Three days in a row for sticking to Weight Watchers. I seem to be doing better with push-ups too. To heck with my previous theory about popping up at the end. The trick seems to be to do them as quickly as possible. That doesn’t mean only go half-way down like kids seem to do when they are ordered to do pushups by their coaches. It just means to try to do the pushups as fast as possible.

Weight:280.5 pounds

Exercise:Week 2 Day 2 of the hundredpushups.com plan. 5 sets (5,6,4,4,12)

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s WW points:36 (40 food points – 4 activity points)

Woohoo, I’ve stuck to my diet two days in a row now, and my weight actually went down instead of up. Go figure.

Weight:282.0 pounds

Exercise:Week 4 Day 2 of the couch-to-5k plan

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s WW points:39 (40 food points – 1 activity points)

I actually stuck to my diet yesterday. I’m allowed 40 points per day on Weight Watchers, and I only used 36. I ate 40 points worth of food, but I earned 4 points for running.

18 points was for two and a half peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that I had as a late-night snack. I didn’t realize that peanut butter had so many calories until after I had eaten the sandwiches and checked the label on the peanut butter jar.

Weight:285.5 pounds

Exercise:Week 2 Day 1 of the hundredpushups.com plan (again). 5 sets (4,6,4,4,10)

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s WW points:36 (40 food points – 4 activity points)

It snowed last night as you can see from the picture. I ran on the treadmill today because of the snow. I got to watch a half-hour of the Karate Kid on AMC while I was at it. The odometer on the treadmill says that I went 1.75 miles. I seem to be making progress on this front.

However, I did the progress test for the hundredpushups.com plan also, but I only managed 10 pushups. I did 12 last week, so I’m getting worse. I think I’m going to have to repeat week 2 again.

As for my diet, I’m still not even attempting to eat right. That has got to stop or I’ll never get in shape. I’m not Michael Phelps. I can’t eat thousands of calories a day knowing that I’ll burn them off by exercising because I’m not going to be training for the Olympics. I need to stay under 2000 calories. No more just trying to do Weight Watchers one or two meals a day. I’m going to have to go back to it full-time.

Weight:285.5 pounds

Exercise:Week 4 Day 1 of the couch-to-5k plan. Push-up progress test: 10 push-ups.

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Weight:forgot to weigh

Exercise:It’s my day-off from running and pushups, so I just took Ollie on a 40-minute walk around the neighborhood.

Yesterday’s breakfast:1 cup All-Bran Strawberry Medley cereal, Half-cup skim milk, 1 orange. (5 WW points)

Yesterday’s mid-morning snack:skipped it

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s lunch:ate breakfast so late that I just skipped lunch.

I finished redoing the second week of the hundred pushups plan. I’ll do a progress test Sunday morning to determine whether I’ve improved enough to move up to week three.

I think I’ve found a way to make the pushups easier, or I could just be fooling myself. I trying adding a kind of pop to the end. Instead of pushing myself back up slowly and steadily to the point where my arms are fully extended, I started trying to pop back up quickly after a slow start. It might at least help me build fast-twitch muscle fiber which will help me with throwing a baseball or swinging a bat.

Weight: 283.0 pounds

Exercise: Week 2, Day 3 of the hundredpushups.com plan. 5 sets (5,7,5,5,8).

Yesterday’s breakfast:1 cup All-Bran Strawberry Medley cereal, Half-cup skim milk, 1 orange. (5 WW points)

Yesterday’s mid-morning snack:skipped it

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s lunch:It was Thanksgiving dinner so there was a ton of stuff: turkey, mashed potates, chicken noodles, rolls, sushi, tortilla chips, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pumpkin crisp, cool whip, etc. (5,000,000 WW points)

Jake and I went to the Bridger track this morning to run. It was definitely a lot more of a workout than running on the treadmill. I was surprised by this, but I guess I shouldn’t have since running on the treadmill Sunday and Tuesday this week had seemed easy. I just had to run on the track again to feel the comparison.

That tells me that I’ll have to turn the speed up on the treadmill some more the next time the weather forces me indoors. Michelle got me a pair of nylon track pants at Wal-Mart yesterday for $9.00, so maybe I can continue to run outdoors more often. I was feeling kind of stupid when I was out running in a pair of blue jeans.

Obviously, I’m going to have trouble sticking to any kind of diet today since it is Thanksgiving. I think the best I can hope for is to drink my allotment of water.

Weight: 283.0 pounds

Exercise: Week 3, Day 3 of the couch-to-5k plan.

Yesterday’s breakfast: 1 cup All-Bran Strawberry Medley cereal, Half-cup skim milk, 1 banana. (6 WW points)

Yesterday’s mid-morning snack:skipped it

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.

Yesterday’s lunch:Lean Cuisine BBQ Chicken Pizza (7 WW points) and a Pink Lady Apple (1 WW point). I love the Pink Lady variety of apples. They taste kind of like Sweet Tarts candy.

I’m on vacation today and I slept in until almost 11:00. Obviously I gained more weight. Exercise alone (especially the tiny amount I’m doing) is not going to help me lose weight. Last night for dinner I had Kung Pao Chicken from Cathay Express followed by 3 doughnuts from the Quiktrip. I didn’t even try to calculate the Weight Watchers points for that, but I bet it is more than all the points I’m allowed for the day. I’ve really got to cut out this overeating or I’ll end up back where I was in April.

Weight: 285.0 pounds

Exercise: Week 2, Day 2 of the hundredpushups.com plan. 5 sets (5,6,4,4,7). I must be improving because it seems to be getting easier.

Yesterday’s breakfast: 6 Weight Watchers points. 1 cup All-Bran Strawberry Medley cereal, Half-cup skim milk, 1 banana.

Yesterday’s mid-morning snack:skipped it

Yesterday’s water:Two 1-liter bottles of tap water.