It's official, I've passed the 10% of my starting body weight lost after this week's weigh-in. I didn't lose quite as much as I'd hoped, but the 1 1/2 pounds lost in the last week pushed me over the edge and into double-digit percent territory.
All in all it wasn't a bad week, but I was hoping for maybe another pound or two of loss. At 307.2, I'm getting really close to a couple other milestones: under 300 pounds and 50 pounds total weight loss. I had kind of a "back of the mind" goal to be under 300 by the end of July, and I am in a very good position to accomplish that.
I've started doing some exercise stuff at home in addition to the 2-3 times per week walks I've been doing for a while. I taped a stretching/yoga-type workout on FitTV (thanks Digital Cable) and have done that several times and also downloaded a workout system on my phone called FitDeck. It essentially has a bunch of exercises on cards and you "shuffle" the deck and do whatever is on the cards. Exercises include a number of sit-up and push-up variations, leg raises, squats, lunges, and more. It is the "Bodyweight" series, meaning no weights or equipment is required. To be honest, some of the stuff is difficult for me and it does provide a decent workout.
I've partnered the two things together a few times where I do the stretching stuff and then during commercial breaks I do a few of the FitDeck exercises. Seems to be a good mix and I've worked up a solid sweat. According to the Livestrong program I burn roughly 400-500 calories doing a 30-minute combined workout of the stretching stuff and the Bodyweight exercises.
It's nice to have something to do in lieu of just walking. I was going to try P90X at one point, but I'm not sure I'm in good enough shape yet to do that plus it requires some equipment that I don't have and/or won't be able to use. For instance, there's a lot of pull-up stuff I think and there's no way our doorframes would support a pullup bar with me hanging on it. I may try to do some of the cardio or bodyweight stuff from the P90X program at some point down the road though.
So all in all, a nice milestone to reach, could have been a little better on the weight loss, but still pointing the arrow on the weight chart down, which is a good thing.
