Week Ten: June 26 - July 3

Well it is hard to believe but when this week ends so will the month of June. I started this whole thing on May 3rd so I will be exactly two months in to this thing. This past week things got back on things got back on track and I lost 1.5 pounds. I am now weighing in at 225.

During the past 2 weeks I completed a challenge of doing a total of 40 kms of exercise. It took me up until the last day to get in that last 3 km but I completed the challenge. A breakdown of all the exercise I did to reach 40 km can be seen in the chart below.

Date	Activity	Distance (km)
June 12	18 holes of golf	5.58
June 13	18 holes of golf	5.58
June 15	Swimming	1.27
June 16	9 hole of golf	2.84
June 17	Swimming	1
June 17	Jogging	5.05
June 20	Swimming	1.32
June 21	18 holes of golf	5.58
June 22	Swimming	1
June 23	9 hole of golf	2.74
June 25	Running	5.14
June 26	Running	3.02
Total		40.12

The new challenge for the next two weeks is a physical one. Over the next 2 weeks I am going to weight train 10 times. Usually I would weight train about 3 times per week so striving for 10 times is a little extra challenging and should hopefully result in some good weight loss numbers.

Well that is it for this week. I am heading to St. John's this wednesday so hopefully that will not throw me too far off track. I am still planning on getting in all of my work outs and will be careful when making my food selections so we will see how things go.

Have a good week and until next week,

With will power, dedication and hard work, no goal is unattainable

Shawn

Week Eight: June 19 - June 26

After a very good week last week as I expected this week was relatively mediocre with a 1 pound lost. I am now weighing in at 226.5. I expected to have a down week this week but I know it was going to be lower than usual when I found out I had a softball tournament all weekend. While playing 2 games of softball per day for 3 days is better than nothing it is not enough to burn serious calories. Also over the past week I didn't have a great diet. Because a lot of the meals I had didn't have left overs for lunch the next day my lunches for the week were not as high in quality as they would usually be.

The 40 km of exercise challenge has been coming along pretty good. As of today I have a total of 29.22 km completed with 4 days left. If I play golf tomorrow and go for a couple more runs this week I should get my 40 km without too much trouble. It is not time to start thinking of another challenge to begin this coming saturday. Maybe a 2 week weight loss goal is in the plans. Next wednesday I am going to St. John's for the weekend so that is a challenge in its own. It is going to be hard to have a good week when taking a trip but I live in St. John's so I am going to have to learn how to do when I am doing in Labrador in St. John's or in that case anywhere.

Well that's about it for this week. Gonna be a quick turn around on the blog this week so there will be another update in a few days. I am going to try to get back to posting on saturdays so that the blog is as up to date a possible.

Have a good week everyone and as usual feedback is encouraged by all.

Thank for reading and remember:

With will power, dedication and hard work, no goal is unattainable

Shawn

Week Seven: June 12 to June 19

This past week was one of the best ones in a while. I weighed in on saturday morning before heading off to the golf course and I had lost 3 pounds this week and weigh 227.5. I now have lost a total of 14 pounds. That puts me at about half way to my end goal of 30 pounds with less than half of my time gone. So thus far I have been able to keep a good pace.

Over the past 7 days I have been doing something active for 6 of them. This past weekend was especially busy. I played 18 holes of golf on both saturday and sunday as well as doing some good old manuel labour clearing some brush off of a plot of land. There is nothing like working in the sun to burn up some calories.

The water only 2 week challenge is now over and I must say all said and done it was quite successful. Now for a new challenge I had a hard time coming up with one this week. I wanted to do something physical as opposed to the norm of having a diet related challenge. I am thinking that over the next 2 week I am going to try to do 40 km worth of exercise. This would include my golf, swimming and running. For running my Nike + Ipod to track my Kms, for swimming I will just simply count the laps (44 laps in the pool here is 1 Km), and for golf I will total the yards of all the holds and convert it to Km and that will count as my Km for golf. Workouts in the gym will not contribute to the Km total. So as of right now I have 2 rounds of golf under my belt for the next 2 weeks.

Well I guess now that the challenge is set for the next 2 weeks I better get to it. Please feel free to provide me with some feedback.

Have a great week and remember:

With will power, dedication and hard work, no goal is unattainable

Shawn

Week 6: June 5 to June 12

Well another week is in the books and I am 1.5 pounds lighter. It was not exactly the kind of week I was hoping for but I will take it. I would liked to have made it into the 220's but I missed it by half of a pound. I am currently sitting at 230.5 down 11 in total from my original starting point.

I am now in the middle of my "no calories from beverages" challenge and I have to say it has been very difficult. I had been in the habit of having tea in the mornings at work to get me awake and because I usually have creamer in the tea I had to give it up for this past week and the next. The first few days were horrible. I had headaches all the time, my face broke out for the first time in forever. The only drastic change I can contribute this to is this challenge. Aside from the physical effects it is mentally difficult as well. I thought not drinking soda was socially awkward but not drinking anything but water is even worse. I don't know how many times I reached into the fridge during the first couple days and pulled out the carton of milk or bottle of juice before realizing what I was doing. Another thing is that not all foods go good with water. Having water with my breakfast is not the best but I guess I can handle it for one more week. Despite how difficult this challenge has been I have still gotten something from it. I will not be drinking as much juices and what not after this if over. If I am just thirsty and not eating anything there is no reason to waste calories on a glass of juice or milk when water will do the job just fine. Even when eating meals I think I will still try to substitute and have water whenever possible.

This time next week I will be starting a new challenge and like always I am open to any suggestions. I think the next challenge should be something physical since all of the challenges to date have been diet related. So if you would like to suggest a two week challenge to me or submit any feedback in general please do so. You can leave a comment at the bottom of the blog, message me on Facebook or twitter @shawn_green. No one has made a suggestion in a while so I hope you are all still reading. Have a good week.

With will power, dedication and hard work, no goal is unattainable.

Shawn