Weekly Weigh-In 2006-10-29 October 29, 2006
- Current Weight: 90.28 kg (199.0 lbs)
- Change this week: -0.26 kg (-0.57 lbs)
- FFM: -0.12 kg (-0.26 lbs)
- Fat: -0.14 kg (-0.31 lbs)
- Total lost to date: 19.7 kg (43.4 lbs)
- Number of days exercised: 2
Good to see the weight going in the right direction this week! That wipes out last week’s gain, but I’d like to push through to below 90 kg in the week ahead.
I had a sore knee last weekend, which prevented me from running most of this week. It felt a lot better by Friday, so I went for another run. That made it hurt again. I think I strained something. It felt a lot better after a couple of days, but I’m going to take it easy all this week and make sure it heals properly. I’ll probably just use the exercise bike, keeping my sessions relatively short and making sure there’s no impact on the knee.
I’m going into hospital in about 3 weeks to have my four impacted wisdom teeth out. All this getting fit stuff has gotten me motivated to get other aspects of my health under control, and my wisdom teeth really should have been fixed years ago. Apparently I’m not going to be able to eat very much for a few days afterwards, so hopefully that’ll help shift some weight too :-).
World’s Strongest Dad October 24, 2006
Check out this inspiring story. Make sure you watch the YouTube video at the bottom!
Dick Hoyt was a self-described “porker” who had never run more than a mile at a time. Then one day, his wheelchair-bound 11-year-old son wanted to enter a 5-mile charity run to benefit an injured classmate. He struggled, but he managed to push Rick all the way. Rick loved it.
Today, Dick is 65 and Rick is 43. They have run the Boston Marathon 24 times. They’ve completed 212 triathlons, including four 15-hour Ironman events in Hawaii.
Theirs has got to be one of the most inspiring stories I’ve ever read about a father’s love for his child. I was pretty pleased with myself to have jogged 5 km (3 miles) pushing G in a stroller until I read that! I think I’ve got some work to do…
Weekly Weigh-In 2006-10-22 October 22, 2006
- Current Weight: 90.54 kg (199.6 lbs)
- Change this week: +0.28 kg (+0.62 lbs)
- FFM: +0.0 kg (+0.0 lbs)
- Fat: +0.28 kg (+0.62 lbs)
- Total lost to date: 19.5 kg (43.0 lbs)
- Number of days exercised: 5
Oops, missed a few weeks there! I had two weeks off work, and we spent one of those weeks holidaying with my parents. That involved lots of big meals, desserts and snacks, as well as several outings to markets and parks where ice-cream and other treats beckoned. All up, I gained almost a kilo (about two pounds) over the last three weeks.
Although I overate and am paying for that in weight gain, I also worked my guts out around the house and jogged quite a bit. I barrowed several tons of crusher dust, sand and soil up our steep block, did some paving, built a fence and gate, overhauled the vegie garden, built a laundry cupboard, and generally got a lot of odd jobs done around the house.
Jogging with G has been going well, although I have a sore knee after today’s run (it hurts when walking downhill, especially when pushing a pram) so I think I’ll take it easy for a few days. I’m now up to running 5 km with G in the jogging stroller, taking just over 31 minutes (those hills are killers!).
The week ahead should see me get back in weight-loss-mode. My goal is to lose 10 kg before the end of the year.