Well it has been one week since I outsourced my body. As you may recall, I decided that I did not want to worry about what or what not to eat and what type and how much of exercise to do. I have outsourced that to the wife for three months and she has had this job for one week now.
Last Sunday I weighed myself so that I had a starting point. I plan on weighing myself on each Sunday morning and then reporting that and anything else of interest in a weekly blog (this being the first). In my blog describing this plan, I explained that my original intent was to let the wife control my diet and exercise but she immediately went past that and into thoughts of hair color and eyebrow maintenance. I will break down my thoughts in the following areas each week.
Diet
The wife has been working out for a few months now. In that time she has changed what she has been eating and how she is eating it. Cutting out some bad foods is a given but she has been eating four to five smaller meals per day (approximately 300 calories each) rather than three meals. She immediately converted me to this schedule. I ate a bowl of oatmeal almost every morning with honey and some trail mix on top. I drank a few protein shakes when I worked from home and mostly ate a large apple or bowl of soup when at work. Then there is water. She has me drinking one gallon of water each day. She handed me this quart size glass jar (I think it used to hold tomato juice originally) and I drink four of those per day. It is mildly annoying to have to drink this much water. When you put more water in your body, more water has to come out (and I am not talking about sweating here). Anyway, she swears by this method and since she is calling the shots I drank seven gallons of water over the past week. Other than an allotted two cups of coffee each morning (enjoyed with the wife), water is the only other thing that I drank.
Exercise
Knowing that I was hopelessly out of shape, she took it easy on me the first week. Basically I walk between one and two miles each morning. I accomplish this by taking the dogs for a walk (one at a time) around a 0.6 mile route around the neighborhood. The dogs love it and it has not been the cold that has bothered me as much as the light. Since the days are so short, I need to start my walking before the sunrise or else I will be late getting into the office. I threw in an extra lap or two on our new bikes for good measure but mostly this week I focused on getting my body used to the concept of exercise.
Other
There is not much to mention here. So far the eyebrows are as they were a week ago and my hair color is as well. I tried several times to get to a clothing store over the Christmas break to buy some pants (mine are slightly tight to the point of being uncomfortable) and the wife did suggest that I wait.
Weight
I think I will avoid mentioning my exact weight in this blog but I can tell you that (and even I find this hard to believe) I am down 8.2 lbs. since my January 1 weigh in! I think this number is so high based on the fact that day one was right after a New Year’s Eve evening of eating and drinking things that are not in my diet any longer. The massive amount of water I have been drinking might help here as well. For whatever reason, it is what it is. I hold no expectations that this trend will continue and I imagine next week’s weigh in will give a better assessment of how fast I will be shedding the 40 or so lbs. that I would like to lose.
All in all it was an easy week. I was tempted at times by some of the commercials during the football games but not really since the wife would not let me have them anyway. I have drank only water and coffee this week but I do not really miss soda or even sweet tea (yet). The great thing about this plan of mine is that it doesn’t matter if I want any of these things or not, the wife is in charge of those decisions.
Jon
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