Time: 6:45 AM
Weight beforehand: 358.6 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 313
Rating: I don't know what the deal is with my intestines, but it seems like it's about once a week that I get some sort of bug or eat something that disagrees with me. I missed yesterday's workout because of it, and today I was unable to keep up the higher speed during the resting periods of the workout. However, I did finish slightly above the 307-308 calorie level from when I first started doing this program, so I guess it's a success overall.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
19 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:30 AM
Weight beforehand: 360 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 327
Rating: I was happy to get a new high calorie burn number for this workout, but my youngest son provided me with an extra workout when I heard him crying (right after my shower, of course), and I found that he had thrown up and had a major blowout in his diaper. Cleanup on aisle everywhere, please! He's a cute kid, though, and was very cheerful in the bath and shower that ensued.
Weight beforehand: 360 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 327
Rating: I was happy to get a new high calorie burn number for this workout, but my youngest son provided me with an extra workout when I heard him crying (right after my shower, of course), and I found that he had thrown up and had a major blowout in his diaper. Cleanup on aisle everywhere, please! He's a cute kid, though, and was very cheerful in the bath and shower that ensued.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
15 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:45 AM
Weight beforehand: 356.4 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 317
Rating: When I first started working out, my legs would be sore all day and into the next, but I slowly got past that part until my legs would be a tad sore after the workout, but that was about it. I've noticed in the past couple of days that my legs feel a lot more sore than I expect, and the soreness lasts into the midmorning, but then it fades. I think that's probably a good sign that the workouts are helping.
Weight beforehand: 356.4 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 317
Rating: When I first started working out, my legs would be sore all day and into the next, but I slowly got past that part until my legs would be a tad sore after the workout, but that was about it. I've noticed in the past couple of days that my legs feel a lot more sore than I expect, and the soreness lasts into the midmorning, but then it fades. I think that's probably a good sign that the workouts are helping.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
14 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:30 AM
Weight beforehand: 358.4 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 321
Rating: As I expected, a large portion of the weight is back. However, the overall trend is still downward. I didn't sleep very well last night, but especially after having missed my workout the day before, I didn't want to miss again if I felt I could do it. I am pleasantly surprised that the calorie count was as high as it was.
Weight beforehand: 358.4 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 321
Rating: As I expected, a large portion of the weight is back. However, the overall trend is still downward. I didn't sleep very well last night, but especially after having missed my workout the day before, I didn't want to miss again if I felt I could do it. I am pleasantly surprised that the calorie count was as high as it was.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A Slowly Learned Lesson
First, my weight today was 354.7 lbs, which is down a tad from yesterday, but that might also be due to the reason that I didn't work out today. Without being overly graphic, I had a stomach issue that kept me in the bathroom most of the morning.
Now, for the lesson that I seem to be slow to learn. That lesson is this: I need to keep my wife's current emotional and physical condition in mind when we talk so I can give a helpful and uplifting response. Let me give some examples of how I am slow to learn this.
In each of our pregnancies, I have known that hormones would wreak havoc on my wife's emotions, but I didn't learn how to take that into account BEFORE I said something from my point of view, at least not until after I had crushed her hopes for understanding with my male point of view on something multiple times in the pregnancy. After she would shut down emotionally for fear of further pain, I would finally clue in that she didn't want my male point of view. She wanted me to understand what she was feeling and thinking and be a comforting listener.
As a related side note, I did pretty much the exact same thing to my sister over the holidays when she was visiting during her pregnancy. Fortunately, my wife knew exactly what was going on and stopped me before I said something I thought would be helpful (but would actually have been just the opposite). Later, as we were getting ready for bed, my wife reminded me that my sister was pregnant, and THEN I understood why she had stopped me, and I completely agreed with it too. I sure am unobservant, or at least very slow to process all of the available clues about a situation before opening my mouth.
Yesterday, I once again realized too late that I was still failing with this lesson. As some background, my wife is likely having an ovarian cyst getting ready to burst this week, which is both painful and hormone-ful. Yesterday, pretty much everything she tried to do with the kids and with her business and with her extended family relationships was going wrong and causing even more trouble. Also, as many of you know, my son has Tourette Syndrome, and we were scheduled to finally start our participation in a study on Tourettes after having put the guy off for probably 5 months for one reason or another.
