John is FitJohn is FitJohn is NOT fit yet, but he wants to start working on it. Blog about fitness, fat, diets, exercise, weight loss and the mind of someone struggling with weight issues. Join me on my journey from fat to fit. Articles
Help Me Understand the Target Weight Math
2008-02-05 11:27:00 I’ve been thinking about my goals lately. In particular, the end game. If I can get off this darned plateau, what is the weight range I’m going to settle in? At this point, based on my own history from when I was younger, I chose 185 pounds as my target weight. That’s way out there, right ... More About: Weight , Math , Target , Understand
Getting Back Into It
2008-02-04 11:36:00 In case you didn’t notice (and I wouldn’t doubt that you didn’t - there are so many more sites to read) I took last week off. From my diet, from exercise and from this blog. My head just wasn’t in the right spot and I needed to get it set straight. The interesting thing is ... More About: Back , Feelings
Weekly Update - 1/27/2008
2008-01-27 16:29:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 263 Today’s weight: 263 Week weight loss: 0 lbs Total weight lost: 32 lbs My slow and steady mantra is only interesting if I actually lose weight. It’s really a bummer to not see a loss on the scale this week. Frankly, it’s getting old. Maybe I’m not past this plateau like I thought I ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly , 2008
What Do You Think About Google Health?
2008-01-25 10:09:00 According to VentureBeat, Google Health could be launching soon. Check out this Google login page to get a taste of what Google Health could be about. I’m not sure yet how I feel about this. Well, that’s not true - I feel uncertainty as to whether it is a good thing or not. Google is clearly ...
How I Am Using Slim-Fast Optima as Part of my Diet Plan
2008-01-24 10:36:00 I have decided to introduce Slim -Fast into my diet plan. I’m not going on the Slim-Fast diet, I’m just using the shake powder to augment the good habits I’m already building. I used Slim-Fast many years ago in a similar way and saw good results. Here is how I am using it: As a Meal Replacement I often ... More About: Products , Diet , Part
Legends of Weight Loss
2008-01-22 09:31:00 Someone commented on here recently that I was a legend and an inspiration. OK, I’ll accept that when I do things like run two miles I might be an inspiration to some, but a legend doesn’t eat cookies like I’ve been eating cookies. A legend doesn’t polish off the damn Williams Sonoma peppermint bark like I ... More About: Weight Loss , Weight , Observations , Loss , Legends
Inspiring Fit Week
2008-01-22 05:31:00 This is Inspiring Fit Week at Back in Skinny Jeans and Stephanie chose my story to kick things off! All week she will be highlighting stories of “What others are doing to get fit.” Check out my story here. As luck would have it when I made the submission I had just weighed myself in at ...
Weekly Update - 1/20/2008
2008-01-20 17:10:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 264 Today’s weight: 263 Week weight loss: 1 lbs Total weight lost: 32 lbs OK so I was a wee too optimistic last Sunday when I wrote I thought I could get to 259 this week. I didn’t see less than 263 on the scale all week. I lost a pound, the chart continues to ... More About: Update , Weekly , 2008
Running Milestone Achieved
2008-01-19 14:06:00 One of my 43 Things Goals is Run 1 Mile Without Stopping. I’ve also got 2, 3 and 5 miles. But you’ve got to start somewhere, so 1 little mile is the first goal. I’m in week 4 of the Couch to 5K program (see my cardio page for more info) which means the most I ... More About: Running , Milestone
Use the Chipotle Calorie Calculator For a Dose of Reality
2008-01-18 12:13:00 I’ve mentioned numerous times before how a part of my current diet strategy is taking my old standard meals that I am used to eating and optimizing them to find the perfect portion sizes that still satisfy me. See Even More Paring Down at Noodles & Company as an example. Another restaurant where I eat quite ... More About: Reality , Calculator , Calorie , Dose , Calo
Rethinking the V8
2008-01-16 04:57:00 Yesterday I asked a bit of a rhetorical question when I asked about if it was OK to drink v8 calories as opposed to eating food calories. I was pretty sure I knew the answer - because V8 gives you a couple of servings of vegetables and is still fairly low calorie, it is good for ...
Can I Drink My Calories?
