memorial day weekend.

okay, it’s easy to lose focus on a holiday.  and that’s okay.  don’t be fat is a process and sometimes you get off track.  just know that you can make better decisions the next day.  only problem is i do this to myself every weekend it seems.

and it just don’t make no sense.  i spend all week getting up early and going to work out at the YMCA.  i eat fruit smoothies for breakfast.  i pack a lunch that consist of chicken breast and some kind of veggie.  i bring healthy snacks like carrots and cottage cheese and peaches.  i don’t drink soda, only water.  i try to ingest my carbs early in the day when my body processes them better and turns less to fat and more to energy.

then the weekend comes and it’s like i’m back in college.  i pour bourbon and beer down my throat like it’s my job.  and i do my job well.

and all that drinking leads to eating poorly.  fast food, soda pops, late meals.  it’s terrible the things i do to myself in the light of all that i’m trying to accomplish.

that’s okay.  don’t be fat is a state of mind.  a journey and not a destination.  yeah, i was fat this weekend. 

but not today.

holding steady.

i know why chicken wings aren’t on the men’s health abs power diet.  seems whenever you eat chicken wings it involves drinking some beers.

and beers make you fat.  i’ve been holding steady at around 196 pounds for about two weeks now and i think it’s because i’ve been drinking too many beers.  beers is not good for trying to lose weight.  beers really aren’t very good for you anytime really.

any good weight lose plan should probably include as one of the first steps cutting out alcohol.  not that you have to all together stop drinking.  that would be crazy.  but to drop some pounds, cut out the booze for a while.  then you have to not over do it once you’ve got your weight off.

i’ve been doing pretty good about eating the right foods and avoiding fast food and soda pops.  and i’ve been doing real good in going to the ymca and exercising.  been there at six in the morn a few times the last couple of weeks.  that just feels good.  to get up and going that early.  it just kinda launches your whole day.  i love it and highly recommend it.

but i’ve not lost any wieght in the last week.  too many beers.  so let’s go a week not having any beers and see what we weigh in at next wednesday.

i had bacon for breakfast.

yeah, what of it?

no smoothie for me today.  just craving the bacon.  mmm…bacon.  and bacon is okay.  just so long as you don’t eat it for three meals a day seven days a week, right?

i had bacon, tomato, slice of cheese on two slices of toasted whole wheat bread.  not too bad.  had some decaf at the Y.  that’s kinda pointless.  i mean it tasted alright but there’s just something missing.  oh, the caffeine.

made some don’t be fat t-shirts today.  one for myself and one as a gift for a friend of mine.  she’s a little smoking hottie.  the reason i’m busting my ass trying to get all not fat.  well, she’s a part of the reason. 

i’m getting old man.  and i’ve not really accomplished too much in my life.  i’ve had a good time but that’s about it.  i’m probably going to have to live for a while to get something done.  so i better get my ass in shape so i can last.  plus i like little smoking hotties.

all vanity aside, i just feel better working out and eating food that’s not crap.  speaking of which, i’m grubbing down on some cottage cheese and peaches right now.  i love that smooth and creamy stuff.  it’s like 4% milk fat, but it’s good.

the t-shirt is pretty dang cool i think.  i found a picture of betty page holding a whip and looking really mean.  really hot and mean.  and underneath it i wrote “don’t be fat.”  i think it’s awesome.  if i had just a bit more motivation i’d post a picture of it up here and sell them too you.

maybe if there were more than two people a day to read this blog i might be slightly more motivated.  i also made myself a t-shirt that says “read my blog.”  i think that’s funny too.

i bought a juicer this weekend for a buck at a yard sale.  thought i’d start making some healthy carrot juice and tomato juice and stuff like that.  well, there’s a reason i found a juicer at a yard sale for a buck.  it’s not worth that to clean that bitch out.  what a mess.  and two tomatoes was barely enough for a decent glass anyway. 

i’ll stick to the V8.

i did get my work out in this morning.  well, today was my cardio day i guess.  i skipped rope for five minutes then shot ball.

i do this thing where i jack up shots and chase after the ball and either lay it up on the goal i was shooting at or run it to one of the side goals and lay it up.  i can totally juke those invisible defenders out of their invisible jocks.

that’s how i got myself intot he habit of going to the Y in the first place.  since i really don’t enjoy working out all that much i would just go and shoot ball.  any kind of running around and jumping is good for you.  find the physical activity you enjoy the most and go for it.  get in the habit of doing it everyday and it’s then an easy transition to working out regularly.

these peaches are pretty damn good today.  i got the kind that come in the plastic jar instead of the canned ones.  they aren’t that much more expensive.  and i do think they are much mo’ better.

