Monday (Day 1)

Like on "200 or Bust" I will be using Weight Watchers points to manage my food intake. I will log my points daily. At slightly over 200 pounds, I am allotted 27 points a day for food, this decreases to 25 points once I sink below 200 pounds. Here's is what I ate today:

2 Yoplait Peach Yogurts - 4 points (2 pts each)

Progresso Chicken Soup - 4 points

Green Apple - 2 points

9 vegetable rolls - 10 points

1 Weight Watcher's Chocolate Bar - 2 points

Total - 22 points (27 pts allowed)

As far as eating goes, Day 1 was textbook, I stayed under on points, which is going to be critical. I did a good job of maintaining my weight for the latter half of 2007, but every time I tried to go beyond 200 pounds and lose more weight, I could not control the food.

Something new I will try on this blog is report what exactly I did at the gym each evening. Spelling out what I am doing will bring more accountability to my workout regimen. Here's what happened this evening:

Elliptical - Time: 6:00 Level: 6 Distance: .91 miles

Treadmill - Time: 17:42 Distance: 2.00 miles

The key for the workout plan is to keep every run over 2 miles gradually building up my conditioning to run 5K on a daily basis (and hopefully building that to 10K in a few months). I will also build a better weight training regimen as well. There is great room for improvement on weights.

104 Days until April 20th