Day 313: Monday!

Posted on August 9, 2011 by theffkid

No case of the Mondays for this kid…

So today was the day of getting back on track… again and I think it went pretty well! My issue is that I will weigh myself on Thursday, and then screw myself over for the rest of the week because I will either be content and then splurge or then not eat enough. So instead of setting myself up for a metal block like that this week (2.6 away…) I gave myself a reminder that a midweek weigh in is going to be a no-no. So we will see how that goes.

Breakfast: I just had two waffles with some peanut butter. I was going to bring a snack to work, but I forgot it so I was starving!!! No bueno. 5.5 points

Lunch: Since we were having to run for some errands around town, we went over to Mellow Mushroom. I had a slice of cheese with sun-dried tomatoes and a tossed salad with their awesome esperanza house dressing. I know I know, two days of delicious pizza? I have such a hard life. Anyways, lunch was 8 points. The dressing was more calories than the slice alone, so I’ll have to try something different next time. It was pretty awesome all over though!

Snack: I had a Nature Valley Granola bar pack for 4 points while reading Harry Potter. So close!!!!

Dinner: We were in a bit of a rush, so I had a Cafe Steamers at home. A steady of frozen foods is not ideal, but meals like that are nice to have around the house to avoid eating out. Anyways, I had the Sesame Chicken which was good, but even better with a little mustard. Yumtastic. I also had a banana baby. 8 points.

Snack: We went with our friends the Wards and our friend Andrea the Wolf to go see Crazy, Stupid, Love (which was awesome) and then we went for some fro yo at Nuberri. They had this awesome swirl of cake batter and cookies n’ cream which was soooooo delicious. It was a pretty awesome treat, but no more dessert for a while. 6ish points.

So today I got to about 31.5 points which will work. As you can see, I’m back to counting points, but I’m still trying to figure out what works best for me. Anyways, I didn’t work out because I calf was still strained, but it is feeling a little so I might do something light tomorrow and then get back in to Insanity on Wednesday. I don’t know, we’ll just see. See ya tomorrow.

Day 312: A Weigh In Wasssup

Posted on August 7, 2011 by theffkid

WAAAAASSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPP!!!!!

(Yes, this is 1998)

How are you? I know it’s been a while since we’ve talked and for that I apologize I suck. So I was secretly hoping that this was the week that I broke the 100 pound mark. Sadly, I didn’t make it, but I got closer than I have ever been! This week I lost 2.2 pounds which is soooo close! As of know I have lost a total of 97.4 pounds since September of last year, not too shabby I guess. Anyways, I have finally broke in to the 250’s! Barely, but still pretty cool.

Breakfast: I just had a bowl of Kashi Awesomeness. A classic.

Lunch: After church a bunch of us went over to Momo’s for pizza the size of a European country. Since there were so many of us, they set up a buffet for us so it was $7 which included drinks and a tip. Pretty awesome. I held myself to four slices of pizza: a slice of pepperoni, a slice of bacon and two slices of cheese with mushroom. I did splurge a little, but as you’ll see from the rest of the post.

Snack: I had a small cookie that the awesome Emily Ward made last night. So good.

Dinner: I just had some leftover veggie spaghetti. Not too bad, but not super filling.

Snack: I had a frozen banana. Sweet action.

So it was a pretty good day, but I’m still pretty hungry. I’m not sure what I’ll do about that, but it will probably involve fruit or something low cal. I had an issue with counting calories last week so I’m going to work on that. Also, Leach is going to be closed for two weeks (so lame!!!!) so I’m going to pick back up on Insanity tomorrow, pending on whether my calf isn’t still cramped up. (My calf has been cramped up since basketball in the sauna known as Florida yesterday.) So I’m only 2.6 pounds away… time to drop some weight. Like. A. Boss. See ya tomorrow.

Day 309: Thursday Things

Posted on August 4, 2011 by theffkid

Sup!

So far it’s been a pretty good week. I’ve been keeping an eye on what I’ve been eating and I’ve been sweating like a sinner in church while working out (Yes, I took that simile from The Golden Girls. RIP Blanche) so I’m hoping that it will reflect on the scale.

Breakfast: Stuck with the classic Wafflewich. I’ve been trying to get myself to drink a big glass of water every morning before my cup of coffee because it’s suppose to be good for your metabolism. Has anyone else heard that?

Lunch: Ever since we’ve lived in Tallahassee, we’ve been wanting to try this BBQ place that I drive by ever morning called Jim and Milt’s BBQ. Today, Megan and I were jonesin’ for some smoked chicken so we decided to give it a shot. I had the 1/4 white meat chicken with a tossed salad with honey mustard and some baked beans. By the time I got through the salad and the beans, I barely tore in to my chicken even though I wanted to go nuts on it. Instead, I listened to my body and ate what I could and then asked for a to go box.

Snack: I had some Rainier Cherries and a Granny Smith Apple for a snack. It was awesome.

