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.

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.

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.

don’t be fat. rededicated.

Today was a pretty good day.  Yesterday I decided to get off my ass and lose those twenty five more pounds to put me down at 180.  Since dropping down to 189 at the middle of last summer, I fell back into my fatness.  And picked up 16 pounds to put me at my current 205.  And that’s just too fat.

 

That and I figure I’m 33 years old.  I’ve wasted half of my productive life already.  So I reckon I got some making up to do.  And if I don’t get into shape pretty quickly, shit’s gonna start going south.  Fast.

 

So let’s see, a pop tart for breakfast.  Which really ain’t that good for ya, but it beat the hell out of McDonald’s.  Had some OJ also.  Snacked on some cheese crackers and trail mix.  Had ham and cheese sandwich on wheat for lunch with some Funyuns.  Those are pretty bad for ya, but they are so tasty.  And I’ve been eating Wendy’s for lunch a lot.  There’s one pretty close to where we’ve been working so anything today was a step in the right direction.

 

For dinner I had a cheese burger from my grill, peas from a can, and left over corn on the cob from the grill last night.

 

I really try to limit my carbs to breakfast and lunch but like I said, anything beats fast food.  Fast food kills.

 

Did 30 minutes on the bike and played a couple games of five on five basketball at the Y with a bunch of kids way younger than me.  But it’s a good workout.

the contest.

The contest.

 

A friend today got me thinking about Seinfeld.  I never planned my Thursdays around watching it but I would have to say that through re-runs and DVDs I’ve seen most of the series.  They did some really funny stuff on there.

 

One of the best episodes, some would say the best episode, was called the Contest.  Each of the four main characters have a contest to see who can go the longest without sex or masturbation.

 

Kramer is out before the first day has gone bye.  There’s a woman in the building across the street from his window that walks around her apartment naked.  It’s really funny as you see Kramer burst stumbling into Jerry’s apartment and slap his money down on the table.

 

But I was thinking about this particular episode today I decided to have a contest with myself.  No, not like that you perv. 

 

It’s a modified version of the contest from Seinfeld.  In this contest, I challenge myself to go without sex or masturbation until I weigh 180 pounds.  So it’s more of a challenge than a contest.

 

Unless someone else joins.  But I’m not sure how that would work.  There’d have to be some stakes.  Something other than a reward to myself.  I suppose the proper challenger, or entrant into my challenge, could make things very interesting…

 

I could make it really interesting on my own.  If I don’t achieve my target weight by a certain date I have to have sex with a fat chick.

 

But that’s probably what’s gonna happen anyway though.

 

I got down to 189.  Then I got lazy.  Went on vacation, got out of the routine and just never have gotten back into it.

 

So I know what I gotta do.  I gotta take my fat ass to the gym every freaking day.  Or five times a week minimum.  I gotta realign my diet with the ideology of nutrition that helped me lose all that weight in the first place.

 

Starts with no carbonated beverages.  And is followed quickly with no fast food.

 

I’m usually not good at stuff like this.  Ya know, setting goals and making them.  However I feel somewhat renewed as of late.  I feel I’m going to need all my Jedi skills in the coming months and phase one of Jedi training is preparing yourself physically.

 

Who’s with me?

 

I’m gonna say I’m at 205 as I sit my fat ass here in front of the computer instead of in the gym shooting hoops….

 

So from 205 to 180, that’s 25 pounds unless my math is wrong.  And it a lot of times is.  Ask the little girl at the bank that processes my overdrafts.

 

How long did it take me to lose 50 when I went from 240 to 189?  From November 06 to July 07.  Eight months, right?  Once again, not so good with the math thing.

 

It would stand to reason that I should be able to lose 25 pounds in four months.  That’s probably not right though.  When you’re a big fat ass like I was at 240, the first twenty or so is easy to come off.  If you don’t eat crap for you food and start a regular workout routine, you drop those first few pounds quick.  It’s the last few that are so hard.

 

So let’s say six months.  Check my math, but that puts me in the December range.  Now, to make my story really, really good I’m going to meet a girl very soon.  A smokin’ hot girl who for some reason wants to bed me.

 

But I stay true.  I tell her about my plight to better myself all the way around starting with my body. 

 

Naturally we fall in love, go through some trials, get things together and have sex on our wedding night six months from now or so on New Year’s Eve. 

 

That would be perfect.  Plus we’ve got a reason to skip out on family every year at Christmas to celebrate our anniversary.  YES!!!

 

I’ll keep ya posted on all that.

best work out in months.

I hade about the best work out I’ve had in months tonight getting my ass beat at basketball by some punk ass teenager.

 

Kid killed me.  24-10 and then 24-15.  Dude, my feet hurt.  I might have to upgrade my 15 dollar Starbury’s for some better sneakers.  Because surely it’s not my old, tired feet.

