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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
At home day 16, Treading again, and figuring out that we eat out a ton!
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Comments/Thoughts:
It is weird how you can see yourself and your life one way and then notice you were pretty far off. I have noticed that since I have been home and blogging that we eat out a ton. I mean I knew we ate out a decent bit, but I always felt that I cooked quite a bit at home and that was the bulk of it, but today we ate out for two meals. I think a large part of it is being social. For example the second time I went out today was to do kids night at Fazolis where they have someone to color with the kids and you can hang out with your friends with kids. I was there with my friends Zack, Laura and Kevin and we had about 5 kids with us. It was nice to have adult time and kid time and a good dinner.
I have made mostly good choices when I went out to eat, but for me it is like taking an alcoholic to a bar 3 to 8 times a week. I am in recovery and a great way to relapse is to constantly surround myself with temptations. Tonight I ate my dinner which was already a big plate of spaghetti, but within my calories for the day, but the next thing I knew I was helping the kids finish off their pasta dishes. I did not even know I was doing it and stopped it once I did, but then I took all of their food to go. Big mistake... I knew they were not going to eat it rewarmed, and guess who ate it? Me! Argh! I know better than that, and I still messed up. I really need to work on modifying my behavior if I am going to be in these situations so much. It is one thing to go out for a cheat meal, but another to choose to surround myself with the temptations.
Today was also the first day I did treading again. A quick treading recap is 5 minutes as hard as you can go, 5 cool down, 4 hard, 4 cooldown, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1. It felt good to push myself again. Hopefully it balanced out my mistake. I do not want this to be a lost week. My body needs to understand mistakes vs. normal. Normal is healthy eating and I expect my body to get to a healthier weight.
Statistics:
I walked 8,948 steps and 4.4 miles and burned 3,639 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6
Watch calories burned: I did not have it for my workout, but good news I found my heart rate strap! Watch will be back tomorrow.
Exercise:
Today I did a treading workout and it felt great to push myself again. I am going to try to do kettlebells on Friday, and get back into them. I feel like I am losing muscle as I type this! It needs to warm up so I can start hiking around here. Silly 20 degree weather! We looked at bikes today too, anyone have a recommendation for a bike for a 265 pound guy? Needs to be sturdy I imagine. That is what I get when I reach that goal weight. We are going to get some pull behinds for the kids. We will see how that goes, sounds like quite a workout.
Food:
Breakfast was eggs and toast with bacon once again. For lunch we went to the cafe that is attached to our gym called the Greenway cafe. I had the Mediteranian wrap which had some great chicken in it. No idea on calories, but I would say 400-600 and within my range for a meal. Dinner I went to Fazoli's with friends like I mentioned above and had a spaghetti with meat sauce and then went on to eat half a kids spaghetti and fettuccine. I just looked the Spaghetti I had up and it was 680 calories, not a deal breaker until you add in that I ate extra! Here is the Fazoli's nutrition (or lack there of) web page. ACK ACK ACK! This is a teachable moment is what I would say if I was a politician... Let us all remember to not take food home for the kids we know they will not eat.
Slideshow/Pictures:
By the way if you do not see the slideshow below or in other posts, they are flash applications so complain to Steve Jobs about your Ipad and Iphone not loading them. Sorry!
Comments/Thoughts:
It is weird how you can see yourself and your life one way and then notice you were pretty far off. I have noticed that since I have been home and blogging that we eat out a ton. I mean I knew we ate out a decent bit, but I always felt that I cooked quite a bit at home and that was the bulk of it, but today we ate out for two meals. I think a large part of it is being social. For example the second time I went out today was to do kids night at Fazolis where they have someone to color with the kids and you can hang out with your friends with kids. I was there with my friends Zack, Laura and Kevin and we had about 5 kids with us. It was nice to have adult time and kid time and a good dinner.
Today was also the first day I did treading again. A quick treading recap is 5 minutes as hard as you can go, 5 cool down, 4 hard, 4 cooldown, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1. It felt good to push myself again. Hopefully it balanced out my mistake. I do not want this to be a lost week. My body needs to understand mistakes vs. normal. Normal is healthy eating and I expect my body to get to a healthier weight.
