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Day 174: Weigh In

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Howdy!

It’s been a great Sunday. You could say it was “WINNING!” Church this morning was particularly awesome and then we headed out to St. George Island to meet up with some friends to savor the last hours of Spring Break on the beach. It was windy, but the water was warm enough to swim and the it was a beautiful emerald. (I love Florida.) Anyways, I didn’t sleep well last night due to a combination of worrying about the weigh in and the fear of waking up late because of Daylight Savings. I was anxious to see if the week was better than I thought it was. It turned out alright! I was lying in bed when I heard Megan yell through the house “Nathan! I lost 2 pounds!” I’m so proud of her! She’s lost a total of 35 pounds! I’m so proud of her and she’s lookin’ fine! Then it was my turn. I stepped on and I got a pleasant surprise: I lost 2.9 pounds! Holla! I’m really stoked because it could have went either way. So since September 14th, my first post (almost 6 months to the day) I have lost 74.4 pounds and since I’m now at 282.6, I’m shooting to break 280 this week. It’s been a tough road to ho, but the hard work has really paid off and I thank you all for your awesome support. For those who read this blog and want to start their weight loss journey but a nervous, I challenge you this week to try a few simple changes. Drink water instead of Dr. Pepper, take the stairs instead of the elevator (4 floors is not that bad!) take a walk around your block, and really think about what you are eating. Try these small steps and see how you feel at the end of the week. These little steps are the ones that will make the difference and will ultimately set you on the path of your weight loss journey. Seriously, what do you got to lose?

Breakfast: I just had a wafflewich which was awesome (as always) and 5.5 points. After service when we were trying to race out of church, I snagged a left over muffin that Crystal made. It was so good and about 3 points.

Snack: We had to run to Walmart to get some essentials (diet coke and $3 thug sunglasses) and I got a big bag of pretzels to hold us over. Through out the day I ate about 4 points of pretzels. That was 40 pretzels too!

Lunch: I was really really really ready to get to the beach so we ran in to a Subway in Crawfordville and got the Megan Classic Ham on Wheat. 8 points. (Please note the thug $3 glasses)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: After a hard day of beach bummin’ it up, we all headed back and got some dinner. We stopped at this place called The Pit that had a carnivorous pig on the sign. I was thinking it was going to be BBQ, but it ended up being this awesome hole in the wall grill. I had the grilled Mahi Mahi with a salad and a baked potato with a little butter. (The oysters on the half shell really looked awesome so I’ll have to get those next time.) As you can see, it was a huge chunk of fish and the salad was really good too. It was only about a 8 point dinner which is awesome.

Dinner: We had a 15 bean soup slow cooking at our house so I had a 3 point bowl. It’s awesome and Megan put the pot in some containers so we are set for lunches this week (Spoiler Alert!)

So today I got to 31.5 points which is awesome. I ate pretty well and had a blast today. It’s been a good day. Now back to reality. See ya tomorrow.

Day 173: Saturday

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Sup yo!

Without further adieu, food time.

Breakfast: Yesterday, I bought some almond butter just to see what it was like and it’s soooooooo awesome! (but expensive) I tried to make a wafflewich with almond butter. It was as awesome as I imagined. 6 points of awesomeness (I’m trying to see how many times I could put awesome in a paragraph.)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: I just actually had leftover for lunch. It was so good last night I had to have it again. Pretty great stuff. 8 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Temptation! So we went to Starbucks in the mall since Megan was getting her hair did. If you don’t know, Starbucks had a promotion this week when if you bought a drink you got a free dessert that was under 200 calories. So I ordered my 3 point drink and the Baristaette asked if I wanted one “No, thank you” “Are you sure?” the Temptress replied “They are really good!” “No, that’s okay” “Come on!” “NO” I finally resisted and got out of the line. I don’t know why people think it’s a responsibility to eat free food. I know that they are just trying to promote a new product, but I don’t think you should force people to eat their free product if they don’t want it. The issue is we are always trying to get our money’s worth even if we don’t want it. That was always my problem especially with Chinese All You Can Eat Buffets. That’s still a struggle for me today.

 

 

 

 

Dinner: I had another slice of pizza for dinner (pizza twice in one day!?! Alright! Double Prizes!) but this time with a humongous salad with grape tomatoes, baby spinach, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. It was awesome all three meals. Oh, and 9 points.
Exercise: After dinner, it was Wii Fit time! I hadn’t played in a while so it was definitely overdue. I did a 40 minute circuit with yoga and all the fun stuff. The yoga is definitely getting easier and I’m not wishing for death halfway through. Good stuff. 5 exercise points

Snack: I had another almond butter wafflewich for a snack. Good again. 6 points

So basically it was a Noah’s Ark of a food day (2 by 2? Get it? Anyone?) Today I got to 32 points but with the exercise points I’m good. Tomorrow is another weigh in that could really go either way. I have no clue if I’ve lost this week. Being home the whole time was a little harder than I thought and I didn’t work out as much as I should because after Monday’s beast workout with Kyle I was exhausted and super sore. We’ll see how it goes. Luckily this week I had some great non-scale victories which are more important than losing a lot. See ya tomorrow.

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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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.