Half of Phil

Monday morning I was down an even 50 pounds!!!! Today I wasn't but I always fluctuate a few pounds each day, so I'm claiming the milestone! Another milestone was this weekend while camping I was able to easily zip the sleeping bag and put both arms in!!!!  I can't ever remember being able to do that short of when I was a very young kid.  Granted it's a big and tall bag, but still. I've been looking for a bag for a couple years, finally got a double bag a couple years ago that wasn't great and was just way to big to manage. I'm still easily killing the skinny folks at work on our step challenge!  It's pretty funny because I'm in the worst shape of the bunch but I do walk walk walk. Next committed update is 9/27.

Couple of bad news items: I've definitely not done good at is keeping this blog up to date. I missed my goal of 30 minutes for my morning walk by Labor Day.  The best time I made was 35 minutes twice the week before labor day.  Once soley just walking and once running, ok jogging, ok well best I could do to immitate these.  I got the same result both ways The good news is I've stayed the course in walking monday to friday.  My food logging is still going strong and I crossed the 45 lbs lost mark last week.  The downward trend is starting to show through One of my co-workers started a step challenge at work for the month of Sept.  I figured it would be a fun thing so I signed up.  I bought a Jawbone UP cia bug and started using it 8/27.  The goal is to get 10k steps each day in Sept.  So far I haven't missed a day.  My morning walks get me 4200-4500 steps and then with a little effort I can pick up the rest througout the day.  The tough days are the weekend