200 Pound Quest

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – The Week in Review

My quest to lose 200 pounds is now 14 weeks old!  In this post I will recap my week 14 accomplishments.

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Weigh In

Starting Weight: 396.4

Week 1 Weight: 393.0

Week 2 Weight: 390.4

Week 3 Weight: 388.6

Week 4 Weight: 388.0

Week 5 Weight: 387.2

Week 6 Weight: 387.8

Week 7 Weight: 383.6

Week 8 Weight: 382.6

Week 9 Weight: 383.8

Week 10 Weight: 380.4

Week 11 Weight: 380.8

Week 12 Weight: 378.2

Week 13 Weight: 375.6

Week 14 Weight: 375.4

Week 14 Loss: .2 pounds

Total Weight Lost: 20.6 pounds

Percentage of Starting Weight Lost: 5.20%

Starting BMI: 68.0

Current BMI: 64.5

Short Term Goal: Due 5/21/2013

Long Term Goal: Due 9/26/14

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Measurements

Measurements – 2/10/2013:

waist: 60.25

thigh: 33.5

upper arm: 17.5

hip: 68

Measurements – 3/12/2013:

waist: 60 (down .25)

thigh: 32 (down 1.5)

upper arm: 17 (down .5)

hip: 67 (down 1)

Measurements – 4/16/2013:

waist: 58 (down 2)

thigh: 31.5 (down .5)

upper arm: 16.25 (down .75)

hips: 65 (down 2)

Total Inches Lost:

waist: 2.25″

thigh: 2″

upper arm: 1.25″

hips: 3″

Next update: (5/20/13)

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Bodymedia Fit Link Stats

My week 14 BodyMedia – FIT LINK Armband results show the following daily averages:

Average Calories Burned:  3092  (up 145 )

Average Calories Consumed: 2040 (down 317)

Average Deficit: 1052 (up 462)

Average Physical Activity: 16 minutes  (up 8 minutes)

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout Achievements

gamertag: Joystickenvy

In week 14 I completed the following goals:

1. Participate in online communities at least 3 days
2. Completed week 3 of  The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout 12 week program
3. Ate at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day for at least 5 days
4. Walked an extra 575 steps at least 5 days
5. Finished the book This Is Why You’re Fat (and How to Get Thin Forever) by Jackie Warner.

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Walk to Rivendell

Here’s my progress on the Walk to Rivendell:

Week 1:

You have walked 5.2 miles.
You have passed Bywater.
It is 1.8 miles to the next landmark.
You have 452.8 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total: 5.2 miles

Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The conversation in The Green Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of Frodo’s fiftieth year, showed that even in the comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them.

Week 2:

You have walked 20.4 miles.
You have passed Green Hill Country.
It is 6.6 miles to the next landmark.
You have 437.6 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total:: 15.2 miles

After some time they crossed the Water, west of Hobbiton, by a narrow plank-bridge. The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in the Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country.

Week 3:

You have walked 34.8 miles.
You have passed Black Rider Stopping Place.
It is 11.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 423.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. There they lay flat. Frodo hesitated for a second: curiosity or some other feeling was struggling with his desire to hide. The sound of hoofs drew nearer. Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots.

Weekly Total: 14.4 miles

Week 4:

You have walked 52.1 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 13.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 405.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total:: 17.3 miles

Week 5:
You have walked 65 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 393 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total: 13.9 miles.

Week 6:

You have walked 79.6 miles.
You have passed The Bonfire Glade.
It is 18.4 miles to the next landmark.
You have 378.4 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘I don’t know what stories you mean,’ Merry answered. ‘If you mean the old bogey-stories Fatty’s nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I don’t believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don’t do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made.’

Weekly Total: 14.6 miles

Week 7:

You have walked 98.9 miles.
You have passed The Bald Hill in the Old Forest.
It is 11.1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 359.1 miles to reach Rivendell.

The hobbits led their ponies up, winding round and round until they reached the top. There they stood and gazed about them. The air was gleaming and sunlit, but hazy; and they could not see to any great distance. Near at hand the mist was now almost gone; though here and there it lay in hollows of the wood, and to the south of them, out of a deep fold cutting right across the Forest, the fog still rose like steam or wisps of white smoke.

Weekly Total: 19.3 miles

Week 8:

You have walked 113.8 miles.
You have passed Old Man Willow.
It is 1.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 344.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

After stumbling along for some way along the stream, they came quite suddenly out of the gloom. As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high steep bank, almost a cliff. At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. A golden afternoon of late sunshine lay warm and drowsy upon the hidden land between. In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking.

