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Day 172: Finally A Post Friday

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I’m really sorry that I wasn’t able to post yesterday or the other. I don’t know what the deal is with WordPress this week but for some reason every time I got on to post it would keep messing up.  Awe well. Anyways, Spring Break has come to an end. Spring Break 2K11 was pretty domestic with tons of spring cleaning and other fun stuff like that. To be honest, it was just what we needed to get through to the end of the semester. Alright, let’s talk food and other awesome things.

Breakfast: Oatmeal was BOGO at Publix this week so I got the Maple Brown Sugar with Double Fiber (yay fiber!) so I had a packet of that. I also put half a banana in it just to see what it would taste like. It was actually really good! I was impressed and 4 points.

 

 

 

 

 

Mid Morning Snack: While I was grading and feeling sorry for the future of humanity, I had 3 points worth of almonds. Such a great snack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: In between loads of laundry, we made kind of a makeshift lunch that actually turned out well. (I hate it when you make a makeshift lunches and it’s terrible because it’s ramen noodles, bar-b-que sauce and ranch wrapped in a tortilla or something like that.) Ours was just a veggie chicken patty with some Uncle Ben’s cheesy rice and some mixed veggies. It was a really good 6 point lunch.

 

 

 

 

Exercise of Death: Megan bought the 30 Day Shred (because she is a masochist or something) and it was beastly. It’s only 20 minutes, but the circuits are rough. I know I’m going to be sore tomorrow but it’s worth it. It was 5 exercise points so not too bad. I’m definitely going to do it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Exercise Snack: Nature Valley Oats ‘N Honey. So awesome. 4 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoothie Time! Also after the workout, I made a Strawberry-Banana-Blackberry Smoothie. It was really good and I was a fan of the combo. And for 3 points it wasn’t too bad!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: So we really wanted to try to make pizza this week and finally the day came! Megan made the dough out of the WW cookbook. We got some really awesome toppings from The Fresh Market this afternoon. The toppings shown are: grape tomatoes, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, spinach, and mushrooms. It was awesome with a capital delicious. A slice was a little high (8 points) but again, it was delicious. We each bought a soda to drink with pizza (you can’t just drink water with pizza, it’s gross) and we both got Virgil’s Black Cherry Cream Soda. I forgot how sweet it was so I didn’t really drink mine. Anyways, I had 2 ginormous slices for 16 points. I don’t think I minded because it was basically a deep dish veggie pizza. Good stuff.

So overall, I got to 36 points but with the exercise points I’m at 31 points so I’m good. A really good day. See ya tomorrow.

Day 170: Wordless Wednesday! [With Video]

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Day 168: First Monday of Spring Break!

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Sup yo!

So this was my first time I actually had a day off on a Spring Break so I took advantage of it. I took today to actually relax before I needed to work on homework and other fun things. Alrighty then…

Breakfast: I started the morning with this some awesome breakfast. It was nice to have enough time to make some. I made a Veggie Sausage Egg MacMuffin (not McMuffin) and it was fantastic. It was only 6 points with a little cheese too! Good breakfast.

Workout: My friend Kyle invited me to go workout since we had some time. It.Was.Intense. We worked on upper body and core. He showed me a bunch of different workouts to do and they were beastly but I can feel it. We worked out for about 2 hours and got a really good sweat in. It was definitely a 13 point workout.

Lunch: After the workout, we went back to my house and had leftover veggie lasagna. 5 points.

 

Snack: Megan made some afternoon smoothies which were just awesome. Whoever thought to but strawberry and banana together was a genius. 3 points.

 

 

 

 

 


Snack: While watching Dr. Oz, I had some Double Fiber Quaker Oatmeal. 1 point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snack… Again: While looking through recipes for dinners to make for the week, I found this recipe for this awesome Roasted Red Pepper Dip. The dip is zero points and I just had 1.5 points of pita chips for dipping.

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: Megan found this awesome Chicken Enchiladas with salsa verde. They were awesome. Each enchilada was 3.5 points and I had four so dinner was 14 points.

Dessert: I had 4 points of Edy’s yogurt swirl ice cream. Magical.

So today I got to 34.5 points which was awesome and with the exercise points I’m good.

Day 167: Redemption Weigh In Day

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I’m so sorry this post was so late. We’ve been hanging out with folks all day which has been a blast.

