Mike Arsenault - Weight Loss Journal
This is old, but I still laugh every time I hear Batman speaking…

This is old, but I still laugh every time I hear Batman speaking…

Man oh man… back from vacation!

I am not sure if it was due to the extreme humidity and heat in Florida, or the fact that I was walking around for 12 hours a day in various theme parks everyday in that heat, but I am way down. I was dreading weighing myself, as before vacation I threw myself into work and getting things finished off and did not take care of myself at all. Then while on vacation, I paid very little attention to what I was eating.

WEIGHT: 241.2 lbs (weight taken at 6:30am, DOWN 2.8 pounds since end of March, have lost 8 pounds total)

EXERCISE:

Not much planned due to still catching up with stuff I missed. This weekend? Walking walking walking!)

DIET:

  1. Breakfast at work.
  2. 6 glasses of water for the day.
  3. Lunch at work.
  4. Dinner at home.

CONCERNS:

After sleeping in this morning, I didn’t have time to make breakfast or pack a lunch so I am doing my best to pick healthy alternatives here at the college.

26Mar11 - Starting Stats/Plan
WEIGHT: 244.0 lbs (weight taken at 6:30am, UP 1.4 pounds today, have lost 5.4 pounds total)

EXERCISE:

I am at home today, so I am going to go out for a walk later.

DIET:

  1. Breakfast at home
  2. 6 glasses of water for the day
  3. Lunch from home
  4. Dinner at mother-in-law’s for my sister-in-law’s b-day.

CONCERNS:

And here we go into another round of birthday parties. Heaven help me :/

22Mar11-25Mar11: Write. Off.

This is starting to become a bit of a pattern… These past few days have been completely thoughtless with regards to eating and exercise. I had a stressful week this week with work and whatnot, but not so stressful that it should have been this easy to just drop everything I was hoping to accomplish and go back to all of my old habits. This is getting depressing :/

22Mar11 - Starting Stats/Plan
WEIGHT: 242.6 lbs (weight taken at 6:30am, DOWN 0.8 pounds today, have lost 6.8 pounds total)

EXERCISE:

4 sets of: 6 laps speed walking, 2 laps running at the South Gym, which is open as per normal.

DIET:

  1. Breakfast at home
  2. 6 glasses of water for the day
  3. Lunch from home
  4. Dinner made at home

CONCERNS:

Snacking = weight loss? Weird.

21Mar11 - End of Day
Positives:

+ ate well all day

+ drank more than my goal amount of water

Negatives:

- I actually had a snack at work after lunch, and a snack before bed. Both were healthy, but I didn’t really need to do that

- didn’t get a chance to work out as my work day was very busy

21Mar11 - Starting Stats/Plan
WEIGHT: 243.2 lbs (weight taken at 7:15am, UP 0.4 pounds today, have lost 6.0 pounds total)

EXERCISE:

4 sets of: 6 laps speed walking, 2 laps running at the South Gym, which is open as per normal.

DIET:

  1. Breakfast at home
  2. 6 glasses of water for the day
  3. Lunch from home
  4. Dinner made at home

CONCERNS:

I didn’t end up gaining as much as I thought I would after the abysmal weekend I had this past weekend, but I have to reverse this holding pattern I’m in.

18Mar11 - 20Mar11: the weekend that wasn’t

I couldn’t have planned a worse weekend for eating than what occurred this past weekend. Saturday alone I think I consumed more calories than I had the entire week previous. Yesterday wasn’t as bad, but damn.

17Mar11 - Starting Stats/Plan

WEIGHT: 242.8 lbs (weight taken at 7:15am, DOWN 0.2 pounds today, have lost 6.4 pounds total)

EXERCISE:

4 sets of: 6 laps speed walking, 2 laps running at the South Gym, which thankfully is still open during Career Day here at the college.

DIET:

  1. Breakfast at home
  2. 6 glasses of water for the day
  3. Lunch from home
  4. Dinner made at home

CONCERNS:

I don’t know if it was the last vestiges of me being sick or what, but my eating yesterday was not good. I was pretty focused though, and managed to get a ton of stuff done with the housework, my freelancing stuff and with my family.

16Mar11 - End of Day
Positives:

+  ate good breakfast

+ + + worked out via housework - did so many flights of stairs hauling laundry and vacuuming it was like being at the gym

Negatives:

- I didn’t eat very well for lunch and dinner, but I didn’t eat a ton of food… it was just one of those “let’s get rid of leftovers!” days

- didn’t drink very much water at all