Fatman does 100 Miles!!!

Yes siree bob, the Fatman has walked 100.61 miles in the month of January 2008 as of last night at 6:30pm. Keep on truckin' Fatman. Gee, does that mean I don't even have to walk tonight if I don't want to? That's what it means. But I will probably still do at least an hour tonight. Despite the blister about the size of a nickel on the bottom of my right foot. Oh my, the price we must pay. But I can't wait till the weather gets nice enough to be outside and go camping now. Hiking up and down the trail will be so much easier this year. I will be carrying so much less weight with me I might have to haul a big back pack along just to feel right. Well, I'm not sure what my walking goal for February is going to be yet. I am thinking about 120 miles. With 29 days next month and 4 days off that leaves 25 days to walk. So if I walk 5 miles a day that would be 125 miles so 120 miles would leave me 5 miles to slack off with. Ok lets do it. 120 miles for February it is.

Fatman

25 Pounds in 25 days

Well, the FatMan weighed in this morning, 25 days after starting this adventure and I weighed 25 pounds lighter than when I started. I walked and walked and walked this weekend, 22 miles total, 10 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday. Here is a link to my new SparkPeople Page. It is well worth checking out Sparkpeople. I know that Pic above is a really scary site, FatMans Before picture.


Fat Man.

Keep On Walkin' Fat Man

I am, I am. Walked an hour and 45 minutes last night to log in 5.5 miles. Still on track to reach my 100 mile goal for the month.

Fat Man

6.25 miles last night

Walked that treadmill for two hours last night. Managed to get in 6.25 miles. I also had my blood pressure checked yesterday. Let me go back here a minute first. This old Fat Man does have high blood pressure. My Doctor put me on blood pressure medicine back in July 2006 after I had total knee replacement surgery on my right knee, been on it every since. Example of a few of my recorded blood pressure readings are as such: October 4, 2007 144/86, October 24, 2007 124/80, November 9, 2007 132/74, and those were after the medicine, they were pretty mild. Well I had my blood pressure taken Last wednesday and again yesterday. Last Wednesday's reading was 110/62 and yesterday's was 110/60. Eating the right foods and exercise is what it's built up to be. Take it from the old Fat Man who weighed in at 280 pounds this morning, that's 22 pounds lighter than I was just 21 days ago. Quiting Smoking December 18, 2007 has helped some too, I'm sure. Keep on Walkin'.

Fat Man

New Treadmill

Well the old Fat Man done his 90 minutes last night and walked 5 miles. Still on track to do 100 miles this month believe it or not. I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a $1500.00 treadmill and not get my $1500.00 worth of use out of it. Back down the 20 pounds again now too. 282 pounds and dropping. Started at 302 pounds on the 3rd of January 2008. So 20 pounds in 20 days I guess isn't too bad.

Fat Man

Fat Man Quit Smoking Too?

Oh yeah, something I forgot to mention in my post yesterday. As if the walking and the weight loss wasn't enough of a shocker, I also quit smoking on December 18, 2007. So it's been a month and a few days now since a cigarette. "Smoking is a Crime, Punishable by DEATH". Here is a really great web site that helped me out with that: Why Quit. Also a great web site that I have been using to track my calories and weight changes is Prevention.com, worth checking out. Well no walking yesterday, it was my day off. I take one day a week off from all exercise to give my muscles time to air out sort of speak. So tonight after work will be a 90 minute session on the treadmill. C-yall....keep on walkin'.

Fat Man

WOW Good News Finally!!!

The fat man has done it. He has gotten up off the recliner and started walking. Here is the scoop. On January 2, 2008 my wife and I went and bought a Horizone T6 treadmill from Fitness for All and a Biggest loser scale from Wal-Mart. I weighed in that day at 302 pounds. Time to get my ass in gear. Here it is 19 days later and I have changed all my eating habits and starting walking daily. I am no longer starting my morning with a dozen donuts. I am starting my day now with a healthy bowl of cereal or oatmeal. My eating habits throughout the day have changed drastically. My snacks are now fresh fruit, nuts and raisins. My lunch and diner meals are always good, Salads, fish, vegetables, turkey, chicken and so forth. I went from intaking about 5000 calories a day to intaking less then 2500 calories every day. I have walked 45 miles on the treadmill so far this month and have set a goal to walk 100 miles this month. So far I am right on track. The best news of all is that I feel good and I now weigh 283.8 pounds today. Friday I was at 282 pounds. My weight had been going down a pound or two every day until this past week. Now it has gone up a couple pounds on two different days. But that's ok, I hope it's just the fact that I am building muscle. Because I have also been going to the gym and working out with weights about every other day. So, YeeHaw, the Fat Man is back Walking.

Go Fat Man Go!!!