Hello Faithful Readers...
It has been a couple weeks since I last wrote and I want to explain why. On October 16 2011 We lost a very good friend in a car accident. Matthew will be missed by anyone who knew him, and his passing effected me greatly. I have been working through a lot of emotions and feelings of losing someone that close to me. I assure you faithful reader that I am still here and am back at my exercise routine.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
What have I been up to the last couple of weeks? Well, mostly gaining weight. My weekly weigh in I was at 467.8. Grrrr!! I want to know how walking 6.7 miles in the last week can really cause weight gain? So here is the break down of the last week...I walked 1.1 miles on October 26th and October 27th. Then on Saturday October 29 2011 I did my first official 5k! I walked it with my daughter Molly and we had a goal of walking it in 1 hour. We were about as close to our goal as we could get, we made it in 1 hour and 23 seconds. In one month on November 26/27 2011 we will be walking another timed 5k and my goal is to shave off 2 minutes and do a 58 minute 5k. So training resumes on November 1 2011.Then again on Saturday Molly and I walked 1.4 miles for the walking Ghost Tour of Downtown Wausau. It was really cool and interesting.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
We ran a cool special at the store this past weekend and I am not sure how well received it was. We offered 10% off if you came to the store in costume and not just on one item, but, on your entire purchase.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Halloween is my favorite time of year. I like the darkness and fun that is part of this pagan holiday. I am not a pagan, but, I like their holiday's. I like the imagery of the day and the smell of the fall time. The smell of sweet decay. The colors, the crisp cool mornings and warm sunny days. I just love Fall!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Anyway, nothing really more to say, except thank-you faithful readers for following my weekly babblings.
Chad 180
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Great Week, New Record!
Hello Faithful Reader!
I was pretty sure that this week was going to be interesting. I was down and out on Friday, didn't get out of my chair pretty much all day. Sick, sick, sick. I also did eat like crazy. I do that when I am ill and don't know why. I figured after that I would not lose if not gain. Was I wrong! I lost 7.4 pounds this week faithful reader! I weighed in at 458.6 pounds. Let's step back and look at this. When I started this whole thing, I weighed 486 pounds. So since then I have lost 27.4 pounds since July 18, 2011. I am averaging about 2.25 pounds a week. Man, am I feeling good about this last week.
Walked 7.5 miles last week, with 4.2 of those coming Sunday. I made 4.2 miles in 1 hour and 34 minutes. It was great and painful and everything in between. I was proud and chaffed. My heels got blisters and I got satisfaction. I don't know what else to say then it hurt and I am happy I made it.
I have been trying really hard to get back in shape and I know I am in better shape than I was when I started this and I know I have a long way to go to make it to 180 pounds. I feel like it is possible though. If I can do things like 4.2 miles in 1 1/2 hours I should be able to do the 5K on November 6, 2011 in under an hour. That is my goal. I don't care if it is 59 minutes and 59 seconds...I want to finish it in less than 1 hour. I hope you will all cheer me on that day from anywhere you might be. If you want to join us, I will be letting you all know where we will be doing this 5K in a post closer to the date.
I really want to thank my daughter Emma who was walking with me yesterday and encouraging me the whole way. Whenever, I would start slowing down or wanting to give in, she was very encouraging saying things like "Good job daddy" and "Your doing great dad" but the best thing she said all day was when we got back to the house and she said "Daddy, I'm proud of you." You can bet your ass that is more incentive than anything else. A child's encouragement is what makes me work even that one little bit harder. As I write this I am holding back tears, wishing I could tell her in person what her encouragement means to me. Holding back tears of anger for ever letting myself get to this place. However, I am on my way back, to be healthy again.
Until next week Faithful Reader, thanks for reading.
Chad 180
I was pretty sure that this week was going to be interesting. I was down and out on Friday, didn't get out of my chair pretty much all day. Sick, sick, sick. I also did eat like crazy. I do that when I am ill and don't know why. I figured after that I would not lose if not gain. Was I wrong! I lost 7.4 pounds this week faithful reader! I weighed in at 458.6 pounds. Let's step back and look at this. When I started this whole thing, I weighed 486 pounds. So since then I have lost 27.4 pounds since July 18, 2011. I am averaging about 2.25 pounds a week. Man, am I feeling good about this last week.
Walked 7.5 miles last week, with 4.2 of those coming Sunday. I made 4.2 miles in 1 hour and 34 minutes. It was great and painful and everything in between. I was proud and chaffed. My heels got blisters and I got satisfaction. I don't know what else to say then it hurt and I am happy I made it.
I have been trying really hard to get back in shape and I know I am in better shape than I was when I started this and I know I have a long way to go to make it to 180 pounds. I feel like it is possible though. If I can do things like 4.2 miles in 1 1/2 hours I should be able to do the 5K on November 6, 2011 in under an hour. That is my goal. I don't care if it is 59 minutes and 59 seconds...I want to finish it in less than 1 hour. I hope you will all cheer me on that day from anywhere you might be. If you want to join us, I will be letting you all know where we will be doing this 5K in a post closer to the date.
I really want to thank my daughter Emma who was walking with me yesterday and encouraging me the whole way. Whenever, I would start slowing down or wanting to give in, she was very encouraging saying things like "Good job daddy" and "Your doing great dad" but the best thing she said all day was when we got back to the house and she said "Daddy, I'm proud of you." You can bet your ass that is more incentive than anything else. A child's encouragement is what makes me work even that one little bit harder. As I write this I am holding back tears, wishing I could tell her in person what her encouragement means to me. Holding back tears of anger for ever letting myself get to this place. However, I am on my way back, to be healthy again.
Until next week Faithful Reader, thanks for reading.
Chad 180
Monday, October 3, 2011
Running?
Ok, here we are again, it's Monday morning and I just got off the scale...DOWN 2 POUNDS! So I weighed in at 466.0 this morning. This is the good news, the bad news...I didn't exercise very much last week. In fact, the big day of exercise was last night, I made just over 1.2 miles in 27 minutes or so. I think I needed a week of recoup for the body, because walking last night felt very good. I did something I haven't done in a very long time...I ran. That's right I got all this moving forward in a motion that was faster than I was walking. I didn't sustain it for very long, but, I covered about 1/2 block, then finished the walk.
So what's new, you ask? Well, simply this. Today kicks off our 12 week, Biggest Loser competition. 7 of us are going to be weighing in every Monday and working on a percentage of weight loss, not actual amount lost. I plan on getting on this bitch and riding it to the finish line and making me some good cha-ching!
I don't have a whole lot to say this week, but, to thank you constant reader for reading what gibberish I post. Until next time, Thanks!
Chad 180
So what's new, you ask? Well, simply this. Today kicks off our 12 week, Biggest Loser competition. 7 of us are going to be weighing in every Monday and working on a percentage of weight loss, not actual amount lost. I plan on getting on this bitch and riding it to the finish line and making me some good cha-ching!
I don't have a whole lot to say this week, but, to thank you constant reader for reading what gibberish I post. Until next time, Thanks!
Chad 180
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