Weighing In - Day 50

Today's Fitness Tip: When exercising, a good target for the average person is 30 minutes per day. However, it is definitely possible that dedicating an entire 30 minute block during your day may be more than your schedule can handle. If that is the case, it can be broken up. Exercise is most efficient when done for at least 10 minutes at a time. That means that, if you can't do all your work out at one time, try to break it into three 10 minute blocks of time throughout the day. This will allow you more flexibility in your schedule while still maintaining the exercise you require.

Current Goal Weight: 194.2#
Current Goal BMI: 26.31
Current Goal Deadline: July 20, 2008

Today's Weight: 197.5 # (-1.4 #)
Today's BMI: 26.76 (-0.17)

Yesterday's Caloric Intake: 1388.65
Breakfast: 549.4 calories - Jack in the Box

• Breakfast Jack - 290.4 calories
• Hash Browns - 228.8 calories
• Ketchup Packet (x2) - 20.2 calories
• Small Tea (x2) - 10 calories

Lunch: 420 calories - KFC

• Oven Roasted Twister - 420 calories
• Water - 0 calories

Dinner: 419.25 - Jason's Deli Leftovers

• 1/2 Chicken Panini - 419.25 calories
• Iced Tea - 0 calories

Yesterday's Exercise Time: 46 minutes (38 minutes aerobics, 6 minutes yoga, 2 minutes strength training)

Yesterday Post-Assessment:
Yesterday my performance was much better both in terms of diet and exercise. However, I do believe it could have been improved slightly.

I feel that I could have improved my breakfast by having a cup of fresh fruit instead of hash browns. While it costs an extra $1.30, it would have cut 164 calories from my breakfast, making it only 385.4. The sandwich, at only 290.4 calories, is a perfectly reasonable breakfast option.

Lunch could also have been improved, though in itself it was still quite a reasonable number of calories. However, if I had had my Oven Roasted Twister without sauce, the calories could have decreased substantially. I also could have opted for either the Tender Roast Sandwich without sauce or the Roasted Caesar salad without dressing and croutons, both of which would have decreased calorie intake by at least 90 calories.

Dinner, I believe I did rather well. It was the lowest calorie count of the day, as dinner should be. In the future, however, I could probably remove some calories from that sandwich be having the provolone removed. Unfortunately, I could not find calorie values for the components of this product and cannot say exactly how much of a decrease I would ultimately receive.

My exercise regime went rather well. Doing a little more than a half hour of aerobic exercise should be quite good for assisting me to lose weight. The yoga ultimately made a good warm-up, helping me mentally and physically prepare for running and other more strenuous aerobic exercise.

In summary, I have lost 1.4 pounds since yesterday, which caused a BMI decrease of .17 relative to yesterday's results. This means I would have to lose 3.3 pounds amounting to a decrease of .45 BMI in order to meet my goal by the deadline. Today's results have made me think that it could be possible, if I can stick to a good diet and exercise, to meet my goal within the next 11 days. It will be hard, especially knowing that I will also have class beginning this week, but I am optimistic regarding my potential.