Another weekend coming to a close

Well another weekend is wrapping up and its back to work in the morning.  I have a short week this coming week being off this Friday.  It’s been crazy busy at week, and I am looking forward to having the day off Friday.  I have no idea what the weather is supposed to be this week, but I break from all this heat/humidity would be great!  It’s pouring rain outside right now but still humid as can be.

Here is this week’s progress pic.

I am going to attempt to stay away from that nasty beast (the scale) this week.  I HAVE to weigh in for the final weigh in of a Biggest Loser challenge at work on Wednesday, but that will be the only time I go near a scale until next Saturday morning’s, weight watcher meeting weigh in.  I am going to have a great week this week, with great decisions.  As alluded to in the link I posted this afternoon, I am going to keep making good, healthy decisions, and in the long run the results will come!

Frustrated

The scale is a frustrating tool.  I have to keep in mind that is just a tool, and not the end all and be all.  I am up this week on the scale at Weight Watchers, after a “perfect” week of eating and starting P90x and not missing a day of exercise.  I ate as well as I can eat, and the only real mistake I made I feel is I didn’t drink enough water.  I will have more to say about this tomorrow as I am headed out for poker with the boys.  I am not drinking, although I could easily drink a case of beer tonight with the heat in town, and the mood the scale has put me in. 

I worked out the last three days including today, and I will be working out tomorrow.  Things are going well in that regard.  But the scale is driving me nuts.

An 11 year low

For all the whining and complaining I have done over the past few weeks, today I weighed an 11 year low of 203.1 lbs.  I am hopefully in my last week or so of the 200′s never to return!  I can’t wait for the days when I don’t worry about the scale, that I am at my goal weight and I am in maintenance mode and just living an active healthy life because its a lifestyle and not something I have to really fight for.  That day will come, and I will get there.

Am happy to have my family home finally, and after 6 hours of OT tomorrow morning I will spend the rest of the weekend with them.  I am off on Monday so I have a long weekend.  I will resume posting “progress pics” this weekend, and will post them every Saturday until my birthday Dec 31, 2010, when I arrive at my 38th year in my best shape ever.

Week end update, scale head games

Growing up, I always lost or gained weight at will as needed.  I certainly know, (and feel) that I am not in my teens or twenties anymore and I have to forget about what I did in the past and focus on the now.  I am having to fight for every single pound this go around.  The scale is mocking me mercilessly right now.  Wed and Thurs morning of last week I was as low as 203.9.  My weight watcher weighin was 210 Sat.  I was in a funk all day yesterday and switched Saturday’s workout til today, (Kempo) and did 45 min of stretching yesterday.

I can’t get overly hung up on scale numbers.  My waist is going down.  My measurements are going down.  I physically feel better, and I am able to do more on my exercises.  Keep the scale as a means of feedback, and don’t let it discourage me.

Just finished watching the Lakers game, and the stinking Celtics won.  I start a great shift for the next two months in the morning 7:30 til 4.  I love that shift compared to the last two months of 11:30-8.  I have two months of this then back to that 11:30 shift again.  I will be doing P90x immediately after work when i get home.