My hair hurts. Thats right I think I am getting sick. Not only does my hair hurt but I have a headache, sore neck and shoulders and I feel like going to sleep.

Used the treadmill tonight. 30 minutes walk/run, felt pretty good about it. Would like to run more than walk.

So far today I have had a great day. At work today I had my 6 month evaulation and I will be off probation November 1st and I am also getting a 6% raise. I'm geeked about that.

My employer does a Cardio Challenge with Worthington Ohio and each year for the past 3 years. The goal is to have as many people participate and log their cardio minutes from October 29th to November 14th. The points are set up in a football style scoring such as 60 minutes = 6 points, 30 minutes = 3 points and 15 minutes = 1 point.

The challenge is to promote a healthy lifestyle with exercise and its also to promote the UofM/Ohio State game.

Not much to say other than it is a new week. I'm ready for the challenge.

This week has been a killer. Little or no sleep which I'm not accustomed to do doing, I normally average 8 hours of sleep a night, this week I was at 5 to 6 hours each night, different work schedule. Not much exercise, simply ran out of time in my day and one day I fell a sleep at dinner. I ate pretty good, 2 bad lunches I had Jimmy Johns on Thursday and Friday - had some training at work this week and never brought my lunch (no place to store it).

Weight was up and I'm not sure why. I ate good last week and exercised and still gained weight, alot of weight.

This week will be better.

Weighed myself this morning, not at my normally time, much earlier in the morning. I weighed myself right after I went to the bathroom like most people do and just before jumping into the shower. Basically in my birthday suit.

I have been feeling pretty good this week pants are a little loose, belt is bigger, my appiete is not as strong. I have been working on my snack machine binges, nadda one this week, no pop for 3 days.

MY WEIGHT WAS 320 LBS! NOT EVEN POSSIBLE. At this point I am blaming my scale for the terroristic thoughts. I have had the scale for almost 4 years and haven't changed the batteries. For the sake of the scale it better be the batteries or I am about ready to throw that bastard out the window to a horror filled death.

There is no way possible I gained 11 lbs in one week. I would have to eat a large pizza for every meal and wash it down with a bag of cotton candy and 5 gallons of pop.

Never made it to my workout, I fell alseep while eating dinner. I work out while I am at work because 1) I get an hour lunch and 2) the workout equipment that we have rivals some small gyms. 2 treadmills, 2 stairmasters and a row machine. The weight training equipment has everything free weights and machine weights.

I'll try again tomorrow.

Did some exercise today. Walked/ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes, ended up going 1.5 miles.

Tomorrow I plan on starting weight training. I found my workout journal and I am excited about hitting the weights.

Cedar Point was a good time, the drive on the other hand sucked. Way to much construction and once we got off the Ohio Turnpike we sat and rolled about 10 mph for 2 1/2 hours to the parking lot. ALOT OF TRAFFIC! The day was perfect, sunny and some wind.

The one thing I love about Cedar Point is the people watching what a great day for that. And of course the amount of walking.

As for the rides I only went on 1 roller coaster and stood in line for 2 others before I chickened out.

The Hallo-weekends with the haunted walk-throughs were neat. If anyone is thinking of going you should go, good times.

As for the weekend and exercise only the walking at Cedar Point otherwise nothing else.

Today was house chores, did many of those and broke a serious sweat doing it. Walking up and down 3 flights of stairs every 20 minutes or so can be a killer especially carrying a vacuum cleaner.

Going to Cedar Point this weekend so I will be off until maybe Sunday definitely be back Monday. I love Cedar Point because all you really do is walk and walk alot. I wish I enjoyed more of the rides but I'm not really a roller coaster kind of guy and I am afraid of heights. Well at least I will get a good walk and hang out with some friends.

Its also Sweetest Day on Saturday so be good to your spouses or significant others. Have a good weekend and I will talk to you later.

Weight: 309
Weight lost for the week 6 lbs.

Its a good restart. I've cut some things out like fast food, eating after I get home from work (11 p.m.), limiting my snack food binges, and limiting the amount of pop I drink.

I have also added things. Like exercise along with activities that aren't always exercise, more water and better foods. Now if I could get a MP3 player I would be all set.

Exercise:
Treadmill 35 minutes

Rainy day!

I woke up this morning and it was gloomy day. It is suppose to rain much of the day, not that mind the rain because I sit inside and look a huge window, its just affects the whole day.

No exercise as I left my workout clothes at home.

Unwind

Busy kind of day and I just wanted to unwind and walking on the treadmill was that out.

Exercise:
Treadmill 35 minutes 1.75 miles

A New Beginning

Its a new beginning for me. At the beginning of the year I was gung-ho about losing weight, I had these elaborate weight loss goals that basically set me up for failure. I have tried nearly everything when it comes to weight loss, Medical Weight Loss, counting calories, different diet fads. My wife and I want to try Weight Watchers and their point system. Still allows you to eat most things you like without having to starve yourself.

No exercise.

Activity

I didn't have much exercise it was more like activity. Mowed the grass which takes 2 hours, walked alot of stairs and did house work.

Snack Machine Binge

One of my biggest obstacles with attempting to loose weight are cravings caused by stress mainly while I am at work. At home my wife and I have a pretty good grasp at what I eat, within reason.

The stress caused craving for me can be devastating. One of my triggers for having the Snack Machine binge is stress at work. I'm not talking about someone being late for work or somebody getting mad at me. I'm talking big stress. For those that don't know I am a communications supervisor in a 911 Center. Here is an example that caused a snack machine binge, all of this occurred in 10 hours. So the other day we had a 3 car accident that involved us closing an intersection at one of the busiest times of the day, lunch hour, that accident ended up being a fatal accident. No one wants to have to deal with that on any day. About 2 hours later there was a chase that started in another city but when they reached our city limits, they terminated and so our officers picked up the car and made the traffic stop including the arrest. While the accident and chase were going on another department requested help with a disturbance that their officers were having difficulties controlling since they are close to us we had to send officers. Now most if not all my officers are busy on the accident and chase. I normally have about 10 to 15 police officers to dispatch on a given day, for most of the day I only had 2 or 3 officers available. It seemed like one would clear and another would be busy.

This busy of day normally doesn't happen, we might get one of these incidents a day or a week usually not 3 incidents like this in one day. For the day I drank 2 20oz Diet Cokes and a caffeine free Diet Pepsi, chocolate zingers, milky way and my lunch.

Missing in Action

So I have been missing in action since about Feb 27th. I'm ready to get back into the groove of losing the weight I had planned on losing back at the beginning of the year when I first started with the F.A.T.

Alot has been going on since the last time I was on here. Family medical issues with not just me but other family members, promotion at work which came with a new shift and days off, building a new house and much more.

Exercise: 35 minutes treadmill