Match the Mayor II !!!!

Yo DaVita!

Greetings to the good people of Davita.  Sorry I did not do a message on Friday, but it was a 4 city day for me.  I started with an early workout and a couple phone calls in Washington DC.  Then I flew to Nashville to do a Town Hall with 33 managers and directors who were attending a DaVita University class, I love doing those.  Then I flew to Denver for a meeting.  Then I flew home to California for a late dinner with my beloved wife!

I am psyched for another Match the Mayor.  Last year I lost 9 pounds in 90 days, which I would not have done without having about 550 of you publicly committing to your own goals and cheering me and others on.   Unfortunately I had knee surgery a bit after that, and I gained 6 of the 9 back during the post-surgery months when I could not exercise with the same intensity.

So here are my goals:

1.    Maintain my current exercise minutes.   35 minutes per weekday.  Usually in the form of 20 minutes on the lifecycle, then 15 minutes of stretching, sit-ups, push-ups.  The 35 minutes only captures the exercise time, I don’t count changing, or walking to the gym in the hotel, or any of that.

3 hours on the weekend.  1 hour of which can be a good hike, but the other 2 must be more intense.

If I miss a day, which sometimes I have to because of early meetings or plane flights and late dinners and plane flights, I will have to make it up on another day.

So my goal is (5×35) = 175 plus (3×60) = 180 = 355 minutes per week of healthy exercise.

2.    I also want to reduce my diet coke consumption by 60%.  Over the last year it has increased to 2.5 a day.  I want to reduce it to 1.0 per day.  There are so many bad chemicals in there.  I don’t drink coffee, so I don’t have that as a substitute.

3.    I want to drop 5 pounds in these 60 days, for a morning weight of 190.

Those are my goals, as some of you and I launch our new partnership for a healthier life for us, which will also do the same for those around us!

Today was a fine start for me.  I rode my road bike for 85 minutes (including a 27:13 time up the big hill near my house, a strong time for me, and better than a couple college age kids who looked skeptically at me at the bottom, but not at the top).  I had zero diet cokes.   And I only ate two meals, a late breakfast because I was so exhausted I slept until 10:30 am, and a dinner in which I did not go for seconds.  yet.

One for All & All for One, your mayor, KT