i think for lunch i’m going to go to the resturant i work at.  we have a grilled tilapia that’s much tasty.  i have to go up there to renew my driver’s liscense anyway.  and the resturant is right across the street.

i got some chicken for dinner.  some chicken breast and some whole grain pasta.  i know, i know.  pasta after lunch doesn’t help out that much.  but it is whole grain and screw it, i feel like pasta tonight. 

i got some asparagus i bought the other day that needs to be eat.  i’m just not sure how to cook it.  i tried to cook it on the grill the other night but i burned it.  badly.  it’s real thin little asparagus.  prob should just steam it.

baked cheetos are freaking awesome.

you still shouldn’t eat them.  i suppose they are better for you than the regular ones.  but still.  cheetos make you fat.  don’t be fat.  you can eat cheetos, baked or otherwise, you just gotta eat a little bit.  early in the day.

not at ten o’clock at night.  like i just did.  in fact, i’m probably going to get some more.

dang, those are so good.

i’m 195 and a half.  wednesday’s are my weigh in days, but i just wanted to see how fat i’d been over the weekend.  i’m bad on weekends. 

last week was an awesome week for me.  i was at the Y at six three days and went to the Y four out of five.  i started a new workout and was feeling great.  my smoothies for breakfast, a smart snack at ten, a well prepared lunch of baked chicken and some veggies, another smart snack such as cottage cheese and peaches and then a reasonable supper.

then the weekend rolls around.  the first morning wasn’t bad.  no wait, counting breakfast at the waffle house at three am, saturday morning started out pretty bad.  fast food twice, eating late in the night, soda pops,

i did end the weekend by eating at this kick ass vietnamese place called vietnam kitchen.  it rocked.  just noodles, chicken and veggies.  and probably enough salt to murder about a million snails.

but that’s okay.  the key to the cal reed method of weight lose and management is to understand that you are going to be fat sometimes.  you have to choose everyday to not be fat.  you actually have to make that choice several times thoughout the day.  that’s why it’s such a good idea to pack your lunch and your snacks.  it’s an easy decision to eat right if you have it packed and ready.

just don’t bring the whole bag of cheetos.  bring just enough for one lunch.  otherwise you’ll end up eating too much and grubbing on them all day instead of eating your smart snack of cottage cheese and peaches.  i mean, i love cottage cheese and peaches but if there’s an open bag of cheetos it’s over.

i’ve been fat and havn’t gone to the grocery.  that’s why i gotta eat these baked cheetos so late.  if i had gone to the grocery, there would be some cereal at least, or some cottage cheese to much on.  but no.  just cheetos.

and i don’t have my smootie stuff for breakfast.  i suppose i’ll have to stop at the grocery on the way home from the Y in the morning.  the freaking market on the way is so danged expensive.  cheaper than driving all the way down to the kroger though…but what do i care about burning through four dollar a gallon gas?

i thought those baked cheetos were gonna kill me.

thinly sliced chicken.

Moment of weakness.  I had some good gluttonous sex and that made me crave some good gluttonous food. 

 

Did good for breakfast and lunch yesterday but broke down while I was on Bardstown rd. and found a nice greasy spoon for a cheeseburger for dinner around four thirty.  Then the grease got in my system like crack cocaine and I just had to have more.  So I stopped on my way home from band practice and got two double cheeseburgers and a home-style chicken sandwich with cheese from the McDonalds. 

 

I feel fat. 

 

But it’s ten to six and I’m on the way out the door to the Y. 

 

I’ll try harder to don’t be fat today.

 

I did start a new workout yesterday.  It’s in the back of the most recent issue of the Men’s Health.  It was kinda quick and didn’t really seem too hard on me.  Until I woke up this morning.  Dang.

 

My thirty minutes on the bike where hard.  The work out just uses light dumbbells but it’s squats and this other thing where I put on leg up on a bench and lift myself up and in the same motion pull my off leg up to where it parallels with the ground.  Then I lower myself and repeat.  Do both legs.

 

I can really feel it in my quads.

 

Squats of any sort are good for weight loose as your quads and your gluts are two of the biggest muscle groups in your body.  Gets lots of muscles working.

 

I had sushi tonight for dinner which ain’t too bad.  But the chocolate pie I got at the Kroger later wasn’t so good.  Then when I got home and started working on lunch tomorrow I felt compelled to finish off the last of mom’s leftovers.  I mean, they were gonna go bad.

 

Oh well.  I’ve got chicken strip sandwiches on onion rolls and peas and carrots.  Some cottage cheese for my ten o’clock snack and we should be home before I need my two o’clock snack.  But just in case, I might bring some cereal and yogurt.

 

I read this interesting piece in the Men’s Health.  Some dude, don’t know who he is but he’s apparently made a bunch of money selling healthy eating and living books and all that crap.  He’s got this thing where he carries a cooler around with him and he don’t eat anything that don’t come out of his cooler.

