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1,005 Days of Wordless Wednesday
Day 974: Hello!
The Office is over. One of the best series finales ever. I mean, it was no Seinfeld finale… (said no one ever.)
Happy BT Thursday Yo!
Anyway, it has been too flippin’ long. My eating has been up and down like crazy and I have this Dietbet that I sadly mildly care about at this point. I know that sounds bad, but maybe I’m just not cut out for weight losing competitions. I’m way too awesome at self-sabotaging. Need to work on that. Anywho, I ate really well today which just makes you feel better all around. Let’s talk food and stuff!
Breakfast: Waffles with a smidgen of peanut butter 3.5 points.
Lunch: Turkey Tom with avocado instead of mayo 7 points
Snack: Yummy yogurt. 3 points
This is where things get delicious. Brace yourself…
For dinner, we decided to consult the best website since spacejam.com (yes, this site still exists!) we went to Skinny Taste for some low-cal deliciousness. After arguing for hours on end about what to make (it’s all so delicious!) we decided on Skinny Taste’s amazing chicken cacciatore! We won. It was flippin amazing! So flavorful. So hearty. So low cal. I had two servings which was about 12 points.
Snack: I FINALLY found PB2 in Tallahassee! I was so excited to try it (if you’ve used it, post your favorite recipe in the comments!) I made a serving and ate it with celery. This is a beginning of a delicious relationship. 1 point for 2 tbsp!
So today I got to 26.5 points which is right where I want to be. Time to keep this going. See ya tomorrow.
Day 965: Thursday Stuff
Brooke the Baller
If you haven’t read Brooke’s amazing blog, check it out as soon as you are done reading my ridiculousness. Last night, Brooke reached her weight loss goal! She has lost almost 180 pounds!!!! Check out her “After” blog (just click on the photo and it will sent you straight there!)
Anyway…Hello!
It feels like I haven’t actually written anything for a while. Well, now I’m back like a boss. Losing weight and taking names (or something like that.) Today was full of deliciousness, better yet, most of it was pretty healthy!
Let’s get started!
Breakfast: WAFFLEWICH!!!!! It’s been too long. No photo because I ate it in one fell delicious swoop!
Lunch: So today was my friends Cindy’s last day at work [insert sad face here] so we all went to Paisley Cafe for lunch! It’s one of those places where all the things are delicious so you change your mind every time you look at the menu. I went with the tomato bisque and the grilled cheese sandwich. Food porn at its finest, ladies and gentlemen!
(This is where I drank a crapton of water.)
Dinner: For those of you who don’t know, I LOVE WATERMELON!!! It’s my favorite fruit…okay…my favorite produce. So when my my friend Tristan the Tristastic made watermelon gazpacho the other night, I was SWOOOOOOOOOOONED. Tonight, Megan and I made our own batch. This deliciousness has watermelon (duh), tomatoes, shallots, cucumber, yellow bell pepper, basil and mint all combined in to one bowl of amazing. We got to use Megan’s new hand emersion blender too!
(I have a bad history with emersion blenders. In 8th grade, I put my finger in the center of the blade and turned it on, slicing right under my finger nail, causing an enormous amount of blood to spew henceforth. I cried and sat outside waiting for my Mom to get back from the store. I was an odd child.)
Anyway, so that’s all I really had today. It was an awesome day. Tomorrow should be just as awesometastic. See ya tomorrow.
Day 958: Thursday And Stuff
Your body feels awesome when you feed it right.
HELLO!
I feel awesome right now! I won’t bore you with the details, but my body feels better even after just eating right and a little bit of exercise. Basically, I’m glad to be back on the weight loss wagon. L
Let’s talk food!
Oh yeah, I live in a beautiful place.
Breakfast: An egg and a piece of toast-4 points
Snack: Cheerios-2 points
Lunch: Two salmon salad sandwiches (using a can of salmon from Sam’s Club)-13 points
Dinner: Two slices of homemade pizza with chicken sausage-10 points
Exercise: So I’m doing a May challenge with Jenny Hodges of MetamorFit fame (she’s lost more than 200 pounds! You may have seen here on the Yahoo! homepage and other shows) to burn 500 calories of exercise everyday. That’s 15,500 calories!!! If you want to join the challenge, join the event here!!! Anyway, so yesterday I played some serious racquetball and today I did a healthy combination of spinning, lifting, jogging and shuttle runs. I feel awesome and I smell gross. I win.
