Lack of Success

I didn't weigh in today. However, I know I probably weigh between 250-260; with a best guess of 255. My weight has changed little over the past 7 months. . . though I did drop about 20 pounds in the beginning of summer.

My eating habits are still relatively poor, though my exercise habits remain far above average. In order to control my weight, I will likely need to dramatically control not only how much I eat, but also dramatically control WHAT i eat. It seems that I need to take in a majority of veggies and fruits, and a minority of other foods. Baqsically, I can't eat too much fruits or veggies in my view. . .

I think it is important to keep chronicling about my goal, even if it turns out to be a failure, because my failure, in the midst of other glowing journals on the web, is a voice that should be heard. I don't plan to fail, but it certainly hasn't been a success.

BTW, here are my year end exercise numbers:

Sport / # workouts / hours / distance / avg pace

cycling / 70 / 71.2 / 1077.6 miles / 15.2 mph
running / 36 / 21.9 / 117.1 miles / 11:29.5 mpm;
Swimming / 18 / 12.7 / 41,500 yards / 32:16 mph
tennis / 1.0 / 1.3 / --
aerobics / 6.0 / 2.1 / --

totals: 131 workouts / for 109.2 hous

So roughly 2.5 workouts per week.

It's lower than I thought it would be honestly. It's a tough nut though: finishing my first year of grad school (and then starting my second). While, on the one hand I don't want to be too hard on myself, I don't want to be too easy either.

Looking at the numbers, it would seem that one goal should be to try to double the number of workouts (and roughly the distances) with an attempt to get to more loss and better shape. Also, couple it with better eating, and then I'm getting somewhere.

We'll see -- it's all a balance in the end -- right now things are clearly out of balance, yet, overall, 2.5x week, is still providing a healthy health benefit of exercise. You should try to do more of it nonetheless. . .

kc.

[aerobics is my POW workout].

It's both more nad less than I thought it would be