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Weekly Weigh-In 2006-05-14 May 14, 2006

Weight loss chart for 14 May 2006 All time weight loss chart up to 14 May 2006

My friend A has been running with me recently. He started off just coming along every 2nd or 3rd day, but lately the fitness bug has bitten him and he’s been coming every morning. I sent him stats from my GPS of all the runs he’s joined me on – in the past month, he’s managed to reduce his 3 km time from 24 minutes to 19 minutes! He’s still not able to run the whole 3 km without stopping, but he’s definitely getting fitter every week.

If you look at my weight loss graph above, I’ve been stuck on 94.5 kg for a long time. I think it’s partly because I’ve slackened off on my diet, having the occasional snack and taking larger portions of leftovers to work for lunch instead of my usual simple sandwich. I’m going to try to get those habits back under control this week, and see if I can’t get off the 94.5 kg mark.

PhysicsDiet.com has added more cool features this week. There’s a Biggest Losers scoreboard showing how all the users are going (those that elected to make their profiles public, anyway). I’m currently in 6th position, and all but 1 of those ahead of me are only 1 or 2 kg ahead. I’m feeling a bit of motivation to catch up to them! The leader by far is Matt, the guy who built PhysicsDiet.com – he’s lost a massive 38.7 kg (85 lbs)! Well done, Matt! Matt has also added the ability for users to list their blog or web site address, so you can get in touch or follow along with what others are doing.

My Fitness Obstacles series has been fairly well-received, with one more post to go (hopefully I’ll get that done in the next couple of days). While those articles sound a bit negative and “woe is me”, not really offering any help to readers, I needed to write them up as the basis for the next series of articles, Overcoming Fitness Obstacles. Once you understand what’s stopping you from exercising, you can start to work on those obstacles and find ways around them.

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