Weekly Total: 14.9 miles

Week 9:

Weekly Total: 12.7 miles

Week 9:

You have walked 137.1 miles.
You have passed The Barrow-Downs.
It is 6.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 320.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. Sheep were bleating in flocks. Green walls and white walls rose. There were fortresses on the heights. Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. Sheep walked for a while biting the grass, but soon the hills were empty again. A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind.’ Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight.

Weekly Total: 10.6 miles

Week 10:

You have walked 152.1 miles.
You have passed Bree.
It is 11.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 305.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. Besides Bree itself, there was Staddle on the other side of the hill, Combe in a deep valley a little further eastward, and Archet on the edge of the Chetwood. Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad.

Weekly Total: 15 miles

Walk with me!

200 Pound Quest – Week 14 – Summary

Had a good week.  Stayed in my calorie range and hit my burn goal.  I finished reading This Is Why You’re Fat (and How to Get Thin Forever) by Jackie Warner.  I don’t think I’ll be adding anything from that book into my program, but I will write a review for the blog when I have time.

I have decided that I’m ready to incorporate a strength training program into my routine.  I think I still have some books on the subject and there are some websites I want to check out as well.  I don’t really want to invest in additional equipment, so I’ll be looking for something I can do with my existing set of adjustable dumb bells.

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – The Week in Review

My quest to lose 200 pounds is now 13 weeks old!  In this post I will recap my week 13 accomplishments.

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Weigh In

Starting Weight: 396.4

Week 1 Weight: 393.0

Week 2 Weight: 390.4

Week 3 Weight: 388.6

Week 4 Weight: 388.0

Week 5 Weight: 387.2

Week 6 Weight: 387.8

Week 7 Weight: 383.6

Week 8 Weight: 382.6

Week 9 Weight: 383.8

Week 10 Weight: 380.4

Week 11 Weight: 380.8

Week 12 Weight: 378.2

Week 13 Weight: 375.6

Week 13 Loss: 2.6 pounds

Total Weight Lost: 20.4 pounds

Percentage of Starting Weight Lost: 5.15%

Starting BMI: 68.0

Current BMI: 64.5

Short Term Goal: Due 5/21/2013

Long Term Goal: Due 9/26/14

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Measurements

Measurements – 2/10/2013:

waist: 60.25

thigh: 33.5

upper arm: 17.5

Measurements – 3/12/2013:

waist: 60 (down .25)

thigh: 32 (down 1.5)

upper arm: 17 (down .5)

Next update: (4/16/13)

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Bodymedia Fit Link Stats

My week 13 BodyMedia – FIT LINK Armband results show the following daily averages:

Average Calories Burned:  2947 (down 189)

Average Calories Consumed: 2357 (up 77)

Average Deficit: 590 (down 266)

Average Physical Activity: 8 minutes  (down 6 minutes)

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout Achievements

gamertag: Joystickenvy

TBL: Contestant

Achieve a Fit Score greater than 5000

5 UNLOCKED ON 4/6/2013

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Rewards

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200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Goals

In week 13 I completed the following goals:

1. Lose 1-2 pounds per week
2. Participate in online communities at least 3 days
3. Completed week 2 of  The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout 12 week program
4. Ate at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day for at least 5 days
5. Walked an extra 575 steps at least 5 days
6. Lost 20 total pounds

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Walk to Rivendell

Here’s my progress on the Walk to Rivendell:

Week 1:

You have walked 5.2 miles.
You have passed Bywater.
It is 1.8 miles to the next landmark.
You have 452.8 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total: 5.2 miles

Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The conversation in The Green Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of Frodo’s fiftieth year, showed that even in the comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them.

Week 2:

You have walked 20.4 miles.
You have passed Green Hill Country.
It is 6.6 miles to the next landmark.
You have 437.6 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total:: 15.2 miles

After some time they crossed the Water, west of Hobbiton, by a narrow plank-bridge. The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in the Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country.

Week 3:

You have walked 34.8 miles.
You have passed Black Rider Stopping Place.
It is 11.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 423.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. There they lay flat. Frodo hesitated for a second: curiosity or some other feeling was struggling with his desire to hide. The sound of hoofs drew nearer. Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots.

Weekly Total: 14.4 miles

Week 4:

You have walked 52.1 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 13.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 405.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total:: 17.3 miles

Week 5:
You have walked 65 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 393 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total: 13.9 miles.

Week 6:

You have walked 79.6 miles.
You have passed The Bonfire Glade.
It is 18.4 miles to the next landmark.
You have 378.4 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘I don’t know what stories you mean,’ Merry answered. ‘If you mean the old bogey-stories Fatty’s nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I don’t believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don’t do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made.’