So that about does it! I got to 32 points so I’m AOK. See ya tomorrow.
Day 935: Welcome to Weigh-In Day!
I’M ALIVE!!!!!!!!
My awful bronchopneumonia (yeah…that’s what I had) has finally subsided and I feel sooooo much better. Hooray for NyQuil and antibiotics!
So I didn’t really post my weigh in last week pseudo-unintentionally. Frankly, I wasn’t sure if it was going to “take”. You see, when I REALLY sick, I tend to drop weight pretty quickly (like the time I lost 9 pounds in 24 hours from the Great Flu Fiasco of 2011). I thought this was the same case. I was down to 226.6, which is was my lowest recorded weight. I had FINALLY gotten past the 227 threshold that I’ve been flirting with since this time last year, and I figured I would just go back to where I was.
Well…that wasn’t the case!!!
I stuck well within my points last week and I drank water like it was going out of style! I really didn’t exercise much since I was sick, but I did randomly run a 5k on Saturday which was awesometastic as well! Anyway, with all of that I got on the scale this morning and I did a double take I weigh 224.6 freakin’ pounds! I lost 2 pounds this week!!!! I cannot describe how much better I feel! I was wondering if I was ever going to get through that 227 barrier that really has been haunting me. (Oh yeah…I’ve lost 132.4 pounds since September 2010. WHAT UP!!!!!)
Today, I started to evaluate my weight loss journey so far and how things are going. Like a lot of people, after I broke through the 100-pound milestone, my weight loss start to slow down quite a bit. I thought I had hit a plateau (which was half true) but the other part of it was that I got complacent with the whole journey. I started to let some things slide. An extra piece of dessert here and there, that kind of stuff. The biggest thing was I kind of just stopped counting points for a long time. It was just getting strenuous. All I knew is that I wasn’t going to backtrack back to 357, but what happened instead was I just got stuck: first in the 240’s and then in the 230’s, which is where I have been for about a year now. I was dieting but not dieting. I wasn’t fully committed. Now, I’m back at it. I realized that if I wanted to see results, I have to be a lot more stringent than I ever have. I’m not depriving myself, I’m just actually tracking and being sensible (that’s why there’s weekly points.) Sure counting and configuring points does take some work, but when you just think of it in the context of just another step in your food prep, it makes it easier. So to summarize, I’m back, baby! And it feels great. Thank you all for being so awesome. Your support means much more than you ever know. Thanks for being awesome.
Now, in lieu of photos of food and things, here’s a Vine of me making delicious Healthy Cookies from Skinnytaste.
Enjoy!
Click Here To Watch Me Make All The Delicious Things
See ya tomorrow.
Day 923: Thursday Time
My bracket might die tonight.
I’m in need of a serious screen detox tonight before I go crazy on a paper tomorrow. I’m taking one class the semester and I’m writing the final paper on childhood obesity initiatives in America. Needless to say a topic that is near and dear to my heart.
So let me just give you a quick rundown of the day:
- I did really awesome with food today! Got to 33 points!
- I did an epic leg workout today with squats (busted my record) and other awesomeness AND THEN I climbed the CN Tower…on the stairmaster. Pretty awesome huh?
- Suffered from a bit of a food hangover from my splurging. I feel better now. Awesomeness.
That’s about it! Here are the photos of today.
(Does my face look like zombies are after me in that photo?)
See ya tomorrow.
Day 922: Wordless Awesomeness
Day 921: Weigh In Time!
Why hello everyone!!!!
How do you like the type in the center? Personally, I really like it.
So I have been working out like crazy and I have been tracking my points down to the calorie. It is finally paying off! I lost 1.8 points! I’m finally back in to the 220’s (I mean, 229.8…but still) and I’m making great progress. I am only 18.6 pounds away from reaching my 30 in 90 goal!!!! OH SNAP!
Here’s how the day went down…
Today had the potential of going horribly wrong, and I think in the past I would have let it become a caloric nightmare. Instead I made it an awesome win! You see, as I was walking out the door this morning, I left all of my prepared food on the kitchen table. I didn’t realize it until I went to grab them out of the back seat of my car. Fail. Sooooooooo I knew that I had to stay focused with my food and not detract too much. I started the day off with a 7 point bagel and reduced fat cream cheese and then I had a snackable size of Froot Loops (I had totally forgotten that it was spelled that way! Weird huh?) Anyway, so that was 3 points.