Statistics:
I walked 8,948 steps and 4.4 miles and burned 3,639 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6
Watch calories burned: I did not have it for my workout, but good news I found my heart rate strap! Watch will be back tomorrow.
Exercise:
Today I did a treading workout and it felt great to push myself again. I am going to try to do kettlebells on Friday, and get back into them. I feel like I am losing muscle as I type this! It needs to warm up so I can start hiking around here. Silly 20 degree weather! We looked at bikes today too, anyone have a recommendation for a bike for a 265 pound guy? Needs to be sturdy I imagine. That is what I get when I reach that goal weight. We are going to get some pull behinds for the kids. We will see how that goes, sounds like quite a workout.
Food:
Breakfast was eggs and toast with bacon once again. For lunch we went to the cafe that is attached to our gym called the Greenway cafe. I had the Mediteranian wrap which had some great chicken in it. No idea on calories, but I would say 400-600 and within my range for a meal. Dinner I went to Fazoli's with friends like I mentioned above and had a spaghetti with meat sauce and then went on to eat half a kids spaghetti and fettuccine. I just looked the Spaghetti I had up and it was 680 calories, not a deal breaker until you add in that I ate extra! Here is the Fazoli's nutrition (or lack there of) web page. ACK ACK ACK! This is a teachable moment is what I would say if I was a politician... Let us all remember to not take food home for the kids we know they will not eat.
Slideshow/Pictures:
By the way if you do not see the slideshow below or in other posts, they are flash applications so complain to Steve Jobs about your Ipad and Iphone not loading them. Sorry!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
At home day 15, The beginning of week 3, and a new start.
Comments/Thoughts:
Well after my problems on Sunday, today was a chance to make up for it and I did fairly well. We did eat out today, but I was pretty diligent in making healthy choices. In the past one bad day has spilled into a week and then a month and so on and so on. I think one of the most important changes for me is going to be ensuring that one mistake does not snowball into a huge setback. If I can control and manage these small slip ups then getting to my goal weight should not be a problem at all.
I used my time after the kids went to bed tonight to work on a project for the blog. I had purchased the web address http://screamingbeltloop.com awhile back and want to transition my blog to a web space that I have control over. I really like blogger, but I think I can have more flexibility with wordpress on my own web host. Last night I imported all the blog posts and comments from here over to The Screaming Belt Loop site and have already made a decent amount of progress on the transition. Any input either here, or there would be appreciated on the look and things that need to be worked on. I chose the name just because my poor belts seem to be victims of denial when I have gained weight back and just did not want to move back up a loop. So some of the loops look like they have been put on the rack and tortured. Anyway it seemed like a good idea at the time. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Statistics:
I walked 11,487 steps and 5.6 miles and burned 3,816 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B
My heart monitor stat is missing! =/
Exercise:
Again today I did go to the gym and workout, but it was a brisk walk at an incline. I am looking forward to going back to kettlebells and double treading, but my body is just not there yet. The fitbit and treadmill claim I burned 700 calories. I miss my heart monitor.
Food:
Breakfast was eggs, toast and center cut bacon. For lunch my wife really wanted to take Katie to Cracker Barrel since she eats so well there. I had grilled chicken tenders with green beans and turnip greens, and also a small salad with less then a tablespoon of blue cheese. For dinner I had a flatout wrap with leftover chinese turkey stirfry and lettuce in it, as well as squash soup and two kashi cookies. I went a little heavy on the dessert section but still had less than 1600 calories today.
Pictures/Slideshow:
Well after my problems on Sunday, today was a chance to make up for it and I did fairly well. We did eat out today, but I was pretty diligent in making healthy choices. In the past one bad day has spilled into a week and then a month and so on and so on. I think one of the most important changes for me is going to be ensuring that one mistake does not snowball into a huge setback. If I can control and manage these small slip ups then getting to my goal weight should not be a problem at all.
