I have really taken seriously my efforts to get my weight to a healthy level. So in the spirit of the post by Jason Calacanis I will start fat blogging. I have taken the position that the more I measure my efforts the more likely I will stick with them. I have taken to wearing a pedometer during my waking hours, as a means of measuring my physical activity. My goal is to take 10,000 steps a day. For me that measures just under 5 miles of walking. I have found that I take on an average weekday 3,000 steps (it varies depending on my meeting schedule). So I seek every day to add steps. I do many things to add steps, her are some examples:

• I park as far as possible from the door a work
• I actually like going to the Mall on weekends
• I park up the street from restaurants
• I take the longer route to meetings

I just try to sneak more steps in when ever possible. I have started to track my steps in a google spreadsheet. I find that seeing my progress increases my determination. I have also started counting my calories, but have not started a food log yet. I work to keep my calorie intake at 1500 on everyday but Saturday (My free day, within reason).

So on the date I started the spreadsheet below I weighed 270 lbs. This is the most I have ever weighed. When I heard the nurse give me the number, I knew right then I was going to make some significant changes. I have not weighed in again, but I will soon. I have used some of the in cell graphing tricks, I like seeing the bar graphs I can quickly see my bad days and my good ones. My ultimate target weight is 185 lbs., so that leaves me 85 lbs. away and I’m going to do it one step at a time.

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