The last couple of weeks were odd..okay they were weird.

I've got my FTP setup the way I like and I'm going back and correcting the issues with my blog links.  Imagine having to manually edit years of blog entries.  I have a method of doing it but its still slow going.  I apologize to anyone trying to read my older entries.  I'll get it sorted soon..well.eventually.

This second week was a mess. We had a visiting tester at work. So for a week I had to adjust to his schedule. But that's over now and I can get back to normal. It sort of worked out because the weather got all nasty. I wouldn't have been able to run anyway. Which puts another thing on my list of things to do...renew my gym membership.  I'm going to go do that tomorrow.

I was surprised at how many of my readers returned as soon as I started blogging again. I sort of assumed that they would have written me off. I feel better knowing that I still have their support.

And the big news on the technical side is that I finally gave up on my old phone after months of battling with it and Verizon.  So I took advantage of a deal I got through work and got an HTC Pro2.

I absolutely love this phone.  One of the cool things it does is that it has OneNote Mobile on it.  So when I stuck in boring meetings at work I can pull it out and work on my blog.  Then when I get back to my desk or back home I can sync it with my PC, pull the text out, and drop it into my blog.  In fact some of this week's blog was made while in just such a meeting.

Anyway, enough about my phone.at least for now.

My weight has been holding steady as last week was really a wash.  But I jumped back into my routine Sunday.  So I'm hoping things will get back to normal this week.

I have noticed that some of my weights I've been using are going up pretty regularly.  So my muscles are responding to being in use again. 

One thing that did happen that I'm a bit worried about is that I tripped over some stuff last week and twisted my knee a bit.  Its been hurting but I won't try to run on it until tomorrow.  We will see what happens.  I might just walk it tomorrow.  I'll see how it feels.

Anyway, that's about it for now.  Thanks for reading!

I couldn't think of a clever title this week.  Oh.wait.that IS kind of clever!

Last week went okay.  I didn't miss any workouts and kept to my diet.  And weight is starting to come off.which is good.

Diet - For the most part I'm getting in 5-6 small meals every day.  I'm still not eating completely the way I should but I'm getting closer.  I've added back in some raw veggies.

Working out - Running 4 times a week and lifting 3 times a week.  I might need to change out one of my shoulder exercises as it hurts my back to do but we will see how that plays out.  My running is getting better.  What I'm doing is at the start, I would just walk 3.1 miles (5k).  Next week, I put in a bit of running and walked a bit less.  Then more running, less walking.and so on.  I'm up to 1.5 miles of running.so about half.  I'm not up to the point where I need to start taping my feet or anything fancy.  But I burn a ton of calories.  Nothing burns calories quite like running.

Sleep - This is where I need some improvement still.  I'm getting around 6-7 hours sleep a night.  This isn't really enough if I want to lose weight.  I need about 8-9 hours.  But I'm getting better at it.

Web site - This thing is really a mess.  But I'm sorting it out bit by bit.  The bad news is that I lost my weight chart that kept track of my progress.  The good news is that I found a backup that had an older version of the chart and I still have all the workout sheets that I made the contain my weigh-ins.  So using all that I was able to construct an up to date chart.  I'm still adding in some of the older dates but it is close enough for me to use for now.

Although I did fix a problem with posting pictures to the site from my blog program.  That seems to be working now.

Computer woes - I'm decommissioning my old server and giving it to my mother in-law.  So while I get all that sorted out, I don't have access to the new server.  This is making getting my web site stuff working a bit problematic.  But I'll get there.  But no new zombie humor for now. 

Progress - Stepped on the scales Saturday and got a pleasant surprise..287 pounds.  So I'm down 20 pounds so far.  Its really coming off fast but I know that won't last.  Eventually it will calm down and I'll start losing about 1-2 pounds a week.

That's about all for this week.  I need to get out and do my run for today.  So everyone have a great week and I'll see you in February.

What?  Still here?  Looking for that joke I throw in at the end?  Ah.huh..then let's see here.uh.how about some immature toilet humor?  Yeah, that's the ticket.

Now go run your butt around the block of few times!

Baby Steps

Well, I'm still on track after a couple of weeks.  I'm making small changes in my lifestyle.  One of the things I did learn in my last attempt at weight loss is that you have to start out small.  If you make too many changes at once you end up with a plan that is so regimented that you won't follow it long term.  The best way is to make small changes.baby steps.

So here is a list of things I've changed so far in the last couple weeks.

Meals - 5 per day instead of 2.  This is one of the most important and hard to grasp concept for many dieters.  The whole secret to losing weight is based off the single principle of 'burning more calories that you consume'.  To that end, you want to keep your metabolism as high as you can for as long as you can.  Eating twice a day just slows your metabolism down to a crawl.  Then when you do finally eat, you tend to over eat and you body just stores everything up as fat.  Eat 5-6 small meals, spaced out about 3 hours apart and you will keep your system running high all day.

Exercise - I'm starting to lift weights and do my walk/run thing again.  I'm not doing it as often as should but I'm getting there.

Water - I'm still not drinking as much as I should but I'm drinking more than I was (how vague is that?!).  What's important for now is that I'm getting away from those sodas that I would chug so much.  I'm down to just one a day.  Soon I'll cut that out to but again.baby steps.

Body Bugg - So I can keep track of how many calories I burn all day, I reactivated my Body Bugg.

Blogging - This was an important part of my plan last time.  It allowed me to get my feelings out in the open instead of keeping them locked up in my head where they'd do the most damage.

Blog Doo Doo

My whole website is a mess.not just my blog.  I've been away for so long, I've forgotten how most of this stuff works.  And all my web admin stuff is still on my old computer.  I haven't moved anything to the new computer yet.

The only thing I have working is a new install of Windows Live Writer.  That's what I use to write and publish my blog.  It took me a couple hours to sort out that part, and I still have some big problems I need to fix.  The first was to get my pictures to save to the correct location so they would sho up on the blog.  And that's done at least.

One of the biggest problems is that I dropped one of my domain names.  Back when I was still doing this regularly, I had two domain names, strangedos.com and TokenFatGuy.com.  They both pointed at the same site.  However, I dropped strangedos.com as no one was getting to my site using that name anymore.  However, there a ton of references to strangedos.com in my blog's archives.  So now that the domain is gone all those links are broken.  And to fix this I need to get on my site and start looking at all my archive pages.  This is going to take a while.  And its going to drive me crazy since I hate it when I'm on someone else's site and their links aren't all working.  Lazy web admins!

Progress

I've only been on the plan for a couple of weeks but already I have some encouraging news.  I weighed in Saturday and found that I was 292 pounds.  That means I'm back to the starting point I was at when I came up with the whole TokenFatGuy idea.  Also, it means I back below 300 pounds. 

I guess that's all for now.  I'm going to go ahead and post.  I need to get to the track..today is running day.