Will-ness Overtime Report - Week 16
Current Weight: 173.5 pounds
Weight Lost: .5 pounds
TOTAL LOSS: 13.5 pounds
Calories Burned: 802 calories
Calorie Deficit: 5 weeks plus 727 calories
Despite the fact that the C25K program repeatedly kicks my a**, I’m not able to hit my 1000 calorie mark without extra exercise. This would not be a problem except that I don’t have any extra energy to exercise with on my “recovery days” - not all that surprising when you consider how the C25K program was developed. The people who designed this thing knew how much novice runners would need time off from running (and other strenuous activity) to build up their stamina and so far my body does seem to be taking well to the conditioning. Today I actually ran for 3 minutes straight. Twice. And nobody was chasing me. And I didn’t collapse in a heap at the end of our driveway when we were finished. This is HUGE, people. I honestly wasn’t even sure if I was going to get through the program today when I looked at the itinerary before we headed out this morning. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t impossible either. The calorie count for all this exertion, however is pretty disappointing: 260 calories total. If the trend of gradually diminishing calorie expenditure continues, I’ll be lucky to break 700 calories by the end of the week. That will put me at a rough 6-week deficit, which is extremely depressing but I see no way out of it. Maybe I’ll find a second wind at some point this week and be able to squeeze in some Xbox or some Spinning, but I’m not holding my breath.
I’ve finally reversed the weight trend from Gain to Loss, but the yield was considerably smaller than I’d hoped. I began tracking calories again last week and all the numbers were good, but we sort of took the weekend off and I suspect I undid a lot of the progress I made during the week last week. We’re back to our weekly routine now, so I will once again be tracking every bite that goes into my mouth. We’re also starting to attack the reorganization of our kitchen in earnest with an aggressive “catalog and containment” strategy that will hopefully help us figure out what we have and how best to store it for easy access. I wish we had thousands of dollars just sitting around so we could completely redesign our kitchen with a better cabinet configuration but we don’t, so we’ll just have to make what we have work for us.
I guess our next step towards sustainable change will be reconfiguring our daily routine once the activities associated with the current school year wind down. Of course, our summer starts ramping up right after Memorial Day with rehearsals for the Bristol Renaissance Faire followed by what will be the 25th Anniversary season (and Jezzie’s 9th - can you believe it? I can’t!), but we are both committed to not letting Faire completely derail our progress the way it did last year. We need to find a way to make fitness and Faire work together because we can’t let our fitness goals go down the drain as our summer whizzes by us in a whirlpool of lost opportunities. This year will be different from last year; we will make progress!
Weight Lost: .5 pounds
TOTAL LOSS: 13.5 pounds
Calories Burned: 802 calories
Calorie Deficit: 5 weeks plus 727 calories
Despite the fact that the C25K program repeatedly kicks my a**, I’m not able to hit my 1000 calorie mark without extra exercise. This would not be a problem except that I don’t have any extra energy to exercise with on my “recovery days” - not all that surprising when you consider how the C25K program was developed. The people who designed this thing knew how much novice runners would need time off from running (and other strenuous activity) to build up their stamina and so far my body does seem to be taking well to the conditioning. Today I actually ran for 3 minutes straight. Twice. And nobody was chasing me. And I didn’t collapse in a heap at the end of our driveway when we were finished. This is HUGE, people. I honestly wasn’t even sure if I was going to get through the program today when I looked at the itinerary before we headed out this morning. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t impossible either. The calorie count for all this exertion, however is pretty disappointing: 260 calories total. If the trend of gradually diminishing calorie expenditure continues, I’ll be lucky to break 700 calories by the end of the week. That will put me at a rough 6-week deficit, which is extremely depressing but I see no way out of it. Maybe I’ll find a second wind at some point this week and be able to squeeze in some Xbox or some Spinning, but I’m not holding my breath.
I’ve finally reversed the weight trend from Gain to Loss, but the yield was considerably smaller than I’d hoped. I began tracking calories again last week and all the numbers were good, but we sort of took the weekend off and I suspect I undid a lot of the progress I made during the week last week. We’re back to our weekly routine now, so I will once again be tracking every bite that goes into my mouth. We’re also starting to attack the reorganization of our kitchen in earnest with an aggressive “catalog and containment” strategy that will hopefully help us figure out what we have and how best to store it for easy access. I wish we had thousands of dollars just sitting around so we could completely redesign our kitchen with a better cabinet configuration but we don’t, so we’ll just have to make what we have work for us.
I guess our next step towards sustainable change will be reconfiguring our daily routine once the activities associated with the current school year wind down. Of course, our summer starts ramping up right after Memorial Day with rehearsals for the Bristol Renaissance Faire followed by what will be the 25th Anniversary season (and Jezzie’s 9th - can you believe it? I can’t!), but we are both committed to not letting Faire completely derail our progress the way it did last year. We need to find a way to make fitness and Faire work together because we can’t let our fitness goals go down the drain as our summer whizzes by us in a whirlpool of lost opportunities. This year will be different from last year; we will make progress!