Monday 6/14/10

Exercise: 1h40m bike ride to get groceries (1025 cal)
Scale weight: 210.5
Hacker's weight: 211.3
Net calories: 1415

One week of doing this blog, and today is the first of my weekly Monday check-ins. My scale weight this morning was 210.5, and my hackers weight is starting to normalize with regular logging, today's weight brings it to 211.3. I'm quite pleased with this progress, especially because my scale weight the day before I started the blog was 215 pounds! Even more than the numbers, I'm very pleased that I've blogged every day, met my exercise goals, and been within my target net calorie range every day. Go me!

I also sent my heart rate monitor (HRM) in for repairs today. I like being able to see how many calories I've burned while I'm exercising and to have a little more faith in the accuracy of the calorie expenditures than by estimating with MFD, and it's been frustrating to have it not working for the past few months.

I was having a tough time motivating to run today, so instead I rode my bike by a circuitous route to the grocery store to make a new recipe, which ended up being very tasty. The place I went has lots of very ripe and very cheap fruit, and my treat for such a long bike ride (and so many calories earned) was a lot of fresh fruit including blackberries, cherries, strawberries today, plus some more blackberries, cherries, and pineapple in the fridge for later. Super yummy!

Okay, so a week of success is kind of a drop in the bucket and doesn't mean I should relax now - but a year of weight loss is just made up of lots of weeks like the one I just had. Slow but steady. Time to get out and have another great week.