses. I was moderately active thanks to marching band, but not athletic. Now, 17 years later, mostly through inattention and inactivity, I've gained quite a bit.

Plans: I started taking steps in January (watching my diet, keeping track of my intake and weight, moving more), and lost 17 pounds, but for the past month or two, I've been on a solid plateau. Work is definitely to blame for this, as I'm just too tired to exercise after leaving the office. Soon the pressure will be off, and I should be able to get back to the gym regularly.

Weakness: prepackaged foods that make preparing dinner less complicated. I feel like I have to keep up with my husband, or else he'll eat it all (clearly not good for him if it's not good for me). I either need to learn how to make less, or I need to train him not to eat everything in sight.