A Man With a Plan

Yesterday I spoke of my three pillars of Louie weight loss, Eating, Exercise, and Reward, and only spoke about the first to.  That leaves us with Reward, probably the most rewarding of the three.  See what I did there?  Yeah, so, besides the rewards of feeling/looking/performing better I have set up rewards for weight lost.  Specifically, for each 10 pounds I lose, I get a reward.  Here's what I got so far:

10 lbs- Socks

(Because these socks are awesome.)

20 lbs- An album from iTunes

30 lbs- A new snazzy shirt

(Hopefully like this)

40 lbs- A nice simple sport's watch

50 lbs- Prescription sunglasses

Weight Watchers also sets goals for me.  My current goal weight with the program is 5% of my weight gone, or, 267.5 pounds.  Each time I reach and beat a Weight Watchers goal, I will treat myself to a Lego Mini Figure blind pack.

(Just a small portion of my Lego family...  Don't judge me!)

I really didn't have any set rewards last time I did this and if I did reward myself, it was with food.  You can probably see how that could be problematic.  I believe that evenly spaced rewards will be a great motivation to getting where I need to be.  As you can see, I've only got to 50 pound mark... if you have any suggestions of what else I could reward myself with, I would love to hear them!  Just throw your two cents worth in the comment section at the bottom.

And now I would like to quickly post two Run Reports (for the 7th and the 9th) and a Strength Training Update.

Run Reports:

Like I mentioned yesterday, I am building up to running by first walking for 30 minutes and then gradually adding small chunks to that walking, until I am just running.  My two routes are the same as they were last year, either uphill for the first half of the run and then downhill for the remainder and vice versa for the other route.  For these two runs I used the later of the two routes.  

(The lonely road)

With that in mind, here are my first two run(walk) reports:

Monday - 7Oct13

Time: 32:18

Distance: 1.90 miles

Pace: 17:02 min/mi

Wednesday - 9Oct13

Time: 30:03

Distance: 1.97 miles

Pace: 15:17 min/mi

As you may have noticed, much faster today than yesterday.  Which is a bit odd, as today was super windy and Monday was calm as can be.  Guess the downhill/wind on my back combo for the first half of the walk gave me enough speed and momentum to barrel through the second half of the walk.  Whereas, Monday was more of a stroll, I guess.

Now for the Strength Training Update.

Tuesday - 8Oct13

Body weight squats: 30 - 1 set

Incline push ups: 40 - 1 set (I actually did wall push ups instead)

One arm rows: 30 - 1 set

Seconds of planks: 60 - 1 set

This earned me 3 stars on each exercise!  Ding! Level Up!  So, tomorrows reps will all be upped, like this:

Body weight squats: 50 

Incline push ups: 40

Bent over rows: 20 

Minutes of planks: 2 

I am preparing to feel the burn tomorrow!  

(Much like this, but, lying in bed)

Well, I think that will do it for now.  I'll be settling into the permanent posting schedule from this point out.  I'll give a weekly weigh in on Mondays and weekly exercise reports every Friday.  Thanks again for reading this little piece of the internet of mine and for giving me the motivation to keep on going.  Until next time.

- Louie