100 Day Challenge Log

It begins!  I am going to keep a log of what I do every day so that I stay motivated.  2 days down, 98 to go!

Starting Weight: 296

Day 1: 3/30/11--30 minutes Jogging/walking
Day 2: 3/31/11--30 minutes Jillian Workout DvD (almost died, for reals)
Day 3: 4/1/11--30 minutes Jogging/walking treadmill
Day 4: 4/2/11--Rest (soreness)
Day 5: 4/3/11--Rest (soreness)
Day 6: 4/4/11--Rest (laziness)
Day 7: 4/5/11--Rest (laziness)
Day 8: 4/6/11--30 minutes Jogging/walking treadmill
Day 9: 4/7/11--30 minutes Jillian workout dvd
Day 10: 4/8/11--Date night! no workout today!
Day 11: 4/9/11--30 minutes Jogging/walking treadmill
Day 12: 4/10/11--Rest
Day 13: 4/11/11--Rest
Day 14: 4/12/11--Rest
Weighed in at WW: 293.4
Day 15:4/13/11--30 minutes Jillian workout dvd
Day 16: 4/14/11--30 minutes Jogging/walking
Day 17: 4/15/11--20 minutes Jillian workout dvd
Day 18: 4/16/11--Nothing! lazy!
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And a motivational picture:  What I looked like right after the mission (Roughly 200 lbs)

Update and a Challenge!

Well its been a couple months and I thought i would update things on the fat-fighting front.  I did pretty well at weight watchers and at my lowest I dropped down to about 290 making my loss over about 6 weeks roughly 20 pounds.  The last month and a half has been kinda a fallback to old habits and its been a quick journey back up 5 or 6 pounds.  The more I think about weight gain and weight loss its really about pleasure and pain. Night after night of late night bowls of cereal and pasta depositing microscopic ounces of fat is definitely pleasurable.  To take off those ounces requires an almost equal and opposite amount of pain in exercise and dieting.  That's why eating out of control is never really satisfying, because you know that sometime your going to have to fess up eventually and pay you dues to reverse the damage.

I think its unreasonable to think that you can make eating perfectly a lifestyle change.  Eating bad stuff is just too much fun.  It's better to be honest and realize that if you are going to eat bad stuff now and then, that you have to work it off somehow.  The obvious answer is to exercise every day.  It seems like people I see that can eat bad stuff and not gain weight have either freakish genetics, or like most people have to do something every day to keep themselves in shape.

I came across something on facebook that I thought sounded pretty cool.  It's called the 100 day challenge.  It's simple: get up and move every day for 30 minutes every day for 100 days.  It can be anything, just has to be you moving.  I've wanted to keep up more with this online journal and this may be a good way to do it.  So I am going to post what I did, for how long, and update my weight now and then.  I think it would be a very nice habit to get into that I have never had and would make losing weight a ton easier.  We will see..

http://www.100dayschallenge.org/