As I had feared, things are just too crazy right now in the final two weeks before our trip. I haven’t been on the bike in about 2 weeks now, and other than just watching what I eat, I have down little much else to get closer to my goal weight of 180lb.

Two weeks left before we leave for our trip, and I’m still at 184 lbs. This was a pretty stressful week for me, making it rather difficult to be motivated and focused on dropping those last few pounds before we leave.  As of a few days ago, I was ready to call it quits with this little challenge, but now I’m thinking I might see it through.

As mentioned last week, I’ve been sort of ahead of schedule with my goal of getting down to 180 lb by our Maui trip, so this week was sort of an off week.  While I didn’t spend nearly any time on the bike, I wasn’t able to fit in any of my toning exercises either (unfortunately). I just can’t seem to get back into my early morning schedule that I was keeping over the summer, but trying again this week.

Another week in the books on my weight challenge and I’m now down to 184 lbs. I was actually flirting with 183 both yesterday and today, but I’ll go with 184 for the official tally today. After all, I don’t want to come off seeming anerixous or anything, that is if a 6′ tall male in his late 20′s can be considered anerixous at 180 lbs.

Anyway, thinking about cutting out the bike time this week and focusing on my core exercises to help with toning my mid-section, which is pretty much the only thing left that needs attention. I know I mentioned some before and after photos a few weeks ago, and we spent some time this evening looking for vacation portrait photographers on Maui to help capture our upcoming trip. The way I see it, it is still unknown how much longer after this trip I’ll be able to stay in this shape, so I might as well have it captured professionally while I still can.

Last week, I mentioned that I had six weeks to get down to my goal weight of 180 lbs before we left for Maui. It wasn’t that unreasonable, but I decided to post it here on the blog and now it’s time for the first week’s update.

It was a really good week, too. I made it down to 186 lbs as of this morning, so I’m well on my way as you can see. I was actually down to 185 by Friday, which was extra impressive considering we took my mom to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory Wednesday night for her birthday. It was hard to pass up the cheesecake, so I had a little extra time on the bike to make up for it.

The other disruption to the plan was our first Rockband party Saturday night. It was certainly a great time, but eating all that party food, a few drinks and two brownies weren’t going to get me to 180 lbs any faster. To make it even more interesting, we didn’t get home and in by until 5am! Throw in a flat tire on the way home that I had to get up at 8am to get fixed, and my metabolism was way out of whack.

I’m just now getting back into my normal routine, although I missed my morning bike time this morning. Depending on how I do this week, that goal of 180 might seem laughable, so I may need to throw in some toning just to make it worth talking about.