Weekly Total: 14.6 miles

Week 7:

You have walked 98.9 miles.
You have passed The Bald Hill in the Old Forest.
It is 11.1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 359.1 miles to reach Rivendell.

The hobbits led their ponies up, winding round and round until they reached the top. There they stood and gazed about them. The air was gleaming and sunlit, but hazy; and they could not see to any great distance. Near at hand the mist was now almost gone; though here and there it lay in hollows of the wood, and to the south of them, out of a deep fold cutting right across the Forest, the fog still rose like steam or wisps of white smoke.

Weekly Total: 19.3 miles

Week 8:

You have walked 113.8 miles.
You have passed Old Man Willow.
It is 1.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 344.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

After stumbling along for some way along the stream, they came quite suddenly out of the gloom. As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high steep bank, almost a cliff. At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. A golden afternoon of late sunshine lay warm and drowsy upon the hidden land between. In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking.

Weekly Total: 14.9 miles

Week 9:

Weekly Total: 12.7 miles

Week 9:

You have walked 137.1 miles.
You have passed The Barrow-Downs.
It is 6.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 320.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. Sheep were bleating in flocks. Green walls and white walls rose. There were fortresses on the heights. Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. Sheep walked for a while biting the grass, but soon the hills were empty again. A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind.’ Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight.

Weekly Total: 10.6 miles

Walk with me!

200 Pound Quest – Week 13 – Summary

Had a day where I just felt like eating everything in sight and did and I’m not getting as high a calorie burn with The Biggest Loser workouts so far, so my deficit was a bit lower than planned, but it was a good week on the scale and I hit my 20 pounds lost mini-goal!

I rewarded myself with a video game and a new milestone magnet.  I also set a new mini-goal to hit the 30 pounds lost mark by 5/21/13.  I reset my goals in my Bodymedia Fit program to 2 pounds per week loss and adjusted it for my slightly lower average burn.  My new daily goals are to average 3000 calories burned and 2000 consumed for a 1000 per day deficit.

I think this will probably be the last adjustment I will make other than course corrections to my target calorie deficit.  I will continue to slowly add new physical activity to my regimen.

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – The Week in Review

My quest to lose 200 pounds is now 12 weeks old!  In this post I will recap my week 12 accomplishments.

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Weigh In

Starting Weight: 396.4

Week 1 Weight: 393.0

Week 2 Weight: 390.4

Week 3 Weight: 388.6

Week 4 Weight: 388.0

Week 5 Weight: 387.2

Week 6 Weight: 387.8

Week 7 Weight: 383.6

Week 8 Weight: 382.6

Week 9 Weight: 383.8

Week 10 Weight: 380.4

Week 11 Weight: 380.8

Week 12 Weight: 378.2

Week 11 Loss: 2.2 pounds

Total Weight Lost: 17.8 pounds

Short Term Goal: Due 4/02/2013

Long Term Goal: Due 9/26/14

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Measurements

Measurements – 2/10/2013:

waist: 60.25

thigh: 33.5

upper arm: 17.5

Measurements – 3/12/2013:

waist: 60 (down .25)

thigh: 32 (down 1.5)

upper arm: 17 (down .5)

Next update: (4/16/13)

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Bodymedia Fit Link Stats

My week 12 BodyMedia – FIT LINK Armband results show the following daily averages:

Average Calories Burned: 3136 (down 79)

Average Calories Consumed: 2280  (down 2)

Average Deficit: 856 (down 77)

Average Physical Activity: 14 minutes  (down 5 minutes)

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout Achievements

gamertag: Joystickenvy

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Goals

In week 12 I completed the following goals:

1. Lose 1-2 pounds per week
2. Participate in online communities at least 3 days
3. Completed week 1 of  The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout 12 week program
4. Ate at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day for at least 5 days
5. Walked an extra 400 steps at least 5 days

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Walk to Rivendell

Here’s my progress on the Walk to Rivendell:

Week 1:

You have walked 5.2 miles.
You have passed Bywater.
It is 1.8 miles to the next landmark.
You have 452.8 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total: 5.2 miles

Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The conversation in The Green Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of Frodo’s fiftieth year, showed that even in the comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them.

Week 2:

You have walked 20.4 miles.
You have passed Green Hill Country.
It is 6.6 miles to the next landmark.
You have 437.6 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total:: 15.2 miles

After some time they crossed the Water, west of Hobbiton, by a narrow plank-bridge. The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in the Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country.

Week 3:

You have walked 34.8 miles.
You have passed Black Rider Stopping Place.
It is 11.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 423.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. There they lay flat. Frodo hesitated for a second: curiosity or some other feeling was struggling with his desire to hide. The sound of hoofs drew nearer. Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots.

