Week 16 Weigh-In

Oh, what a night.

Those of you that know me personally know that I weigh myself practically every day, but I only post my weight on the blog on my weigh-in days.  It's a good thing, too, because today, I have two different weights to report.

Let me explain a bit.

I stayed at 229.3 for a few days after Monday until I hit 228.0 on Friday.  Sunday morning randomly saw me hit 226.2, which was extremely exciting.  33.8 pounds down from my starting weight?  Hell yes!  Meanwhile, my lovely girlfriend had a stomach bug, which I ended up catching.  After spending the wee hours of the morning (actually about 4 am to 9 am) experiencing the symptoms of said bug (I won't go into them here, but they involve the words 'simultaneous' and 'bucket'), I figured I'd weigh myself as a laugh.

220.9.

So, officially, I'm going to go with 226.2.  But that 220.9 isn't too far off from gaining legitimately.  I ache all over, especially my triceps, so it's a good thing I did 22 burpees last night after midnight but before getting hit with the deathbug.  50 more to do today that I won't get to - I just hope I feel well enough to do the required 123 tomorrow.  I really don't want to be staring at Wednesday with 197 of the damn things to knock out.  This is not a time to not be doing them.

Let's see where the week takes us.

Week 15 Weigh-In

Well, 14 weeks down and 2,100 burpees under my belt. Today is the start of week 15 and Day 65 of the burpee challenge. So where am I?

Happily I cracked the 30 pound mark. I'm down 30.7 pounds now, but woke up late and am currently at work, posting from my phone. In other words, I will probably be burpeeless until midnight. Oh, the horror...

Day 60

You know, when I started this thing back in February, I didn't think the 100 day challenge would be difficult. After all, you can break them up however you want.

Oh dear, was I wrong. Let me just say that this is ridiculously awful. I've wanted to quit every day since the 40 day mark. But I've come too far to quit.

Week 14 Weigh In

Well, I seem to be losing about 0.4 pounds a week now. Down to 230.6, which is nicely close to the 30 pound mark, but damn, I want it to hurry up. Haven't lost any of my stomach, and likely won't, until after the burpees are over and I can start running or something.

Also, I tried to do 40 burpees this morning, with 4 sets of 10, about 5 minutes apart. After two sets, my shoulders pretty much have given up. Yesterday was terrible, but I'm not behind. 38 more to go today!

Uh oh.

So I missed Day 56. I did a total of 1 burpee. So today, day 57, will require 112 of them.

Yikes.

Week 13 Weigh-In

Another Monday, another day to Weigh-In. I'm not too terribly excited about the progress, as I've only come down to 231.3, but progress is progress nontheless. My gut doesn't measure any smaller, but it certainly looks smaller than it did a few weeks ago even at the same measurement. Go figure. I've crossed the 50 day mark in Burpees, and today being day 51, I've already knocked out 31 of them, which is a pretty big accomplishment for me. I've come this far, so I can't quit now.

Hoping to finally get over the 30 pounds lost hump by this time next week!

Day 44, the Outlook of April, and Weigh-In

I thought all too late of including an April Fool's post. Perhaps next year. Too bad.

Anyway, today is the start of Week 12, for those of you keeping score at home, and that means a Weigh-In. Last week I had lost a total of less than a pound over the course of the week, but Week 11 was much kinder to me. I'm down to 231.9, which is 28.1 pounds from where I started. Pretty happy about that one.

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, but we need to look forward throughout the month of April and our terrible, terrible burpees. The breakdown is thus:

	April
Date	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Day	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
Total	946	990	1035	1081	1128	1176	1225	1275	1326	1378
Date	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Day	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62
Total	1431	1485	1540	1596	1653	1711	1770	1830	1891	1953
Date	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Day	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72
Total	2016	2080	2145	2211	2278	2346	2415	2485	2556	2628

In other words, at the end of today, since my total is 17 over what it should be, I'll cross the 1,000 burpee mark. All while at work, most likely. That's okay - I don't think they can think I'm any crazier than they do already. Looking through the month, though, does make you pause an realize how difficult April is going to be. We're crossing the halfway point pretty early in, and from there we're doing 50 or 60 every day.

Yikes.

Day 43

During burpees today, I was reminded of a quote. But now my arms are too damn sore to remember what it is.