Weight

I got down to an all-time (well, since college) low of 177 pounds by mid-January 2010... this after being as high as 240 in February of 2006 and as high as 224 as recently as the beginning of August 2009.

Now, however, I am back up to 187... the result, in all likelihood, of a VERY long period of feeling awful, fighting off a cold/flu/whatsit followed by a stomach virus. Very little gettin-your-funk-on exercise took place during that period and I tended to just eat to whatever extent my poor feelin'-rotten body told me to. Mostly I did light-intensity flexibility exercises and stuff, the only stuff I felt up to doing, and that didn't really burn a lot of calories. Now that the good weather is here (it's supposed to be in the 70s and sunny here in Vermont this weekend), I intend to get back down to 180, my target weight all along, ASAP.

In order to do this, I'm going to go full-tilt-boogie, just like I did during my wildly successful loss of 44 pounds between August and the end of December. I'll be counting and tracking every calorie I consume on the Daily Plate website (if you're bored, visit http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/jayfurr/ -- it's not been updated a lot since the formal end of the diet, but I'm resuming doing so as of today) and trying to get an insane amount of fat-burning exercise in. Of course, if I wind up building a lot of muscle, the weight loss will slow, but I can live with that.

My goal is to be back to 180 by the end of April. That's very doable; it just requires discipline. I've created another stickk.com contract to help with that aspect of it, and I'll be posting a digital photo of me on the scales each week during the weigh-in, so anyone who gives a dang will know I'm really doing it. You can follow the contract here: http://www.stickk.com/members/commitment.php/cid/67925

Wish me luck.

Weight

I got down to an all-time (well, since college) low of 177 pounds by mid-January 2010... this after being as high as 240 in February of 2006 and as high as 224 as recently as the beginning of August 2009.

Now, however, I am back up to 187... the result, in all likelihood, of a VERY long period of feeling awful, fighting off a cold/flu/whatsit followed by a stomach virus. Very little gettin-your-funk-on exercise took place during that period and I tended to just eat to whatever extent my poor feelin'-rotten body told me to. Mostly I did light-intensity flexibility exercises and stuff, the only stuff I felt up to doing, and that didn't really burn a lot of calories. Now that the good weather is here (it's supposed to be in the 70s and sunny here in Vermont this weekend), I intend to get back down to 180, my target weight all along, ASAP.

In order to do this, I'm going to go full-tilt-boogie, just like I did during my wildly successful loss of 44 pounds between August and the end of December. I'll be counting and tracking every calorie I consume on the Daily Plate website (if you're bored, visit http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/jayfurr/ -- it's not been updated a lot since the formal end of the diet, but I'm resuming doing so as of today) and trying to get an insane amount of fat-burning exercise in. Of course, if I wind up building a lot of muscle, the weight loss will slow, but I can live with that.

My goal is to be back to 180 by the end of April. That's very doable; it just requires discipline. I've created another stickk.com contract to help with that aspect of it, and I'll be posting a digital photo of me on the scales each week during the weigh-in, so anyone who gives a dang will know I'm really doing it. You can follow the contract here: http://www.stickk.com/members/commitment.php/cid/67925

Wish me luck.