un-fatPaulie Weekly Update #1

I've decided that I'll just make a Monday morning update each week, as time allows. I actually write these up on Sunday night before bed, and get around to posting sometime Monday morning, so it shouldn't be that tough.

I bought a scale this weekend for my first weigh-in. It's sad and scary.. I'm 370 pounds on the nose, according to my scale. That's my benchmark. That means I'm aiming to lose 150 to 170 lbs in the next 3 years. At about 1 pound a week, that's perfectly safe and doable.

Food:

Calories were pretty easy to keep down around 1500, with the exception of Saturday. Summer means Barbecues, and barbecues mean beer. I had Coors Light, which till now I had derided as an old person's beer. I guess I'm old. 102 calories in a bottle, and it's a beer. Not too bad. Then I went back to Rachel's suggested bevvy of choice - the Tall Rye and Diet Press - 64 calories that tastes good and lasts as long as a beer.

Sunday was DimSum day, and I tried to not eat too much, nor too many fried foods. I don't have a good Googley source for dim sum item calories yet - if you know of one, please send it my way.

Exercise:

Walked to work on Monday, but bad weather, and too much body strain from the epic 13k walk the day before pretty much wiped me out. Wednesday was the low-point with only 3000 steps. I set a new record on Sunday with 14200 steps for the day, all in my Crocs, which felt great, but were not confining enough on my toes, causing a couple of very nasty blisters.

Total steps for the week: 42500
Goal: 70000

Just figured out a new way to measure the calories burned for steps:

(Steps/100) x (weight/100 x 3)
425 x 11.1 = 4717.5 calories burned this week for me.