Weight: 238.5
Food:
Breakfast: Egg in the hole
1st snack apple
2nd snack
Lunch: BBQ beef rib, raw carrot
3rd snack apple
4th snack carrot
Dinner: 4 chicken wings and beer from BBQ cook off.
5th snack: Oatmeal chocolate cookie
6th snack
Exercise:
2 mile walk
Activities
Couple of short walks with the dogs. Took the boat out and put out catfish lines. Finished building more jug lines. Went to the BBQ cook off with 3 year old granddaughter at the city park and then took her to the playground in the park. 3 year olds can be tough to keep up with.
Thoughts and/or education:
Objectives are about what we want. I want to get in shape. I want a new car. Goals are specific, measurable, and time sensitive. I will weigh 175 lbs by August 1, 2011. I will do 50 pushups a day by January 1, 2011. I will save an extra $10 per week for the next 104 weeks for the down payment of $1080 down payment on a new Ford Escape.
My objectives for myself for the next year are pretty simple. I want to get in shape, not six pack, but firm. I want to be able to exercise for an hour at a moderate to moderate heavy (like beach body, not P90X). So, the goals are also simple. I will weigh 175lbs by August 1, 2011. I will have a 34” waiste. I will have a 16” neck. I will do sustained exercise for 60 minutes every day.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Day Four
Weight: 239
Food:
Breakfast: English muffin, one egg
1st snack: Apple
2nd snack
Lunch: Salad with olives, ¼ oz each beef, ham, turkey and two tablespoons creamy Italian dressing.
3rd snack; apple
4th snack
Dinner: pulled pork sandwich
5th snack: pulled pork sandwich (bartended at the elks and may have had a drink or three otherwise would not have eaten the sandwich, should not have eaten it).
6th snack
Exercise:
Two short walks, about a mile. I live on a gravel road and take two dogs with me on the walk. One is a Lab and the other is a cocker spaniel with a show cut, the cocker is a mop and would collect water and sand like there is no tomorrow. And, I am the volunteer bartender at the Elks lodge tonight 4pm to 9pm and will get a good workout from that.
Activities
Thoughts and/or education:
Goals, objectives, and milestones. I have spent over 35 years working with goals, objectives, and milestones. One cannot get to their destination with them. A pilot cannot fly a plane without a map or some idea of where they are going. We are the same in every thing we do.
I managed small hospitals for several years. One of the first things I did was to gather together all of the stakeholders, board members, department directors, community members, and spend a couple of days in a retreat talking about what they wanted the hospital to be. This was a very structured process that was focused on “if it was good, it would look like this”. It is a very positive experience, no negative vibes allowed.
I would then gather all of the information, while the group was out having a great dinner, and spend the evening sorting through it and making sense of what they told us (I always worked with a team of facilitators). The next morning, I would validate with the facilitators and then make my presentation to the group. This would be the start of the process towards developing and implementing a five-year plan.
At every meeting of the Board of Trustees, I would give a plan update. Somewhere in year three, I would report the plan was virtually complete and it was time to develop a new plan. The board was always amazed. None of them could believe we could have accomplished so much. From the start, most thought the goals and objectives we had set were too ambitious.
Food:
Breakfast: English muffin, one egg
1st snack: Apple
2nd snack
Lunch: Salad with olives, ¼ oz each beef, ham, turkey and two tablespoons creamy Italian dressing.
3rd snack; apple
4th snack
Dinner: pulled pork sandwich
5th snack: pulled pork sandwich (bartended at the elks and may have had a drink or three otherwise would not have eaten the sandwich, should not have eaten it).
6th snack
Exercise:
Two short walks, about a mile. I live on a gravel road and take two dogs with me on the walk. One is a Lab and the other is a cocker spaniel with a show cut, the cocker is a mop and would collect water and sand like there is no tomorrow. And, I am the volunteer bartender at the Elks lodge tonight 4pm to 9pm and will get a good workout from that.
Activities
Thoughts and/or education:
Goals, objectives, and milestones. I have spent over 35 years working with goals, objectives, and milestones. One cannot get to their destination with them. A pilot cannot fly a plane without a map or some idea of where they are going. We are the same in every thing we do.
I managed small hospitals for several years. One of the first things I did was to gather together all of the stakeholders, board members, department directors, community members, and spend a couple of days in a retreat talking about what they wanted the hospital to be. This was a very structured process that was focused on “if it was good, it would look like this”. It is a very positive experience, no negative vibes allowed.
