Today's weight: 195.6
Today's blood pressure: 132/90
Today's food: yogurt, banana, honey garlic chicken and rice, pot roast with noodles, half a hot dog, doritos, 2 cookies, chocolate milk
Today's exercise: run 2 miles; 60 pushups
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Week 34 Wrapup
Fairly uneventful this week. I had the easy runs this week, and they went fine, except for it being really hot, of course. The moving average of my weight is still right at around 195.
Week 34, Day 7
Today's weight: 195
Today's blood pressure: 131/84
Today's food: yogurt, chicken sandwich, fruit salad, doritos, 5 cupcakes, honey garlic chicken with rice, 1/2 bag popcorn, cup of pudding, mike and ikes
Today's exercise: day of rest
Today's blood pressure: 131/84
Today's food: yogurt, chicken sandwich, fruit salad, doritos, 5 cupcakes, honey garlic chicken with rice, 1/2 bag popcorn, cup of pudding, mike and ikes
Today's exercise: day of rest
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Week 34, Day 6
Today's weight: 197.6
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 cupcakes, banana, yogurt, tuna sandwich, fritos, large movie popcorn, 2 cupcakes
Today's exercise: run 5 miles; 60 pushups
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 cupcakes, banana, yogurt, tuna sandwich, fritos, large movie popcorn, 2 cupcakes
Today's exercise: run 5 miles; 60 pushups
Friday, June 27, 2008
Week 34, Day 5
Today's weight: 195
Today's blood pressure: 140/89
Today's food: yogurt, banana, chicken sandwich, pot roast with buttered noodles (2 helpings), 3 cupcakes
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: 140/89
Today's food: yogurt, banana, chicken sandwich, pot roast with buttered noodles (2 helpings), 3 cupcakes
Today's exercise: none
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Week 34, Day 4
Today's weight: 193.6
Today's blood pressure: 126/83
Today's food: yogurt, banana, cookie, chicken sandwich, panda house (seafood delight), 1 strip bacon, cookie, much grapefruit juice cocktail, egg roll, cookie
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: 126/83
Today's food: yogurt, banana, cookie, chicken sandwich, panda house (seafood delight), 1 strip bacon, cookie, much grapefruit juice cocktail, egg roll, cookie
Today's exercise: none
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Week 34, Day 3
Today's weight: 196.4
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, yogurt, banana, honey garlic chicken and rice, 6 cookies, grapefruit juice cocktail
Today's exercise: 1.5 mile warmup, (run 1 mile @ 8:37, jog .5 miles) X3, 1 mile cooldown (total of 7 miles); 60 pushups
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, yogurt, banana, honey garlic chicken and rice, 6 cookies, grapefruit juice cocktail
Today's exercise: 1.5 mile warmup, (run 1 mile @ 8:37, jog .5 miles) X3, 1 mile cooldown (total of 7 miles); 60 pushups
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Week 34, Day 2
Today's weight: 193.6
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, yogurt, grapes, chips and salsa, ribeye steak, baked potato, 2 pork chops with peach onion marmalade, 7 cookies
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, yogurt, grapes, chips and salsa, ribeye steak, baked potato, 2 pork chops with peach onion marmalade, 7 cookies
Today's exercise: none
Monday, June 23, 2008
Week 34, Day 1
Today's weight: 196
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: cookie, yogurt, grapes, western bacon cheeseburger combo, 4 donuts
Today's exercise: run 6 miles; 60 pushups
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: cookie, yogurt, grapes, western bacon cheeseburger combo, 4 donuts
Today's exercise: run 6 miles; 60 pushups
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Week 33 Wrapup
Another week of just barely avoiding killing myself. It's still very hot at night when I run (an average of 95 degrees at 10:30 PM).
For the long run this week, I woke up at 4 AM, then left the house at 4:20. I got to the snake bridge and started running at just after 4:30, at which point the sky was already mostly lit up. The sun itself appeared over the horizon just a few minutes later. This was really frustrating to me, as I thought I would be avoiding that for at least a little bit of the run. That's why I got up so early. Sheesh. It was about 79 degrees when I started, and only got up to about 82 by the time I finished at 7:30, but with the sun shining on me the whole time it felt a lot hotter.
My knees really started hurting about six miles in, which was worrying, because I've never had knee trouble before. An occasional knee pain here or there, but not a lot while I'm running. Then, at about the eight mile mark, I landed one stride and had my leg muscles just completely fail to contract in time. So, my leg went limp, and I fell down almost to my knee before bouncing back up again. It was really weird and scary, and I told myself that if it happened again I'd quit the run. It didn't, I pressed on, and all was okay after that.
I drank about 2 1/3 liters total, so I only lost a net 4.8 pounds on that run.