Last night, around 10:00 pm after the study was finished for the day, the kids were finally in bed, and we'd had a small chance to finish our dinner and relax to a favorite show for a little bit, my wife mentioned that she has a fear of some doctor deciding out of the blue that the diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome is wrong for our son. If I had learned this lesson better, I would have recognized that, after an extremely frustrating, tiring, and emotional day, she wanted to share her fear with me and have her feelings comforted. Did I recognize this? Of course not!
My male opinion (and some of my OCD tendencies) kicked right in, and I made sure that she knew how I would approach the situation if it were to happen, and exactly how it wouldn't make any difference to me what it was labeled, and the technical differences in my understanding of syndromes vs root causes, and thank you for letting me finish what I want to say so my OCD will be satisfied, and a few other things that I thought might be pertinent. 10 or 15 minutes later, I finally got around to asking what she had originally wanted to say, and sorry for interrupting.
Yeah, she didn't want to share with me any more. I had ruined her hopes of feeling close to me by sharing her fears and knowing that I cared about them and understood them. I had ruined her chance to finally release some of the tension and stress that had built up over the whole day due to the situations that only she had been able to deal with, and I'd dumped some more on top of her. She had been vulnerable, and I hadn't noticed a bit as I drove the freight train of my thought process over her plea for help.
It's times like these that make me think two main things. 1) I am INCREDIBLY lucky that she still loves me after the many times that this has happened, and 2) I am INCREDIBLY clueless to this lesson. I hope that writing it down will help me to remember it before I speak instead of after.
Now, for the lesson that I seem to be slow to learn. That lesson is this: I need to keep my wife's current emotional and physical condition in mind when we talk so I can give a helpful and uplifting response. Let me give some examples of how I am slow to learn this.
In each of our pregnancies, I have known that hormones would wreak havoc on my wife's emotions, but I didn't learn how to take that into account BEFORE I said something from my point of view, at least not until after I had crushed her hopes for understanding with my male point of view on something multiple times in the pregnancy. After she would shut down emotionally for fear of further pain, I would finally clue in that she didn't want my male point of view. She wanted me to understand what she was feeling and thinking and be a comforting listener.
As a related side note, I did pretty much the exact same thing to my sister over the holidays when she was visiting during her pregnancy. Fortunately, my wife knew exactly what was going on and stopped me before I said something I thought would be helpful (but would actually have been just the opposite). Later, as we were getting ready for bed, my wife reminded me that my sister was pregnant, and THEN I understood why she had stopped me, and I completely agreed with it too. I sure am unobservant, or at least very slow to process all of the available clues about a situation before opening my mouth.
Yesterday, I once again realized too late that I was still failing with this lesson. As some background, my wife is likely having an ovarian cyst getting ready to burst this week, which is both painful and hormone-ful. Yesterday, pretty much everything she tried to do with the kids and with her business and with her extended family relationships was going wrong and causing even more trouble. Also, as many of you know, my son has Tourette Syndrome, and we were scheduled to finally start our participation in a study on Tourettes after having put the guy off for probably 5 months for one reason or another.
Last night, around 10:00 pm after the study was finished for the day, the kids were finally in bed, and we'd had a small chance to finish our dinner and relax to a favorite show for a little bit, my wife mentioned that she has a fear of some doctor deciding out of the blue that the diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome is wrong for our son. If I had learned this lesson better, I would have recognized that, after an extremely frustrating, tiring, and emotional day, she wanted to share her fear with me and have her feelings comforted. Did I recognize this? Of course not!
My male opinion (and some of my OCD tendencies) kicked right in, and I made sure that she knew how I would approach the situation if it were to happen, and exactly how it wouldn't make any difference to me what it was labeled, and the technical differences in my understanding of syndromes vs root causes, and thank you for letting me finish what I want to say so my OCD will be satisfied, and a few other things that I thought might be pertinent. 10 or 15 minutes later, I finally got around to asking what she had originally wanted to say, and sorry for interrupting.
Yeah, she didn't want to share with me any more. I had ruined her hopes of feeling close to me by sharing her fears and knowing that I cared about them and understood them. I had ruined her chance to finally release some of the tension and stress that had built up over the whole day due to the situations that only she had been able to deal with, and I'd dumped some more on top of her. She had been vulnerable, and I hadn't noticed a bit as I drove the freight train of my thought process over her plea for help.
