So im not sure how frequently i'll post, but so far this week I've been sticking to the diet but not yet the exercise. Today I had like 1500 calories total which is less than half my RDI. I was pretty hungry by dimnertime, I just hope to keep it up until it becomes habit.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The new-new plan
So I've been dieting for... a couple months now really. Still just limiting my carb intake. I've even been exercising sporadically some. Anyway I want to start a more definite plan. I seem to do better when I feel at least somewhat accountable, as such I'll be keeping account here. I plan to start in earnest on the 4th (I'm patriotic that way) but I've been doing a little bit here and there in preparation.
Diet:
I'm going to use the Calorie Counter app from Fatsecret to track my intake. It is my plan to replace two meals (breakfast and lunch) with shakes and have whatever Mary makes for dinner. It's a bit of a hassle to enter in Dinners this way, but I'll try to guestimate what I have. I'll likely still have snack nuts in the evening. Oh, and I'll also take a daily multi-vitamin just in case. I already drink water by the vat-load so I'm sure that won't be an issue. I know this might not be the most sustainable plan, but it is simple and clear cut so I suspect I can follow it for now. Let's say 9 weeks at least.
Exercise:
I'm going to take a stab at this C25K thing that I see other people doing. I'm going to use my elliptical and probably at a pace slower than an actual jogger, but still it is a neat program and hopefully I'll be able to follow it. Maybe someday I'll transition to actual running, but I'd surely hurt myself if I tried it now. So that's three days a week of cardio. I'd also like to add in some weights and I have free access to two wellness centers so I should be able to do that. But... I'm pretty lazy and scheduling in that change on top of the others might not happen anytime soon. I'll just set a vague goal of doing that at some point and leave it at that for now.
Diet:
I'm going to use the Calorie Counter app from Fatsecret to track my intake. It is my plan to replace two meals (breakfast and lunch) with shakes and have whatever Mary makes for dinner. It's a bit of a hassle to enter in Dinners this way, but I'll try to guestimate what I have. I'll likely still have snack nuts in the evening. Oh, and I'll also take a daily multi-vitamin just in case. I already drink water by the vat-load so I'm sure that won't be an issue. I know this might not be the most sustainable plan, but it is simple and clear cut so I suspect I can follow it for now. Let's say 9 weeks at least.
Exercise:
I'm going to take a stab at this C25K thing that I see other people doing. I'm going to use my elliptical and probably at a pace slower than an actual jogger, but still it is a neat program and hopefully I'll be able to follow it. Maybe someday I'll transition to actual running, but I'd surely hurt myself if I tried it now. So that's three days a week of cardio. I'd also like to add in some weights and I have free access to two wellness centers so I should be able to do that. But... I'm pretty lazy and scheduling in that change on top of the others might not happen anytime soon. I'll just set a vague goal of doing that at some point and leave it at that for now.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Week One
Weight: 363.3
So 5.7 pounds, not a bad first week, eh? So Here's what I've got for a plan so far... My Sister's wedding is coming up in May, and so we are trying to save money for the trip to Virginia. So my diet is cobbled together from cheap food, and stuff that we already have around the house. So my general scheme is Slimfast for Breakfast. We have several tubs of powder in the pantry from previous diet attempts. For lunch I plan to have Ramen Noodles; I can eat these things for months before I start to get sick of them and at $0.18 per serving you can't get much cheaper. I'll eat whatever Mary makes for dinner but the goal will be to keep it "sensible." The challenge there is assembling the recipes for what she makes so that I can record (with reasonable accuracy) the nutritional information for my dinners. But FatSecret.com does have a recipe function to enter that stuff so it isn't too painful. So that's it. I guess my goal is to keep below 75% of my RDI which I did everyday except yesterday. The problem was we went out for brunch after the St. Ann Easter Egg Hunt. I had an avocado and bacon burrito from Denny's. Costs money AND has lots of calories, so definitely off diet. I guess having an RDI of 3400 makes it easier to stay under, but I suppose that ought drop as I lose weight.