Next week is the off week, which is supposed to just be three easy runs. However, I'm going to throw in speedwork in the middle of the week to make up for the speedwork I wasn't doing when I was on vacation.
For the long run this week, I woke up at 4 AM, then left the house at 4:20. I got to the snake bridge and started running at just after 4:30, at which point the sky was already mostly lit up. The sun itself appeared over the horizon just a few minutes later. This was really frustrating to me, as I thought I would be avoiding that for at least a little bit of the run. That's why I got up so early. Sheesh. It was about 79 degrees when I started, and only got up to about 82 by the time I finished at 7:30, but with the sun shining on me the whole time it felt a lot hotter.
My knees really started hurting about six miles in, which was worrying, because I've never had knee trouble before. An occasional knee pain here or there, but not a lot while I'm running. Then, at about the eight mile mark, I landed one stride and had my leg muscles just completely fail to contract in time. So, my leg went limp, and I fell down almost to my knee before bouncing back up again. It was really weird and scary, and I told myself that if it happened again I'd quit the run. It didn't, I pressed on, and all was okay after that.
I drank about 2 1/3 liters total, so I only lost a net 4.8 pounds on that run.
Next week is the off week, which is supposed to just be three easy runs. However, I'm going to throw in speedwork in the middle of the week to make up for the speedwork I wasn't doing when I was on vacation.
Week 33, Day 7
Today's weight: 193.6
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 pop tarts, huge nacho plate, plum, lots of cookies, grapes, spaghetti with meatball
Today's exercise: day of rest
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 pop tarts, huge nacho plate, plum, lots of cookies, grapes, spaghetti with meatball
Today's exercise: day of rest
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Week 33, Day 6
Today's weight: 196.4*
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 clif bars, slice of pizza, coke, costco samples, honey garlic chicken and rice, popcorn
Today's exercise: run 16 miles; 60 pushups
* before running. 191.6 after running
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: 2 clif bars, slice of pizza, coke, costco samples, honey garlic chicken and rice, popcorn
Today's exercise: run 16 miles; 60 pushups
* before running. 191.6 after running
Friday, June 20, 2008
Week 33, Day 5
Today's weight: 194.2
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: grapes, yogurt, plum, taco bell (grilled stufft burrito, nachos, mountain dew baja blast), fridays (mozzarella sticks, chicken sausage penne)
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: grapes, yogurt, plum, taco bell (grilled stufft burrito, nachos, mountain dew baja blast), fridays (mozzarella sticks, chicken sausage penne)
Today's exercise: none
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Week 33, Day 4
Today's weight: 194.8
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, 2 pop tarts, 1/2 steak and a little mashed potatoes, hot dog, plum, grapes, spaghetti and meatballs
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, 2 pop tarts, 1/2 steak and a little mashed potatoes, hot dog, plum, grapes, spaghetti and meatballs
Today's exercise: none
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Week 33, Day 3
Today's weight: 195.2
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, chips and salsa, shrimp topopo salad, sesame jack strips, jack daniels strip steak and shrimp
Today's exercise: 1 mile warmup, 4 miles @ 9:13, 1 mile cooldown; 60 pushups
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, chips and salsa, shrimp topopo salad, sesame jack strips, jack daniels strip steak and shrimp
Today's exercise: 1 mile warmup, 4 miles @ 9:13, 1 mile cooldown; 60 pushups
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Week 33, Day 2
Today's weight: 195
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, garlic squid, doritos, 2 polish dogs, watermelon
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: yogurt, plum, garlic squid, doritos, 2 polish dogs, watermelon
Today's exercise: none
Monday, June 16, 2008
Week 33, Day 1
Today's weight: 194.8
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: watermelon, yogurt, banana, 2 donuts, spaghetti and meatballs, watermelon, cookie, popcorn, cookie, watermelon
Today's exercise: run 2 miles; 60 pushups
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: watermelon, yogurt, banana, 2 donuts, spaghetti and meatballs, watermelon, cookie, popcorn, cookie, watermelon
Today's exercise: run 2 miles; 60 pushups
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Week 32 Wrapup
Aside from the running I did on Sunday at the hotel, I didn't run at all this week. I had a number of excuses. First of all, I was just plain too tired. Every day since I got back I've just felt completely exhausted. Secondly, I felt kind of sick. Both of my kids had a stomach flu type thing at different times while we were on vacation, and I think I picked up the tail end of it. I was never puking like they were, but I did feel unpleasant at times. Thirdly, even though I didn't run a lot while I was gone, I did walk a lot, and it was in shoes that were possibly not that well suited for all that walking. My legs just kind of hurt a lot when I got back, and I thought they could use the rest. And fourthly, the 14 mile run before I left did something funky to my leftmost three toes on my left foot. Since that run, they just feel weird, like when you jam your toe. When I wake up, it kind of hurts to walk on that foot for a minute or two but then goes away. It's like the toes are stiff and then warm up. It's a weird injury, but not significant yet.