 

That’s actually kinda genius.  I find that if I plan my meals in advance, there’s a much higher chance I’ll eat healthy.  Or at least reasonably healthy.  When I don’t plan is when I run to the McDonalds or Wendy’s or whatever.

But if I plan my meals and take them with me in a cooler I rarely deviate.  There’s no reason too.  I got lunch right here in my cooler. 

 

Oh, and I’ve decided I like the Kroger better than the Wal-Mart even though it cost more on most stuff.  They did have bananas on fifty cents a pound and that made me happy.  The produce at the Kroger is much better I’ve found than the Wal-Mart.  I think they have better meat too.

 

I always like to look at the getting ready to go bad section and get deals on meat.  I think the Wal-Mart has one of those but theirs sucks.

 

I got two pounds of thinly sliced chicken that I’m using for my sandwiches tomorrow for $2.70.  That’s a bargain.  If I didn’t cook it tonight, it might go bad.  Good thing I’m cooking it tonight.

two days strong, bitches.

Two days strong, bitches. 

 

That’s right.  Took my fat ass to the Y this morning at six in the am.  It was embarrassing yet again.  No, I didn’t try to skip rope today.  I tried to do chin ups.  I got about two.  Then about five dips before my arms gave out.

 

So I said screw it and went to shoot ball.  I get pretty good run doing that.  I jack up threes then chase down the rebound and run to lay it up on one of the side goals.  I shoot the ball at the middle goal and there are two goals on either side of the gym from there.

 

Then I run up and down the court dribbling the ball at the same time.  Figure I might as well work on my handles while I’m there.

 

Strawberry and banana smoothie for breakfast with a cup of coffee and a glass of orange mango juice.  Cottage cheese and peaches for my ten o’clock snack.  Chicken breast and corn for lunch.  Skipped my two o’clock snack because we were in the middle of staining a floor and were gonna be off soon anyway.

 

Having spaghetti for dinner with probably a salad.  I’ll have some yogurt and cheerio’s for a later snack I’m sure.  I try to consume my carbs earlier in the day than dinner.  But I’ve had hardly any in the last two days and as long as we eat before seven or eight, I’ll be alright.

 

I know it’s only been two days, but I feel really good having gone to the gym early.  I feel great actually.  I’m the fattest, laziest person I know.  And if I can get my ass up and take it to the Y, anyone can.  Really.  I’ve been likened unto a sloth before.  More than once actually.  I’m really, really lazy.

 

It takes what, 14 days to develop a good habit?  And one to develop a bad one.  Funny how that works.  But whatever.  It’s a decision you have to make every day.  A decision to don’t be fat.

 

Where you fat today?

i took my fat ass to the YMCA at six thirty this morning.

My ipod crapped out on me today.   That really sucks.  It was just one of the little nanos but it rocked.  No fancy digital touch screen.  It just played the music that I put on it.  But I reckon those smart geeks over at Apple put a chip in it to make it crap out sometime so I’d have to go buy a new one.

 

You suck Apple.  Although I do love your products.  Why oh why did my ipod have to die?

 

It was a sanding day too.  I hate sanding.  Put the ipod made it all a little more tolerable.  Of course we can’t have that.

 

I did eat well today though.  I even took my fat ass to the Y at six this morning.  Well, more like six thirty, but still.  That place is pretty much deserted by six thirty.  It’s bumping at five thirty, but at six thirty everyone has to leave for work.  So I pretty much had the whole place to myself.

 

It would have been really funny if anyone had seen me trying to skip rope this morning though.  It was ugly.  I’ve not skipped rope in like what?  Since high school probably.  Maybe before then. 

 

It’s a pretty good workout though.  Even if you don’t know what your doing.  I skipped rope for five minutes and was already sweating all over myself.  So I guess that means it works.

 

I just shot some ball this morning after I skipped rope.  By the time I got there at six thirty I really didn’t have too much time before I had to start getting ready for work.  So I just skipped the rope, shot some hoops and I even dribbled up and down the court as fast as I could to work on my quick a little.

 

I think the rope skipping should help improve the quick.

 

But I really need the cardio work.  I felt bad last night getting run by those dudes.  I was just tanked when I played my last game.  Lazy defense makes me angry.  Even worse when I’m the one with the lazy D.

 

Had my strawberry and banana smoothie for breakfast.  Had cottage cheese and some peaches for my ten o’clock snack.  Had the baked chicken and peas I prepared last night for lunch.  Finished off my can of peaches for my two o’clock snack.  Came home and fixed some Italian sausage for dinner which I ate with a slice of cheese and the rest of the peas from lunch.

