My new glasses came today and I love them. They are almost exactly the same as my old glasses–maybe a tad bigger in diameter. I have learned people do not take it well so I have happily decided to try to get round tortoiseshells until I die.
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This post is just mark my progress. I gained a few pounds on the move from Virginia, but have now lost all that and am just a little lower than I was before we made the change. I fluctuate enough day-to-day that I might move back up before I am below that for good, but God willing, I am back into the slow, steady weight loss I have experienced since the beginning of the year. Another new milestone is that I was under 200 lbs. for the first time at night before going to bed.
We found a new gym here in Granbury that is closer to our house and that we like more than the YMCA. It is a serious weightlifting gym with its only defect being the really cheesy rowing machines they have compared to our Concept 2. We started at the gym yesterday and went mid-morning when there was hardly anyone there. We had no waiting to get onto any piece of equipment we wanted. I am looking forward to getting back into a good workout rhythm, add some walking to the mix when the temperature drops down into the 80’s and 90’s later this fall, and continue my trajectory down to a more reasonable weight for my age and build. My next intermediate goal is still 27 pounds away.
Lorena and I ran over to Glen Rose, about thirty minutes from our apartment to do the signing. We were surprised that we had to sign so many pages for what is quite a smaller loan than much larger loans we got when we bought our first few homes. It felt good though, so we ran over to the new Baked Restaurant there and agreed it was great. The one in Granbury is still our favorite, but if we are ever over there again at lunch time, we will definitely not hesitate to stop in.
Christian flew down to Virginia to help us drive to Texas and get into our apartment. It is a great little apartment with a view of the lake within walking distance of a ton of good restaurants. James, Jan and our builder and his family cooked hamburgers for us the night after we arrived and it just felt like home. We definitely made the right choice in coming here. Christian was really the champion of the whole affair. He drove Lorena and navigated a ton of minutiae. We ate way to much food and sat in the car with no way to get any exercise for way too long. Our health program took a hit, but now we are here.
After 26 weeks and 6 days of healthy eating and weight lifting, I have hit my intermediate goal of under 199 lbs. for my weekly average weight, measured daily. That is an average of about 0.8 lbs. lost per week. I still have a good amount of hard belly fat and my girth is quite a bit more than what is considered healthy so I am pretty sure 170 lbs. will be my end goal.
Olecranon bursitis is often called “students elbow.” If anyone should get it, our son Christian is definitely a prime candidate because hard study at a desk or table is his livelihood. He had to go get that taken care of at the urgent care clinic yesterday. It reminded me I am going to have my own procedure or two coming up here in the next couple of months. Getting stuff dealt with in a timely fashion is something my mother, Sarah, instilled in us. With all the craziness in the establishment medical system around the world, it is harder to figure out how to do it judicially than when the world was ignorant of their machinations.
I am almost six months in on my weight loss and health improvement program. I am averaging about a pound a week so far. My intermediate goal is to get to 199 lbs and my end goal is somewhere between 170 lbs. and 180 lbs depending on how I feel when I get there. That final weight seems very high, but every place I look tells me the same thing–I need to plan on weighing a good bit more than when I was 30 years old to stay healthy. I am writing this post as a help to stay on course to get to 199 because this last five pounds seems to be taking a lot longer than what came before although the graph says that is not so.
I finally got back up to 405 lbs. on the leg press. God willing, I want to start squatting again after we get to Texas. I would like to dead lift and bench, too, but my glory days of lifting are pretty much over now, not that they were so glorious even back in the day. Still, felt pretty good to be over 400 as my working weight–3 sets, 10 reps each.
Still fat, but doing better. Still a few weeks from my intermediate weight goal. I was hoping I would make it by the Independence Day on July 4, but I really do not think that will happen. Still, my leg press is back up to 385 lbs. for 3 sets of ten reps. I am hoping to hit 405 lbs. and then just stay there for awhile. I am thinking of moving away from the chest press machine to do real bench presses. I am not sure where I am with that. It would be nice to be able to get back to my one time working weight of 225 lbs., but that might be a bridge too far. I am currently doing 3 sets of 10 reps at 170 lbs. on the chest press.