1st Wedding Anniversary

My wife and celebrated our first wedding anniversary on 10/2/2012.

I has been a great first year. I wake every day and think about how lucky I am to be in love and to be loved.

She is the greatest thing since sliced bread. She is always thinking and doing things for me and I always try to do the same.

 

Thank for a great year and many more to come.

Losing Weight

I have been working on getting my weight down and what the doctor says is healthy. This is the fourth week an we are doing ok.

My wife found and app call myfitnesspal. There is an iPhone and Android app both are free and this thing is great.

All you do is register on the site and tell it what you want to do. I told it I want to get to 180 lbs from 210 lbs and I want to lose 2 lbs a week. It tells me how many calories I get for the day and all I do is tell it what I am eating. I also tell it when I go run an I get extra calories to eat that day. It keeps track of proteins, fat, vitamins, and calories.

You can look up the food you eat in their large database or you can use the built in barcode scanner and scan the UPC of the food you are eating. This thing is awesome.

Currently I am down to 203 after 4 weeks.

Still Running

My wife and I have been running consistently now for the last 3 months.

We currently use miCoach from Adidas to track our runs. The app is free and there is an app for iPhone and Android.

We are currently at:

Total Hours: 31:27:45

Total Miles: 148.23

Total Calories: 23621

Average Pace: 12:44

Back to Running

Life is so friggin busy. We have been skipping our runs just trying to keep up with life. My step-son got through his small surgery and my wife brought him home today. So now that his emergency is over and he is home safe I decided to go for a run today.

It is simply amazing how good I feel even after a bad run. My time was bad and the distance was only 2 miles, but it felt good.

I need to figure out how to always squeeze in time for a run.

Looks like I need to find my blinky light so that I can do some night runs. My day starts at 4:45 as it is so I can get to work by 6:00.

If anyone has some ideas on getting time squeezed into a full day let me know.

Running for fun

I started running a couple of years ago to lose weight. Now when I started I was about 40lbs over-weight.  I found that while I was feeling better physically, I also gain an inner peace. I felt good on the outside and felt good on the inside so I started running father and farther. After a while it was no big deal for me to log up to 50 miles in a week.

Well I was doing all my running on a tread mill and that was ok, but I started getting bored. So I moved my runs to the outside world. My first problem was keeping track of the miles I was logging, so I started using the Nike+. It worked pretty good for a while and I used on of the built in training programs to help me get ready for my first 1/2 marathon. It was really good for the coaching and if you get some of the Nike+ music mixes from ITunes then the running just gets better. You need an IPod and the Nike+ equipment to get going. If you have an IPod then the Nike+ components will cost you about $59 for the band.  Here is the link to the Nike+ running stuff. The only complaint I had was that it wasn't dead on accurate and the website was a little crappy.

I have switched to a free Android App from Adidas called micoach. It has a great website and great training tools. The best thing is that it uses the GPS in my phone and is super accurate. Now I am no longer running 50 miles a week. I am lucky if we get 15 miles in a week, but we are doing it for some alone time and just to stay active. Here is the link to the Adidas products that go with micoach.

Running or walking is a great way to get some private time with your spouse because the kids usually don't want to go.

I love my wife.