Well, I weighed in this morning at 274.4, which is 83.4 pounds from where I started this time, and 132.2 from my top known weight. It’s been a pretty good month. I think the exercise minutes are a bit low but I think that’s because of the rests between stages of the lifting. Overall, good progress.

• calories per day: 2290, hr monitor: 7162 cals total
• treadmill: 2h 0m , strength training: 14h 50m
• walking outside: 5h 0m
• avg daily exercise: 42 mins (231 cals per day)
• weight lost: 8.8 pounds

Now I need to think about goals for next month. I don’t set weight lost goals, as I feel I would be disappointed if I didn’t meet them. I try and set goals that will push me, but I can control if they are attainable. Although you can do certain things to help, you can’t force your body to lose weight on a schedule. So, on to the goals for next month.

• Eat within plan every day (2300 lifting days, 2150 cardio days, 2000 rest days)
• Drink water every day (18 cups min.)
• Exercise (60 mins cardio 2 days, 60 mins strength training 3 days)

I bit the bullet and lowered the daily calories a bit. I decided at least for the first few weeks of school I had to cut them back (in case I don’t get the cardio in). I’m not sure if I’ll move less or more than I do now. I have found out that I can carry the watch part of the HR monitor in my purse and get a pretty decent reading. I don’t care about wearing the watch (ie. people seeing it), however, it kind of bugs me when I wear it all day. This is because I don’t wear a watch at other times.

I haven’t defined which days I’m going to workout, but at the moment the plan is (after next week) to lift Tues(PM), Thurs(AM), Sat(AM). Depending on the facilities the college has I might do some cardio there. The only days I really have time is Thurs(12-2) and Fri(12-2). I doubt, even with a 2 hour break though that I’ll get 60 mins of cardio in as I rarely do it as 1×60min stretch. So I’ll see how the schedule goes and see what I can work out. It might work out better to do the cardio on Wed/Sun - days I don’t need to be at the school, but we’ll see. I’d love to leave one of them as a complete rest day so if/when the garden chores need to be done for the fall I have a clear day to do it. On the first day of October I’ll take a look at these and see how I’ve done. Wish me luck!