I gained +1.8 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight: 360.6
Total pounds lost: – 4.5
Archive for October, 2009
Day 43 — Week 6 Weigh In +3.9
10/21/2009
I gained +3.9 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight: 358.8
Total pounds lost: – 6.3
Yep my poor choices finally caught up with me.
Day 36 — Week 5 Weigh In -3.7
10/14/2009
I lost -3.7 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight: 354.9
Total pounds lost: – 10.2
How about that!!!!??!!!!
Day 33 – The Alter-G Treadmill
10/11/2009 This morning I came across an amazing program called My Big Fat Body on Discovery Health. The star of the show, Frank, went through an amazing realm of tests. The most interesting was the Anti-Gravity Treadmill or Alter-G Treadmill. 
It’s a normal treadmill but the lower half is completely encased in plastic.
The Alter-G Treadmill reduces your weight by a certain percentage. On any given day at 363 lbs. Frank’s knees experience 720lbs of pressure. This treadmill reduces your weight by 30%, by 50% or even 99%, which is very useful if you need to take the load off your joints. I too have a knee injure that flares up from time to time so I was very interested. At first Frank was walking at his normal pace but soon the chambers air pressure was modified and pretty soon he was walking at 28% air pressure, which was 100 lbs less, then 50%. He actually had a bounce in his step. He was running like a gazelle. When his 200lbs were added back the bounce was gone and the laboring step returned. It was such a visual representation of what life will be like when my bounce returns. Call me Tigger. I’m leaving Eeore behind.
Day 30 – “That’s my girl”
10/08/2009“There goes my daughter. She’s mine. Do you see her? There she goes do you see what she’s doing? Oh there she goes again. That’s my girl. I’m proud of her and I love her. There she goes again do you see her? She’s mine.”
An elder at my church shared these words with me in reference to what the Lord declares to be true of me. For me to walk in this truth at times is difficult for me to accept. This truth is laid out more times than I can count in His word but when I’m undisciplined it is difficult for me to accept. I have struggled and hidden this part of my life even though it is the most obvious thing about me. I teach about goal setting all day long with my students and yet my most obvious goal is the one thing I have yet to be able to achieve. It is hypocritical. So if I want a life of integrity I must be disciplined in the little things. I have pride when I know that I have made good choices throughout the day. Going the extra mile and not phoning it in sets an example but most of all it makes you proud. Rising above laziness and following through with a plan will make you that much stronger so you won’t be pushed around.
So as the Biggest Loser song asks,
“What have you done today to make you feel proud?”
Day 29 — Week 4 Weigh In -4 lbs.
10/07/2009
I lost -4 pounds this week.
Starting Weight : 365.1
Current Weight: 358.6
Total pounds lost: – 6.5
How about that!!!!??!!!!
Day 24 – With Friends
10/02/2009I’m very excited to visit with some friends this weekend. I will be away from posting but not away from my “new normal.”
Have a great weekend!
