Weigh it in...

It's been awhile since I last talked about my weight. For 2 yer now, I have had the liberty to be able to exercise before and sometimes after work. My routine consisted mostly of walking and cardio dance workouts. Then in the last couple of months, I reintroduced weight lifting (my absolute love). I counted my calories and some days/weeks I did good. But some days/weeks/weekends I did the absolute worst. But I had my balance and always managed to get back on some track.

However, with a new job comes new challenges.

I am up at 6:45 every morning. I am traveling to work anywhere from 8:10 to 9:50. I am at a desk from 10am to 6pm sometimes 6:30pm. Then comes the commute home. By 7:30pm, I am usually home and heading for the shower. At 8pm, I am struggling to stay awake and do other tasks like blogging or coding.

Not much exercise going on there. Oh, and did I mention my job is constantly shoving free food down our throats?

So how do I combat this? I find exercise in other places.

• I hop on my exercise bike for ten minutes every morning. No more, no less.
• I walk up the equivalent of 4 flights of stairs in the train stations that I go to while on my way to work (and when I get my barrings, I will add another 2 flights for a total of 6 flights).
• I walk up to the second floor at my job.
• I try to drink a lot of water. It's a long trek to the bathroom so the more I have to go, the more steps I will take.
• After work, instead of taking the train or bus across town to the main train line that I take home, I walk 10 Blocks (8 of those are your long Manhattan blocks) to my train.
• When I get back home, I walk another 4 blocks.

By the time I get back into my apartment I'm at around 8K steps. If I'm not too tired, I will walk in placed for awhile and try to get upwards to 1k more steps. It doesn't always happen.

So how's this doing for my weight?

After being up from the holiday weekend (4th of July), I am happy to say that I am losing weight. From 248 to 245. But the real test will be in a couple of weeks to see if I continue to lose. The weekends are still an overeating fest and there's just so much food given to us at work. I am keeping an eye on my portion sizes but even that could be deceiving.