 

I wasn’t even gonna play ball tonight.  I was gonna shoot around for a minute then ride the bike.  More like I’m gonna try and give myself a heart attack trying to beat punk asses at the Y.  Please know that these punk asses included my nephew whom is one of my best friends.  So it’s a good group of guys, mostly younger but we had a dude older than me out there too, but it’s mostly teens.  My reference to them as punk asses is meant in a light hearted ribbing kind of way.

 

Like when Dave Chappell says, “Peace, bitches.”

 

Kid’s name is Jacob Jenkins.  http://wisconsin.scout.com/a.z?s=193&p=8&c=1&nid=2873791

 

I’m hoping the Wildcats or even Louisville, or Xavier or anyone local gets interested.  That would be cool.  I could watch him on TV and brag about how he used to kick my ass at the Y.

 

He did let me just go past him a couple times.  It really could have been worse.  If I could of bought a 3 ball that might have helped.

 

I’m back under 200 lbs, bitches.  Need to stay there the rest of my life. 

 

Been trying to avoid the fast food.  Fast food kills, man.  McDonald’s is like cocaine.  You just want it.  And after you have it, you just want more of it.

 

I think I only had fast food twice this week if you count Sunday.  Sunday I had White Castle on the way down to the White Brother Funk recording session.  Then a little later I piled some Chinese buffet on it.  And I know I could eat as much as I wanted ‘cause it was all coming out shortly.

 

It’s like the White Castles cause a reaction in my stomach.  Everything I eat after White Castles turns into some kind of almost liquid sludge in my intestines.  And as soon as the pressure on the anus builds to that point, everything just simply falls out the bottom.

 

It’s really kind of disgusting.

 

That is it actually.  Now I think about it.  That’s all the fast food I’ve had all week.  So that’s good.  I do try to avoid it.  But man, sometimes you just gotta have that fix.

 

The longer you go with out the easier it gets. 

today was a pretty good day.

Today was a pretty good day. 

 

Had a fried egg and ham sandwich with havarti cheese for breakfast on Sara Lee whole grain bread.  That’s some good breakfast, boy, let me tell ya.  I love me a fried egg on just about anything.  Just wish I’d a had some tomatoes.  That would have been killer.

 

Went the Y and rode the bike for about eighteen minutes until Zack showed up and wanted to play ball.  We ran five games of one on one.  He beat me three to two.  I’m so bad out of shape.  And he’s getting quicker.  And I’m not…

 

But that makes two days in a row to the Y.  I gotta get started back with the weight training.  Cardio is good, but weight training in addition helps lose more weight plus that’s what tones you up.  Gotta be lean and mean, ya know.

 

Had some cottage cheese and peaches for a snack.  I love cottage cheese and peaches.  It’s funny I used to think cottage cheese was nasty.  But man, I think I could eat it at every meal.  Of course that might get a little old.  But I sure do love it.  With bananas and peaches is the best.  Or one or the other is usually how I eat it.

 

Oh, I also carried 2300 feet of hardwood floor into the house we are going to start work on tomorrow.  Well, I really only carried about a third of it.  Mike and the builder, John, helped to carry it in.  But that’s still like 700 some odd feet.

 

Half of it went upstairs, so that’s nice.  My legs are rubber.

 

It really wasn’t too bad.  It’s ash.  Which is fairly light compared to some of the other hardwoods we work with.  I think the boxes weigh about 45 pounds each.  That’s hella better than the 89 pounds cherry weighs.

 

It’s a good work out though. 

 

Of course I’m going to go negate any of the positive traction I made today by going out to watch the Kentucky basketball game.  Probably have a burger and some fizzy beverages…but what the hell.  Season’s almost over.

28 Feb 08

28 FEB 08

 

I was pretty good today.  Vanilla yogurt, cheerios and a banana for breakfast along with a glass of OJ, a cup of coffee and my one a day multi vitamin.

 

Turkey sandwich for lunch.  Snacked on a banana, small Macintosh apple and a bag of peanut m and m’s.  The m and m’s aren’t that good for me, but hey, I work hard damn it.

 

Fixed spaghetti for dinner.  Browned some mild Italian sausage and added mushrooms and then some super chunky Ragu.  Served over fettuccini noodles.

 

Had two Gatorades.  Those aren’t really that good either, but I played a full game of full court basketball.  Went and played in the church league tonight.  It was kinda lame since the other team didn’t have enough players and we won by forfeit, but it was fun and we did have enough players to run a full five on five game.

 

I need to work in my stamina on the bike and on the court.  I get winded in the first five minutes of running.  I recover okay but I shouldn’t get winded like that.  Get all dizzy and see stars and shit.  That ain’t so good.