I'll start up again next week, but it leaves me with a total of only 10 miles for the 2 weeks of vacation. I hope it's not too difficult to get back into the routine again.
Whether or not I gained a lot of weight on the trip depends on your analysis of the numbers. Yes, there's an 8 pound jump between my last weigh-in before the trip and my first weigh-in after. However, I've been arguing for a while that the only meaningful number when you're talking about weight loss is a moving average.
Because of the vagaries of a person's water content, the contents of one's bowels, inconsistent scales, and other inabilities to measure weight precisely, the only true measure of weight loss or weight gain is analyzing a trend over time. Way too many people get hung up on the loss of a pound one day or the gain of a pound the next when small swings like that are virtually out of our control anyway. This is one of the central tenets of the book The Hacker's Diet, which I recommend as a highly interesting engineering approach to the problem of weight control. This concept is by no means exclusive to that book, however.
I know that my own body weight fluctuates wildly based on fluid intake (witness the 7 pound loss in 3 hours a couple of weeks ago.) With the right preparation, I can pee a pound easily. I've had >2 pound bowel movements. A day to day analysis for me is just rather silly. So, in my spreadsheet where I keep track of all this stuff, I have a graph of all the daily readings, and on that graph I superimpose a trend line and a graph of a weighted moving average. The spiky zig zag daily graph is fun to look at, but the other ones are what I'd look at to draw any real conclusions.
If I look at the moving average, that ended up at 194.8 before I left, and is hovering around 195.2 this week now that I'm back. By that view, I haven't even gained half a pound. However, that kind of ignores the fact that I was weighing in the very low 190s before I left, and that if I had stayed home and just eaten normally, the moving average would have quickly fallen to match the low readings I was getting.
To illustrate, here's a chart showing the daily readings (the dots) and the moving average (the red line) (for the dates 5/15-6/15, as rendered by the online companion to The Hacker's Diet):
So, the way I interpret the data is that I really didn't gain a whole lot of weight, but I was on a definite roll weight loss wise, and I surely killed any momentum I had going.
I'll start up again next week, but it leaves me with a total of only 10 miles for the 2 weeks of vacation. I hope it's not too difficult to get back into the routine again.
Whether or not I gained a lot of weight on the trip depends on your analysis of the numbers. Yes, there's an 8 pound jump between my last weigh-in before the trip and my first weigh-in after. However, I've been arguing for a while that the only meaningful number when you're talking about weight loss is a moving average.
Because of the vagaries of a person's water content, the contents of one's bowels, inconsistent scales, and other inabilities to measure weight precisely, the only true measure of weight loss or weight gain is analyzing a trend over time. Way too many people get hung up on the loss of a pound one day or the gain of a pound the next when small swings like that are virtually out of our control anyway. This is one of the central tenets of the book The Hacker's Diet, which I recommend as a highly interesting engineering approach to the problem of weight control. This concept is by no means exclusive to that book, however.
I know that my own body weight fluctuates wildly based on fluid intake (witness the 7 pound loss in 3 hours a couple of weeks ago.) With the right preparation, I can pee a pound easily. I've had >2 pound bowel movements. A day to day analysis for me is just rather silly. So, in my spreadsheet where I keep track of all this stuff, I have a graph of all the daily readings, and on that graph I superimpose a trend line and a graph of a weighted moving average. The spiky zig zag daily graph is fun to look at, but the other ones are what I'd look at to draw any real conclusions.
If I look at the moving average, that ended up at 194.8 before I left, and is hovering around 195.2 this week now that I'm back. By that view, I haven't even gained half a pound. However, that kind of ignores the fact that I was weighing in the very low 190s before I left, and that if I had stayed home and just eaten normally, the moving average would have quickly fallen to match the low readings I was getting.
To illustrate, here's a chart showing the daily readings (the dots) and the moving average (the red line) (for the dates 5/15-6/15, as rendered by the online companion to The Hacker's Diet):
So, the way I interpret the data is that I really didn't gain a whole lot of weight, but I was on a definite roll weight loss wise, and I surely killed any momentum I had going.
Week 32, Day 7
Today's weight: 196.6
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, several cookies, flat iron steak, roast, mashed potatoes, angel food cake, cookies
Today's exercise: day of rest
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: donut, several cookies, flat iron steak, roast, mashed potatoes, angel food cake, cookies
Today's exercise: day of rest
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Week 32, Day 6
Today's weight: 195.2
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: chicken pizza, 4 donuts, grapes, donut, spaghetti and meatballs
Today's exercise: none
Today's blood pressure: forgot
Today's food: chicken pizza, 4 donuts, grapes, donut, spaghetti and meatballs
Today's exercise: none
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