An Update after eternity

I am done with Phase 2 of the 20-20 program. During phase 2, my minimum weight was 145.8. My exit weight was 147. In the last 2 months, my weight has been with 2.5 lbs of 147.

I have a red-line number of 152. If ever, I touch 152, I will take drastic steps to get back into the ideal weight.

In the past few months, I have started swimming and hiking. I visited Zion and Bryce Canyons in Utah and did some amazing hikes there.

This is Angel’s landing that we climbed.

This is the view from the top (Notice the white bus on the red road – tells you how high we were)

This is in Bryce Canyon – Navajo Trail.

This is Bryce Canyon’s Amphitheater (full of hoodoos).

Well, now that the program has ended and I am about 40 lbs lighter than when I started. I am eating just about everything. In fact, I have been pigging out. There were a couple of weeks when work was too much and I could not even work-out. But, I have been keeping up with my steps and averaging more than 10,000 steps a day. That NEAT (Non-exercise activity thermogenesis) has helped me maintain my weight. In the end of the program, I started training with free weights. I now have a new ward-robe.

While I happy about the weight loss, I am a bit sad that I let my work take over my life in the past few weeks. I am reading a few books to help me out on that.

New Goals!

I have decided to set a few more goals for myself

1. Do a 60-mi bicycle ride around Lake Washington in the next 2 months
2. Lose some more weight and reach 140lbs in the next 3 months. Then, I want to maintain that weight for the foreseeable future.
3. Learn and practice some form of meditation. Read a great book on Zen – Loved it!

More in next. I plan to start posting more frequently again.