Week 3

9/19

Calories: 1500 calories Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna n Chips,

Exercise: 825 Calories 7.5 mile walk

9/20

Calories: 1800 calories Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna n Chips, Greek Chicken, Salad, Pita, 2 Michelob Ultra

Exercise: 600 Calories 4.5 mile walk 2 mile run

9/21

Calories: 2200 Calories Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna n Chips, Scallops and Sweet Potato Mash, 2 beers

Exercise: 550 Calories 4 mile walk 2 mile run

9/22

Calories: 1400 Cal Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna n Chips, Chicken Sausage and Pasta, Sam Adams

Exercise: 850 Cal 6.5 mile (walking) 1.5 mile run

9/23

Calories: 1900 Calories Home made Wheat Pizza, Pot Bellies Sub, Tostitos, Sam Adams

Exercise: None

9/24

Calories: ??? Beer, Pizza, Wings, Garlic Bread, Chips

Exercise: 515 Calories 4.21 mile (walk/run)

9/25

Calories: 1600 Cal Burrito, Gatorade, Pirate Booty

Exercise: 725 Cal 7.25 mile Walk

9/26

Calories:

Exercise: 4.35 mile walk (500 calories)

Comments: Overall a pretty good week. Saturday was a bloodbath but I think that helps keep me honest rest of the week. I ended up going out to eat 4 times this week but was able to limit it to one bad meal. The exercise also has really been turned up as well.

Progress: As of Friday I was down 6.5 lbs. I'm hoping to get to 8 by the end of the month. (Next week)

Week 2

9/13

Calories: 1,400 cal Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Shrimp Bisque, Pirate Booty Whiskey

Exercise: 700 cal (5 mile walk 1 mile run) Lifting - Shoulders

9/14

Calories: 1150 cal Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna Chips, Guacamole Soup, Pirate Booty, Pita

Exercise: 470 cal (3 mile walk, 1 mile run)

9/15

Calories: 1,100 cal Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Sausage + Pasta

Exercise: 450 cal (2 mile walk, 2 mile run)

9/16

Calories: 1,150 cal Cheerios 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Sausage + Pasta

Exercise: 600 cal (5 mile walk)

9/17

Calories: 2,800+ (Chips, BLT, Pizza, Cookies, Rum + coke)

Exercise: Softball 2 games

9/18

Calories: 2,000 cal (Steak + cheese, 2 beers, tuna sandwich chips.)

Exercise: None

I was really good during the week but Saturday was again an issue. I also did not make time to get exercise in over the weekend.

Goal for next week: Keep up the exercise and try to keep to one bad meal a week.

Start off

Since high school I have seen my weight sky rocket to over 215lbs and drop to 155. This seems to coincide with crash dieting and exercise followed by months of eating out, no exercise and more drinking. (after 21 of course) In the recent months I have noticed that I seem to be slipping into bad habits again. This can be reflected in my opening weight. While this number was more than likely distorted because it occurred right after a food and beer filled trip to Boston, it is still a red flag.

Starting weight 183.4 lbs.

Week 1:

9/6

Calories: 1450: V8 Green Tea and Juice, Cheddar Biscuit, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Oven Fried Cod, Low cal Potato Salad

Exercise: 330 cal (Elliptical, Run) + Lifting (Chest)

9/7

Calories: 1300 Cal: Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Tilapia Tacos, Snack: Pretzels and Cheese

Exercise: 325 cal (Elliptical, Run) + Lifting (Arms)

9/8

Calories: 1200 Cal Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Tuna Burgers Potato Salad Snack: Pretzels

Exercise: 310 (Ellip, Run) + Lifting (Shoulders)

9/9

Calories: 1500 Cal: Cheerios, 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Chicken Sausage and low cal Pasta, Pretzels

Exercise: 350 (Ellip, Run) + Lifting (Abs, Chest)

9/10

Calories: ??: Cheerios, Homemade Pretzels, Beer, Vodka RB, Homemade Pizza

Exercise: 472 cal (Walk 4.40 miles)

9/11

Calories: 2000 Cheerios, Small slice of homemade pizza, Country Ribs, Baked Potato, Blondie bar, Beer, Whiskey

Exercise: 478 cal (Walk 4.40 miles)

9/12

Calories: 950 Cal Cheerios 1/2 Tuna, Chips, Scallops + Shrimp, Asparagus, Dumpling

Exercise: 917 cal (Walk 4.26 miles, Run 1.25 miles) Lifting (Chest) Walk (2.5 more mile)

Comments:

Overall it was a pretty good week. I had hoped for Sunday to be better but with the long morning walk it was still a positive day. Overall not to bad. Probably should add a little bit to my caloric intake.

Goal:

My plan for the month is to burn at least 6600 calories. That' s about 220 a day. At the moment I'm at 3187 after 7 days so it looks to be an easy goal but I always find the start of an exercise plan easy to stick to. Hopefully I can really smash that goal and end somewhere closer to 10,000 for the month.

Overall goal: 160-165 lbs (I'll start updating next week. And continue for every 2 weeks)

Good Luck,

Pixar Pete

Yea that name stuff is not working.

Eddie

More Competition

On Friday evening, we added four more competitors to the contest. Here's our current list of combatants (sorted alphabetically by last name, of course):

Lanae Bradley
Ruby Edmonds
Joe Mattingly
Mike Mattingly
Mark Sabina
Marcus Walker

I didn't get final confirmation from any of the new participants regarding posting their starting weights, so in the interest of discretion, I've elected to not disclose them. New folks, if you want me to post them, let me know and I will. For me, I found posting my weight to be a good way to force myself to be accountable. But that was a different style of competition; who knows if it'll work the same in this instance.

If you haven't joined, you've still got a week to decide. I'm available most of the time through next Sunday (September 11) to provide the official scale for weigh-ins. Just let me know if you want to swing by. Once again, the wager is $25 from each participant. Right now, with an estimated 8-9 competitors, we'll be paying out the top two spots, but if we get a few more, we'll expand the prizes.

Happy dieting!

-Disney Joey

So It Begins

The first two competitors have weighed in:

Marcus: 186.8
Joe: 274.0

Note: your weight will only be posted if you give me clearance to post it. If you prefer, I'll record it privately.

After some thought, I've decided my goal is to get under 250.0 pounds during this three month competition. It's a reasonable but aggressive goal. During my previous competition, I averaged 11.43 (repeating of course) pounds lost per month. In order to reach my goal this time around, I'd need to lose just over 8 pounds per month.

So, if you're looking to set your own goals, you can use my 8.76% to frame your plan. And I do recommend setting your own goals. In month three of my previous competition, my goal was to get under 300 pounds. The morning of the weigh-in, I was at 300.8, and I spent the morning and early afternoon running in the rain and playing Rock Band to try to burn off the weight I needed to reach my goal. My registered weight? 299.6. Goals are good.

As a reminder, you have 9 days to register your starting weight (the last day you can weigh in is Sunday, September 11th).