Weekly weigh-in #12: Star Wars Edition

Well, it’s been another busy week around here, but I managed to keep up with both my healthy eating and exercise, so I consider that a victory.

So, why did I title this week’s weigh-in the Star Wars Edition? For one reason or another, Star Wars kept popping up in my life this week. There was Erin’s post on Wookiee Cookies, Steve tweeted about whether you’d rather join the Nerd Fitness Empire or Rebellion (Rebellion, of course!), and last weekend, we went to the Star Wars exhibit currently showing at the Anchorage Museum.

The Star Wars exhibit was pretty sweet. They had lots of actual props from the movies, and a bunch of stuff on the science behind Star Wars. There was even a life-size recreation of the bridge of the Millennium Falcon, but there was a 90 minute wait to get into that, so we passed. I took some photos with my cell phone – I didn’t realize they allowed taking photos, otherwise I would have brought my good camera.

Ok, enough with the Star Wars geek-out, on to the weigh-in!

• Weight: 236.6 lbs
• Pounds lost this week: 3.6
• Pounds lost so far: 43.4
• BMI: 30.37
• Pounds to goal #1 of “overweight” BMI: 3.6
• Pounds to goal #2 of “normal” BMI: 42.6

Another good week for me, though it’s interesting to see that this is the third week in a row that I’ve lost 3.6 pounds. I guess if I’m going to get myself into a rut, this one isn’t so bad It also seems like too much of a coincidence that I have exactly 3.6 pounds to go to reach my first goal!

Challenge Updates

I’ve been working on a few other challenges this week. After today, I’ll have completed week 4 of the 200 situps challenge, which has been going really well so far. I’ve also been doing the plank challenge this week from Half of Jess. It’s been a tough challenge, but I’ve really enjoyed doing it, and I can already tell that I’m getting stronger. If you want to give it a go yourself, try doing 3 sets of 45 second planks with 30 seconds rest in between. It was a lot harder than I thought! Don’t know what a plank is? Check out this video.

WP-DailyBurn

Last week, I saw a tweet from Mac about wanting a WordPress widget for DailyBurn, similar to the iGoogle widget that they already have. When I saw that, I thought to myself “hey, I’m a programmer, I could totally do that!” And so I spent the next couple days working with the DailyBurn API and creating a WordPress widget that displays your recent stats. It’s basically done at this point, I’m just waiting on the folks at WordPress to enable my account for publishing plugins. As soon as that happens, you’ll be seeing another post from me with more details.

Weekend Warriors

Don’t forget, next weekend is the next installment of the Weekend Warriors Challenge. I realized a week or so ago that it coincides with Easter weekend, which I actually consider to be a really good thing. Easter is one of those holidays where I tend to really overdo it, between the big meals and all the Easter candy. So keep your eye out on Monday for a post officially announcing the challenge.

We had a great turnout last time around, and I hope to have even more this time!

I hope everyone has a great weekend – may the force be with you! (sorry, I had to fit another Star Wars reference into this post for good measure)