So while I'm pleased with week one, I also think that increasing my activity level (exercising) will be an important part of this process moving forward. For my first step I called and canceled my lawn service. Geovanni Novoa did an AWESOME job on my yard and was super cheap, but to save money AND lose weight I'm going to cut my own grass this season. I'm ruling out my old friend the Elevator as well. When I drop below 350, I'll add in the elliptical, when I drop under 325 I'll start going to the gym, and when I get under 300 I'll reward myself with a WiiFit, and at 275 I'll buy a bike. Reasonable Milestone's, no?
So 5.7 pounds, not a bad first week, eh? So Here's what I've got for a plan so far... My Sister's wedding is coming up in May, and so we are trying to save money for the trip to Virginia. So my diet is cobbled together from cheap food, and stuff that we already have around the house. So my general scheme is Slimfast for Breakfast. We have several tubs of powder in the pantry from previous diet attempts. For lunch I plan to have Ramen Noodles; I can eat these things for months before I start to get sick of them and at $0.18 per serving you can't get much cheaper. I'll eat whatever Mary makes for dinner but the goal will be to keep it "sensible." The challenge there is assembling the recipes for what she makes so that I can record (with reasonable accuracy) the nutritional information for my dinners. But FatSecret.com does have a recipe function to enter that stuff so it isn't too painful. So that's it. I guess my goal is to keep below 75% of my RDI which I did everyday except yesterday. The problem was we went out for brunch after the St. Ann Easter Egg Hunt. I had an avocado and bacon burrito from Denny's. Costs money AND has lots of calories, so definitely off diet. I guess having an RDI of 3400 makes it easier to stay under, but I suppose that ought drop as I lose weight.
So while I'm pleased with week one, I also think that increasing my activity level (exercising) will be an important part of this process moving forward. For my first step I called and canceled my lawn service. Geovanni Novoa did an AWESOME job on my yard and was super cheap, but to save money AND lose weight I'm going to cut my own grass this season. I'm ruling out my old friend the Elevator as well. When I drop below 350, I'll add in the elliptical, when I drop under 325 I'll start going to the gym, and when I get under 300 I'll reward myself with a WiiFit, and at 275 I'll buy a bike. Reasonable Milestone's, no?
Monday, March 29, 2010
FatSecret
Weight: 369.0
So I've registered on fatsecret.com and downloaded their Android Mobile App. I bought a scale and did my baseline weigh-in. So for the first bit I'm just going to count and reduce my calories. After I get that change down, I'll start adding in aerobic exercise, then later I'll add in time at the gym. Then I'll buy a wii-fit and a bike. But I don't really have a timeline for any of that yet. The link above should take you to my fat-secret journal page, but I'll try to post a summary here every week.
Oh I should post up a summary of stats here too... like measurements, and a 'before' photo... maybe I'll get on that this week.
So I've registered on fatsecret.com and downloaded their Android Mobile App. I bought a scale and did my baseline weigh-in. So for the first bit I'm just going to count and reduce my calories. After I get that change down, I'll start adding in aerobic exercise, then later I'll add in time at the gym. Then I'll buy a wii-fit and a bike. But I don't really have a timeline for any of that yet. The link above should take you to my fat-secret journal page, but I'll try to post a summary here every week.
Oh I should post up a summary of stats here too... like measurements, and a 'before' photo... maybe I'll get on that this week.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Geek cool
Dr. Jamie complained I never update this blog. Which is true, but today someone suggested I blog an event that happened so... here it goes:
My daughter was recently taking ice-skating lessons, and at the mall with the ice rink there is a Games Workshop store. We were walking by and Alice wanted to go in and check it out. If you aren't familiar, Games Workshop makes miniature doodz to fight with. That is to say they craft 32mm scale sci-fi and fantasy figures that come with rule books to recreate sci-fi and fantasy battles (in miniature). Anyway, while we were walking through the store Alice started asking me questions and the reaction from the dorks doing table-top battles was great:
A: What are those boys doing!?