Weekly Total: 14.4 miles

Week 4:

You have walked 52.1 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 13.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 405.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total:: 17.3 miles

Week 5:
You have walked 65 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 393 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total: 13.9 miles.

Week 6:

You have walked 79.6 miles.
You have passed The Bonfire Glade.
It is 18.4 miles to the next landmark.
You have 378.4 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘I don’t know what stories you mean,’ Merry answered. ‘If you mean the old bogey-stories Fatty’s nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I don’t believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don’t do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made.’

Weekly Total: 14.6 miles

Week 7:

You have walked 98.9 miles.
You have passed The Bald Hill in the Old Forest.
It is 11.1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 359.1 miles to reach Rivendell.

The hobbits led their ponies up, winding round and round until they reached the top. There they stood and gazed about them. The air was gleaming and sunlit, but hazy; and they could not see to any great distance. Near at hand the mist was now almost gone; though here and there it lay in hollows of the wood, and to the south of them, out of a deep fold cutting right across the Forest, the fog still rose like steam or wisps of white smoke.

Weekly Total: 19.3 miles

Week 8:

You have walked 113.8 miles.
You have passed Old Man Willow.
It is 1.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 344.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

After stumbling along for some way along the stream, they came quite suddenly out of the gloom. As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high steep bank, almost a cliff. At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. A golden afternoon of late sunshine lay warm and drowsy upon the hidden land between. In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking.

Weekly Total: 14.9 miles

Week 9:

Weekly Total: 12.7 miles

Walk with me!

200 Pound Quest – Week 12 – Summary

I hit my weight loss goal for the week and finished the first week of  The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout.   I missed my 20 pounds lost goal by 2.2 pounds, but hopefully I will reach that milestone in the next week or two.

My daily average steps are now 4325, which is short of the 4500 I was aiming for, but still an improvement over where it was a month ago.  I reset my daily goal to an extra 575 steps with the goal of bringing my daily average up to the 4500 mark a month from now.

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – The Week in Review

My quest to lose 200 pounds is now eleven weeks old!  In this post I will recap my week eleven accomplishments.

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Weigh In

Starting Weight: 396.4

Week 1 Weight: 393.0

Week 2 Weight: 390.4

Week 3 Weight: 388.6

Week 4 Weight: 388.0

Week 5 Weight: 387.2

Week 6 Weight: 387.8

Week 7 Weight: 383.6

Week 8 Weight: 382.6

Week 9 Weight: 383.8

Week 10 Weight: 380.4

Week 11 Weight: 380.8

Week 11 Loss: -.4 pounds

Total Weight Lost: 15.6 pounds

Short Term Goal: Due 4/02/2013

Long Term Goal: Due 9/26/14

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Measurements

Measurements – 2/10/2013:

waist: 60.25

thigh: 33.5

upper arm: 17.5

Measurements – 3/12/2013:

waist: 60 (down .25)

thigh: 32 (down 1.5)

upper arm: 17 (down .5)

Next update: (4/16/13)

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Bodymedia Fit Link Stats

My week 11 BodyMedia – FIT LINK Armband results show the following daily averages:

Average Calories Burned: 3215  (up 110)

Average Calories Consumed: 2282  (down 13)

Average Deficit: 933  (up 123)

Average Physical Activity: 19 minutes  (up 4 minutes)

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – EA Sports Active 2 Achievements

gamertag: Joystickenvy

1. 

   Phase 3 Complete

   Completed all Phase 3 workouts in The 9 Week Program

   50 UNLOCKED ON 3/25/2013

2. 

   10000 Calories

   Burned 10000 Calories

   100 UNLOCKED ON 3/20/2013

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Goals

In week 11 I completed the following goals:

1. Participate in online communities at least 3 days
2. Completed week 9 of  EA SPORTS Active 2 9 week Easy Program
3. Completed EA Sports Active 2 9 week Easy Program
4. Ate at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day for at least 5 days
5. Walked an extra 400 steps at least 5 days

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Rewards

Goal Completed: Complete EA Sports Active 9 Week Program

Reward: 

Kinect Sports: Ultimate Collection – Xbox 360SynopsisStanding on the green, you think about the perfect strokes that brought you to this moment. Your ball lies just a few feet from the hole, but you’re not taking any chances. You crouch down to get a better reading of the green. You position yourself in the correct stance, take a few practice swings and then tap the ball and watch as it rolls slowly toward the hole, pauses on the lip of the cup for a second, and then drops. You switch gears and find yourself staring down a 250-lb. linebacker. The ball snaps and you smash into action, fighting your way toward the end zone. You are the ultimate sports champion. Step up to the plate, the green or the courts with Kinect Sports: Ultimate Collection that includes Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports: Season Two. Try your hand at one of 13 exciting sports, including basketball, soccer, American football, bowling, beach volleyball, table tennis, boxing, golf, tennis, skiing, darts and baseball as you use your body as the controller. Use voice commands to navigate menus, switch clubs on the course with ease, hike the ball in football, call an objection in tennis and more. Keep the games going with bonus content, like night ski runs and additional golf holes, and invite your friends and family to play in Party mode.

