Welcome to my 10k a day for a Better life

The goal of this blog is really just to talk about how I am doing on the Just Step project through work that is a 10,000 steps a day website and competition that is happening company wide. This came at a great time because both Tasha and I have decided to loose some weight so that we feel better. We came up with the idea just before Memorial day and he goal was to drop 15 pounds. Mine was a bit more loose at the time because I wasn't sure what I wanted or where I wanted to go. After the memorial day holiday I had already lost 10 pounds and felt much better about it so it began.

Tasha is now down about 8 of her goal and because her's was a hard goal to begin with she will get a treat if she makes it all the way and can keep it there. She will probably get her tatoo on her back expanded.

I am down to 225 as of this morning and my goal is to hit 180. I started this quest at 240+ and while 60 pounds is alot to loose it is also a lot that I can loose. I don't expect it to go off really quick and I don't really want it to for fear of putting it back on easily. If I can get there by the first of the year so that I will be a nice comfortable weight for our trip to Florida at Christmas I will be happy.

So far my plan has just been to cut back on the junk food that I have been eating and to eat more but smaller meals during the day. I had been bad about waiting to eat until supper and many times that was even a late meal so I was only eating a single large meal sometime around 6-8 in the evening. Now I kick start myself first thing in the morning and try to keep it going all day. I also have increased my water intake with the goal of 64 ounces while I am at work and then normaly another 64 ounces while I am home in the evening.

Now with the Just Step project I am going to be adding some extra excersize into the mix. This week we get to try it out and see how much we walk normaly but next week we start logging for real. I am interested to see how much I normaly walk in a day so that I know how much I need to add in the future. I know I will have to add some so I expect I will be doing some laps around the building here on the 4th floor to do me some good.

If I can find a way to post a link to my results I will if not I will be posting summaries as they come along.