Challenge V - Day 18 - Health Plan Makeover

Assessment - Day 18 (Sunday)

A pretty productive day yesterday, which included a good conversation with Kristi about our health plans.

While we've been on the same page about methodology, our implementation hasn't been in concert, and we've worked against each other to a degree. We talked about the best ways to hold each other accountable through encouragement when tested vs. scolding upon failure - something both of us have been guilty of.

Hoping it leads her (she's already maintained a 110 lb weight loss for a couple years, but wants to get the body back she had 2 years ago via kickboxing) to more exercise and less Ranch dressing stalls, and myself to greater consistency on low carb/no sugar, meaning no 'kind of good' eating (ie: Fried chicken, occasional chips, Cool Whip), but completely good eating, to match my renewed commitment to working out either at Planet Fitness or with Cross-Fit. I full intend to either lose 30 lbs in Sept and/OR fit into my size 34's by October.


In addition, we've agreed to only step on the scale every Tuesday Morning - starting Sept. 1. A major step forward to taking a step backward, off the obsessiveness of numbers vs. feelings and body shaping. I will continue my food journal in this blog.

Closing Comments

With Challenge V 2/3 complete, it seems I'm on the same trajectory as other Challenges - an even, non-progressive trajectory. I have 9 days to change that.

27 Days 'on Fire' Goals Review: 

Goal - 195 lbs  202 lbs
Day 1 - 211 
Start of Day 2 - 213 Went off diet, as outlined above. Steak, two KFC Chicken Breasts, M&M's, Snickers, stuffed potato burrito & some other one dollar spicy burrito from Taco Bell. I know - just horrible, especially after the good start, and the workout.

Days 2-6 - Got up to 218, down to 216.4 today....Day two is outlined above. Day three was chinese, with popcorn and a shake at the movies. Day four was pizza, ice cream & Twizzlers, Day five was bratwurst and chicken, today has been steak and chicken and three chocolate chip cookies.
Day 7 - 214.2 - Two Bratwurst, Two KFC chicken breasts, and then a major fail with 3 chocolate chip cookies, some popcorn. Which effected pretty bad this morning
Day 8 - 216.0 - beef strips and eggs, 1/2 Costco chicken, a handful of chips.
Day 9 - morning - 212.0 - which means the weight gain was a bit of a red herring. 2 pork chops, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, plus an hour of Cross Fit
Day 10 - 212 - 1/2 steak, pork chop, both grilled, chips (too many) and salsa
Day 11 - 211.4 - 1 1/4 bratwurst, 1/2 piece of pepperoni pizza, 1 double size Butterfingers Bar
Day 12 - (Today, Morning) - 209.4, probably due to basketball yesterday and Crossfit this morning. Steak & Eggs, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, Cool Whip
Day 13 - 209.8 - Steak Shish-ka-bob, 2 porkchops, Cool Whip
Day 14 - 209.0 - Steak & Eggs, 2 KFC Fried Chicken Breasts, Cool Whip. Crossfit again today
Day 15 - (Today, Morning) - 207.8 Finally a breakthrough. Lowest since October, 2014. Small flat steak with 2 eggs, Cool Whip, one King Soopers Fried Chicken Breast, 3 chocolate chip cookies, 3 Dark Chocolate Hershey Mini's, one handful of popcorn, one healthy version of a cheddar cheese cracker. (it was snack night at Toastmasters)
Day 16 - Friday - 207.2 - two King Soopers Fried Chicken Breasts, chips with cheese, Cool Whip. Cross-Fit.
Day 17 - Saturday - 211.0 - one pork chop, one large Butterfingers, about 6 handfuls of popcorn, Cool Whip.
Day 18 - Sunday - 211.4 - McDonald's breakfast - Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit, Hash Brown, Orange Juice, followed by some Snicker's mini's left in our freezer. Nothing til I went to the movie, where I had 5 chicken strips, a chocolate shake made by my wife, popcorn, two handfuls of mini M&Ms, and some Twix Mini's.
Day 19 - This morning - 214.8. Fair enough.

Goal - Website Revised - NP

Goal - Podcast Restarted - Sept. 1 start date looming
Goal - Speak & Deliver book ready for printing - it's this week or never. I have most of it written via blog posts over the last six years. Must compile, edit, add some content, and mock it up for Create Space. 

Goal - Schedule 25 speeches - Must create call list

Goal - Blog 3x week - Wrote in my Win Anyway blog yesterday.
Goal - Periscope - Nada

Ancillary activities -  Took & picked up daughter from work. Declared it a non-electronics day after noon. While I didn't interact with the kids as much as I'd hoped, they did a great job of reading, drawing, biking, and playing Pokemon the old fashioned way - with cards. Wrote my newsletter for my Professional Presenter's club, as well as the above-mentioned blog piece. And enjoyed time with my wife at Jurassic World (which is my 2nd time, and a topic I'll be Periscoping about later today)

Podcasts - I'm going to list what I listen to, both to provide you with some listening material, and to track how much time I'm spending on podcasts.

Day 8 - Garrett J White- Daily Fuel 31 Sam Crowley- Every Day is Saturday
Day 9 - Garrett J White - Daily Fuel 32
Days 10 & 11 - None
Day 12-14 - More Garrett J White, a little Hal Elrod, and Entrepreneur on Fire, and Sam Crowley as well. Still, not as much as I have been in the past
Day 15 - Garrett J. White, and a good Side Hustle Nation Podcast.
Day 16 & 17 - more Garrett J. White, and Entrepreneur on Fire - 4 podcasts for both days
Day 18 - a few too many podcasts - Garrett J. White and Entrepreneur on Fire.