When I woke up, it felt like Christmas morning: I was anxious to just see what was under the tree good or bad because that way I would just know. I got some pretty exciting news! I lost 5.5 pounds this week! That made up for last week’s gain and then some! Basically I lost 2.5 pounds (I guess that’s how that works?) Anyways, what makes this week even cooler is that with this beast of a loss, I have lost 71.5 pounds and I have lost 20% of my body weight! I’m a four-fifths of the man I use to be! Pretty awesome weigh in day for sure; I’m even more excited to see how next weeks will be with so much time to work out this week. It should be a good one!

Breakfast: I just had a wafflewich with the other half of yesterday’s banana. I was 6.5 points of deliciousness.

Snack: Between class and service, I had 2 points worth of almonds and I’m really glad I did…. read on.

Lunch: So after service, the college group and the young professionals all went to lunch at Red Elephant which is known for their pizza but they have a bunch of different stuff. Anyways, we had a reservation for 1:00 and we didn’t get seated until 2:00; oh yeah, it was in the 50’s today in Tallahassee and we had to sit outside! Lametastic! We finally got our table and when I had been looking at the menu I really wanted something that was hot and just hearty. So I had a salad… (I can see the confuse look on your face.) I had their Oriental Salad with Seared Tuna and Soy and Ginger dressing on the side. I was really impressed. The tuna was perfect and the oranges and pineapple were a really nice touch. It was a great salad that I would like to go back and get. They don’t have their nutritional info online (even though they advertise 550 calorie meals. You obviously know at least some of the nutritional info!!!!!!!!!) but I figured it out to be about 10 points?

 

Snack: We went home for a little bit after lunch just to relax until we were going to hang out with people again so I had a 6 point bowl of Kashi cereal while watching Season One of Boy Meets World (which is awesome.)

Dinner: Shortly after my snack, I had a ginormous 5 point slice of leftover lasagna which was good as always.

Snack: I had about 5 points worth of snacks which isn’t that bad considering we were over at our Campus Minister’s house until midnight. Most of those 5 points was from this awesome brownie that Crystal had made. The rest is some popcorn and some grapes. Usually I’m always tempted to eat a second anything be it cookie or whatever but tonight it didn’t even cross my mind.

So today I got to about 34.5 points which is okay with me. I ate pretty well and that’s what flex points are for. Plus, we are going to cook at home a lot this week so I’ll keep within my points pretty well. Also, while we were at their house I sat on a exercise ball for more than a hour and in that time I did leg raises on it (which were hard!) I’m sure there are some exercise points in there but I would try to justify it 🙂 See ya tomorrow.

Day 166: Spring Break Saturday!

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Why hello there!

I hope everyone had a great Saturday (and Friday… my bad.) I can summarize how my Friday was with a haiku  lieu of a blog post:

Not much food in day

Hit by racquetball a lot

Snacked too much in night

I woke up this morning and decided to weigh to see where I was at and I was up from 285.5 on friday morning to 291 this morning! What the crap!?! I really really really really really really really need to stop weighing constantly. It’s become this addiction which I know is really unhealthy. I know that the number isn’t what matter as much. I’m not going to fall below some red line or get voted out by some toolbags on the Red team because I use to be on the Black team just because I didn’t lose enough. I need to be okay with the ebb and flow of this journey and that’s been hard. With that said, I had a NSV today that made whatever the scale says tomorrow moot. (If I were you I would keep reading.)

Breakfast: I went the “eat six small meals” route today to really kick start my metabolism. When I was working on my morning internship duties, I just had a Nature Valley Oats n’ Honey bar pack for 4 points. I think that was the last one I’ll have in a while. I’m getting burnt out on them.

Mid Morning Snack: I decided to make a wafflewich around 10:00 so I could hold myself over until lunch. I did it the right way (aka the way A Girl Who Loves Cupcakes (you really need to check out her awesome blog!!!!) makes them) with half a banana. It was delectable and really filling. Not a bad 6.5 point morning snack.

Non Scale Victory! So if you follow me on either Facebook or Twitter, you may recall I said I turned the clock back to 1999 today. Well here’s why… We went to Old Navy to pick up some cheap flip flops (an American summer tradition) and just to look around. The last time I bought jeans from Old Navy was 1999. After then, I couldn’t really fit into their pants (you know… the obesity thing) but today I found a pair of jeans and a pair of  brown pants that fit perfect! So I bought them! And they were on sale! I really never thought I would ever be able to buy pants from a non Big and Tall section ever again back before I started this thing so this was a really big (or little) day for me and it made me realize that even if the scale is moving at a snail’s pace, I’m still making awesome strides and obviously my body is changing. Pretty awesome revelation.

