Starting weight: 342.0
Previous Weight: 330.5
Current Weight: 324.0

I think I had a lot of focus on my calorie burn rate vs calories consumed this week. Also, using my new CORE Armband from Body Media, I’ve been able to get accurate information on my burn rate and activity monitoring, so that I can then make smart decisions on my consumption. I’ve been wearing it for a little over two weeks now, and I must say that it provides some great information to review and it helps feed the competitive side of me (trying to out-do yesterday’s step count, burn rate, etc).
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Life had a bit of catching up to me this week, and I’ve wanted to be sure I keep active where possible and not allow other things (like “I have to do a blog entry tonight!”) as an excuse to reprioritize the now and sabotage the future.

Some examples of things that I got caught up in this week:

• Cub Scout Camp (Fri through Sunday) – Provided a huge opportunity to integrate activity with some awesome fun with my son.  I target a 4,000 calorie burn target each day, while also averaging about 6-7,000 steps daily.  On Saturday alone, I burned little over 5,200 calories and took 17,930 steps throughout the day.  This was primarily due to walking to everything on campus, and consistently volunteering to be the “go-to” guy for things
• Baseball Coaching – Got an opportunity this week to coach a game and spent about 2 hours at a high-energy level, running on and off the field, etc and helped burn enough calories that equated to a half-hour on the treadmill (and it was much more fun, to boot).
• Mowing the lawn – Sure, I sat on my duff (tractor) for most of it, but I opted to put off a whole lot more to do with the push mower and even more to the trimmer than I normally do.