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It’s FitBit time again!

Posted by on January 17, 2012 No comments

This is the Data from a Day walking around Boston

Last year I jumped on the workout/diet train with a vengeance due to my weighing in at close to 200lbs.  I realize that even at 6ft 1in that 200lbs is not terrible, but I was feeling bad and wanted to get down to 180lbs.  A friend of mine gave me his old FitBit and I went to town on the workout train.  After using the website and clip for about 6 months I managed to reach my target of 180lbs and went into maintain mode.  That is….until the holidays came around.  This usually feels like the case, I will be good through September and then that last quarter I just fall off the wagon.  Well it’s January and that means it’s time to saddle up and get cracking! (and a few other euphemisms)

Sarah and I both picked up the new FitBit Ultra’s and have been tracking the best we can.  The new ultra has the ability to detect when you go up stairs and will display how many floors you have climbed.  Because of this, I have started climbing the 6 flights of stairs at work, just for fun! (Who climbs stairs for fun!?!?!?!  oh wait, I do!)  We have been careful about what we eat and have even been following some of the teachings in the 4 hour body book by Tim Ferriss.  The goal this time?  Under 180lbs and better toning.  How to go about this?  Monitoring on FitBit, adjusting intake to be under my daily burn, and increase activity.  I rearranged the basement for better use of the workout equipment we have, and plan to make use of the Kinect workout games.  I know that last bit sounds cheesy, but you would be surprised how well it works.

Please feel free to follow my progress on my FitBit profile, and if you have a FitBit, ADD ME!

What are you playing?

Posted by on July 20, 2010 7 comments

I have been thinking of trying to get a weekly post up of what I am playing and maybe put it out to see what you guys are playing as well. I have seen a lot of sites do this to get a good discussion going and maybe get some ideas about a game I wouldn’t normally pick up.  So, seeing as how I am the only one here, I’ll go first.

The past week or two I have been working on some house type stuff and reconfiguring things on my network.  After picking up the new Xbox 360S (I traded in my old 20gb Xbox) I decided to upgrade my router to a Wireless N to use the new Xbox’s N device.  I bought the Belkin Play Dual Band Wireless N router and replaced my crappy Netgear G.  Long story made short, I can’t stream media from my PC to the xbox anymore and have no idea why.  While I am not a hard core network guy, I still know my way around a subnet and have spent the past 2 weeks tweaking and such to figure this out.  It’s kind of a pain.

Outside of that I have been playing some Lego Harry Potter with Sarah.  It’s one of those games where we pretty much only play together.  I believe we are towards the end of Book 3 right now.  the Quick review on it, it’s a Lego game.  Same basic premise and humor.  That’s not a bad thing, because I love the Lego games.  Aside from that I have picked up Risk: Factions from the Xbox Live Arcade.  They found a way to really make a Risk game fun for everyone!  We have played as a family, as well as through the solo campaign.  Enjoyable all around.  May have more of a full review on it up soon.

In the life department, I also picked up an Elliptical machine and am using it to get back into some sort of shape that’s not “round”.  My hope is to turn some of this belly fat into muscle in time for DragonCon at the beginning of September.  We’ll See, as of this morning I was at 192lb.  My target is Around 175lb but I would be happy with a strong 180-185lbs.  The goal is not so much loss but re-distribution.  Wish me luck!