I used my time after the kids went to bed tonight to work on a project for the blog. I had purchased the web address http://screamingbeltloop.com awhile back and want to transition my blog to a web space that I have control over. I really like blogger, but I think I can have more flexibility with wordpress on my own web host. Last night I imported all the blog posts and comments from here over to The Screaming Belt Loop site and have already made a decent amount of progress on the transition. Any input either here, or there would be appreciated on the look and things that need to be worked on. I chose the name just because my poor belts seem to be victims of denial when I have gained weight back and just did not want to move back up a loop. So some of the loops look like they have been put on the rack and tortured. Anyway it seemed like a good idea at the time. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Statistics:
I walked 11,487 steps and 5.6 miles and burned 3,816 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B
My heart monitor stat is missing! =/
Exercise:
Again today I did go to the gym and workout, but it was a brisk walk at an incline. I am looking forward to going back to kettlebells and double treading, but my body is just not there yet. The fitbit and treadmill claim I burned 700 calories. I miss my heart monitor.
Food:
Breakfast was eggs, toast and center cut bacon. For lunch my wife really wanted to take Katie to Cracker Barrel since she eats so well there. I had grilled chicken tenders with green beans and turnip greens, and also a small salad with less then a tablespoon of blue cheese. For dinner I had a flatout wrap with leftover chinese turkey stirfry and lettuce in it, as well as squash soup and two kashi cookies. I went a little heavy on the dessert section but still had less than 1600 calories today.
Pictures/Slideshow:
Monday, February 21, 2011
Starting a transition to a different web address and blogging type
I have setup a copy of my blog at the web address http://screamingbeltloop.com and encourage anyone that reads the site to go check it out. I eventually will fully transition to that site. I need some suggestions and input on the site design and flow. I have setup a discussion area over there, or you can comment here. Sorry for the initial confusion, right now posts will mirror on both sites. (except this one....)
Dwayne
Dwayne
Sunday, February 20, 2011
At home Day 14, Challenges and being a binge eater...
Comments/Thoughts:
You did not think I was just going to drop another 100 pounds without a speed bump or two did you? I know I was pretty sure there would be some bumps in the road and today was definitely one. I ended up having a mini binge today after I got a bit stressed out over a random argument with my wife. It was your typical little disagreement that did not get resolved because she had to go to work and so as I sat and stewed over it I started getting this crazy urge to eat. I had eaten about 300 calories of pop chips and two large scoops of peanut butter with two glasses of milk before I even really knew what hit me. At that point I knew I was in some serious trouble as I was already self-rationalizing about how it would be ok to take the kids on a drive to some nice drive through windows I have not seen in awhile. Luckily as I was getting them ready I decided I was going to get a coke zero and go to a subway drive through and get a turkey sub. I cemented this in my mind that I was going to do that by calling my wife at work and telling her about my eating at home and that I was going to get a sub and askeds if she wanted one. She did and I brought her one to work and we had a nice chat about our argument and misunderstanding and I felt better overall. It was not a crisis averted moment because I did end up emotionally eating, however getting control before I went out and had another three to four thousand calories is an accomplishment.
I am not sure how many people that read this blog can actually relate to what it is have a binge eating issue, but it really does put your body on autopilot, or that is what it feels like. It is something I am going to be dealing with for life and I was lucky to meet my counselor at the resort (Essara.) She gave me some techniques to distract myself and I believe that those helped today.
Anyway, tomorrow is a new day, and I am hoping to get back into more challenging workouts.
Statistics:
Well I forgot to wear the fitbit today, DOH!
Worst yet... I can't find my watch heart rate strap! Did I leave it at the gym!?! Grrr
Food:
Breakfast was 50 calories of bacon on two pieces of whole wheat toast and some egg beaters. Lunch was a turkey club with creamy tomato soup. I loved the soup, it was Pacific brand creamy tomato organic soup. At about three I had my mini bing episode. I at a bag of pop chips and about 4-5 tablespoons of peanut butter. Worse yet I had two glass of skim milk. For dinner I had a 6 inch subway turkey sub on whole wheat with lite mayo and no cheese. Overall a bad food day, but not as bad as it could have been. Tomorrow is a new day right?
