Week 1...... the End

Toward the middle of the week, I have been doing what I called sissy push ups. Basically, I would use a counter and lean into, like doing an incline push up. Like this:

I done them when I think about it. Say. when I have to use the bathroom. Other times is when I go to stretch out from sitting for a certain period. I do not do any number with sets and or a certain amount. I just do them fast or slow, depending on how I feel at the moment and do as many as I can till my arms are tired.  I do them at least twice a day, if not more.

Speaking of sitting for a period. Even though I am in maintenance, I do have some seat time because I am also in charge of inventory control. Ordering parts, locating parts or special items, checking the warehouse inventory. I monitor my seat time and then I add a walk into it, say, I need to go to one end of the warehouse to check on inventory,

When I have to make repairs, I try to bend over. Now, at my age, my back is pretty week. I try to bend more. For the most part, I can for a short time, then I become very nauseous.

My eating habit has changed somewhat. This strike me as odd since this usually does not happen til about the third week in once you start from "dormant". You can force yourself to a new eating habit from the start, but you will be better to let it happen, at first, naturally. What has happen to me is that I eat less, but more often and I do not eat about 2 hours before I go to bed. I do drink more water at that time also, which does make me get up more often at night to use the bathroom. I suppose this is coming from my subconscious from where before when I have been on an extreme workout and diet regiment.

One thing I am doing now, well, I have been doing, but more of since I started this, is adding more spices to my foods. The kind that will make you sweat while eating, like you just came off of a 10 mile run. Mostly, I take crushed red peppers and grind them into a powder, ground red pepper. I love spicy foods, preferably the ones that will make you sweat, not burn your mouth.

Week 1.... Starting Out

I do not know why I didn't think of this sooner, to have this series in it's own blog, but I did. I combined the first to posts into one as a way to kick off my journey.

Part 1: 8/23/2018

I am like the majority of Americans. I am fat and overweight. My own fault. No one else's. I lost the weight a few times before and I can do it again. Problem is, the way I have done it before, I cannot use the same tactics. I was husky in elementary school, but lost the weight when I ran cross country after starting high school. I enlisted in the Army just before my senior year and played basketball to get into shape. I became fit in the Army, but did not try to better my physical shape. Left the service, got married, got fat, again.

After that divorce, I lost the weight and was in better shape physically than when I was in the Army. Faster, stronger, better than before. Then an event happened in my life that derailed my physicality. I started to gain weight due to inactivity. Once I recovered, I started to get back into shape, but I had to alter my routine.

The event that happened pretty much caused me to never to be able to run again. The unfortunate part is that my body type requires cardiovascular exercise to maintain a certain body weight. Bicycling and swimming fulfilled that need, for a few years. Then I remarried. I did not regain the weight and fat because of the marriage. I regained the fat and the weight because the event that happened that took my running from me, led to another event that took the bicycling and swimming from me.

All I have left is walking.........

So now I have to rethink everything I need to do.....

My goal is to lose 100lbs, or to atleast to be able to fit into size 34 jeans. I now wear 44. Rule of thumb is that for every inch, or pant size, you would need to lose 10lbs of fat. 10 inches (pant size) * 10lbs of fat = 100lbs. Simple enough, the equation is anyway.

Rereading this, my weight problem seemed to match Oprah Winfrey. Up and down, up and down. Hopefully, this time, I will be able to keep it down. I will be documenting my journey. By the time I reach my birthday in December, I want to be 100lbs slimmer. This is going to be an uphill battle on all fronts. The pro is that I have done this before, so the muscle memory is there. Cons is that I am almost 50, I have grandkids living with me, my wife wants to spend as much time me as she can, and that includes eating out, a-lot.

I will be documenting my journey. The starting point is, I am 270lbs, wearing size 44 jeans.


Part 2: 8/26/2018

This is not really a full week. I did however starting using some ideas that occurred to me the past couple of days.

For instance:
My wife likes to shop thrift stores. I look then I sit for the duration of her shopping. What I had done this weekend was I walked to another local store or stores, or just go for a little walk, 15 to 25 minutes out from the store and then back.

Another little trick I started using is to walk a little faster than I normally do, especially at work. I do a lot of walking at work, so I decided to up the pace a little bit. Sometimes I feel like I am really fast until a 90 year old woman passes me not breaking a sweat.

Only supplement I am taking is a one a day vitamin. I am supposed to be anyway and I have been neglecting that aspect.

Tonight I sleep for tomorrow I will start my journey......