Workout: We went to Leach for some SAWS awesomeness. I got on the spin bike and did a 15 minute cycle and then got on the stairmaster for 15 minutes. I burned around 350 calories and it was pretty awesome.

Dinner: For dinner, we cooked up some brown rice and black beans and had the rest of our chicken from dinner. It was a odd goulash of deliciousness, but it worked. For dessert, I had a banana babies chocolate banana (there’s always money in the banana stand.)

Snack: I just had some multi grain cherrios and some hot tea.

So today was a pretty good day. I stayed within my calories and then ate my workout calories. Good day. See you tomorrow.

Day 308: Wordless Wednesday G!

Posted on August 3, 2011 by theffkid

Day 307: Tuesday Tickling

Posted on August 2, 2011 by theffkid

(I’m running out of titles.)

How’s it going everyone? So my stomach is in the process of shrinking back to its normal size after a vacation of crazy nomage. It’s been hard not to just graze on anything every chance I get so the temptation has been a little rough, but hopefully that will subside by the end of the week. I just need to get to the mindset of “no silly brain! You don’t need that extra taco or extra [fill in the blank with something delicious.]” We’ll just see how that goes. Almost every time I’ve put a time frame on my weight loss I have missed the mark so I’m apprehensive to even talk about this. But what the heck… So in 6 weeks, it will be my anniversary of my weight loss journey. It’s been an amazing escapade so far, and I’m only 4.8 pounds away from breaking the 100 pound mark. I know that a time frame doesn’t matter, but it would be freaking awesome to have lost 100 pounds in under a year because I set out for that goal in high school and most people said I probably couldn’t do it. I don’t what to loose it out of spite, I just think it would be pretty tight. So we will just see, but that means I need to buckle down and drop some pounds yo!

Breakfast: Wafflewich. Enough said.

Lunch: I had a Kung Pao Healthy Choice Steamers for lunch and they are usually pretty awesome. It was really good with a little sweet and spicy mustard. Yumtastic.

Snack: I was over at Starbucks for the afternoon to get stuff done (which actually turned in to going crazy on Spotify and being a Facebook prostitute, but that’s neither here nor there) so I had a NV granola bar and a skinny caramel macchiato. It was the best Starbucks drink I’ve had in a long time, so I was worried that it was no skinny. I’ll give Starbucks the benefit of the doubt.

Dinner: Tonight, we made tacos! Ole! I had two soft tacos and then had some nachos with the left over black beans. Pretty awesome.

SAWS!!!: After dinner, we went over to Leach for some SAWSness. I did the total body program on the elliptical for 40 minutes. It was a really good sweat. I’m a little gunshy to lift weights because my left arm felt really strained after just doing one machine on the other day. I didn’t have any of these pains during Insanity, but it came back in the gym. I’m going to try doing some free weights tomorrow and we will just see how that goes.

Snack: I had a small bowl of honey nut cheerios (not clumps of hair involved) and some Rainier and Bing cherries. I’ve never had a Rainier cherry and all I have to say it WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL OF MY LIFE DELICIOUSNESS!?!

So today was pretty good. I haven’t added everything up yet, but I think I’ll be okay since I worked out. See ya tomorrow.

Day 306: Moooooooonday

Posted on August 1, 2011 by theffkid

Greetings!

Today was the first day of getting back on the bandwagon… again and I think it went really well. When I first went in to this weight loss ordeal, I thought “I’ll never fall off, I’ll never fall off, I’ll never fall off” but you can’t go in with that mindset. Now, I’m in the mindset of Chumbawamba: “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you never gonna keep me down!” The secret to the success of weight loss is sheer perseverance and a tenacity to keep your chin up (out of the plate of the chocolate covered french fries) even when you don’t want to get off the couch to go work out or when that second piece of cheesecake is calling your name. Anyways, food time.

Breakfast: I had a fantastic wafflewich with a beautifully delicious cup of coffee. What an awesome breakfast! (Seriously, if you haven’t tried to make one, do it tomorrow!)

Lunch: Before I went to work, Megan and I went over to Jimmy John’s for lunch. I had the Beach Club with half the mayo. It was as awesome as always.

Snack: Before I went to work out I had a Clif Bar. So good.

SAWS!!! After work, Megan and I went over to Leach for some SAWS Awesomeness. I did a few arm exercises and then did a 30 minute fat burn program on the elliptical. I burned around 500 calories today. I can’t wait to work out tomorrow! MEOW!

Dinner: Tonight, I had the urge to fire up the grill so we made some turkey burgers! I took the recipe from the WW cookbook, it’s a classic. Megan also made some sweet potatoes slices. We also used onion bagels for the buns. Pretty awesome.

Snack: Megan popped some popcorn on the element. Have you ever tried that? Sooooo good.

So today was a step in the right direction. I’m going to keep it up! See ya tomorrow.

Day 305: The Weigh In After Disney

Posted on July 31, 2011 by theffkid

Sup yo!

