Weight Loss Diary #34: Home Gym Grand Openning - Phase II Plan Started

It's been almost 6 months since I started my weight loss journey -- yeah, time flies!

What a experience for the first 6 months. Majority of the weight loss came in first 3 months (May, June, July). From September, it progressed on a snail pace. I guess that's the stabilization/adjustment phrase. Good news is that October and November didn't show obvious weight gain though exercise load was reduced significantly, plus the one week get-away to Las Vegas with tremendous food temptation. And during this period, we now call it phase ONE, I did a lot of research and study on healthy weight loss and nutrition, and I have experimented and validated the theory. All this, gives me a high level of confidency and foundation to start the phase TWO -- carrying out the weight loss plan once more time to lose the last 10 pounds to reach my ideal weight goal -- 120 pounds!

Phase TWO Plan:
1. Period: Now -- 3/31, that's not an agressive plan at all, about 1 pounds every 2 weeks.
2. Workout: Make good use of the new treadmill at home, squeeze at least 1 hour per day.
3. Diet/Nutrition: Continue to be concious about food intake.
4. Research/Study: Finish Jillian Michaels book - Master Your Metabolism
5. Logistic: Resume the daily recording and monitoring of weight in.

All supports from my blog readers and dear friends are highly appreciated. Will keep you all posted on my progress.

Weight Loss Diary #33: Expecting treadmill...

What I have been doing last week or so?

hehehe... tracking where is my new treadmill...
This is the price I pay for for free shipping -- ground transportation for the 200 lbs giant package to be shipped out from Utah! Finally it will be delivered tomorrow afternoon! :)

Anyway, my plan can soon go live. With the treadmill at home, I can do morning walking without going outside in the cold and in the dark; I can do evening exercise as well and anytime during the day without worry about the snow in the Winter. What a super plan :)

Work has been keeping me quite busy and somewhat stressful -- just another release! But I am seeing end of tunnel now, it soon will come to an end and I can have a break. So, breaking 130 is still the year end goal. 5 more weeks to go!

Weight Loss Diary #32: Treadmill...

Finally, ordered the reebok folding treadmill... researched a lot of reviews, this is a decent and high quality one, at least I hope. It says will take 2-3 weeks for delivery...

Also today I cleaned up the vacant bedroom, put away the crib and moved the guest bed to the corner of the room -- This is going to be my gym room :)

Weight Loss Diary #31: Resume weight loss plan

After one week very nice get-away and one week adjustment back to normal schedule, current weight is 132 lbs.

The encouraging facts are that I can now fit in several pre-pregnance pants; the new appearance after losing 20+ lbs is well praised/complemented by friends and colleagues.

However, winter is approaching, that's the biggest challenge. It is certainly harder to keep up on the exercise plan. I may reward myself a treadmill. Still debating....

Another thing I have learnt is to set realistic goal, so for the remaining 7 weeks of year 2009. My goal is to break 130.

Dear friends, please give me your support and wish me achieve my last 2009 weight loss goal. :)