EverydayQB Challenge: Week Seven Update

Something’s not working. I’ve actually gained back two lbs, so I’ve returned to the 270 benchmark. I’m not sure if it was the news of my wife’s pregnancy that automatically jumped my weight (and probably blood pressure). At any rate, a concentrated effort is needed.

The nice thing about starting this challenge near the beginning of summer is that the opportunities for exercise become more and more numerous. We have located a great park not too far from our house with lots of walking and biking trails and have spent some time there. Its also about time to pull the bikes out and we still have the constant of our athletic club. Perhaps the key to my exercising consistently could be to vary the activities that I am doing and making exercising less of a challenge and more of a pleasure.

Then of course, there’s the eating habits. It seems to get more difficult near the end of the month when food runs out in our house and we catch ourselves eating out more often. Thankfully, many restaurants offer healthy options while eating out. The problem is, I’m one of those guys who likes to order the same thing depending on what restaurant we got to, so I need to change my ‘favorite’ at each restaurant, because my previous ‘favorite’ has not been very kind to me figure.

Any other cross-training advice any of you have would be appreciated. Thanks for you support!