2008-01-15 04:33:00 I’ve already seen a couple of times on The Biggest Loser this season (be sure to tune in tomorrow night!) where while counseling someone Jillian will say “you can’t drink your calories, dude.” Or something like that. You get the point. Eat, don’t drink. Now I am assuming she is talking about empty calories like that ... More About: Drink , Calories , Calo
Weekly Update - 1/13/2008
2008-01-13 15:35:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 268 Today’s weight: 264 Week weight loss: 4 lbs Total weight lost: 31 lbs I finally managed to break through this plateau I’ve been on and can now report a 30+ pound weight loss. That feels great. I actually weighed in at 262 yesterday but last night I ate and drink a little bit with ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly , 2008
Going To Bed Hungry
2008-01-12 05:35:00 I’m going to bed hungry tonight and I feel good about that. No, I haven’t suddenly gone off my rocker and am starving myself, don’t worry. But I am slowly but surely trying to remind my body that it doesn’t need to be full all the time. Of course take all of this with a ... More About: Hungry
What I Have Been Waiting For
2008-01-10 12:42:00 I’ve not had much success over the last six weeks or so. But I’m not letting that get that down. Still, times have been a little tough. I’ve been in need of a pick-me-up. Yesterday I got into our Chicago office at 8:30 and talked to one of my managers for a while in his office. ... More About: Waiting
Analyzing The Weekend
2008-01-09 05:12:00 As I wrote in my update yesterday I didn’t have a good weekend diet-wise and that contributed to a gain for the week. Now is the time to go back and analyze what happened so that I can do better next time. I really don’t know where this post is going to go since I have ... More About: Weekend , Anal
Weekly Update - 1/6/2008
2008-01-07 11:15:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 266 Today’s weight: 268 Week weight gain: 2 lbs Total weight lost: 27 lbs Stepping up and reporting a two pound weight gain sucks, particularly when on Friday I had actually weighed in with a two pound loss for the week. But a weekend of too much eating and drinking conspired to make a ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly , 2008
New Year, New Challenges
2008-01-04 11:15:00 Damn but this weight loss thing can be hard sometimes. I’m doing well this week on the eating (although not on the exercise) and I actually weighed in this morning at 264, which is a new low for me since I started back in August. OK technically it was 264.8 but I always truncate so ... More About: New Year , Observations , Year , Halle
Welcome 2008
2008-01-02 11:36:00 Well I officially weighed in on the first day of 2008 at 267 and a waist of 50″. Looking at my pictures it looks like I actually gained weight in my belly, although that could be deceiving because it looks like I may be standing straighter. And of course I could have lost weight in other ...
Reader of the Month for December, 2007
2008-01-01 18:43:00 My reader of the month is Skinny Guy from Gotta Keep It Off!, who left 12 comments here in December . As his name might suggest, Skinny Guy is a little different than the first four winners of this award - he’s been there, done that. He’s lost 125 pounds to get to a healthy weight ... More About: Reader , Month , December 2007 , Mont
Weekly Update - 12/30/2007
2007-12-30 13:58:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 266 Today’s weight: 266 Week weight loss: 0 lb Total weight lost: 29 lbs It’s hard to know whether this is an official plateau or not. I’ve lost all of one pound in the entire month of December (I guess I still have a couple of days before I weigh-in officially for January, so ... More About: Update , Weekly
Introducing Entrecard
2007-12-30 00:53:00 While the vast majority of my postings will be about my weight loss journey from fat to fit I will stray occasionally to talk about things related to blogging about my weight loss journey. If you haven’t already read 4 Reasons You Should Be Writing a Weight Loss Blog please do - it explains the importance of ...
Catching Up on Christmas
2007-12-28 21:19:00 The week went by too fast - which always seems to happen when I am on vacation. So time to get caught up on a few things around here. First of all you may remember that I was worried about this week from a diet standpoint - we hosted a big feast on Sunday, and ... More About: Christmas
Tightening Up My Strength Training Routine
2007-12-24 21:25:00 Adding a morning strength training routine to my daily schedule has been one of the best things I have done over the last five months of my journey from fat to fit. It’s also been one of the most challenging. Because of my travel and work schedule I was already getting up early in the ... More About: Training , Strength Training , Raining
Weekly Update - 12/23/2007
2007-12-23 14:47:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 267 Today’s weight: 266 Week weight loss: 1 lb Total weight lost: 29 lbs I really thought I was going to do better this week than a 1 pound loss. Yesterday I actually weighed in at 265 so I thought there was a good chance I’d be reporting my official 30 pound loss ... More About: Update , Weekly
Take That, Treadmill!
2007-12-21 11:13:00 In Tuesday’s Don’t Skip the Cardio! I conceded defeat to my treadmill, which totally and completely kicked my butt as I made a lame attempt at Week 4 of the Couch to 5k plan. In fact it was so lame that in my recording of the times I recorded it as yet another Week 3. ...
Omron Digital Pedometer Giveaway Contest Winner Announced!
2007-12-21 04:11:00 Last Thursday I announced a contest to give away a new (well twice used) Omron Digital Pedometer to one of my lucky readers. To participate all you needed to do was write an article and link to that post. I would pick my 5 favorite articles and then randomly choose a winner. Here are ... More About: Contest , Winner , Anno
4 Reasons You Should Be Writing a Weight Loss Blog
2007-12-19 10:29:00 Whether you are looking to lose that ?Freshman Fifteen? or are in the 100+ Pounds-to-Go Club you should be writing a weight loss blog as a critical component of your weight loss plan. A weight loss blog is not a food journal or a food diary. Keeping a food journal can also be important and in ... More About: Writing , Weight Loss , Weight , Blog , Observations
Don?t Skip the Cardio
2007-12-19 03:20:00 It’s been about 5 weeks since I have used the treadmill. Since that time I did get three 3 miles run in, but other than that - no cardio. As you may remember (or maybe not since it has been so long since I have done any!) I am basing my cardio workout on the ... More About: Cardio
Monitoring My Input
More articles from this author:2007-12-18 05:25:00 I don’t keep a food journal but every once in awhile I like to log what I eat just to keep myself honest, and to make sure I still have a good handle on how much I should be eating. I’ll keep track of my consumption during the day, grade how I felt it went, ... More About: Monitoring , Input 1, 2, 3 |
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