It's times like these that make me think two main things. 1) I am INCREDIBLY lucky that she still loves me after the many times that this has happened, and 2) I am INCREDIBLY clueless to this lesson. I hope that writing it down will help me to remember it before I speak instead of after.
Monday, January 12, 2009
12 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:45 AM
Weight beforehand: 354.9 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 318
Rating: First, that seems like a larger than expected weight drop. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Second, I had an easier time trying to keep my speed higher during the resting periods of the workout, and I was only off my high number of calories burned by 4. Hopefully that's due to improved conditioning and health. If so, maybe I'm burning more calories when I'm not working out too!
Weight beforehand: 354.9 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 318
Rating: First, that seems like a larger than expected weight drop. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Second, I had an easier time trying to keep my speed higher during the resting periods of the workout, and I was only off my high number of calories burned by 4. Hopefully that's due to improved conditioning and health. If so, maybe I'm burning more calories when I'm not working out too!
Friday, January 9, 2009
9 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:30 AM
Weight beforehand: 360.8 lbs
Length: 30 minutes
Program: Shoveling snow
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: n/a
Rating: The neighbor wasn't out with his 4 wheeler, but there was only about 1/2 to 1 inch of snow. It's supposed to get dry but cold soon, though, so I wanted to make sure it didn't turn to ice.
Weight beforehand: 360.8 lbs
Length: 30 minutes
Program: Shoveling snow
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: n/a
Rating: The neighbor wasn't out with his 4 wheeler, but there was only about 1/2 to 1 inch of snow. It's supposed to get dry but cold soon, though, so I wanted to make sure it didn't turn to ice.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
8 January 2008 Workout
Time: 6:45 AM
Weight beforehand: 358.6 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 311
Rating: I was unable to keep up the pace from yesterday, but seeing as how I got a late start due in part to a poor night's sleep, I'm glad that I did a little better than the normal for this program.
Weight beforehand: 358.6 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 311
Rating: I was unable to keep up the pace from yesterday, but seeing as how I got a late start due in part to a poor night's sleep, I'm glad that I did a little better than the normal for this program.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Parenting - The Final Frontier?
We've been having lots of issues with getting our kids to do their chores, be respectful of their mother, and generally be grateful instead of grating. My wife found a book called Have a New Kid by Friday that we have bought and are trying to follow. In essence, it tells us to not be afraid to let the kids fail at small things (being late to school, not getting breakfast, etc) if that is the natural consequence of their actions. Letting them feel the consequences of the real world will help them to understand that people, especially we the parents, will not save them from their choices, so they will have to become responsible for themselves. Of course, you only make them responsible for things that are appropriate for them at their current stage in life.
Well, it sure is hard to do at first. The idea is that the parents can stay calm and let things happen to their kids, but when they do things that irritate you, which is why you bought the book in the first place, it's hard to not get irritated and try to force the issue. It's also hard to know what consequences are coming to the kids for their choices and not try to intervene. In the end, though, I think the book is teaching us as much about what we need to change as parents as it is about what we need to teach our children to change.
Well, it sure is hard to do at first. The idea is that the parents can stay calm and let things happen to their kids, but when they do things that irritate you, which is why you bought the book in the first place, it's hard to not get irritated and try to force the issue. It's also hard to know what consequences are coming to the kids for their choices and not try to intervene. In the end, though, I think the book is teaching us as much about what we need to change as parents as it is about what we need to teach our children to change.
7 January 2008 Workout
Time: 6:25 AM
Weight beforehand: 360.8 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 322
Rating: I worked a little harder during the slower parts of the twist workout, and that seems to have made a big difference in the calories burned. I sure noticed a difference in how tired I was when I finished!
Weight beforehand: 360.8 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 322
Rating: I worked a little harder during the slower parts of the twist workout, and that seems to have made a big difference in the calories burned. I sure noticed a difference in how tired I was when I finished!
Monday, January 5, 2009
5 January 2009 Workout
Time: 6:25 AM
Weight beforehand: 358.9 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 308
Rating: It's good to start getting back to a normal routine, but it's not easy. I enjoyed taking some time off, and I'm glad that I didn't gain weight back while doing so.
Weight beforehand: 358.9 lbs
Length: 15 minutes
Program: TPRU Twist
Elliptical Reported Calories Burned: 308
Rating: It's good to start getting back to a normal routine, but it's not easy. I enjoyed taking some time off, and I'm glad that I didn't gain weight back while doing so.
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