Loud Neighbors....

Tuesday Totals
Calories: 1786
Cardio: 45 Min Elliptical, 3.18 Miles
Water: 128oz
Sleep: 5.5 hours
Weight: 302.5

My calories were a little light yesterday but I'm really not that concerned about it. I felt great all day and I had plenty of energy and felt great during my cardio. Sleeping on the other hand is not going well thanks to my upstairs neighbors, it may get ugly soon. 

I was able to increase my water intake and decrease my sodium yesterday and the scale weight showed that. Now, time to buy a good set of noise cancellation headphones and I'll fix my sleep issues. 

Have a great day.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." Abraham Lincoln

Long Weekend...

Good Morning

It was a long weekend for me as I had off for MLK day, so this feels like a Monday for me. Here goes the numbers from the weekend.

Friday
Calories: 1850
No workouts
Water: 64oz
Sleep: 8 hours
Weight: 304

Saturday
Calories: 1727
No workouts
Water: 32oz
Sleep: 5.5 hours
Weight: 303.5

Sunday
Calories: 1910
No workouts
Water: 32oz
Sleep: 6 hours
Weight: 303

Monday
Calories: 2145
Cardio: 45 Min Elliptical, 2.98 Miles
Grip: #1R 2x8, L 1x3, #2R 2x4 L Half rep. #2.5 R Quarter rep
Water: 64oz
Sleep: 5 hours
Weight: 304

My weight is fluctuating a bit and for me that's pretty normal. I'm down 6 pounds total and I'm betting by February 1, I will be 10 or more down. It would be great, small goal, to see under 300 by Feb. first. I'm still not getting enough sleep and I also didn't get any cardio over the weekend which I had planned but failed to go, is what it is. It's time to clean up the nutrition a little more and hit it hard for the next two weeks. Have a great day.

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

Thursday Totals
Calories: 1889 

Cardio: 45 Min Elliptical, 3.14 Miles

Grip Training: 
CoC Trainer-R/L 2x8 
CoC #1- R 2x5 L 2x3
CoC #2- R 1X2 L Half rep
CoC #2.5 R Half rep

Sleep: 6 Hours

Water: 96oz

Weight: 303.5

It was another late workout just after 9PM last night but it felt great especially since I wasn't feeling that great and now this morning I'm feeling horrible. I feel like I'm fixing to catch some kinda of bug. I hope it just passes as I can't afford to be down at all. No change on the scale this morning but that's fine I will have those days. 

Time to get back to work, have a great Friday!

Change is starting to happen...

Good Morning!

Wednesday Totals
Calories: 1732 

Workouts
Cardio: Rest Day
Strength:  3x10 Pushups, 3x10 Situps
Grip Training: Rest Day

Sleep Wed-Thur: 7 hours

Water Consumption: 96oz

Weight:  303.5
Tonight it's back to the cardio and I'm shooting for just over 2300 calories today.  Meals are ready just need to EAT!  I'm also starting to get the itch to start slinging some iron around so I may start adding some full body strength workouts soon.

Have a great day!

If you're going through hell, keep going! - Winston Churchill 

Journey Back to Healthy Living - Backwards from 40

That's right I'm back in the game, well, not running yet but I'm back to fitness!  Took me long enough but no matter I'm three days in and the weight is coming off.

That's right, weight is coming off because I bloated up like a whale AGAIN!  So this is basically starting over for me....

Sunday Weight: 310

Monday Weight: 308.5

Tuesday Weight: 306

Wednesday Weight 304.5

Workouts consist only of cardio, for now...

45 Min Elliptical roughly 3 miles.

I look like this now....

...and I used to look like this just 6 years ago....

So the journey back has already begun and I will keep track here.

In life we make all kinds of decisions some right, some wrong, some create success, some create failures.  I have made many of both.  You can have success in one area of your life at the same time you are failing in another.

I'm at the fork in the road and the decision I make right now decides which way I will go!  Here comes the pain!

Change is good, right?

Wow, a lot has happened since my post from November.  Where to begin?

That weekend of the Turkey bowl turned into a not-so-fun day.  I came to the realization that I'm not a young man anymore.  I left the Turkey bowl with a broken finger and a torn calf muscle, yikes.

We miss you Rosie!

Also, that weekend our yellow lab Rosie started to get sick and she went down hill from there.  On that Monday afternoon we had to put her to sleep, very hard day, very hard day.  Rosie was our second child, Rosie went everywhere with us, she was such a huge part of our family and we miss her terribly bad.

On a positive note this January I was offered a new position with the company I work for.  I moved over to the Product Management team owning one of our Data Center Management software solutions, been a blast so far.  So, change is good, at least so far. :)

So, my life is like a bad country song....Got beat up, my dog died and I got a new job!  Ok, that was bad.

Moving on---
I haven't had a chance to join the gym yet but I plan to this week.  It's time to start getting in some cardio and getting some of this weight off.

If you're going through hell, keep going! - Winston Churchill 

Back to work.  Later.