Lunch: I ended up getting my classic Turkey Tom with avocado spread instead of mayo (it’s the difference of 20-some grams of fat!). Delicious 7 points.
Running Time!: Even though it was flippin cold and the whipping wind, I went for a run out in beautiful Southwood! I wanted to test my 5k time since it had been a while. My time was 29:18 which is awesome! It means I haven’t lost any pace time since the half. One thing I did notice was that my legs are already in sooo much better shape thanks to my leg workouts. I had a lot more endurance, especially when running up massive hills. Squats have made the difference.
EARTH FARE TIME!!!!
After our run, we went to Earth Fare to break in my super awesome discount card! We took advantage of their delicious salad bar. As you can see, I made my plate 50% salad instead of how it usually is. I got a piece of really tender chicken and then a side of sweet potatoes. Their hot/cold bar is such a perfect post-run meal! YERM!
You can also see we got our share of deliciousness! Mostly some of our great staples: peanut butter, eggs, Tillamook cheddar, apples, coffee, etc. but I also got a few pears! They’re so good this time of the year (actually, I have no clue when pears are ripe…) We also got two bottles of kombucha that we drank on the way home. Overall, it was a pretty awesome haul! Can’t for the many other awesome trips to come!
So today I got to about 25 points (give or take). Even if my estimate is a little off, I still have exercise points. Awesomeness!
See ya tomorrow.
Day 920: Monday Awesomeness
Don’t Blink.
(Doctor Who is dominating my life…)
Today has been pretty crazy! Had so much going on that my head is going to explode! Frankly, I’m not really sure where to begin! (I guess the beginning is a good place to start…)
Here are the highlights:
Breakfast: Peanut butter and banana on toasted flatbread. 3.5 points
Cheerios with a side of Duckface
Snack: A cup of dry Cheerios 2 points
Lunch: Last night, Megan made this AMAZING sausage and peppers combo so I had some of the leftovers for lunch! I toasted up a flatbread and put hummus on one side. It made for an awesome little pita thingy (words…not good with them.) 6 points
Snack: A 5 point White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Clif Bar. Perfect for a pre-workout snack! I also had a cup of coffee because I do that before I workout because I’m weird like that.
I sweat. Sweating is cool.
SAWS!!!: We had a crazy time trying to find a parking spot, to the point that we were just going to go home and do something else. Then when we got to the gym IT’S WAS FLIPPIN’ PACKED!!! All the cardio machines were packed, except for a treadmill in a corner. At this point, I was pretty frustrated. Nothing was going right and I just wanted to go home. Then, I put in my earphones, blasted some TV On The Radio, and went to town. After a few miles, the gym started to clear up and a stair master (which is what I wanted to do) opened up. I climbed conquered 100 flights. This evening, Megan reminded me of how big that really was. You see, one time when I was incredibly obese, I got locked in the stairwell of my office on the 21st floor. I had no choice but to walk all the way back down. When I was obese, I always said that I was the healthiest fat guy in the world. I thought I was a lot healthier than I actually was. What I was was in complete denial of my situation. So anyway, I walked down (not even up) 20 floors of stairs. I remember my calves being sore for a week and my knees just aching. Today? 100 floors up in 13:26. Not a problem. After a few miles no less! It’s pretty awesome to realize how far you’ve really come.
Snack: After my workout, I had some snap peas with 2 delicious tablespoons of hummus!
Delicious Dinner: Megan has figured out how to make the perfect baked potato…so we capitalized on that awesomeness. She also sauteed some brussels sprouts, slathered on some sour cream and added some cheese. What do you get? THE BEST BAKED POTATO EVER!!!! 8 points!
I also had some grapes. Yerm.
Swagtastic.
Earthlete Swag!: This evening I got something awesome in the mail! MY EARTH FARE DISCOUNT CARD!!! This is one of the perks I get for being an Earthlete: 15% discount card. Pretty awesome huh? This is HUGE for us because we really work hard to buy organic produce and meat. This is going to make it some much easier! Another excuse buster! Can’t wait to break it in! Any suggestions?
So that’s about it for today! Tomorrow is weigh in day! I can’t wait to see what Captian Scale-o (my scale’s new name) has to say tomorrow. No matter what, the weight loss renaissance has begun!
See ya tomorrow.
