The week of July 10th.......

This week I weighed myself on Saturday morning instead of Friday. My exercise since my previous weigh in was a leisurely bike ride with a couple neighbors last Sunday, 3 pretty good lunchtime weight workouts and about 37 miles of cycling to and from work on Friday. 

My food consumption and record keeping for the week was not as good as I would have liked. My old nemesis “night time snacking” returned and I only got about 3 days of food intake adequately recorded on Calorie King.  

This week I will try to maintain a good level of physical activity and improve on my consumption and record keeping.  I know that what really matters is how I eat most of the time.  An occasional food item or meal that isn’t normally part of my food plan is not the end of the world. I just try to keep these instances to a minimum.

Insidious bad doctoring…….

Well, I learned this week that a bad doctor is a lot harder to spot than a bad haircut. I know, with my hair line, you would think anything would be harder to spot than a bad haircut.

Debbie is now recovering from an overdose of a very toxic drug. She has been on this medication for 12 years and all of a sudden, due to a flare up of some symptoms, a doctor suggested at his 1^st meeting with her that she double the dose of this medication.  It took us almost a month to figure out the problem and we have now located a new doctor that we hope to have more success with.

As noted to the right, my weight on Friday morning was up a little over a half a pound from the week prior. I did not log my food intake on calorie king and my only workout was on Thursday at noon. With all the other worry, I was just happy to get through the week without a large loss or gain. I intend to get right back on my program tomorrow morning. I will make an effort to keep a fairly complete log of my food intake for the week and get several workouts in.

A number of years ago an exercise physiologist friend of mine said “if you want to stay healthy, stay away from doctors”. At the time I thought it was a fairly strange thing to say but over the years I have come to appreciate the comment. I now know that the real essence of the comment was that I need to make healthy lifestyle choices that help me avoid as many preventable illnesses as possible. Of course, after I quit smoking, the number one thing I can do to avoid doctors is maintain a healthy weight.  I know this from experience because in the past, when my body weight would go up, I would start having problems with blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

So the battle rages on. While the scale in my bathroom is a worthy adversary, I shall not be deterred. I will get up tomorrow morning and start anew. I will make an effort to keep an accurate record of my food consumption on Calorie King because I know it helps me control my calorie consumption. I will also make an effort to get some exercise 4 or 5 days of the week because it makes me feel better, I enjoy it and it is FUN.

A pretty tough week......

As I indicated last week, I am back to keeping my food and exercise diary on Calorie King. Since I am going back to using this program after a few months away, I knew I wouldn’t get every bite recorded but wanted to have a few or more days with a good record.

Well, as you can see in the column to the right, on Friday my weight was down 6.4 lbs from the previous week. That is more weight than I want to lose in a week. I had a very stressful week due to some health problems of Debbie’s and I think I was actually so worried at times, I forgot to eat. In the past I have found that I would eat during stressful situations but this time it was different. Also, I got no gym sessions in during the week so I built no muscle to account for that lost along with the fat in the pounds that disappeared.

We are hoping to have Debbie back on track real soon and I am hoping I can slow the weight loss to a pound or a pound and a half per week.