Exercise:
This morning my wife and I went to the gym. I am still taking it light on strain so I did a one hour walk at 3mph and a 4.0 incline. Since I forgot the fitbit and the watch I have to go by what the treadmill read which was 700 calories. I bet it was more like 400 to 500.
No new pictures or slideshow entires.
You did not think I was just going to drop another 100 pounds without a speed bump or two did you? I know I was pretty sure there would be some bumps in the road and today was definitely one. I ended up having a mini binge today after I got a bit stressed out over a random argument with my wife. It was your typical little disagreement that did not get resolved because she had to go to work and so as I sat and stewed over it I started getting this crazy urge to eat. I had eaten about 300 calories of pop chips and two large scoops of peanut butter with two glasses of milk before I even really knew what hit me. At that point I knew I was in some serious trouble as I was already self-rationalizing about how it would be ok to take the kids on a drive to some nice drive through windows I have not seen in awhile. Luckily as I was getting them ready I decided I was going to get a coke zero and go to a subway drive through and get a turkey sub. I cemented this in my mind that I was going to do that by calling my wife at work and telling her about my eating at home and that I was going to get a sub and askeds if she wanted one. She did and I brought her one to work and we had a nice chat about our argument and misunderstanding and I felt better overall. It was not a crisis averted moment because I did end up emotionally eating, however getting control before I went out and had another three to four thousand calories is an accomplishment.
I am not sure how many people that read this blog can actually relate to what it is have a binge eating issue, but it really does put your body on autopilot, or that is what it feels like. It is something I am going to be dealing with for life and I was lucky to meet my counselor at the resort (Essara.) She gave me some techniques to distract myself and I believe that those helped today.
Anyway, tomorrow is a new day, and I am hoping to get back into more challenging workouts.
Statistics:
Well I forgot to wear the fitbit today, DOH!
Worst yet... I can't find my watch heart rate strap! Did I leave it at the gym!?! Grrr
Food:
Breakfast was 50 calories of bacon on two pieces of whole wheat toast and some egg beaters. Lunch was a turkey club with creamy tomato soup. I loved the soup, it was Pacific brand creamy tomato organic soup. At about three I had my mini bing episode. I at a bag of pop chips and about 4-5 tablespoons of peanut butter. Worse yet I had two glass of skim milk. For dinner I had a 6 inch subway turkey sub on whole wheat with lite mayo and no cheese. Overall a bad food day, but not as bad as it could have been. Tomorrow is a new day right?
Exercise:
This morning my wife and I went to the gym. I am still taking it light on strain so I did a one hour walk at 3mph and a 4.0 incline. Since I forgot the fitbit and the watch I have to go by what the treadmill read which was 700 calories. I bet it was more like 400 to 500.
No new pictures or slideshow entires.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
At home Day 13, Childrens' Museum plus cheat day aka unhealthy choices day...
Comments/Thoughts:
I was really happy on the ranch that in their diet plan and at home plan workshops they talked about the need to allow yourself room for unhealthy food choices in your life. They operate on the 90/10 rule where you are health 90% of the time and unhealthy on 10%. I have incorporated cheat days in several diet plans I have done over time, and really do believe if you can control yourself for it they are great. I really enjoyed my cheat meal this week and even allowed myself an extra treat at the movies the day before. Last week I had a nice off meal day and still lost 4 pounds this week. Not sure that I mentioned it yesterday but I had lost another 3 pounds which brought my total to 4 for the week. Only 4.8 pounds to go and I am in the 200s! That is very exciting for me since at 280 my suit will fit for the derby! Good stuff!
