Here are the results. Andrea had a great week. It looks like Weight Watchers is working well. I’m still in the lead but that could change fast. I measure and weigh on Fridays and then on Saturday and Sunday I gain weight so to keep losing I have to actually lose a lot from Sunday to Friday. Jen is going at a nice pace and could sneak up any time. Keep up the good work. Megan doesn’t have as much to lose so even though she has been putting in lots of miles she isn’t losing. Any suggestions for her? As for Jared, Courtney and Mike. Let me know if you don’t plan on participating and I’ll take your names of the chart.

School is getting pretty hectic. I didn’t have time to run last night was up until midnight doing Chemistry homework. I’ll have to go for a run today or tomorrow to get my miles in this week and continue to lose weight. I’m going to start building my endurance up a little more. I can run two miles fairly easily now so I’m going to start running for time. One thing that has worked for me in the past is to run uphill for a specified time and turn around and run downhill the rest of the way. I can do 2 miles in about 16-17 minutes so now I’m going to run uphill for 10 min and turn around and try to make it home in 10 min or less and hopefully I will get further and further each time I run. Then I’ll add 2 min and do that for a while until I can run 30 min. Then the goal will be to get 4 miles in 30 min. That’s about what I was doing at my peak shape. Once I’m there I will have to plan how I’ll improve from there.

A new hobby I’m picking up is something called geocaching. Check out this website. http://www.geocaching.com I’ve done one so far and plan to do more.

Last night I was watching biggest loser and it was the groups first week and they each had lost a ton of weight. The average was over 6% of their total starting weight. If I were to lose weight at the same rate I would have lost 15 lbs in a week! In two weeks I’ve barely lost two pounds. I wonder how long someone can lose so much weight before leveling out. Some of these guys were 350-400 lbs so they have a lot of weight to lose. Those guys had lost around 28 lbs!

Anyway, I wonder if I should have my challenge based on percent of starting weight. That way, the heavier people don’t have an advantage.

Last night I had a intramural flag football game. I only knew one of the guys on the team I’m on and I haven’t played football in years. I played center and got open for a few passes. Unfortunately, only one pass came within reach and I dropped it. The worst part of the evening was that no one else caught any passes either. We got shut out. We had some good excuses though. It was 6 on 7 and we all didn’t know each other. Oh, and our quarterback wasn’t very accurate under pressure.

Now I’m sore all over, I jammed my finger on my dropped pass and I got knocked in the head my the other team. I think my cheek bone is bruised. On a happy note I weighed myself and made some early measurements. Hopefully me doing this early will remind more people to do it themselves before the end of the week.

I lost another 1.5 lbs so far, 1/2″ in the waist, 1/2″ in the chest, 1/2″ in the thigh, and 1/2″ in the bicep. Also, as of last night I have 8 miles. I plan on getting at least 3-4 more.

I hope everyone else is having success too.