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Walk to Rivendell

Here’s my progress on the Walk to Rivendell:

Week 1:

You have walked 5.2 miles.
You have passed Bywater.
It is 1.8 miles to the next landmark.
You have 452.8 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total: 5.2 miles

Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The conversation in The Green Dragon at Bywater, one evening in the spring of Frodo’s fiftieth year, showed that even in the comfortable heart of the Shire rumours had been heard, though most hobbits still laughed at them.

Week 2:

You have walked 20.4 miles.
You have passed Green Hill Country.
It is 6.6 miles to the next landmark.
You have 437.6 miles to reach Rivendell.

Weekly Total:: 15.2 miles

After some time they crossed the Water, west of Hobbiton, by a narrow plank-bridge. The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in the Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country.

Week 3:

You have walked 34.8 miles.
You have passed Black Rider Stopping Place.
It is 11.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 423.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

The other two ran quickly to the left and down into a little hollow not far from the road. There they lay flat. Frodo hesitated for a second: curiosity or some other feeling was struggling with his desire to hide. The sound of hoofs drew nearer. Just in time he threw himself down in a patch of long grass behind a tree that overshadowed the road. Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots.

Weekly Total: 14.4 miles

Week 4:

You have walked 52.1 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 13.9 miles to the next landmark.
You have 405.9 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total:: 17.3 miles

Week 5:
You have walked 65 miles.
You have passed Stock.
It is 1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 393 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘All right!’ said Pippin. ‘I will follow you into every bog and ditch. But it is hard! I had counted on passing the Golden Perch at Stock before sundown. The best beer in the Eastfarthing, or used to be: it is a long time since I tasted it.’

Weekly Total: 13.9 miles.

Week 6:

You have walked 79.6 miles.
You have passed The Bonfire Glade.
It is 18.4 miles to the next landmark.
You have 378.4 miles to reach Rivendell.

‘I don’t know what stories you mean,’ Merry answered. ‘If you mean the old bogey-stories Fatty’s nurses used to tell him, about goblins and wolves and things of that sort, I should say no. At any rate I don’t believe them. But the Forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on, so to speak, than things are in the Shire. And the trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don’t do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so I am told. I have only once or twice been in here after dark, and then only near the hedge. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in. In fact long ago they attacked the Hedge: they came and planted themselves right by it, and leaned over it. But the hobbits came and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest, and burned all the ground in a long strip east of the Hedge. After that the trees gave up the attack, but they became very unfriendly. There is still a wide bare space not far inside where the bonfire was made.’

Weekly Total: 14.6 miles

Week 7:

You have walked 98.9 miles.
You have passed The Bald Hill in the Old Forest.
It is 11.1 miles to the next landmark.
You have 359.1 miles to reach Rivendell.

The hobbits led their ponies up, winding round and round until they reached the top. There they stood and gazed about them. The air was gleaming and sunlit, but hazy; and they could not see to any great distance. Near at hand the mist was now almost gone; though here and there it lay in hollows of the wood, and to the south of them, out of a deep fold cutting right across the Forest, the fog still rose like steam or wisps of white smoke.

Weekly Total: 19.3 miles

Week 8:

You have walked 113.8 miles.
You have passed Old Man Willow.
It is 1.2 miles to the next landmark.
You have 344.2 miles to reach Rivendell.

After stumbling along for some way along the stream, they came quite suddenly out of the gloom. As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high steep bank, almost a cliff. At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the distance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. A golden afternoon of late sunshine lay warm and drowsy upon the hidden land between. In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking.

Weekly Total: 14.9 miles

Walk with me!

200 Pound Quest – Week 11 – Summary

I’m consistently getting my extra 400 steps a day in now.  I finished the 9 week easy program in EA Sports Active 2.0. To add some variety to my workout routine, I will be rotating in a 12 week program in The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout Kinect game.  I’m feeling great and hitting my targets.   The scale went the wrong way, but Uncle TOM is due to arrive in town any day now, so that’s to be expected.

I decided to choose another Kinect game as my reward for completing the EA Sports Active program, so I can add more fun ways to get active to my routine.