I would then gather all of the information, while the group was out having a great dinner, and spend the evening sorting through it and making sense of what they told us (I always worked with a team of facilitators). The next morning, I would validate with the facilitators and then make my presentation to the group. This would be the start of the process towards developing and implementing a five-year plan.
At every meeting of the Board of Trustees, I would give a plan update. Somewhere in year three, I would report the plan was virtually complete and it was time to develop a new plan. The board was always amazed. None of them could believe we could have accomplished so much. From the start, most thought the goals and objectives we had set were too ambitious.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Day Three
Weight: 240
Food:
Breakfast: Egg in the hole, 12 oz milk
1st snack: Apple
2nd snack
Lunch: Baked potato with salt and pepper, raw carrot.
3rd snack: Miller Beer (its really hot and I’ve been working outside)
4th snack: Apple
Dinner: Three beef ribs (not much meat on those puppies), salad with tomato and blue cheese dressing, a little spaghetti my son made for lunch – he added sugar to the canned sauce and it may be, is, the worst I have ever eaten, zucchini-tomato-onion bake with parmesan and Italian cheese mix. Sounds like a lot but except for the salad, only a couple of bites of each.
5th snack: small cookie
6th snack: 16 oz homebrew wheat beer
Exercise:
Walked 2 miles, hilly terrain. I live at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, very hilly here. The 1 ½ mile circuit I like to walk has a 690 ‘ change in elevation, so, that is 690’ up and 690’ back down
Activities:
Still very hot out, worked outside making catfish fishing jugs.
Thoughts and/or education:
The first 15 to 20 minutes of sustained activity, exercise, yard work, what ever, we burn the sugar in our blood. Then we start converting our body fat to sugar because we have used up all of the available sugar in our system. If one has been sedentary for long periods of time, weeks, months, years, then our body has gotten out of the practice of converting fat to sugar. This one of the reasons we tire so easily when we ask our body to start doing sustained activity. Yet, sustained activity is one of the keys to achieving our weight and BMI goals.
My wife got Hodgkin’s disease about two years after we were married. In the late 70’s, one was not expected to survive the disease but she did. The course of chemotherapy and the disease process took away all of her stamina, which had been considerable. She set a goal of being able to walk downtown from our house and back, about a mile each way. Every day, she would walk a little father, stopping many times to rest, until after a couple of months, she was able to make the entire trip without stopping.
A gentleman I used with whom I used to work, let himself get over 260 lbs, this was about a 100 lb gain over his target weight. One day he decided to get back in shape and started running three times a week. His goal was to be able to run 6 miles at each outing. He said it took him almost a year but he finally was able to run the 6 miles without stopping. His normal run was twice around a section. For you non-country folks, a section being 640 acres and is usually measured, in farming country, by a rectangle one mile long and ½ mile wide.
Our first objective is to develop a program of sustained activity. Walking is the easiest. It takes no extra equipment, is low impact, and one can do it almost anywhere, see my first post for exceptions, lol. I love to play racquet ball but have no one and no place to play right now or that would be part of my sustained activity program. Makes no difference what one does but it does make a difference how one does it. Start slowly, don’t take on too much. Remember, I am looking at a year to get there.
Tomorrow, setting goals, objectives, and milestones.
Food:
Breakfast: Egg in the hole, 12 oz milk
1st snack: Apple
2nd snack
Lunch: Baked potato with salt and pepper, raw carrot.
3rd snack: Miller Beer (its really hot and I’ve been working outside)
4th snack: Apple
Dinner: Three beef ribs (not much meat on those puppies), salad with tomato and blue cheese dressing, a little spaghetti my son made for lunch – he added sugar to the canned sauce and it may be, is, the worst I have ever eaten, zucchini-tomato-onion bake with parmesan and Italian cheese mix. Sounds like a lot but except for the salad, only a couple of bites of each.
5th snack: small cookie
6th snack: 16 oz homebrew wheat beer
Exercise:
Walked 2 miles, hilly terrain. I live at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, very hilly here. The 1 ½ mile circuit I like to walk has a 690 ‘ change in elevation, so, that is 690’ up and 690’ back down
Activities:
Still very hot out, worked outside making catfish fishing jugs.
