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Day 243: Weigh In Day Yo!

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Hooray for Sunday!

So as always, I had no clue what the scale had for me this week and once again I am perplexed. I lost .8 pounds this week which is insane since I worked out more than I have ever since I started my weight loss journey. This kind of happened the week before last where I lost 1.8 and then 2.8 the next week so I’m hoping that happens next weekend. I’m shooting to at be at least 262 (or 95 pounds lost) before we head out to Texas in three weeks. So now I am 8.6 pounds away from 100 pounds. I know I have been a little obsessive with reaching 100, but I feel like after that, I can start setting some new short term goals. I’m just ready to be in the century club! All in all, .8 is still pretty good and I am in no way sad about it.

Breakfast: I had pomegranate Chobani. Yumness FTW!

Lunch: Our college ministry went down to Lake Ella park and had a picnic of sorts to feed the homeless there. We had a great turn out and fed a good amount of people, along with just having a conversation with people that we often over look in society. It was a great experience for everyone. So I just had a turkey sandwich and some chips.

Snack: We didn’t get home until around 3 and since there was a devo at church at 5:30 so I had a pita with a little hummus for a snack.

Dinner: After church, we had to go to Walmart to buy some essentials and then we were going to eat at home. Then we both realized how starving we both were so we went to Genghis Grill for massive bowls of awesomeness. My bowl was mostly steak and shrimp but there were a ton of veggies too! I love that place.

Non Scale Victory: In March, I bought a pair of Old Navy jeans for the first time this century that were 48 inches. Well, I wore them today since they are the only casual pants I have that actually fit but I had to wear two shirts tucked in so they would fit. By the end of the day I was holding them up with one hand. So I bought a cheap pair of jeans at Walmart to hold me off for a while and they were size 42’s! Basically, I have lost A FREAKIN’ FOOT off of my waist since September. A foot of gut, saddlebags, and butt. It’s insane. It’s victories like this that make all of my sacrifice and hard work worth it. Like I’ve said before, I was almost to the point of giving up (at age 23 mind you) and just “live” my life the way I wanted to. It wouldn’t have been living though. It would be a miserable life full of multiple doctor bills and gallons of flop sweat. One time I was at a big and tall shop that was going out of business and there were a pair of pants that were size 60 and I seriously thought to myself “well, I might as well buy these because I’ll fit in to them soon enough.” If you are having those feelings, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM! Take steps to change your life!

Okay… [deep breaths]

What I’m trying to say is if you want to change your life for the better, take the steps today so you wont regret it tomorrow.

See ya tomorrow.

Day 242: Back From a Bizzare Hiatus

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Yeah…

it’s been Wednesday…

yikes…

sorry about that.

It’s been just a weird week. I don’t really know why. Sunday was such a high point in my weight loss journey and then the rest of the week went downhill in a frustrating fashion. Awe well. Overall, the week food and workout wise was actually pretty good. I worked out six times this week and each workout was around 500-700 calories so you could say I was a SAWS whore this week. Food wise was pretty good, except on Thursday we went to this place called Leola’s Crab Shack with our friends Emily and Jacob that is known to have the best crabs in the state. We had garlic and fried crabs with fried shrimp too. It was awesome but it was also sodiumlicious. Before we went I had burned like 750 calories and then on friday I burned around 650 so hopefully it evened it out a little. Anyways, let’s talk about today.

Breakfast: I had some chocolate rice cakes. I was going to make breakfast but we got up late so that worked.

Lunch: We went over to Earth Fare for some fresh awesomeness and it rocked. Earth Fare has an awesome hot and cold bar which is a little expensive but it’s a nice treat every once in a while. They had my favorite vegetarian food in the whole world: soy nuggets. They had them in a sweet chili sauce and in a pesto too! The salad today was a bed of spinach with feta and chicken. It was legit.

Snack: While Megan was helping her friend Sam pick out a wedding dress (congrats sam and justin!) I went over to Starbucks to work on some homework. I had an iced coffee with a pump of mocha and a splash of non fat milk. It was really good and perfect for a hot day. (It wasn’t as hot as Abilene, TX where it was 110 today though so I can’t complain.)

 

Dinner: We went to Red Elephant for dinner to celebrate our friend Tony’s birthday. I had the Oriental salad with seared tuna. The soy ginger vinaigrette is soooo good. Pretty awesome salad.

