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jayfurrA few days ago I had some harsh things to say about hotel fitness rooms.
Well, the folks at the Homewood Suites I'm staying in fixed whatever was wrong with the nice little flat-screen TVs built into the treadmills and suddenly I find that I'm much more motivated to go in there and haul ass for an hour. I start off gradually and work my way up to 5 MPH at a 4 degree incline and next thing you know an hour is up and I've burned 650 calories. That seems to be helping: tonight when I got back to my hotel room after work and did my nightly pre-dinner weigh-in I was at 182.5 pounds. Lowest I've been since, I think, the midpoint of my first year of college, back around December of 1985. Yay me, and yay Sandy Bryant, for inadvertently having started the ball rolling back in May of last year when she suggested I sign up to walk the Washington DC Breast Cancer 3-Day with her.
I've got until January 3 to be at 180 pounds (per my current stickk.com weight loss contract) and I think that at this rate I'm gonna make it.
I still can't believe that back in May of 2008 I weighed 235 pounds (and sometimes a bit more) and now I weigh 182.5.
Sigh. It all seems so straightforward now -- but prior to having an effective way to count my calories without hauling around a little paperback book listing calories, it really was much harder to stay on target. Thank you, http://www.thedailyplate.com/ and http://www.stickk.com. And thank you again, Sandy.
Well, the folks at the Homewood Suites I'm staying in fixed whatever was wrong with the nice little flat-screen TVs built into the treadmills and suddenly I find that I'm much more motivated to go in there and haul ass for an hour. I start off gradually and work my way up to 5 MPH at a 4 degree incline and next thing you know an hour is up and I've burned 650 calories. That seems to be helping: tonight when I got back to my hotel room after work and did my nightly pre-dinner weigh-in I was at 182.5 pounds. Lowest I've been since, I think, the midpoint of my first year of college, back around December of 1985. Yay me, and yay Sandy Bryant, for inadvertently having started the ball rolling back in May of last year when she suggested I sign up to walk the Washington DC Breast Cancer 3-Day with her.
I've got until January 3 to be at 180 pounds (per my current stickk.com weight loss contract) and I think that at this rate I'm gonna make it.
I still can't believe that back in May of 2008 I weighed 235 pounds (and sometimes a bit more) and now I weigh 182.5.
Sigh. It all seems so straightforward now -- but prior to having an effective way to count my calories without hauling around a little paperback book listing calories, it really was much harder to stay on target. Thank you, http://www.thedailyplate.com/ and http://www.stickk.com. And thank you again, Sandy.
