Now this was a busy week, and as I’ve said before, these present the biggest challenge. Living live and doing the right things to get healthy. Well, there were some days that had my first meal starting with lunch, Some days with a weak step count, but overall, I am still making progress! My weight loss is becoming more and more apparent and I am getting comments from people followed by the question, how are you doing it? My answer is generally eating like a human and getting more active. I’m going to think about a better answer, that can be delivered quickly (not preachy), but with a very positive spin.

You can see, based on the last three weeks, I have more work to do. I like the little frowny face letting me know that this week was not great. Things should be settling down a bit with the house, school and work so I hope to get back to the “pink” levels.

I managed to lose a few pounds this week and continue to move the BMI dot in the right direction. Still working on getting the right mix of food, nutrients and C-F-P ratio.

The nice little bonus I noticed this week is that I was a bit to coarse in setting my latest goal. I was looking to move into obesity class I and thought a BMI score of 34 is what I needed. However, the class starts at 34.9 – so I have achieved this mini-goal! Actually did it last week. I am very happy with that milestone. Very much looking forward to getting out of the obese classification in the coming weeks!

My week 9 Carb-Fat-Protein ratio is: 64% – 14% – 22%. So still a little high on the carbs; I did have a few sandwiches this week. Still looking for a way to get more whole gain goodness without going overboard on “bread carbs”.

In tracking a few nutrition specifics, I’ve been doing pretty well.

Fiber
Recommended: 25mg / day
I’ve been above that for the last 6 weeks (range 27mg – 32mg)

Sodium
Recommended: < 2300mg /. day
Been working to reduce this as much as possible. I’ve had less than 23000mg per day for 7 or the last 8 weeks. Most below the 2000mg level. This is a tough one, especially if you eat out once in a while as not all restaurants provide nutrition information. With that in mind, the lower everywhere else, the better.

Water
Recommended: ~64fl oz / day
This is a huge change for me. I drink water almost exclusively anymore. I will have a decaf coffee every few weeks or a green tea (will try to get more of this when it cools down) and a beer once in a while. But that’s about it. I’ve exceeded the 64fl oz for the last 8 weeks, usually having 100fl oz or more daily.

Sugar
Recommended: < 32g / day (natural sugar outside this value)
This is a tough one, because the recommendation is for sugar that is added to foods and beverages. However, naturally occurring sugar (fruits) is different and not counted the same. I eat a lot of fruit and try to find the best kinds (high fiber, lower sugar), but it still adds up. I consume about 60g per day, but the majority all comes from fruit. I need to look into this a bit more to get a better idea of a reasonable target.

100 Days of Vitamins
One more milestone this week, I have had 100 days of taking a vitamin. I’ve tried to take multi-vitamins in the past and normally had a stomach reaction and have thrown it right back up. I have no idea why this was the case (not a good breakfast, brand?). Before I had my awakening, I picked up a bottle from Target and started taking them with no issue. I have since added an additional vitamin D3 and fish oil supplement to my daily regimen. Clearly this is super important when we consider the type of food that is available today and I’m glad I am back on the vitamin path.

Next Milestone – Weight=200, target date = 12-SEP-2010

This is a mini-milestone, I can’t remember that last time I weighed less than 200lbs.