weight loss journey

Hello world,
Last time I wrote my first ever blog titled "My fight to lose weight". Since I am doing okay losing weight, I have decided to sort of update how i am doing by writing more weight loss blogs.

As I mentioned in the previous blog, I weighed in at 207 lbs on July the 7th. So, its been a month already and I am glad I stuck to my plan of daily exercise and eating less and better. I have worked out almost 5 days weeks and cooked my food all thru the one month period. I think the results are not that bad. I weighed in at 196.5 pounds last night. yes, a weight loss of 10 pounds in a month.

I have been reading a lot of web sites associated with dieting, losing weight. Most of them say losing 1-3 pounds a week is good for the body than loosing a lot by over exercising and eating really small portions of food. But there are times I felt like I should be doing more to lose weight quickly or I get bored doing the same thing over and over again like running between 2.5-3.0 miles and crunches. But I am really satisfied overall with my progress so far and I plan to lose more in the next couple of months.

I got really excited yesterday to see my weight at 196.5 and at 195.5 after working out. The day before I weighed in at 199.5. That means I have lost 3 lbs in one day. I felt really excited but had my own doubts if the scale was working ok. My regimen got more enjoyable since the last couple of days as I started swimming before leaving the fitness center. This helped me relax in the pool and also burn more calories at the same time. I would like to swim 10-15 laps at least but right now I get really tired with just 5 laps.

The target weight for a male 5' 8" tall is 154 and high is 171. Right now, I weigh 196 lbs. I am 25 lbs overweight today even after loosing 11 lbs in a month. I do not think I want to be at 154 because that would be losing 50 lbs which is very tough and very lean for my body type. If I can get to 171 with a good muscle definition that would be a dream, but I would be really happy If I can reach my target weight I set in my mind on New years, which is good round number 180.

I have 16 pounds to burn now.........................................................