Thoughts and/or education:
The first 15 to 20 minutes of sustained activity, exercise, yard work, what ever, we burn the sugar in our blood. Then we start converting our body fat to sugar because we have used up all of the available sugar in our system. If one has been sedentary for long periods of time, weeks, months, years, then our body has gotten out of the practice of converting fat to sugar. This one of the reasons we tire so easily when we ask our body to start doing sustained activity. Yet, sustained activity is one of the keys to achieving our weight and BMI goals.
My wife got Hodgkin’s disease about two years after we were married. In the late 70’s, one was not expected to survive the disease but she did. The course of chemotherapy and the disease process took away all of her stamina, which had been considerable. She set a goal of being able to walk downtown from our house and back, about a mile each way. Every day, she would walk a little father, stopping many times to rest, until after a couple of months, she was able to make the entire trip without stopping.
A gentleman I used with whom I used to work, let himself get over 260 lbs, this was about a 100 lb gain over his target weight. One day he decided to get back in shape and started running three times a week. His goal was to be able to run 6 miles at each outing. He said it took him almost a year but he finally was able to run the 6 miles without stopping. His normal run was twice around a section. For you non-country folks, a section being 640 acres and is usually measured, in farming country, by a rectangle one mile long and ½ mile wide.
Our first objective is to develop a program of sustained activity. Walking is the easiest. It takes no extra equipment, is low impact, and one can do it almost anywhere, see my first post for exceptions, lol. I love to play racquet ball but have no one and no place to play right now or that would be part of my sustained activity program. Makes no difference what one does but it does make a difference how one does it. Start slowly, don’t take on too much. Remember, I am looking at a year to get there.
Tomorrow, setting goals, objectives, and milestones.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Day Two
Weight: 240.5
Food:
Breakfast: 1 ½ egg sausage and cheese omelet (split a 3 egg omelet with my wife) one small blueberry pancake, and 14 oz of milk.
1st snack carrot
2nd snack
Lunch: Cup Hamburger soup
3rd snack: 1 cup strawberry frozen yogurt
4th snack: 1 oz pastrami
Dinner: Jr Bacon Cheeseburger @ Wendy’s, some fries, 1/4 Cobb Salad, ½ small vanilla frosty, ice tea (we took our granddaughter out for dinner and shared)
5th snack: 20oz homebrew wheat beer.
6th snack
Exercise:
Walk 1.5 miles. It was 76 @ 6:15am and the horse flies were out in force, got extra aerobic exercise waving my arms to keep them away, lol.
Activities
It was 102, so, did as little as possible outside. Did go to two Wal-Mart stores looking for clothes for our 3 year old granddaughter.
Thoughts and/or education:
I was listening to a gentleman talk about weight loss a while back. He said it is a simple matter of physics. To put on weight, just eat more calories than you burn. Which, by the way, takes very little effort. To make matters even more difficult, fat does not need to be digested so it goes right to your body fat with virtually no extra effort on your part. Chicken fat, pig fat, cow fat, vegetable fat, your body doesn’t care, it becomes a part of you.
Sugar is the culprit. We burn sugar first. So, when we eat a combination of sugar and fat our bodies store the fat if we ate enough sugar to satisfy our energy needs. When we eat too much sugar, our bodies covert it to fat and we store that away as well.
Pizza is a great food because it is made up of a lot of good things, grain, cheese, meat, and vegetables. Lots of pizza is not a good thing since the grain is converted to sugar, we digest the protein, vegetables are difficult to digest (a good thing), and we store the fat and extra sugar from all those pizza slices we really did not need but ate anyway. Remember, we will generally eat what is put before us.
So, it takes no effort to put on weight but lots of effort to take it off.
Food:
Breakfast: 1 ½ egg sausage and cheese omelet (split a 3 egg omelet with my wife) one small blueberry pancake, and 14 oz of milk.
1st snack carrot
2nd snack
Lunch: Cup Hamburger soup
3rd snack: 1 cup strawberry frozen yogurt
4th snack: 1 oz pastrami
Dinner: Jr Bacon Cheeseburger @ Wendy’s, some fries, 1/4 Cobb Salad, ½ small vanilla frosty, ice tea (we took our granddaughter out for dinner and shared)
5th snack: 20oz homebrew wheat beer.
6th snack
Exercise:
Walk 1.5 miles. It was 76 @ 6:15am and the horse flies were out in force, got extra aerobic exercise waving my arms to keep them away, lol.
Activities
It was 102, so, did as little as possible outside. Did go to two Wal-Mart stores looking for clothes for our 3 year old granddaughter.
