For weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network this week checkout these posts:

• How do you know if you’re properly hydrated? Journal of Healthy Living posts for Proper Hydration: Clear Urine Is Best.
• Fat Man Unleashed asks Why Are We Fatter Than the Animals at the Zoo?
• A Little Help – Best Way To Cook Chicken by NCN asks for a recipe for a healthy and delicious way to cook chicken. Got one? Send it in!
• Lazy Man and Health blogs Are You Eating Enough of These 9 Diet Foods?
• The Myth of Moderate Exercise by Get Fit Slowly exposes fact from fiction.

If you’re not finished yet, check out these readings from those that linked or commented to me in the last week:

• Over at Quick to Fit Weight training is good for your health! And better still you can do it even if you don’t want to bulk up.
• You know what I always like to read? MizFitOnline’s Guest Chef Time: Thinking Thin style. I always need recipes.
• Healthy Habits write Super Carbs!!! – Obesity Research Update #5.
• Coffee? Coffee! Check out Spunkysuzi’s new find.
• A run with a podcast over at Andrew is getting fit, is an excellent idea. Instead of music, listen to your favorite podcasts!
• If you need a motive to stay fit, or even if you don’t, try something like Run Bulldog Run is doing and run for money. Help out local students go to college. See Memorial Scholarship 5k for more.
• Runner Girl’s “Detox” Update is a personal look at diet detox. Is a Diet Detox Right For You?
• Are you looking for smoothie recipes? Read Fantastic Fast Food Recipes: The Smooth Fad of Smoothies at Healthy New Age Blog for some delicious sounding recipes.
• Be Naturally Fit asks have you ever had to Pay for Slip ups?

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This week, I want to be consistent.

I want to focus on getting enough sleep, getting enough exercise, and eating (just) enough calories.

I also plan to get back to my blogging, daily.  I’ve really missed writing.

This week’s goals -

Go to gym FOUR TIMES.

Eat less than 1800 calories, each day.

Get SEVEN HOURS sleep, each night.

Avoid junk food and empty calories.

Focus on healthy proteins, fruits, and vegetables.

From the Fitness Health Network this week were quite a few good articles in my opinion. Check them out:

• Did you know that One Pound of Fat = 3500 Calories? Journal of Healthy Living explains calorie deficits in relation to weight loss goals.
• Lazy Man and Health is looking into Hotel Friendly Food and not hotel food so much as food you can take on the road with you.
• FatManUnleashed is having a little contest this week. If you like Smoothie King you have until Wednesday the 9th of July to respond with a comment about the Smoothie King Chain or products.
• Walking 45 Minutes – The Ups And Downs by NCN is an interesting look at the mental state of a fellow blogger. Do you feel this way when exercising? How about in other areas of your life- like going to work?
• Nutrition Fitness Life presents Yoga Revisisted. Are you looking for a change of pace from the high intensity exercises? Yoga might just be for you.
• Drinking Water Only: A Month-Long Experiment in Self-Discipline by Get Fit Slowly is about habit breaking. Can you kick the sugar, caffeine, and alcohol addiction?

Now for the rest of blogosphere:

• MizFitOnline brings us a great interview with Tues Tip: Rocco style; from the personal trainer Rocco Castellano.
• How do you fight cravings? In Break Me off a Piece… at Weight Down, Money Up explores options such as moderation and learning to just say no. Who knew that simple phrase could do more than protect you from drugs?
• Andrew posts this week on Lessons learned: Exercise is not a dirty word. It really isn’t, but if you don’t believe me this is an excellent post to read.
• After my own scare with dehydration it’s imperative to remember to Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate! Sheamus informs readers that being 2% short on the fluids your body needs can result in a 10-20% loss in your body’s performance for exercise.
• Deflabbify brings us the killer hidden cost of weight-loss programs this week and for those who are looking to join a program might just think twice.
• As it is summer I thought this post from Fit36 was a great read: The Challenges of Living Healthy While on Vacation. What do you and your family do?
• Thinking to Thin brings us Baked Beef Ziti in Recipe Thursday and more… for only 5pts.
• In June Recap Laura from Pursuit of Healthyness examines her routine and life style changes for healthier living. Can you give her any tips?

So, today, I did the level 1 workout for day 2, week 1.  Here’s the chart -

As you can see, I’ll be doing far fewer push ups during each training session, but I feel that I’ll be much better served – in the long run – if I learn to do them correctly.

Here’s a chart detailing my Week 1 routine (chart comes directly from the HundredPushUps site.)

The first two sets of 10 were pretty easy, the set of 8 was more difficult, the set of 6 was excruciating, and the final set of 7 (actually 8 for me) nearly killed me.  But, I did a total of 42 push ups!!!

I’m really excited about being able to do 100 push ups – but I’m much more excited about feeling stronger.

I just finished my initial test and I managed to do 13 push ups! How cool is that. Seriously, I didn’t think that I could do 3 push ups, but I managed to do 13! According to the one hundred push ups page, I’ll start at column three.

So, anybody else out there willing to take the challenge? If so, leave a comment and let me know!

Having over-achieved my goal of 6.5 pounds (the previous goal was set to 6.5 to make up for missing a 5 pound weekly goal several weeks ago.)  I am setting a more modest goal this week of 5.4 pounds.  Why 5.4?    My weight at this weight was 344.4, so if I succeed I will weigh an even 339.  Here’s to a great week in the past and a great week upcoming.

Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will have updated for future weigh ins as well)… Clicking the image will open to a larger image.

I didn’t get a chance to work out as much as I would have liked because of work consideration… I didn’t swim, play volleyball, or golf this week.  I did play basketball twice and go on several walks…  I am going to try and get to the gym for volleyball or basketball 5 times this week, I plan on playing (walking carrying my golf bag) at least 1 round of golf, and I would like to swim more than a few laps.

I plan to continue trying to eat less fat free cheese and more lean protein.  I have been getting my dairy with a double tall non-fat no-foam latte from Starbucks.

I have not tried to stop my intake of caffeine, but my consumption of caffeine is drastically curtailed from where it was.  (I need that morning java and coffee with skim milk just isn’t the same.)

Good luck to all that are working on losing the weight…

Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will have updated for future weigh ins as well)… Clicking the image will open to a larger image.

So if I am to believe my claim that 1.5 pounds is within a normal fluctuation and that I am still maintaining a 5 pound a week average weight loss. Then I need to set my weekly goal for 5 pounds plus the pound and a half that the scale failed to recognize lost in the weigh in. So my goal for next week is to end the week at 350 or to have lost 6.5 pounds for the week.

My plan to accomplish the goal is to stick to the diet, reduce my fat free cheese intake and replace those proteins with more lean meat. My plan to address the lack of a normal movement is to continue to consume a 2 regular servings of sugar free Metamucil.

I had a good week for an exercise perspective… I played almost 2 hours of basketball twice and almost 2 hours of volleyball twice. I went for a short swim and several walks. My plan is about the same for this week, only with more swimming.

In talking with the doctor about my long term goal, he was hesitant to talk about a final weight number. Instead he focused on Body Fat percentage. At this week’s weigh in we did the electroanalysis again and my body fat percentage was 36% (down from 39% when I started). He thought he first goal is to get the BFP below 25% and ideally below 20%. At that point my actual weight is irrelevant. So, even though I have a number in mind for my final weight (230-260), I am now officially making it my goal to get to under a 20% body fat percentage. If I can continue to lose 5 pounds a week I should be able to reach my goal by the end of the year.