Archive for July, 2006
Medication and Weight
Monday, July 31st, 2006Recently, my doctor prescribed a diuretic pill to help try to bring down my blood pressure because it’s still running a little higher than optimal. I didn’t think I was retaining water and was surprised to find myself five pounds lighter after a couple days on this pill. This fact went a long […]
Inconsistencies
Monday, July 31st, 2006The exercise program still hasn’t been very consistent. I’m now down to sixty days until the 5k and I still have a lot of work to do. This morning I actually managed to jog (to use the term loosely) probably a total of two miles of my 3.56 mile loop and I’m very […]
A Pound Here and A Pound There
Monday, July 17th, 2006This morning I weighed in at 203.5 - after my morning exercise and breakfast. I’d like to lose about ten pounds before the big 5k that I’m running on September 30 up at Lake Tahoe. If I could lose fifteen to twenty pounds in the next ten weeks, that would be even better. […]
Down and Out
Monday, July 17th, 2006Last week, I exercised a couple days, took a couple days off, exercised another couple days and took three days off. I need to be more consistent with my program if I want to be ready for the 5k, since I’m down to about 10 weeks of training time now.
I went out both yesterday and […]
Up Again
Thursday, July 6th, 2006I keep forgetting that exercise builds muscle and that increases weight. This morning I weighed in at a frustrating 205 again. Still, I’m pretty sure that the reason my weight is up a little is that I jogged so far and my legs feel like bands of (soft) steel. Eventually the muscle […]
Running on Empty
Thursday, July 6th, 2006This morning did not start out well. I didn’t want to get up and out for my exercise and once I did I kept thinking about heading home at every turn. Surprisingly, I still managed to jog farther and longer than yesterday and I was able to complete a 3.6 mile loop in […]
The Goal
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006For the past few weeks since I lost the initial weight from the new medication I’ve started, I’m hovering in the 203.5 to 204.5 pound range. My immediate goal is to break that magic 200 pound plateau and get back into the 100s again - something I haven’t managed for more than a decade.
During […]
3.56 is a Magic Number
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006The number 3.56 will be important to me for the next several weeks. This is the distance I’ve decided to use as the training ground for the X-Terra Scramble on September 30th. Yesterday, I walked the 3.56 mile loop around a back road in my neighborhood to gauge the distance and create a […]
