My Fitness Pal

During the last year I copied, printed, cut and pasted a number of motivational pictures and/or sayings into my journal.  There are days like today when words won't flow.  For now, new pictures with old words.  Following is my entry from 10 November 2017.  

10 November 2017

Aging sucks. Let me say that out loud.  Yesterday I hurt my knee at work trying to hit a volleyball like a teenager from years past.  The extra weight doesn’t help my ego either.  A present to my myself could be a new phone.   A phone the app makers support in full (unlike my current phone) so I can load it up with all the technology I need to help me in my year’s quest.  My Fitness Pal is one app I’d love to use on my phone.  I have it on my computer and have paid the premium (inexpensive) to unlock all the features.  Now I would like to use it on my phone, which I currently cannot do.  Times are a’ changin’.  While I love technology, and look forward to what the future can bring I also longingly look to the past when weight wasn’t an issue, those beloved teenage years.  One such time was the summer of 1985!  What a summer.

A Start

In the fall of 2017 a friend of mine decided she was going to lose 50 pounds by the time she turned 50, which at that time was six months in the future.  After thinking about her objective I counted up the days until my 50th birthday and decided the weight loss journey was worth another try. I researched caloric intake versus exercise output, set goal weights and dates and made an exercise plan.  As I go forward discussing the remainder of my mission I feel looking back will help keep me energized...motivated...inspired...to finish.  Following is my bullet journal entry from 9 November 2017.

9 November 2017

Let me start out by saying that I have been at this starting point many times. Too many to count.  I should say, too many to remember.  The big motivating factor this time?  I turn 50 in 440 days, 21 hours at this specific time of writing.  So...in 440 days and 21 hours plus some change I would like to be in shape and at the weight I was most of my high school days-140.  Last time I weighed in the number down by my colored toe nails was 214.  My first goal is to weigh 210 by my next birthday in 75 days.  As I start this endeavor before Thanksgiving and Christmas I need all the good Karma I can muster.  Wish me luck.

During this time, while it seems I was writing to an audience, there was only one--me.  I kept my journal entries private-just in case- I failed once more.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  

And the year is 2019. 

The last post for this online journal was March of 2016! 

Over the holiday break I had this tremendous feeling of something momentous happening this year.  As such I created yet another site to share with my brothers inviting them throughout the year to post their family news.  For now I am the only one contributing.  

In doing all this I looked at this online diary and decided to wake it up.  While a lot has happened since the last insertion I'll share specifically the past year during which I finally achieved the goals I laid down eons ago.  I'll also relate current events as I travel forth into finishing up.  For now I'll share a To Do List that has been sitting here for a few years and is apropos today.

To Do List

1. Drink at least 64 ounces of water a day.

2. Exercise aerobically 30 minutes 4-5 days a week.

3. Replace soda with water-permanently.

4. Start with the end in mind.

5. Ab work 3 times a week.

6. Strength train.

7.  Eat between 1200 and 1800 calories.