Weigh-in Day # 7 : HALFWAYYYY!!!!

Official weight for Monday 10/19/09 : 220
Change from last week : -1

I remember when I was a freshman at Rutgers I lived on a floor that save for one other room was entirely populated with Rutgers football players. Aside from the usual drunken debauchery and the hallway getting trashed with something new each week, I remember these guys walking around yelling out various things in imitation of their coach. One of them was HAAALF-WAAAAY!!! which apparently meant that whatever drill they were suffering through was only halfway over. Well anyway I'm at the halfway point through the 10 pounds, finally dropped one pound after four weeks of no changes.

What was the difference this week? My diet was not that spectacular, I ate and drank rather freely. I even got less exercise than I did the previous week, taking virtually the last three days off. The difference was very plain - SLEEP.

Now this week it was easy for me to get more sleep, I was off the whole week and only had the kids for the first half of it, so the two main downward pressures on my available Z-time were non-existant. But if we look at the average weekly sleep figures since I've been measuring them, you can see the difference :

Week ending	Average hours sleep
10/4/09	6.4 hours
10/11/09	6.5 hours
10/19/09	7.6 hours

So probably the magic number is probably something around 7-7.5 hours of sleep average in order to lose weight, I'll keep you posted as things go on. Went to a 2nd Ani DiFranco concert tonight (Ness is like her #1 Super Fan), much better show than on Friday I thought.

Diet for Monday 10/19/09:
Breakfast

• Fiber One original w/fat-free milk
• 4 oz orange juice w/vitamins
• Big cup of coffee
• two pieces wheat toast w/yogurt spread

Lunch

• Subway foot-long chicken breast on wheat
• 1 bag Baked Lay's potato chips

Bar after the concert

• Two pints (Ness drove home)

Dinner

• Turkey sandwich on wheat w/fat-free cheese

Dessert

• 100 calorie cup of Jello chocolate pudding

Exercise for Monday 10/19/09:

• 5 min warmup @ 3.5 mph
• 10 min stretching
• 30 minute hard run on treadmill
  • 15 min @ 8 mph
  • 10 min @ 7 mph
  • 5 min @ 6 mph
• 5 min cool down - 1 min each @ 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5 and 3 mph

Sleep for Monday 10/19/09:

• 7 hours