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11.5 pounds so far…

Check in the Weekly Update section – I’ve lost 11.5 pounds so far!  I’ve got a long way to go, but its only been 6 weeks, and I’m close to 2 pounds a week. 

At my heaviest, I weighed in at a huge 330 lbs!  I lost 30 pounds in Columbus, OH two summers ago through walking, geocaching, and at the end riding my bike.  It took me 10 years to pack on the 100 pounds I once carried.  I weighed a mere 230 lbs when I left high school, but I also bench pressed 300 lbs, and box squatted over 1000 lbs.  Each winter in Ohio, I would put on 20 lbs, and each summer I would take off about 10 lbs.  Ten years later, I was 100 lbs heavier.

But now… I have lost a total of 40 lbs from my heaviest; 11.5 pounds since I started cycling to work.  At this rate, I’ll be down below my high school weight in about a year… to bad the 10 year reunion is in about a month – :)

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Looking for my Bod Pod results?

Just a reminder that all of of my weekly weight ins, diet and exercise goals as well as updated pictures of me can be found at the “Weekly Update…” tab:  http://sackrider.org/myblog/weekly-update/

Here are the latest Bod Pod Results: 

BF: 124.4
LW: 169.5
TW: 293.9

I’ve lost 2 lbs of fat and gained almost a pound of lean body weight.  Thats a great trade off.  I had a bad week last week, but I’m not going to let that stop me from pushing on.

Oh, for all of you who have said I should be smiling in my pictures – remember these are the BEFORE pictures… :)

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Counting Calories?

It takes about 3500 calories to burn off a pound of fat.  If I eat 3000 calories a day and burn 3500 calories a day, I lose a pound a week.  So for me to loose weight I have to determine how many calories a day do I burn, then set my diet to 1000 – 1500 calories a day less than that number.  If I do that, I loose 2-3 pounds a week.  So, how many calories a day do I burn?

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