Side shot of me at 198 lbs.

I was going to write about this last week but I got busy so today will have to do. As of last week I am officially out of the 200’s. I weighed in last Saturday (1/19) at 198 lbs. This morning (1/26) I weighed in at 196 lbs. after my morning run. So far the total weight loss since September 2011 is 109 lbs. Some weeks it is up, but luckily most weeks it is down.

These days I am concentrating a lot on working on my speed. I have been running on Tuesdays with a running group called the Riverside Roadrunners at UCR to do interval training. Interval training is when you run laps at different speeds in an effort to increase your overall performance. The track at UCR is 400 meters. Actually, that is lane one, we are only allowed to use lane 4 so we run 420 meters. By running at different speeds around the track I have been able to safely push myself to faster paces. It is also a really good fat burning excercise. As of this morning (1/26) I measured my body fat at 19.7%. I haven’t been as aggressive on targeting my body fat, but I am trying to get it down to 15%. I probably will not do that until after I reach my weight goal of 184 lbs. but it is still good to keep it in mind. At the grocery store I put my arm in one of those automatic blood pressure things it was 117/66 with a resting heart rate of 57 BPM.

Most of what I do is the same old thing I do everyday. It is still a lot of trial and error. I learn whatever I can, then I experiment on it for a bit, if it works I keep it, if not I try something different. The follow is another pictorial progress shot…

Me at 305 lbs.

Me at 255 lbs.

Me at 220 lbs.

Me at 198 lbs. 1/26/13