 

I picked up some Cheerio’s for my snack a little later if I need one.  And I’m sure I will.  I’m always hungry.  But if I eat good stuff, it’s okay to stuff my face.

 

I feel good about going to the gym this morning.  It makes the work day long but I should sleep pretty well tonight.  And I’m trying to get back in the habit of going to work out in the morning.  So one day down.

 

Some thoughts from my day in regards to healthy lifestyle choices.  Because diets don’t work.  People go “on diets” all the time but as soon as they stop the diet they go back to what they were doing before and gain all the weight back.  That’s why diet books are always good sellers.  People are suckers.

 

You have to make lifestyle changes if you are tired of being fat.  I’m tired of being fat.  So I’m going to the gym and eating better.  I know it’s a radical concept I’m working with here but bear with me.

 

We all want to have that lean, mean love making machine body we see in magazines and in movies.  And that person is in my body somewhere.  Under layers and layers of fat and grime I’ve placed there over the years.  The key is to let that person take over now.  If you wait until you’re all thin and sexy, you’ll never be all thin and sexy.

 

The person you see in your mind eats well and works out on a regular basis.  That person you see is confident in their choices and confident in himself.  Or herself.  You gotta let that person start running the healthy show immediately.

 

You’ll feel better.  Feeling better makes you look better.  And once you set up a regular work out routine and start making good eating habits you’ll notice the difference pretty quickly.  If you really hit it hard to start, you’ll see results in ten days.  I promise. 

 

Once you see those small results, it’s easy to get motivated and continue to make good health decisions. 

 

Unfortunately it’s easy to get frustrated.  Especially when you don’t think things are moving as quickly as you’d like.  Or if you stay out drinking one night have Steak and Shake at five in the morning then decide to wash that out with McDonald’s at noon the next day.  It happens.

 

It is not the end of the world when those things happen.

 

The key to the Cal Reed method of healthy living is pretty simple.  Each day is a new day to make good health decisions.  So don’t sweat it if you screw up and have a Big Mac.  It’s okay.  Just make sure to sweat it off tomorrow.

sprained my thumb today.

Sprained my thumb today.  And no, it is not an injury induced by breast fondling.  That would be cooler.  But no, I reckon I jammed it or something when I was trying to keep some punk ass kid from scoring on me at the Y earlier.

 

Stupid punk ass teenagers.

 

But I did eat pretty well today.  Broke down and had pizza for breakfast.  It was in the fridge so what are ya gonna do? 

 

Oh and some doughnuts with my coffee.  Mmm…doughnuts and coffee…mmm…

 

The rest of the day wasn’t bad.  Ham and cheese loaf sandwich for lunch with some Red Hot Munchies.  Those things are pretty damn tasty.

 

Grilled myself a tuna sandwich on good big wheat bread before the Y, and after the Y I went up to the restaurant and had some grilled catfish with asparagus.  Mmm…asparagus.

 

Motivated somewhat by my binge fast food eating this weekend I went to the Kroger and got some good stuff for lunch tomorrow.  I baked some split chicken breast with rib meat and fixed up two cans of peas.  Not terribly inventive, but it’s hard to stay fat eating like that.

 

Gonna make an effort to get my lazy ass up and go to the Y in the morning before work.  That’s the best time for me.  I just feel better all day having started out on a good note.  It kicks up my metabolism all day and I have more energy throughout. 

 

I’m just so frakking lazy.  And yes, I said frak.  I’m totally down with BSG.  Someone should buy me the DVDs for Christmas.

make the choice don’t be fat everyday.

I was fat today.  I had McDonalds.  Late.  And at the same time as two slices of microwaved pizza I found in the fridge when I got home from band practice tonight. 

 

I mean, notwithstanding the four previous fast food meals, I had the chance to stop the gorging.  I could have made the choice to go to the grocery and get a healthy snack tonight and also a fairly healthy lunch for tomorrow.

 

But no.  McDonalds is like crack.  Once you get a little taste in your mouth you crave it like the crack head craves his crack.  If you could crush up a big Mac and snort it, you would.

 

It was a long derby weekend.  And I ate like it. 

 

The great thing about the Calboy diet is the Calboy diet don’t, (funk pause), stop.

 

That’s right.  It’s okay to screw up.  In fact, it’s counted on that you will mess up.  You really have to make it a lifestyle change.  You have to choose to eat well.  Tonight I chose to eat poorly.

 

But that’s okay.  Tomorrow I’ll eat better.  I started out today okay, with the strawberry smoothie.  It just all went to shit around lunch time when I had nothing prepared and we had to run to the McDonalds because it was the closest thing.

 

I’m almost convinced the crappy foods they have at the gas stations are better for you.  McDonalds just taste so good though.  It’s laced with crack, man.  It’s gotta be.