Half of Phil

So turns out making my commited date on a Tuesday didn't help me not skip a week on this blog thing.  Gotta do better. I'll put a reminder in my phone, but here's what I've been up to. I annilated the competition on our Sept step challenge.  I hit 10k all 30 days, the closest anyone else came was 24 days.  The Oct challenge is toal steps.  Through 6 days I'm in 2nd place, one guy is torqued off about losing Sept and out to annilate everyone. I'm very pleased with the difference the tracking devices have made in our family.  We are all more active the last few weeks.  $ 80 bucks well spent. I met again with the health coach at work, she is very pleased with my progress and the addition of the tracker and step challenges.  Also got a goodish report at my annual physical, it was a good report, but if they don't let you know at my weight you got issues to deal with why even go?   It was nice to have positive talks with the Drs about progress and...

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...

I was due to make a post on Tuesday, but didn't. This past week we came back from our last beach trip of the summer.  We got to see baby sea turtles hatch again for the 2nd year in a row.  It's a very cool thing. Both kids had open houses.  The boy starts middle school!  I was pretty nervous but then we lucked out his home room teacher is my buddy's wife.  I don't know her really well, but it put my mind at ease for sure. I met with the life coach at work again last week.  She's pleased with my progress and said I was on the right track.  I got back in a month or so.  The snacking is still a new thing and I will have to get better. One of the guys at work is starting a step challenge the first of September.  I didn't have any sort of tracking device, but I wanted to participate.  Another buddy told me about an Up Move device that was under $20 on Amazon.  So I ordered some and they showed up right as we were leaving for a so...

Friday was very hectic, so I didn't get my post up.  Left the house at 6:30 to grab some butts to smoke Saturday before work.  I got home from the boys soccer camp at 9:30 and had to prep them to go on the smoker at 6 am.  I did my walking during his camp and I was brutally reminded why I get up do that in the mornings!!!  It was 95 degrees and that track has very little shade.  Also very hard to keep pushing for 2 miles on a track.  Much better motivation to keep going when your a mile from the house and your only option to quit is call your wife for a ride home!!! I got the smoker loaded Saturday by 6:30 am and crawled in bed last night just before midnight!  Long long days. Today I had to tame the yard.  Had to do it in the heat of the day to avoid the rain that was coming.  Kept hoping it would start and save me.  Afterwards someone told the boy that boardwalk Billy's was the best place around to Pokemon.  So I took him over...

Progress this week was steady, biggest news is I started snacking at work!  Sounds and seems very counterintuitve to me, but we all know I did everything exactly wrong for 40+ years so I'm going to follow the nutrionists advice. Snacks are fruit and either almonds or peanut butter.  We went to the farmers market sunday and got some fresh fruit.  It's gone good, just have to remember to do it at work and get in the habit.  Good news is i got a new lunch bag!  (Ha) Walking is going good, I've had some knee pain this week but I attribute that mostly to missing a chiro appt last week.  I had to go in early Wednesday morning for work so the family joined me for an evening walk.  That was nice the weather ended up being great for it.  Finally a break from the heat. The weekend is going to be hectic, it's birthday weekend for lil bit and she will have a sleep over tomorrow evening.  Hopefully the shrieking will be minimal or at least not in th...

Last week was hectic and I missed posting my update.  Crazy week of working remote and more soccer club drama.  Happy to now have my son on a new soccer club and even more excited the more I get to know his new coach.  He's very experienced and took a group of U14 boys from an also play team to the state championship game by they time they were U18.  I'm excited to see what he can do with this new team that's forming. You'll notice a new tracker on the left of the blog.  It's a few lbs off because obviously I wasn't tracking by in 2015 when I hit my max weight I estimate at 430.  But in the grand scheme of things I'm going to go with the tracking that is there going forward. So while over all I'm down 40 lbs this year, since I've only been since April 25, 2016, by this widget I'm down 29 lbs over 13 weeks which works out to over 2 lbs per week.  More importantly than this my energy level is much higher.  I mowed the grass last night in mid 90...