Lunch: After our escapade to ON, we went to Subway. I had the Megan Special which is Black Forest Ham and other awesome things on Whole Grain bread. It was 8 points of yumtasticness.

Snack: I had an apple and some chocolate covered coffee beans because they are awesome; so that was my afternoon snack. 2 points.

 

 

 

 

Dinner: As part of our dinner and a movie, we decided to make one of our favorite meals together that we haven’t made since we lived in our shoebox of an apartment in Abilene. We made Veggie Lasagna out of the Taste of Home cookbook. It was amazing beyond belief. All it is is lasagna with carrots, peppers, onions and zucchini. It takes a while to make, but you can eat off of it for days. I had 2 ginormous slices with a big ol’ salad with basalmic vinegar and a tsp of olive oil. It was a great meal. We haven’t had a nice sit-down meal at home in a while so it was a special dinner for us. (We are going to go see the Adjustment Bureau tonight. I’ll review it tomorrow.) Oh yeah, dinner was 11 points.

So overall I got to 31.5 points which is fine with me. So as you’ve read, the scale is becoming my enemy (which is one of my no-no’s) since Mr. Scale has been kind of a tool lately. Although I’m a little worried about tomorrow, I’m in a zen state of whatever happens happens. Bring it on Mr. Scale, I want to be your friend, but right now you’re that friend who doesn’t return my calls. See ya tomorrow.

Day 164: Thursday

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SPRING BREAK IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never thought this day would come. It’s been a long semester so far so some mental rest is much needed. Anyways, I just have to get through my internship tomorrow morning and then I have absolutely no obligations. So awesome. Alright, let’s talk food.

Breakfast:I woke up with a glass of cold water (you have to do that!) and a cup of Chobani awesomeness. I ate the last cup of Pomegranate we had 🙁 which lead me to write this on Facebook…. Pretty awesome. What a great 3 point breakfast.

 

 

 

 

Snack: It’s been forever since I’ve had Starbucks so since I was on campus, I went over to Club Stroz and had a Iced Skinny Caramel Macchiato. It tasted amazing since it’s been such a long time. Such a great 3 point treat.

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: Since it was Thursday, I went to Ogelsby and ate with the awesome folks from my Church’s college group. I had Pollo Tropical and it was just great. My monster meal was 14 points. A little high, but okay for a workout day.

Workout: After class (where the term “Elite Cleavage” was used FTW) I headed over to Leach for a good workout. I warmed up on the recumbent bike then I did arms and core. I felt a little awkward at the gym for some reason today. It was just a weird day; there are some workouts I want to do but I don’t feel comfortable doing in public. I use to not have that issue, but I was kind of self conscious today. Overall though it was a good workout with a lot of sweat so that works for me! 14 exercise points

 

Dinner: Tonight, we went and saw the Old 97’s play at The Moon. They are a good ol’ Texas rock band and they brought it. When they sang “West Texas” I got homesick. Anyways, before the show we went to Cabo’s since it’s right down the street. I had the Veggie burrito which was just a refried beans burrito. It was good but a little rich. We did eat our share of chips and salsa because they are awesome but it was still a healthier dinner than we could have gotten anywhere else.

So overall, it was a pretty good day! The food was great and the workout, although a little weird, was sweaty and good so it was a day I needed. See ya tomorrow.

163: Wordless Wednesday!!!!!

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Day 162: Tuesday Done

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Sorry for no post yesterday. I started working on this behemoth of a paper at 1:30 pm and I finally finished a 2 am. The picture to the left is what grad school makes you look like. You become a zombies and instead of brains, you hunger for sleep and will destroy anything you can to get it. Anyways, now that it’s done, I’m smooth sailing until spring break. Legit. Alright, let’s talk food.

Breakfast: I just had a wafflewich of deliciousness. 5.5 points

Snack: I had a banana 2 points, 2 points of almonds, and a Nature Valley Honey n’ Oats granola bar 4 points.

 

 

 

 

Lunch: We packed a bunch of food in for the longest day of the week so for lunch I had leftover spaghetti from last night. It was delicious and 6 points. Great lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: After classes, we had our weekly bible study on campus so I didn’t have much time to eat. I ran in to Pollo Tropical and just got some rice and black beans. It was only $2! pretty good deal (and delicious too!) It was only about 7 points too!

Snack: When we finally got home from a long day, I had some Puffin cereal we got on sale at Earth Fare. It was a lot of cereal for only 3 points (which includes milk.)