So after a trip full of eating a lot of rich delicious food and snacking snacking snacking, I thought I was going to have to pay the piper. I was ready to accept the consequences. I mean, you do need to still live your life, not to mention we were on vacation. However, that is a fine line between being on vacation and completely vacating your diet. (Does anyone know what I’m talking about?) Anyways, last week I didn’t weigh so it’s been two weeks so I was a little concerned, but it turned out alright. I gained .6 pound during our trip. I was worried that it was going to be bad. I mean, it’s still a gain, but I’m back on the wagon, the vacation is over, and I’m ready to DROP SOME POUNDS!!!!! GAME TIME BABY!!!!!

Breakfast: This morning was kind of a whirlwind so I had a wafflewich with bananas (b-a-n-a-n-a-s) and it was pretty awesome. Also during church I had a strawberry muffin.

Lunch: The whirlwind of the day continued. After church, we went out to Lake Ella and made sandwiches for the homeless and really anyone who was out there. I just had a bag of potato chips.

Snack: After moving a dresser in to our house (score for all your friends moving out while you need more furniture! Holla!) I had a bowl of honey nut cheerios. They were delicious. It’s taken me a long time to like honey nut cheerios again because one time when I was 4 I was eating a bowl and then I pulled out a clump of hair that had 12 cheerios attached to it out of my mouth. Yeah, it was super gross.

Snack: Later that afternoon, we went over to TCBY for some fro yo awesomeness. I had a kids cup of toffee crunch fro yo with some peanut butter cups. The kids cup is definitely the best deal and filling. Pretty studly.

Dinner: You know there are those meals that you miss when you are away? Because that totally happened with chili. We made it for dinner tonight and oh boy oberto it was freakin’ delicious. Megan is an awesome cook. Enough said.

So today I did pretty well getting back on the wagon. I’m going to hit up the gym or something tomorrow too. I don’t know if I’m going to do Insanity, but I don’t know. We will just see. See ya tomorrow.

Day 304: Disney Recap Yo!

Posted on July 30, 2011 by theffkid

I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you miss me? Because oh me oh my did I miss y’all!!! It was a crazy week of vacationing awesomeness involving many miles walked, mounds of delicious food consumed and plenty of annoyed tourists. My family and us had a blast hanging out again and I miss them already. When Megan and I go to Disney, we usually don’t eat at too many of the restaurants, but since we were with my family we ate at all the awesome places. We also snacked a lot this trip as well which was good, but it meant that we needed to watch how much we ate.

Anyways, one advantage of Disney is you get your steps in. We walked 54.24 miles this week which was mostly done in flip flops (bad idea) and in high humidity (also a bad idea) so it didn’t quite offset our calories, but it helped I think. I’ll put up the pics on Wordless Wednesday so get stoked for that!

Breakfast: I had a waffle with some peanut butter and then we went over to my parent’s hotel and had some pretty good oatmeal. (Well… good for a hotel.)

Lunch: Before my parents headed out of town, we decided to hit up Jimmy Jonh’s for some subtastic awesomeness. I had the Beach Club which had turkey, sprouts, avocado spread (is that the same as guacamole?), and other great veggies. I should have held the mayo, but I forgot. Oops.

Dinner: We were planning on eating chili for dinner, but then were invited to Sonny’s for dinner. I had the Big Salad (yes… that’s what it’s called) with chargrilled chicken. I was going to have ranch dressing but Megan didn’t like her honey mustard so I traded with her. It was better on my salad so it worked out. I really liked the crasins with candied pecans on it. So awesome.

So today was a pretty good food day. I don’t know how weigh in day will go. I’m not going to lie, I did overindulge a lot on this trip, but we will just see how it goes. See ya tomorrow.

Day 296: Farting Friday

Posted on July 22, 2011 by theffkid

Why Hello!

Sorry for the no-post last night. Forgive me?

So my mom, dad and sis got in to Tallahassee last night and tomorrow we are on going to be on the way to Disney!!! Today, we gave them the tour dejour of Tallahassee (showing them my new office at FSU and meeting The Wolf, eating, going the most ghetto Walmart in the nation, then eating again.) It’s been an awesome day.

Breakfast: I got to sleep in (score) so I just had a bowl of Kashi Awesomeness. Hooray!

Lunch: My dad’s favorite place in Tallahassee is Monk’s so we went there for their famous burgers. I had the Veggie burger with sweet potato fries and then we all shared the artichoke dip. I only had half of the burger and the fries and I was pretty full. It’s nice to be full but not stuffed. So awesome.

Dinner: For dinner, we went to the swashbuckling depths of Barnacle Bill’s. Generally, non-fried seafood is pretty healthy so I had the Alaskan crab legs with new potatoes, a salad with a raspberry vinaigrette and I steered clear of the butter. Awesomeness.

So today I was pretty good. Every time I’ve gone to Disney I’ve lost weight (last time we walked a total of 30 miles) but since my parents are going, we are going to eat really well so I’m just going to watch what I eat and then share with Megan on some meals. Luckily, the hotel has wifi so expect some awesome vlogs, pics and other awesomeness. See ya tomorrow.