write it down.

alright, so i’m pretty pissed at myself for ballooning back up to over 200 pounds.  i had been holding fairly steady right at 200 but soemthing has happened in the past two weeks and i’m weighing in at 205 now.  that does not make me happy.

i’ve been lazy.  i’ve been over eating, eating out, eating fast food, drinking too much booze, too many soda pops.  i lost my focus.

i dropped fifty pounds from november of 06 to the summer of 07.  that’s pretty good considering i’m the laziest person i know.  i looked in the mirror one day and realized i didn’t like what i saw.  i became motivated and driven to lose weight.  and i did.

but like all good things in my life, i lost focus.  stopped doing all the things that helped me lose weight and started doing all the things that made me fat.

one thing that helped me lose weight and maintain a healthy diet was writing down everything that i ate.  today starts again the diet log.  so far today i’ve had one and half servings of whole wheat oatmeal with one whole banana and about five strawberries.  mmm…strawberries.  and for lunch i had one of those little plastic cups of mixed fruit and three big spoons of cottage cheese.  i love cottage cheese.  and also for lunch i had one can of creamy chicken noodle soup.

this will make it easier for me to have a healthy snack and healthy dinner.  i’ve been to the Y and i’ve documented my food intake so far, it’ll be easy to do the same for dinner.

there are several studies and articles you can find about how keeping a log of what you eat helps you lose weight and keep it off.  the most recent article i’ve seen on it was in Time Magazine.  a study was down with obese people.  those who kept a log of what they ate lost twice the weight as those that didn’t keep a log.

write it down.  works for personal finance as well…

today i choose to be fat.

i weighed in at 205 today.  so i guess i’m a little depressed and i’m apparently taking it out on this big ass pot of alfredo i made for lunch.

and i had some cheesecake at work.  i didn’t want it.  but norma was giving away free cheesecake.

sometimes mac donald’s is like laxitive.

i said before if i don’t go to the grocery and get something for lunch, we end up eating fast food.  well, no one went to the grocery so we ended up having mac donald’s for lunch today.  and i was doing so good.  i was on three days with no fast food or soda pops or beers.

i’m not so sure the quarter pounder with cheese hurt me today though.  fifteen minutes after i ate it, it escaped through my butt hole.  it was terrible.  it was even worse because we were working in a residential house today.  sorry folks.  when you gotta go, you gotta go.

i suppose that’s better than blowing up a steamy, hot porta john.

oh well.  skipped the gym today too.  getting home from work at seven makes it terribly difficult to muster up the motivation required to go ride the freaking bike for fourty five minutes.  but i did walk up and down a flight of stairs all day today.  so i guess that’s not so bad.

i skipped the y yesterday too.  but i walked about three miles.  so that kinda makes up for it.

i reckon the real key is to be active and do something physical every day.  going the gym is idea, at least for me it is.  but as long as you are eating right and getting at least some physical activity, you are going the right direction.  well, you may not be moving forward, but at least you aren’t going backwards.

no fast food today.

i’m tipping the scales at 200 again.  that pisses me off.  but i have been really lazy with the not going to the gym and eating fast food and drinking lots and all that.

but today i had no fast food at all, no soda pops, and no booze.  i did however eat out twice…had a sandwich wrap and a slice of pizza for lunch and a nathan’s chili cheese dog for dinner.  oh, and doughnuts and coffee for breakfast.  so i guess i ate out three times today…ay carumba.

still beats the hell out of fast food.  fast food kills, man.

i’m snacking on cottage cheese, peaches and a banana now.  so that’s good.  and i did make it to the gym today.  just did some cardio work.  the first step in getting back in the habit of going to the gym is to simply go to the gym.  just go and do something.  anything.  just go.

so i went and played ball with my nephew.  i kicked his ass.  i beat him four out of seven games.  the last one was pretty ragged for the both of us though.  playing ball for an hour or so works me harder than the same amount of time on the bike.  i guess i’m just trying harder when i’m playing ball.  i’m sure i could work myself that hard on the bike.  but whatever.

tomorrow dawns a new day and i do not intend on eating out or having any drinks.  i bought strawberries and bananas and yogurt for a breakfast smoothie and i’ve got cottage cheese for my morning snack.  i should have gotten something for lunch too, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

it’s obvious

if i don’t go to the grocery, ain’t nobody going to the grocery.  everyone knows how bad it is to eat out.  to eat fast food.  but these em effers are all too lazy to go to the dadgum store.  i know, i’m one of them.

so for lunch tomorrow we are having balongna and cheese on oatnut bread.  beats the hell out of fast food or convenient store food.

i don’t like going to the gym when i get home from work.  especially if i have to work late.  i got home at seven tonight and felt like doing anything but going to the gym.  i hate it.  it’s much easier for me to go in the morning before work.

saved myself from mac donald’s double cheeseburgers.

i was off work late and tonight is band practice night.  so i gotta roll up to la grange as quickly as i can get there.  we usually start around five thirty and it’s already close to seven.  sometimes my guitarist wusses out and leaves early.  if he even makes it to practice in the first place.  we need a new guitarist, but that’s for another blog.

there’s a mac donald’s on the way and man, i’m really hungry.  didn’t have my two o’clock snack today and a dollar double cheeseburger sounds awesome right about now.

but i am strong.  i drive past the mac donald’s and just hope danny’s got something to snack on when i get to practice.

to very little surprise, practice has been cancelled.  but i do get there in time to share dinner with danny and melanie.  danny grills us up some chicken breast and his wonderful woman makes some corn and stovetop stuffing.  i love stovetop stuffing…

that’s hella better than a double cheeseburger at the mac donald’s.

but then i had to drive past that damned mac donald’s on my way back home.  the pull of the double cheeseburger was too great for me to resist this time around.  i suck.  i better get my fat ass up and go to the gym in the morning.