Dessert: After Red Elephant, we went to Nuberri for some frozen yogurt. I was trying to be good and just have yogurt with no toppings, instead I just got a lot of yogurt. I didn’t eat all of it though so it wasn’t too bad.

Non Scale Victory: My debit card is pretty old so sometimes it doesn’t work. Tonight, it was acting up so the guy asked to see my ID which the picture on it was taken last July. When I showed it, I thought he kind of did a double take but didn’t think much of it. Then when I got to my table, my friend Gerard was like “it looked like that guy did a double take when he looked at your ID.” That’s pretty legit if I’m pseudo not recognizable from last year. My drivers license expires in seven years so I guess I’ll have to get a new one before then so people know it’s actually me. Holla.

Workout: After dinner we had a little more than an hour until Leach closed so we went over for a last chance SAWS workout. I did another awesome cardio workout on the elliptical. The interval training program kept my heart rate up so I was burning calories like a boss! The gym closed at 9 and at 8:58 I was finishing up my cool down. The staff at the gym yelled at us from the first floor (I was on the third floor) to leave. I was like “we are coming!” Losers. Anyways, it was a pretty awesome workout.

 

So I’m not sure at all if I’m going to lose but I do have muscles in places where muscles were suppose to be. It’s been a building week so we will just see what happens. See ya tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 237: Never Been a Fan of Mondays

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It’s Monday… Awesome.

Today, I had a bad feeling that life was going to throw me a curveball after celebrating my big accomplishment. Long story short, for some stupid reason thanks to the Financial Aid office at FSU, I can’t use the gym at FSU for around 72 hours until tuition goes through. Awe well. So I need to get creative to workout for now. Today I didn’t workout really so I’m going to make up for it the rest this week to lose some more weight.

Breakfast: I just had a big bowl of Kashi because I had a feeling class was going to be rough and what do you know! It was :/ 7 points

Lunch: I just made some tuna salad with hellmans, pickles and a little spicy brown mustard. It was awesome. 6 points

Snack: Megan bought some low cal Jell-O pudding and it was pretty good! (That is my creepy pudding face from the commercial.) It is only 1 point for a cup!I also had a 100 calorie light mocha frap for 2 points.

Exercise? I went for a swim for a while but ended up just soaking up some sun by the pool (hey, I live in Florida. It’s what we do!)

Dinner: This weekend, we bought a two pack NY Strip Steak that was on sale at Publix. We split one of them on Saturday, and I cooked it up today for fajitas! We also bought some red peppers from the farmers market so I cooked them up with a vadilia onion. It turned out really well. We had enough for two burritos each so dinner was a super filling 10 points.

Dessert: This evening we went to see Pirates 4 (which was good but not great) so when we got home I had a 6 point sundae with lite chocolate syrup and this raspberry syrup that we bought this weekend that is made in Thomasville. Pretty awesome.

So today was alright, I got to 32 points so not bad. I’m ready for this week to turn around. See ya tomorrow.

Day 236: Dropping 90 Like a Boss

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Good Sunday Evening to ya!

Sooooooo, if we are friends on any form of social media you know it’s been a pretty big day for me and my weight loss journey. This week I lost 2.8 pounds which is pretty awesome. I worked out 5 days last week and kept within my points pretty well. Anyways with this week’s weigh in, I have freakin’ lost a total 90 pounds!!!!!!! It’s been a long time coming but I did it! I’m only 9.4 pounds away from 100 pounds, and then my friends, we will do some celebrating. This also means that I have lost 25% of my body weight since September. Yes, I am three quarters of the man I used to be. Pretty legit yo. So now I am down to 266.4. I have no clue the last time I weighed this much, but I’ll venture to say Clinton was in office.

Breakfast: I just had an English muffin with with a little honey.

Lunch: There is this new vegetarian/vegan restaurant called the Sweet Pea cafe in Tallahassee so we decided to give that place a shot. It is just a little place on Tharpe but they have some awesome food! I had the black bean burger with sweet potato fries. They also had cucumber lemonade which was fantastic. The burger patty was really fresh and was very beany as expected. The veggies on the burger were awesome too. The best part is they had organic ketchup which I’ve never had before but I might have to get that from now on. It was awesome.

Snack: I just had a small bowl of kashi.

