Well, we made it to the end of the series. In this section, I will show you how I took the various pieces of the previous five posts, and condensed all of that information into an above-the-fold, single sheet dashboard. As a quick recap, the items I’ve decided to track are: Weight – tracking scale [...]
On Saturday, I joined a few great friends for a trip to Mt. Rainier, Paradise, to enjoy my second snowshoeing experience. Short version: I’m loving this enough that I have decided to purchase a set of snowshoes to carry me for future treks. Long version: We started our trek by meeting at the Nisqually gate [...]
The first month is down, and things are going, about on track. I was ahead of the game after the first two weeks, but, sadly, I succombed to some stresses in life, and my go-to for comfort is food. *sigh* Still, I’ve managed to fit in enough healthy activities to ward off slipping too fa [...]
In this part of the series, I will show how I set up a sheet to track the body measurements that mattered to me. Much like the nutrition sheet, there is very little before the visualization methods (which will be covered in the next post) to go over. First, I have to decide which body [...]
Last Sunday marked my first time going snowshoeing, and the experience was so beautiful and enjoyable, that I’m looking for more opportunities to go. This trip was taken with a couple of good friends, and was destined to occur at Gold Creek, up in the Snoqualmie Pass area of the Cascade Mountains in Washington, about [...]
2011 was probably the most fun I’ve had, as far as the outdoors go. I did some serious hiking, got in some great camping, and went on my first backpacking trip. Then, things petered out. I only got in one backpacking trip in 2012, and I wasn’t in top form for that one. This year, [...]
Well readers, I am going to be continuing my running journey, and focusing on getting my endurance way, WAY up. As you may know, I finished the last half marathon and my first full marathon too close to the maximum allowable times of a 16 minute mile pace. With those stats in mind, I’m going [...]
This may be the easiest of all of the spreadsheets I will show you. I will go through the steps I used to create a quick view of whether I was following through on certain behaviors, with a corresponding score related to those habits, and a simple letter grade visual to represent that. Also, since [...]
In this portion of the series, I will cover how I like to track nutrition. I’m going to start by saying, this can very easily be done via many online solutions, such as NutritionData.Self.com or Nutrimirror.com. However, I’m an Excel geek, and I want to have all of my data available in one place. Granted, [...]
In the first portion of this series, we covered constructing a spreadsheet tool for tracking body weight and its components. In this portion, I will go over how I set up a sheet to track my progress in doing sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, and my time and distances for running. This section will be very short, [...]