Blogging might be fun after all

I spent a little bit of time playing around with the blog settings. Notice my new weight ticker!

I also really enjoyed reading some other blogs. I now have ``blogs I follow". I have never been into journalling but I am starting to enjoy this. I will probably be more of a reader than a writer, but who knows.

I also got this idea about a monthly calorie budget from "Escape from Obesity". I think I will try that.

Have been gone for a long time

I have the urge to delete the old posts and not admit that my $n^{th}$ attempt at this failed. I won't even try to make a list of excuses. I just need a plan.

My current weight is 190lb at the gym, in the morning with shoes. I just started working out again.

Weight-in: 182lbs

I have been away for a month. The first three weeks I was at conferences. Even though I did my best to exercies, some of the time I had no access to a gym. And it is hard to eat well when somebody else is preparing your food. I have been back to normal (sort of) for a week now. I started running again. It is amazing how much cardio-fitness I have lost. I "ran" every day last week but the longest I can actually run without walking is about 10 min right now. The first day I ran in 1min intervals. I have found a 3.5mile loop around my house with one major hill. I think my first goal is to be able to do the entire loop only walking up the hill. Then I will move to a longer loop. There are a lot of hills in CA.

It is also time to start keeping track of my weight. For the past month I didn't have a scale but now I should have one for the next five weeks. I will try to weigh-in on Mondays at the gym. I am not thrilled with my starting point but actually I have at least not gained weight since May so it is not so bad.