August 17, 2023 A Bit Late Starting This Blog

June 29, 2023 WEIGHT = 216 lbs On June 30, 2023 I wrote the following on Facebook: 57 years old 5"6" tall 216 lbs ... Should have started this blog back then but as it is I will give a "quick" summary of my weighloss to date. On that day I went for my first walk of ~6.7 km 6.7 km walk 12869 steps = 9.7 km July 1, 2023 WEIGHT = 213.2 lbs 6.35 km walk 13318 steps = 10.07 km July 2, 2023 6.23 km walk 15238 steps = 11.51 km July 3, 2023 6.36 km walk 12213 steps = 9.21 km July 4, 2023 6.26 km walk 12345 steps = 9.32 km July 5, 2023 WEIGHT = 211.8 lbs 6.42 km walk 15320 steps = 11.65 km July 6, 2023 6.34 km walk 15776 steps = 11.92 km July 7, 2023 On the advice of a friend (Jenn) I took a day off. 1968 steps = 1.46 km July 8, 2023 6.36 km walk 12013 steps 9.04 km July 9, 2023 WEIGHT = 210.6 lbs 6.38 km walk 1745 steps = 1.28 km ??? July 10, 2023 6.4 km walk 12095 steps = 9.13 km July 11, 2023 WEIGHT = 210.1 lbs NO walk today (NOT sure why) 1496 steps = 1.1 km July 13, 2023 6.5 km walk 11685 steps = 8.82 km July 14, 2023 6.39 km walk 15824 steps = 12.04 km July 15, 2023 6.35 km walk 12654 steps = 9.65 km July 16, 2023 6.37 km walk 13807 steps = 10.54 km July 17, 2023 WEIGHT = 212 lbs 3.66 km walk (shorter than usual - can't remember why??) 15293 steps = 11.46 km July 18, 2023 6.42 km walk 13365 steps = 10.1 km July 19, 2023 6.4 km walk 13485 steps = 10.17 km July 20, 2023 WEIGHT = 209.2 lbs (Down 6.8 lbs from intial weight of 216 lbs) 6.38 km walk 14781 steps = 11.19 km July 21 - July 31 Caribbean Cruise Vacation Please noe that my daily steps were quite high during our vacation however the calories in both food and alcohol consumed far outweighed the calories burnt with activity. I did not weigh once on this vacation but I knew I had undone alll the hard work I had done prior to leaaving. July 21, 2023 9067 steps = 6.78 km July 22, 2023 8934 steps = 6.66 km July 23, 2023 8263 steps = 6.06 km July 24, 2023 3472 steps = 2.57 km July 25, 2023 7721 steps = 5.77 km July 26, 2023 12196 steps = 9.23 km July 27, 2023 7825 step = 6.02 km July 28, 2023 8741 steps = 6.53 km July 29, 2023 8749 steps = 6.58 km July 30, 2023 6885 steps = 5.07 km July 31, 2023 10063 steps = 7.46 km AUGUST 2023 Aug. 1, 2023 WEIGHT = 222.4 lbs (UP 6 lbs from inital weight of 216 lbs and UP 13.2 lbs from my lowest recorded weight on July 20, 2023 of 209.2 lbs) WEIGHT AFTER CRUISE 221 lbs (6 lbs higher than where I had started.) This sickened me but I knew that I har to start up where I left off before we went on vacation. As my wife reminded me we also just returned from a vacation, flew thousands of miles to get home and were both retaining weight due to salt. 6.42 km walk 13940 steps = 10. 58 km Aug. 2, 2023 WEIGHT + 219 lbs 6.32 km walk 11121 steps = 8.47 km Aug. 3, 2023 WEIGHT = 216.8 lbs 6.32 km walk 14455 steps = 10.97 km Aug. 4, 2023 WEIGHT = 213 lbs 6.3 km walk 12763 steps = 9.71 km Aug. 5, 2023 6.38 km walk 11899 steps = 9.05 km Aug. 6, 2023 WEIGHT = 215 lbs 6.29 km walk 10674 steps = 8.13 km Aug. 7, 2023 WEIGHT = 214.8 lbs 6.29 km walk 12420 steps = 9.41 KM Aug. 8, 2023 WEIGHT = 215.6 lbs 6.27 km walk 14541 steps = 11.02 km Aug. 9, 2023 WEIGHT = 211.8 lbs 6.27 km walk 12031 steps = 9.17 km Aug. 10, 2023 6.05 km walk 11960 steps = 9.13 km Aug. 11, 2023 WEIGHT = 211 lbs (Down 11.4 lbs since returning from cruise vacation) 7.78 km walk 14917 steps = 11.35 km Aug. 12, 2023 6.5 km walk 12039 steps = 9.17 km Aug. 13, 2023 (Added upper canyon) 7.98 km walk 14297 steps = 10.88 km Aug. 14, 2023 (added Gallagher loop) 6.35 km walk 11497 steps = 8.76 km Aug. 15, 2023 (added upper canyon and Galagher loop) Unfortunately, this did in my knee which has been causing me trouble since. 8.03 km walk 14819 steps = 11.21 km Aug. 16, 2023 Unknown km walk with Bob and Kim Bailey 13720 steps = 10.48 km Aug. 17, 2023 NO walk today (had to give my knee a rest). 9851 steps today wihtout the walk (mowed the lawn) = 7.36 km Aug. 18, 2023 WEIGHT =