We went to the childrens' museum today and there were some drama on the way there with our convoy. We were going with another family and their two children, and as we pulled in to a random rest stop they were pulled over with their hood up. Their car was overheating and no long starting. Needless to say this threw a wrench in things, but luckily we have a big Honda Odyssey swagger wagon and took my friend's wife and two kids into our van and I dropped them off 30 miles away at the museum in Indy, and came back and picked him up as AAA was towing his car the 40 miles back to Richmond. Needless to say the guys showed up to the museum after getting stuck in traffic and we only got the end of the museum time. All and all it was a great experience and afterwards we with to the Spaghetti Factory and had a great meal and pleasant time with our families.
Statistics:
**Will update this in the morning when the fitbit pushes it's stats to twitter and facebook.**
Watch calories burned: N/A walked around the museum only a little
Exercise:
Minimal walking around the children's museum in Indianapolis. Tomorrow it is back to the gym!
Food:
Breakfast was the old standard eggs and toast. Lunch was me grabbing a chicken taragon sandwich at Starbucks (420 calories) and getting to the museum as quickly as possible. Dinner was my unhealthy meal allowance and it was amazing. Baked Lasagna, side of meatballs, spumone ice cream and followed by a peanut butter mountain when we got back to Richmond at Ritters. I was s t u f f e d. The ironic thing is I probably only ate 1000 calories above my maintenance levels. The theory is it also stokes the metabolism by changing up the calorie intake levels. Yeah that is the ticket right?! It makes it much easier to get my 90% and the gym I tell you that much. Doing a full day of meals like that still seems excessive, but doing it for one meal seems to be all I need. Of course that one meal should have been 2 at least!
Slideshow/Pictures:
Added in some pics of kids and the museum along with foods eaten. Beware the lasagna pictures!
I was really happy on the ranch that in their diet plan and at home plan workshops they talked about the need to allow yourself room for unhealthy food choices in your life. They operate on the 90/10 rule where you are health 90% of the time and unhealthy on 10%. I have incorporated cheat days in several diet plans I have done over time, and really do believe if you can control yourself for it they are great. I really enjoyed my cheat meal this week and even allowed myself an extra treat at the movies the day before. Last week I had a nice off meal day and still lost 4 pounds this week. Not sure that I mentioned it yesterday but I had lost another 3 pounds which brought my total to 4 for the week. Only 4.8 pounds to go and I am in the 200s! That is very exciting for me since at 280 my suit will fit for the derby! Good stuff!
We went to the childrens' museum today and there were some drama on the way there with our convoy. We were going with another family and their two children, and as we pulled in to a random rest stop they were pulled over with their hood up. Their car was overheating and no long starting. Needless to say this threw a wrench in things, but luckily we have a big Honda Odyssey swagger wagon and took my friend's wife and two kids into our van and I dropped them off 30 miles away at the museum in Indy, and came back and picked him up as AAA was towing his car the 40 miles back to Richmond. Needless to say the guys showed up to the museum after getting stuck in traffic and we only got the end of the museum time. All and all it was a great experience and afterwards we with to the Spaghetti Factory and had a great meal and pleasant time with our families.
Statistics:
**Will update this in the morning when the fitbit pushes it's stats to twitter and facebook.**
Watch calories burned: N/A walked around the museum only a little
Exercise:
Minimal walking around the children's museum in Indianapolis. Tomorrow it is back to the gym!
Food:
Breakfast was the old standard eggs and toast. Lunch was me grabbing a chicken taragon sandwich at Starbucks (420 calories) and getting to the museum as quickly as possible. Dinner was my unhealthy meal allowance and it was amazing. Baked Lasagna, side of meatballs, spumone ice cream and followed by a peanut butter mountain when we got back to Richmond at Ritters. I was s t u f f e d. The ironic thing is I probably only ate 1000 calories above my maintenance levels. The theory is it also stokes the metabolism by changing up the calorie intake levels. Yeah that is the ticket right?! It makes it much easier to get my 90% and the gym I tell you that much. Doing a full day of meals like that still seems excessive, but doing it for one meal seems to be all I need. Of course that one meal should have been 2 at least!
Slideshow/Pictures:
Added in some pics of kids and the museum along with foods eaten. Beware the lasagna pictures!
At home Day 12, Gym, mexican food, and the movies...