Thoughts and/or education:
I was listening to a gentleman talk about weight loss a while back. He said it is a simple matter of physics. To put on weight, just eat more calories than you burn. Which, by the way, takes very little effort. To make matters even more difficult, fat does not need to be digested so it goes right to your body fat with virtually no extra effort on your part. Chicken fat, pig fat, cow fat, vegetable fat, your body doesn’t care, it becomes a part of you.
Sugar is the culprit. We burn sugar first. So, when we eat a combination of sugar and fat our bodies store the fat if we ate enough sugar to satisfy our energy needs. When we eat too much sugar, our bodies covert it to fat and we store that away as well.
Pizza is a great food because it is made up of a lot of good things, grain, cheese, meat, and vegetables. Lots of pizza is not a good thing since the grain is converted to sugar, we digest the protein, vegetables are difficult to digest (a good thing), and we store the fat and extra sugar from all those pizza slices we really did not need but ate anyway. Remember, we will generally eat what is put before us.
So, it takes no effort to put on weight but lots of effort to take it off.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Day One, on the road again. . .
This is the report on my first day. What I will do is show my food, exercise, and activity diary for the day. Then, a little education or thoughts on what I need to do to reach my goal of 175 lbs.
OK, so, not a great start. However, I get rid of some stuff I don’t need t be eating for the next couple of weeks and will send more to the freezer for the future, like the fishing trip at the end of the month. Should have only eaten ½ of the sandwich, I really was not that hungry after the first half. BUT, I made the pastrami and we tend to eat what is in front of us. I am guilty, but will try to do better.
More tomorrow.
Weight: 243.5 lbs
BMI: 34.49
Chest: 44 Waist: 46.5 Hips: 47.5 Upper Arm: 15 Thigh: 25 Neck: 17
Food:
Breakfast: 1 Egg, 1 slice honey wheat toast (egg in the hole cooked in 1 tsp butter), 14 oz 2% milk.
1st snack: Two carrots.
2nd snack: Tablespoon frozen strawberry yogurt.
Lunch: 3 barbeque beef ribs, water.
3rd snack: ½ oz Monterey Jack cheese ½ oz pastrami. (I bought a food scale)
4th snack: Carrot & beer (hey its 100 outside and I’ve been working outside)
Dinner: Pastrami, Monterey Jack, tomato, lettuce sandwich on two pieces of bread and a beer.
Exercise: 11/2 mile walk, hilly terrain. 75 @ 6:30am. Did some huffing and puffing.
Activity: Some outside work, watering plants and working on hoses, sitting at desk, moved very heavy old style flat screen tube TV.
Thoughts and/or education: The diet, nutrition program, eating plan, whatever you want to call it: is based upon an eating pattern to keep the insulin level. So far, I am a little off pattern but will get into it as the week progresses. I have a lot of groceries that don’t fit the pattern and I am not going to waste them but I will be judicious in their use.
The basic pattern is:
Within 30 minutes of rising: Eat one protein and one carbohydrate, if you think you need more, eat more. After a long night, one needs the carbohydrate to bring up the insulin level and the protein to get things going. I happen to like eggs in the hole and it is a perfect dish for this. More on this as time goes on.
2 hours after breakfast. Eat a crunchy vegetable or fruit. Carrots, apples, raw green beans, broccoli, etc. . . NOT banana, orange, kiwi. . . The crunchy fruits and vegetables are more difficult to digest and keep the insulin level.
2 hours later, if it is not lunchtime, even if lunch is just 30 minutes away, eat another crunchy vegetable or fruit, we have to keep the insulin level or we may pig out at lunch.
Lunch should be a vegetarian mix of both raw and cooked vegetables. A piece of chicken, fish, beef, pork is ok but will really slow down the weight loss process.
2 hours later, more crunch fruit or vegetable.
2 hours later you can have an orange or other soft fruit if you want or more crunchy fruit or vegetables.
2 hours later, if it is not dinnertime, even if dinner is just 30 minutes away, eat another crunch vegetable or fruit.
Dinner should be 4 oz or so protein and a combination of raw and cooked vegetables.
2 hours after dinner either soft or crunchy fruit or vegetables.
2 hours later, soft fruit or vegetable if you did not have one after dinner or crunchy if you did.
For the next couple of weeks, I will try to stay away from carbohydrates, except for breakfast. Carbohydrates turn to sugar and will spike one’s insulin level and when it crashes, you are craving some kind of sugar. NOT GOOD!!!