So today, I got to 29 points which works fine for me. Again sorry for the no show yesterday, but I’ll make it up tomorrow with a stellar Wordless Wednesday! Get stoked. See ya tomorrow.

Day 160: Weigh In Week 26…

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So… Week 26… Intense stuff…

I have been on my weight loss journey for about 6 months. 26 weeks has been half a year, and now I am finally starting to feel the strain from this long journey. This week has been nuts. I have been stressed with school and just life in general. I am so thankful that Spring Break is right around the cornered because it is much needed. Yesterday, I could just feel the gain coming on. We ate out for all 3 meals so I just knew it was going to happen. I wasn’t as careful as I could have been; it’s like when you know you’re screwed so instead of trying to do damage control you just say screw it. Well, I paid for it big time and it sucks. I gained 3 pounds this week (I could hear you cringe and say ouch when you read that.) I know, it was no bueno, but I know why it happened: stress from school, eating things I didn’t know the points of, not counting everything, I hurt my leg at some point in the week, so I didn’t work out as much, and maybe the biggest one, I didn’t drink enough water. So, this is a new week and a clean slate. We are both going to hold each other accountable this week and just eat better food. We are still pressing on even thought it seems to get harder and harder everyday. If anyone has some advice about how to keep going when you’ve been dieting for so long I’d love to hear it. Alright, now that that’s over with. Time to talk food.

Breakfast: I just had an english muffin with a little butter and honey. If you haven’t, you really need to get the Nature’s Own 100 calorie english muffins. They are awesome. Anyways the muffin with a little butter and honey was 2 points.

Snack: Between class and service,I had a Kashi bar to hold me over during church and to get my metabolism going. (Megan and I both lost more when we ate 6 times a day so that’s what we are trying to do.) 2 points of yumness.

Snack again!: We got this awesome dark chocolate peanut butter from Earth Fare that is only a point for a tablespoon! I put it on a waffle for 2.5 points.

 


Lunch: We went back to the food basics (which is the plan for this week) we had the awesome turkey burgers for lunch. We were going to have salads, but since it was a little bad, we went a difference route and made this garlic rice with red and black quinoa. It was this microwave  90 second Uncle Bens and it was really good. The burger was 6 points and the rice was 3 points. Pretty good lunch.

Snack: I’ve been working on a paper all day so this afternoon, I needed some brain food. So I had some Chobani pomegranate. It was beautiful and delicious. After you are done reading this post, run to the grocery store, and grab yourself some Chobani! It was 3 points!

 

 

 

 


Dinner: Speaking of food basics, we had Mac and Cheese with broccoli for dinner. It was so good! It was nice just to eat the classics like I was going back home. Pretty awesome stuff. I had a serving and a half for 9 points. It was great.

So today I got to 27.5 points which is good stuff for me. Like I said, it’s a new week, and it’s time to kick some butt. See ya tomorrow.

Day 159: Saturday

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Today was an odyssey of weirdness. Both in food and in almost been hitting by a bus. I’m no Ray LaHood (google it) but when someone is crossing the street when you have the little white guy, you should not have to worry about becoming a hood ornament on a City of Tallahassee bus. Fun stuff. Alright, let’s talk food.

Breakfast: Before James had his audition, went to Brugger’s Bagels. We haven’t been there before but we needed to go somewhere psuedo fast but not fast food. I had the Spinach Cheddar Omelet Bagel on a Trail Mix Bagel. It was really good and the trail mix bagel was soooo good but it was pretty high in points. It was 13 points. Ouch, but I want to go there again sometime.

 

 

 

 

Lunch: After James’ audition, we had a celebratory lunch at Sonny’s! It was really good. I had the Chicken with a baked sweet potato and baked beans. The chicken was a little greasy but the whiter parts were pretty good. It was about 15 points for lunch so not too bad. Megan got a salad that had candied pecans and craisins. It was only 5 points too!

 

 

 

 

 

Snack: After walking around downtown, we went over to Nuberri for some frozen yogurt. I went with vaniila and some toppings. It was about 5 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: GODZILLA!!!!!!!!!  We went to Super Perros with James so he could taste some of Tallahassee’s Finest cuisine. Megan and I split the Godzilla burrito of awesomeness. It was fantastic. That’s all that needs to be said.

So today was delicious but indulgent and a little over the top. I’m really worried about tomorrow. I know a gain is on the horizon for a variety of reasons I will bore you with tomorrow. Until then, sweet dreams. See ya tomorrow.