Comments/Thoughts:
Well again it was a movie night for me, and we went to see the new Liam Neeson, Unknown and I really did not expect too much and it delivered slightly more that I hoped for. That being said it was only a semi decent movie. It was definitely not Taken, which I was very suprised by. Anyway, since the movie was at 10pm and we were out past midnight I started my "unhealthy" eating day a little early and had some M&Ms. I did not really feel bad about it and enjoyed them at my second movie night of the week.
My wife called me about one hour before she was getting of work and said she needed an emergency date night because work had been terrible and luckily enough I got a sitter for the kids. We went out the El Rodeo and I had chicken fajitas with 3 corn tortillas. I actually love that meal, and to know I can eat it with out all the extra fixings and still be on my meal plan really helps.
Statistics:
I walked 11,035 steps and 5.4 miles and burned 3,971 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B
Watch calories burned: 347 calories burned
Exercise:
I went to the gym but still have an injury that keeps me from straining too much so I did the treadmill at 3mph, 2.5 incline for an hour. The treadmill told me I burned 600 calories, however the heart rate monitor I wear says it was more like 347. I think my cardio endurance is better than the strict calculation that is used by the treadmill now. Or at least I am going to tell myself that. I sweated a decent bit and felt good to make it to the gym. Monday it is going to be on like Donkey Kong again.
Food:
Standard egg and muffin breakfast. For lunch I had leftover chinese turkey lettuce wraps and creamy butternut squash soup. The soup was from a box and it was great and only 100 calories for a full cup. Good stuff, and very little prep work for a good meal. Dinner was the "emergency" date night out at El Rodeo. I had fajitas with corn tortillas and no chips, sour cream or cheese. Good work if I do say so myself. We went home after dinner and I met a few friends for a movie and ate a big bag of peanut M&Ms. Bad Dwayne? I felt like it was part of my unhealthy 10% I am allowed. I usually only do one cheat "meal" on my cheat day so I am not too worried.
Pictures/Slideshow:
Added some pictures of the soup and El Rodeo meal to the slideshow.
Well again it was a movie night for me, and we went to see the new Liam Neeson, Unknown and I really did not expect too much and it delivered slightly more that I hoped for. That being said it was only a semi decent movie. It was definitely not Taken, which I was very suprised by. Anyway, since the movie was at 10pm and we were out past midnight I started my "unhealthy" eating day a little early and had some M&Ms. I did not really feel bad about it and enjoyed them at my second movie night of the week.
My wife called me about one hour before she was getting of work and said she needed an emergency date night because work had been terrible and luckily enough I got a sitter for the kids. We went out the El Rodeo and I had chicken fajitas with 3 corn tortillas. I actually love that meal, and to know I can eat it with out all the extra fixings and still be on my meal plan really helps.
Statistics:
I walked 11,035 steps and 5.4 miles and burned 3,971 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B
Watch calories burned: 347 calories burned
Exercise:
I went to the gym but still have an injury that keeps me from straining too much so I did the treadmill at 3mph, 2.5 incline for an hour. The treadmill told me I burned 600 calories, however the heart rate monitor I wear says it was more like 347. I think my cardio endurance is better than the strict calculation that is used by the treadmill now. Or at least I am going to tell myself that. I sweated a decent bit and felt good to make it to the gym. Monday it is going to be on like Donkey Kong again.
Food:
Standard egg and muffin breakfast. For lunch I had leftover chinese turkey lettuce wraps and creamy butternut squash soup. The soup was from a box and it was great and only 100 calories for a full cup. Good stuff, and very little prep work for a good meal. Dinner was the "emergency" date night out at El Rodeo. I had fajitas with corn tortillas and no chips, sour cream or cheese. Good work if I do say so myself. We went home after dinner and I met a few friends for a movie and ate a big bag of peanut M&Ms. Bad Dwayne? I felt like it was part of my unhealthy 10% I am allowed. I usually only do one cheat "meal" on my cheat day so I am not too worried.
Pictures/Slideshow:
Added some pictures of the soup and El Rodeo meal to the slideshow.
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