M: They are playing with their miniatures.
A: Why are they playing with their m- misatu- ... why are they playing with their little toys?
M: Some boys like to play with their little toys honey. [Glares from assembled dorks]
A: What are they going to play?
M: Well it looks like they are going to have them fight. [Rolling eyes from dorks]
A: What are these dices for? [picks up a d6]
M: Dice. They are to see who wins the fights.
A: Oh. I hope this horsey wins. [reaches for Bretonnian Knight]
M: Me too honey, but don't touch their toys.
A: But it's pretty.
M: Oh yes honey it's a very pretty horsey, but that boy is playing with it right now. [said dork nervously eyes child near his knights, presumably afraid she might mess up his formation. Actually at this point everyone in the shop is staring at us, and I get the uneasy sense that I don't belong.]
A: [to another dork, while pointing]. Hey, I like your dragon!
M: Actually honey that's a Wyvern. [Everyone immediately returned to their games, the non-dork had outed himself as one of their own.]
Dork: Thanks. I painted it.
A: Oooooh it is very pretty. Can I pet it?
Dork: [nervously.] Sure.
M: Be careful honey they are delicate.
We looked around for a Griffin but not finding one we left the store. In the interest of full-disclosure, I'm a huge dork (both quantitatively and qualitatively) and I even used to play with miniatures as well, but not in the last ... five years or so.
My daughter was recently taking ice-skating lessons, and at the mall with the ice rink there is a Games Workshop store. We were walking by and Alice wanted to go in and check it out. If you aren't familiar, Games Workshop makes miniature doodz to fight with. That is to say they craft 32mm scale sci-fi and fantasy figures that come with rule books to recreate sci-fi and fantasy battles (in miniature). Anyway, while we were walking through the store Alice started asking me questions and the reaction from the dorks doing table-top battles was great:
A: What are those boys doing!?
M: They are playing with their miniatures.
A: Why are they playing with their m- misatu- ... why are they playing with their little toys?
M: Some boys like to play with their little toys honey. [Glares from assembled dorks]
A: What are they going to play?
M: Well it looks like they are going to have them fight. [Rolling eyes from dorks]
A: What are these dices for? [picks up a d6]
M: Dice. They are to see who wins the fights.
A: Oh. I hope this horsey wins. [reaches for Bretonnian Knight]
M: Me too honey, but don't touch their toys.
A: But it's pretty.
M: Oh yes honey it's a very pretty horsey, but that boy is playing with it right now. [said dork nervously eyes child near his knights, presumably afraid she might mess up his formation. Actually at this point everyone in the shop is staring at us, and I get the uneasy sense that I don't belong.]
A: [to another dork, while pointing]. Hey, I like your dragon!
M: Actually honey that's a Wyvern. [Everyone immediately returned to their games, the non-dork had outed himself as one of their own.]
Dork: Thanks. I painted it.
A: Oooooh it is very pretty. Can I pet it?
Dork: [nervously.] Sure.
M: Be careful honey they are delicate.
We looked around for a Griffin but not finding one we left the store. In the interest of full-disclosure, I'm a huge dork (both quantitatively and qualitatively) and I even used to play with miniatures as well, but not in the last ... five years or so.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Monday, August 06, 2007
Wine at Face Value: Mallow Run Chambourcin
Wine at Face Value: Mallow Run Chambourcin
My Wife has started her own blog. It is a blog of the various wine's we try and her facial (non-)expressions after tasting each wine. I think it will be a fun way to track our wine consumption and track which ones we like.
My Wife has started her own blog. It is a blog of the various wine's we try and her facial (non-)expressions after tasting each wine. I think it will be a fun way to track our wine consumption and track which ones we like.
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