Snack: We went to the mall this afternoon to look around so we went to Starbucks in the mall for some iced coffee. While we were there, I went to Dillard’s to look for some new button down shirts. Out of habit, I went to the Big and Tall section to check out their clearance rack. They had these $90 Polo dress shirts for 20 bucks but everything I tried on was too big! Even this one shirt I tried on last year when we lived in Abilene and it was too small but but I tried it on today I was swimming in that sucker. Anyways, clothes shopping is going to rock from now on.

Dinner: Tonight was our churches senior banquet so they had some awesome finger foods. It was pretty awesome.

So today was a little different food wise but tomorrow will be back on track with all kinds of fun workout awesomeness.

On a side note: thank you all again for all of your support and holding me accountable. You guys have made this process much more awesome. This has been a great journey but I still have about 110 pounds to go so I need y’all now more than ever. I hope maybe my journey might encourage you to start your own. See ya tomorrow.

Day 234: The Time I Met Edward Cullen Edition

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[A moment of silence for Macho Man Randy Savage]

How’s it going? It’s Friday once again and that is fantabulous! It’s been a long week so I’m glad it’s done. Alright, shall we?

Breakfast: I wanted to go to Subway for breakfast but instead we made our own Subway at home. I used a Flatout, cooked up some scrambled eggs and bacon and then put it in the oven. After I took it out I put some spinach on mine. It was pretty awesome.

Non Scale Victory: I shopped for clothes and I love it. That wasn’t always the case. Life is good.

Lunch: I made some grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and tomato soup. We had some friends that used to put spinach in their tomato soup so I did that today and it was awesome. Pretty simple but awesome lunch.

Snack: We went to Target earlier today and they had a sale on their bottled Starbucks Mocha Frappacino 100 calorie drinks. In an effort to safe some money, I bought a four pack for the price of one drink at Starbucks. Anyways, I blended my own today to make my own mocha frappacino! Here’s what I did: I put a handful of ice in my Ninja, put one bottle in the blender and then added a little lite chocolate syrup to sweeten the deal. I blended it all up and then put it in a glass with a dolip of fat free whip cream on top. One bottles worth made two big glasses. It was awesome and since one bottle is only 2 points, that massive glass was only 1 point! Legitastic!

Dinner: First of all, Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law Andrew, my homie Randy. Second, it was also my friend Jacob’s birthday and his awesome wife Emily had a surprise birthday party for him at Harry’s Seafood downtown. The place has a really sweet porch that faces out toward the west and towards the old part of FSU so the view was awesome. Anyways Jacob and I are in the same department so a few of my friends from class were there including Andrew, who has a uncanny resemblance to Edward Cullen (except he’s not glistening like diamonds in this picture.) So Harry’s specialty is New Orleans style cuisine which usually means creamy sauces and other unhealthily delicious stuff in it. So I went a different direction and had a seared ahi tuna salad with soy dressing. It was fantastic and, as you can see, a freakin’ huge salad. I was stuffed by the end of it. It was a pretty awesome birthday party.

Dessert: I made another awesome sundae but the picture sucked so I scrapped it.

Overall it was a pretty good day food wise. I didn’t really have time to workout so I’ll make up for it on Saturday.  See ya tomorrow.

Day 242: Thursday Stuff

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What is up G!?!

So I’m basically a third of the way done with my summer class! Pretty legit. I finally saw the Green Hornet and it freakin’ rocked! But enough about me.

Breakfast: So I got up for class and quickly made an egg since we didn’t have milk for cereal. I got cocky and tried to flip the egg like I was a regular Emeril and partially cooked egg landed all over the stove. Anywho, breakfast was 3 points.

Lunch: When I got home from class, I made up for my eggtastrophe and made lunch. I made a grilled turkey and cheese sandwich with some Campbells tortilla soup. Lunch was really light and really good! 5.5 points.

SAWS!!!! For my workout today, I went over to Leach and did a pretty solid core workout. The gym wasn’t as packed which was nice so I did everything I needed to. I held off on the elliptical today and instead jogged to the FSU library which was just half a mile but it worked.

Snack: I had some almonds and a Nature Valley Oats n’ Honey pack so 5 points of snackage in the afternoon.

Dinner: Megan made the super awesome Southwest quinoa for dinner and it was even better than last time! By dinner time, I was ready to dominate. Half a cup is only two points so I had 12 points worth (yeah… I was hungry.) It was a killer dinner.

Dessert: After the movie, instead of going out for yogurt, Megan had an awesome idea to go to Publix and but some lite ice cream options. We got some fat free Blue Bell yogurt, some lite chocolate syrup, fat free whip cream and some sugar cone. I even added half a banana to mine. My sundae was 7 points which was awesome!

