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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.

Day 237: First SAWS Weigh In Day!

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SAWS!!!!

How’s it going everybody! Sorry for that whole not blogging thing yesterday. To summarize Saturday: Wii Fit, Wedding Singing, Workout, burned more than 700 calories. Tada, there was yesterday’s post. Okay, now that that is out of the way. Today was the first post-SAWS weigh in day and I was hoping for a loss of around 2-3 pounds if not better. So you can understand my disappointment when I only lost 1.4 pounds. For the first time in a while, I had worked out every day, and for the most part I stayed on point with my points. I’m thinking that the weight loss honeymoon is over and that now it’s really going to be work to lose every week. I know you’re really only suppose to lose 1-2 pounds healthily so maybe that’s where I’m at. You know what though? I’m okay with that. With lifting weights regularly is going to change my figure more too and add muscle so I’m definitely not going to change what I’m doing. Regardless, I’m in the 260’s (269.2 to be exact) for the first time in at least a decade and I have lost a total of 88 freakin’ pounds. The reality is, every weigh in I am treading in to new weight loss territory. And that feels awesome.

Breakfast: I just had a bowl of Kashi. Nothing new. However, we bought some Back 2 Nature cereal (you know, the hippy kind that’s in a bag to make it more earth friendly) since it was BOGO at Publix so I’ll have to review that this week. 4 points

Lunch: After church, the young professionals class went to Moe’s for lunch. As you may know, I’m not a huge fan of Moe’s but I can stand it every once in a while to at least give it a chance. I had the Art Vandalay Jr. Lite with grilled veggies, guac, the works. It was a decent sized burrito and their salsa bar is pretty epic so it eased my craving for queso (which is a delicious demon that I deal with daily.) The burrito with chips was  12 points so it wasn’t bad and I would definitely have that again.

Afternoon Snackage: It was a gorgeous day in Tallahassee with a high barely reaching 80 so Megan and I sat outside and read our respective Harry Potter books and enjoyed the day. While out there I had an english muffin with honey to enhance my reading experience. 1 point. Then, we went over to Starbucks and I had some dirty coffee for 3 point.

Dinner: So grocery day is tomorrow so by this time in the week, we are getting a little creative for meals and this week Megan delivered. She made this Pasta Premavera with shells that turned out really well. The serving size was huge for only 5 points so I had half a serving of seconds for 7.5 points. 


Evening snack: I had a Vitatop with a glass of milk for 3 points. Hooray.

So today I got to 30.5 points which works fine for me. See ya tomorrow.

Day 235: Friday Funtimeness

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Greetings reader!

You are a special reader and I’m glad you are reading my blog (when I say you, I’m really just talking to you.) 🙂 Anyways, today has been pretty awesome! Not having classes on Friday is going to be pretty nice. Alright, let’s do this thang!

Breakfast: So we actually slept in a little late and I wanted to go to Subway for breakfast but instead I got a little creative. We had two Flatout breads left in the fridge so I used them as flatbread. I made some scrambled egg whites, added some turkey breast and added a slab of cheese and then put it then oven on broil for 2 minutes. I think it turned out pretty well (Megan liked it so that’s a good sign) and it was really filling. Plus it was cheaper than Subway too! 6 points.

Exercise: So we were going to go to Leach, then Tom Brown park, but instead we went to the San Luis Mission park close to our house. It’s extremely hilly and wooded so it was a pretty awesome leg workout too. It was also really hot and humid so we were both pretty zapped after it all. We went a total of 3 miles so it was a really solid workout.

Lunch: I wasn’t really hungry until the afternoon so I had some Kashi in Chobani for 4 points and then Megan made some whole wheat cous cous so I ate that too 6 points.

Dinner: So we got to go to the rehearsal dinner for our friend Becca’s wedding since we are singing and it was awesome. Dan’s family who’s from the South made some killer BBQ for the dinner. I might have went a little overboard but I mean it was some of the best BBQ’ed chicken I have ever had. The sides were also killer too! The coleslaw was made with real mayo so it was pretty rich but oh man it was all good. I did go for seconds and I did have some cake. I overdid it and I knew I did but that’s just how it works. Although I’m still able to acknowledge situations like this I still need to work my portion control. This is still a journey and I’m still working on it.

So today I got to 16 countable points and I still might have went over with 14 points left and exercise points but I think it was close. That’s life. The wedding is going to be finger foods so I will have a little bit and maybe half a piece of cake. We’ll see how it goes. See ya tomorrow.



Day 234: SAWS Thursday!

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Hello Children!

It’s Thursday already? Wow! This week went by so fast! Alright, enough small talk, let’s get down and dirty… with the food I ate today?

Breakfast: Kept it simple and had a bowl of Kashi. Hooray for yummy things! 4 points

Lunch: We went to Super Perros for some lunch and it was awesome. We split the Godzilla, which is basically a massive burrito with chicken, peppers and beans tucked beautifully and deliciously inside. Such a beautiful dish.

Workout: Instead of getting up super early, we slept in (to 7:30) and decided to swim in the afternoon. We had tried to work out early every day before and we usually get burned out so to avoid that from happening, we are going to work out early 3 days a week and then pick a time in the day when we want to for the rest of the week. Anyways, we went for a swim. I did some treading exercises and then did mini laps. I’m not sure how much exercise we really got but it was a lot of fun! We would like to start doing some water aerobics. Any suggestions?

Snack: After our swim, I had a blueberry vitatop with a glass of milk. Vitatops are so awesome. 3 points.

Dinner: Megan, our friend Aimee, and I are going to sing in our friend Becca’s wedding on Saturday so we were invited to a dinner with he family. Becca’s aunt can cook! She made this awesome spaghetti dinner, but the salad was ridiculous. It had all these meats, olives, cheeses, garbanzo beans and a ton of veggies. I had seconds on salad and that worked because didn’t have that much spaghetti, which was whole wheat so the dinner wasn’t that bad at all. It was a spectacular dinner.

Snack: While I’m writing this I am chomping on some popcorn 2 points.

So the points that are able to be counted comes out to 9 points and I’m pretty sure the two meals weren’t 21 points combined and even if they were I still have some exercise points and I haven’t really tapped in to my weekly points so I’m good. See ya tomorrow.