When I follow this eating pattern, I will loose about 15 lbs in three to four weeks. The weight loss tapers off to a reasonable pound to three a week after that, depending on exercise. If one’s weight starts going up, they have added carbohydrates, liquor, soda (diet or regular) on a regular basis, go back to the basics.
OK, so, not a great start. However, I get rid of some stuff I don’t need t be eating for the next couple of weeks and will send more to the freezer for the future, like the fishing trip at the end of the month. Should have only eaten ½ of the sandwich, I really was not that hungry after the first half. BUT, I made the pastrami and we tend to eat what is in front of us. I am guilty, but will try to do better.
More tomorrow.
Weight: 243.5 lbs
BMI: 34.49
Chest: 44 Waist: 46.5 Hips: 47.5 Upper Arm: 15 Thigh: 25 Neck: 17
Food:
Breakfast: 1 Egg, 1 slice honey wheat toast (egg in the hole cooked in 1 tsp butter), 14 oz 2% milk.
1st snack: Two carrots.
2nd snack: Tablespoon frozen strawberry yogurt.
Lunch: 3 barbeque beef ribs, water.
3rd snack: ½ oz Monterey Jack cheese ½ oz pastrami. (I bought a food scale)
4th snack: Carrot & beer (hey its 100 outside and I’ve been working outside)
Dinner: Pastrami, Monterey Jack, tomato, lettuce sandwich on two pieces of bread and a beer.
Exercise: 11/2 mile walk, hilly terrain. 75 @ 6:30am. Did some huffing and puffing.
Activity: Some outside work, watering plants and working on hoses, sitting at desk, moved very heavy old style flat screen tube TV.
Thoughts and/or education: The diet, nutrition program, eating plan, whatever you want to call it: is based upon an eating pattern to keep the insulin level. So far, I am a little off pattern but will get into it as the week progresses. I have a lot of groceries that don’t fit the pattern and I am not going to waste them but I will be judicious in their use.
The basic pattern is:
Within 30 minutes of rising: Eat one protein and one carbohydrate, if you think you need more, eat more. After a long night, one needs the carbohydrate to bring up the insulin level and the protein to get things going. I happen to like eggs in the hole and it is a perfect dish for this. More on this as time goes on.
2 hours after breakfast. Eat a crunchy vegetable or fruit. Carrots, apples, raw green beans, broccoli, etc. . . NOT banana, orange, kiwi. . . The crunchy fruits and vegetables are more difficult to digest and keep the insulin level.
2 hours later, if it is not lunchtime, even if lunch is just 30 minutes away, eat another crunchy vegetable or fruit, we have to keep the insulin level or we may pig out at lunch.
Lunch should be a vegetarian mix of both raw and cooked vegetables. A piece of chicken, fish, beef, pork is ok but will really slow down the weight loss process.
2 hours later, more crunch fruit or vegetable.
2 hours later you can have an orange or other soft fruit if you want or more crunchy fruit or vegetables.
2 hours later, if it is not dinnertime, even if dinner is just 30 minutes away, eat another crunch vegetable or fruit.
Dinner should be 4 oz or so protein and a combination of raw and cooked vegetables.
2 hours after dinner either soft or crunchy fruit or vegetables.
2 hours later, soft fruit or vegetable if you did not have one after dinner or crunchy if you did.
For the next couple of weeks, I will try to stay away from carbohydrates, except for breakfast. Carbohydrates turn to sugar and will spike one’s insulin level and when it crashes, you are craving some kind of sugar. NOT GOOD!!!
When I follow this eating pattern, I will loose about 15 lbs in three to four weeks. The weight loss tapers off to a reasonable pound to three a week after that, depending on exercise. If one’s weight starts going up, they have added carbohydrates, liquor, soda (diet or regular) on a regular basis, go back to the basics.
Prolog to the long road ahead
Today I weighed in at 243.5 lbs. This is far heavier than the 155 lbs when I got married 34 years ago. It is a lot more than I thought I would ever weigh.
Before college, I wrestled in the 145 lb weight class during my senior year. I weighed less than 145 but could beat the guy on our team in that weight class but not the guy in the weight class below. So, I wrestled in the 145 lb class and never had to worry about my diet, the intense workouts during practice contributed quite a bit as well. During college I put on some weight, I am not sure how much because I never weighed, just bought bigger clothes. After college, I became the manager of a small pizza restaurant. The heat, smell of food, preparation, and stress took my appetite away and combined with the physical demands of the job, I went down to 155 lbs. I had to have all my clothes either altered or replaced.
