Almost at the Half Way Point

I hope you are all enjoying the Civic Holiday, it's always a nice treat to get a day off! I'm just having a coffee, watching Hannah build with foam blocks, and Jacob playing with pots. He'll be off to be soon.

Thought I'd give an update at where I'm at. I've still be running 3 x week, getting up to 5 km each run now, which is where I'll likely level off. I'm still lifting weights 3 x week as well, but getting much stronger (though far below where I was in you early 30s).

As a review, I started at 260lbs, with a doctor imposed goal (of which I agreed) to get down to 210lbs. As of today I'm down to 236lbs, so a drop of 24lbs, and that's almost half way! I was actually down to 235lbs a few times in the week, but I....indulged last night and I suspect it hasn't cleared my system yet.

Now, I actually had 3 goals. 1 was to get down to 210, with no real time frame for that, perhaps in a total of one year, secretly hoping for success before the end of 2010. The second was 25lbs before my holidays begin on the 21st of August (feeling pretty good about that). The 3rd was a very selfish one. I stopped drinking at the end of March, and my holidays are a fly in fishing trip. I'd really like to be able to have a few beers on the trip, but since my health is kinda important, I don't want to take any huge steps back. So I set a 3rd goal of saying that if I could get down to 230lbs by the time I left for holidays, I'd allow myself some MODERATE alcohol consumption. So it's getting down to the wire. I have less than 3 weeks to drop 6lbs, and throwing up and laxatives are not allowed...

So wish my luck that my metabolism ramps ups for the holidays!