It’s been a few days, and I’m sure I’ll be a little rusty, but I can hardly wait for the way I’ll feel when I’m finished.

I hope you dig the site re-design.  I’m still working on it, but I’m kinda digging it.  I missed the old green.

I have decided to skip all weigh ins for the month of July.  Instead, I will focus on exercising and healthy eating.

Oh, and it’s 100 degrees here.  Hot, hot, hot.

I’ve stopped losing weight.  In fact, I’ve gained and re-lost the same 10 pounds, over and over, for the past three months.  My body, instead of getting smaller, has entered into a strange stasis, and refuses to change.

I’ve altered a lot of my eating habits, I’m still exercising, and I feel much better than I did this time last year.  These are the positives.

It’s VERY hard for me to maintain weight loss, and I seem to gain weight MUCH faster than I lose it.  These are the negatives.

I’m still plugging along, trying to eat right, and enjoying my time at the gym.  It gets a little frustrating, but I just KNOW, that at some point, the weight loss will pick up, my body will give in to the work I’m doing, and I’ll see some more progress.

Thanks for hanging around.  I hope you are all doing well.  Rock on.

My wife is home for the summer, and we are going to start walking each evening.  It’s always enjoyable to to have her with me for my walks / runs, and it will be good to get into a routine.  I’ve missed the gym / track, and I honestly can’t wait to hit the leg press tomorrow.

I hope you all have been well.  We had a blast, and now I’m relaxed and ready for a very busy summer.  Rock on.

I’ll have a weigh in on Monday, and we’ll see how my renewed hard work has paid off, so far.  I hope to be back down, below 233, but who knows.

Just wanted to check in, and I should have more over the next few days.

I’m back to 235.6.

When I started in September, I was at 252.2.

I’ve lost a total of 16.7 pounds.

It feels good to lose weight, even if I am still several pounds above my “low” of a few months ago.  I had some great workouts last week, and I did much better with my eating.

Sunday, I started feeling a little sick, and I think I may have had a “mild” virus.  I’m not sure what was going on, but I just didn’t feel like working out Monday.  I feel much better today, and I’m really ready to get back into the gym.

I can’t believe I quit focusing on my exercise for almost a month.  Sure, I was going to the gym, but I was just “there”.  Yesterday and today, I “busted it.”  Man, I’m tired, but it’s a “good” tired.

I’m pretty sure I’ll sleep like a baby.  For the past two days, I have rocked.

I avoided all sugars and starches, drank plenty of water, and followed my eating plan.

I also went to the gym, hit all of the machines, and then did high impact interval training for twenty minutes.  Later, in the evening, I walked three miles.  (I actually used my cars GPS, which is removable, to plot out a half-mile “track” around my house.  Now, when I want to walk, I can just walk here, instead of going to the track.)

Alright, time to go to the gym.  Rock on.

I now weigh 237.5 pounds.

When I started in September, I was at 252.2 pounds.

So, now I’m down 14.7 pounds, which would be awesome, except for the fact that I was down 28.2 pounds in February.

Here are the details.

I started to stall, didn’t lose any weight during March, and then just “threw my hands up” in April.

Foolishly, I went back to some old eating habits, and I stopped really trying in April.  I continued to go to the gym, and I did think about my eating, but I wasn’t REALLY focused.

I have a couple of ways to look at my situation.  I choose to look on the positive side, focus on the 14.7 pounds, and get excited about going to the gym today.

Now that it’s warm outside, I’m planning on going to the gym, working out, and then heading to the track for some running.  Let’s see if that kick-starts the old weight loss.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.  (I wouldn’t NEED this blog if I was GOOD at this stuff!!!)  Rock on.

For full details (okay, some details) about where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to, head over to my main site, No Credit Needed.  There, you can read about my week “away” from blogging.

Just to update, my weight has not changed, in, oh, two months.  I’m still going to the gym and I’m still eating a healthy diet.  (I have had a few days of slacking, here and there, but that should be remedied by a renewed focus on blogging.)

My planned 5K is OFF!  Our littlest just turned ONE, and the Saturday that I was planning to run the 5k is the day we have scheduled her birthday party.  I’m still planning (and training) to run, but I think I’m going to wait until my sister can run with me.  We shall see.

I hope you are all doing well.  Tomorrow, regular posting schedule resumes!  Rock on!