So today I got to 32.5 points which will work! See ya tomorrow.

(For all of you at Fitbloggin’ have a blast! Maybe I’ll get to go next year!)

Day 240: Tuesday Coolsday

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(I’m running out of title ideas. Any suggestions?)

So today started off on an awkward foot. I slept for what felt like 2 hours last night and when I woke up to my first alarm at 5:30, I kept hitting the snooze button instead of going for a morning run. Instead of actually sleeping, I kept having dreams about working out (not like in a kinky weird way but regardless it was still bizarre.) Anyways, when you get out of an established rhythm it really messes up your day so that made the day just topsy turvy.

Breakfast: Since the gym was not going to happen, I made breakfast for us and just enjoyed another beautiful Tallahassee morning. Gotta love the classic bacon and eggs. 7 pounds.

Lunch: We had the classic flatout pizza. It was pretty awesome. I also had baby spinach salad with some light Ken’s Balsamic/Olive Oil dressing. It was a 10 point lunch with the dressing.

Workout: We did another run/hike through the park behind our house that is straight steep hills. We did a total of about 2.4 miles and we shaved off our time from the other day so it was a pretty good workout but I’m really ready to get in the gym tomorrow and do some serious cardio.

Snack: I had some nuts for 4 points.

Dinner: We went over to our campus minister’s house for dinner and we had spaghetti. The spaghetti was great, but the bread was dangerously delicious. I had three pieces of bread so that was rough but oh boy was it good. After dinner, we all grazed on this awesome fruit plate with a dip that was marshmallow fluff, cream cheese and some other awesome ingredients. I overdid it on the dip but again: boy was it good.

So today was rough but that’s how it went. I don’t think I really went over in points, but like I’ve said it’s just been an off day. Here’s for a better Wednesday (that will be wordless!) See ya tomorrow.

Day 238: Monday Stuff

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So today was beautiful in Tallahassee. When we woke up this morning it was 53 outside! It was almost winter like. Anyways, today was a clean slate, a new week to make some progress on getting healthy.

Workout: Today I did a pretty extensive arm/chest workout and it was rough but in the good way. My arms and chest are still my problem areas so I look forward to my arms days. I used a combination of machines and free weights. I want to at least be close to being able to do a pull up by the end of the summer but we’ll see how that goes.

Breakfast and snack: I had a bowl of Sunflower and pumpkin seed Good Earth cereal and it was okay. It’s not sweet at all so it’s definitely not what I’m use to with granola cereal but it was good nonetheless. It’s also kind of high in points: 5 points for 1/2 cup and a 1/2 cup of milk. After my workout I was starving, but luckily I was smart enough to bring a bag of almonds to eat during my break in the class. Those 3 points of almonds saved me.

Lunch: It was still slim (kyle) pickins (anyone get that reference?) for lunch today at our house, but we did have some cans of tuna so I tried my hand at making tuna salad. It turned out pretty well! I used a can of tuna, a few dolips of hellman’s light, a few cut up pickle slices, some pepper, and a good squeeze of spicy brown mustard. I just mixed it all together with a fork and toasted some bread. I was really impressed with how it turned out! Best of all, for two sandwiches it was only 6 points! For a snack after I had some Sweet and Salty nuts for 4 points.

Snack: while I was watching Spongebob (I love the summer) I had a Luigi’s lemon Italian Ice which was the BOMB! It was only 1 point too!

Dinner: Tonight is still college night at Chick Fil A so we went there for a little date. (We also saw Bridesmaids this afternoon and it was hilarious.) Anyways, I had the 8 piece chicken nuggets and Megan and I split a large fruit cup. The fruit cup is not as filling as the fries, but it’s not as greasy (obviously.) I wish there was a happy medium between the two that wasn’t high in calories. Anyways, with the nuggets and one packet of BBQ sauce dinner was only 7 points.

Snack: I had a piece of matzos with some laughing cow cheese for 3 points.

Dessert: To conclude our date night, we went over to Yogurt Mountain for some dessert. I had some swirl of dulce de leche and snickerdoodle and it was sexy delicious. It was sooooooo good. By the time I realized I had forgotten to take a picture, my cup was empty. Awe well, 5 points.

So today I was at 34 points so with exercise points I was right within my points. Good day. See ya tomorrow.