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.
These 25 calorie corn tortillas are what make our new healthy diet plan actually work. They are amazingly good and perfect for our high protein, nutritious diet. We had to order them from Walmart online and wait a couple of weeks for them to arrive. It was worth the wait.
I did a pretty bad job of tracking my health in my previous blog, but even the little I did was a big help to me. My brother, Doug, and I have been teaming up and using AI to develop customized health and diet plans and keep each other accountable now that we are septuagenarians. Doug has been doing it longer than me, but he got me onto a diet plan that I amazed actually works. I started all this on January 2, 2026–the chart shown here is my weight progress since I began. I have an intermediate goal of 199 lbs. on the way to a final goal of 170 lbs. with that final goal being a little more mushy because the AI and I are not sure what weight is really appropriate for me given my history and body type. This post is a stake in the ground for myself to report back here on a regular basis, first on my weight and BMI, then on other goals–not sure what they might be yet.
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