I remember thinking I was fat when I hit 165lbs. But then 175 lbs, whoa. And then I quit smoking, holy cow! I hit 186 and started getting heartburn. So, I went to my Doctor, he told me I was obese. Thank goodness he is retired or I could really show him how I’ve grown over the years. It only took a few minutes after that to go over 200 lbs.
In my late 30’s, I started lifting weights with a friend who had played college and then pro football. To say he was brutal would be to put it mildly. However, after a couple of months with him, I had my body fat computed and the result was an ideal weight of 196 lbs. I felt good because I only weighed in at 210 lbs.
After a couple of years, I got a new job and said goodbye to the daily workouts for a while. We bought a house .8 of a mile from my job. We moved in August and I decided to walk to work. By the first of November, I was under 200lbs for the first time in years. I would walk to work, home for lunch, back to work, and then home in the evening. No change of diet. Then disaster struck, it snowed. The town I lived in did not require residents to clear their sidewalks and the street I walked was a snow route, so, the snow clearing went right from the street over the sidewalks. This made it near impossible to transverse my normal route and I started driving to work.
My undergraduate degree is from the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Nutrition, Hotel and Restaurant Management program. I have always been interested in food and always claiming to diet. So, over the years I have read and studied both exercise and diet. I am not going to claim to be an expert, but I do know a lot. My main problem is getting ready to get ready. It is far more fun to study and learn than to do.
So, this is it. I always do better with a friend. I keep to the schedule because someone is relying on me. Also, I am at the age where if I keep on like I am, it’s heart attack time. I have this aversion to pain and suffering in the acute mode but know I can do the everyday. My friend will be this blog. The goal is to do what I need to do every day and report it here. The objective is to get down to 175lbs in the next year. I will do this using both diet and exercise.
I am not in the greatest shape, but not in bad shape either. I start reporting in tomorrow.
Before college, I wrestled in the 145 lb weight class during my senior year. I weighed less than 145 but could beat the guy on our team in that weight class but not the guy in the weight class below. So, I wrestled in the 145 lb class and never had to worry about my diet, the intense workouts during practice contributed quite a bit as well. During college I put on some weight, I am not sure how much because I never weighed, just bought bigger clothes. After college, I became the manager of a small pizza restaurant. The heat, smell of food, preparation, and stress took my appetite away and combined with the physical demands of the job, I went down to 155 lbs. I had to have all my clothes either altered or replaced.
I remember thinking I was fat when I hit 165lbs. But then 175 lbs, whoa. And then I quit smoking, holy cow! I hit 186 and started getting heartburn. So, I went to my Doctor, he told me I was obese. Thank goodness he is retired or I could really show him how I’ve grown over the years. It only took a few minutes after that to go over 200 lbs.
In my late 30’s, I started lifting weights with a friend who had played college and then pro football. To say he was brutal would be to put it mildly. However, after a couple of months with him, I had my body fat computed and the result was an ideal weight of 196 lbs. I felt good because I only weighed in at 210 lbs.
After a couple of years, I got a new job and said goodbye to the daily workouts for a while. We bought a house .8 of a mile from my job. We moved in August and I decided to walk to work. By the first of November, I was under 200lbs for the first time in years. I would walk to work, home for lunch, back to work, and then home in the evening. No change of diet. Then disaster struck, it snowed. The town I lived in did not require residents to clear their sidewalks and the street I walked was a snow route, so, the snow clearing went right from the street over the sidewalks. This made it near impossible to transverse my normal route and I started driving to work.
My undergraduate degree is from the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Nutrition, Hotel and Restaurant Management program. I have always been interested in food and always claiming to diet. So, over the years I have read and studied both exercise and diet. I am not going to claim to be an expert, but I do know a lot. My main problem is getting ready to get ready. It is far more fun to study and learn than to do.
So, this is it. I always do better with a friend. I keep to the schedule because someone is relying on me. Also, I am at the age where if I keep on like I am, it’s heart attack time. I have this aversion to pain and suffering in the acute mode but know I can do the everyday. My friend will be this blog. The goal is to do what I need to do every day and report it here. The objective is to get down to 175lbs in the next year. I will do this using both diet and exercise.
I am not in the greatest shape, but not in bad shape either. I start reporting in tomorrow.
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