Archive for February, 2007
We had a great weekend in Ocracoke. It is a great place to just get away and relax, especially this time of year since there is really no one else there.
Saturday we rode bikes around the island and took a good walk on the beach.
I didn’t eat too bad, even though Howard’s Pub is a real temptation (Howard’s hush puppies are awesome). We did eat at Howard’s both nights (it’s the only thing open this time of year) but we did not over do it. I had a fish sandwich on Friday night and a couple of crab cakes on Saturday.
We carried some healthy snacks with us to keep us from going to the convience store and buying a bunch of junk. Some 100 calorie oreo cookie packs, a few oranges, bottled water, and diet pepsi. When we don’t have snacks with us we end up at the general store buying bags of chocolate dounuts. I am digging the oranges and I am almost out, need to stop and pick up some more.
Now it’s back to work and back to the routine. Weighed in this morning and I am still holding steady at 229 lbs. I still have a long way to go but I will get there.
Had a pretty good week I think. Did not lose a lot of weight as you will see in a minute but I did start getting into the routine of working out in the afternoons.
Friday 2/23/07 Weigh In: 229lbs.
OK so that is only 1lb down this week. I am a little disappointed because I did work pretty hard this week and I have really tried to stay on track with eating better, but I think getting into the routine is just as important as losing the weight. I will keep working at it and eventually I will get into a routine and get a handle on my diet, then I should see better results.
Sandy (my wonderful wife) and I are headed out of town for the weekend. It has been a really stressful week at work for the both of us and we just need a break. We are headed down to Ocracoke Island, NC - one of our favorite places to go. We are packing some healthy snacks and I will try to control myself at Howard’s Pub (the food there is AWESOME). Will do a lot of walking and bike riding around the island so it should be a good weekend.
Have a good weekend. Be back on Monday.
I have smoked cigarettes and cigars for as long as I can remember. Since high school actually. Remember when smoking was not a big deal? What about when anyone could be cigarettes? I am not anti-smoke. If you want to smoke, by all means smoke. I even enjoy being around people who smoke. I still enjoy the smell of a cigarette or a good (or even a bad) cigar.
On January 1, 2007 I decided to quit smoking. Yes I know it is corny but it was my New Years Resolution. I have tried to quit several times in the past and have always been unsuccessful. The longest I ever actually quit for was for a week, one of the longest weeks of my life. This time though I decided I would try to get some help from a patch.
I try to eat pretty decent and I try to eat at least 3 meals a day. Yesterday was a good day.
I had my usual breakfast, a bowl of cereal (Lucky Charms, hey they are magically delicious) with skim milk. Around 10 AM I had an orange for a snack. For lunch I stopped by the Food Lion and picked up a thing of fresh pineapple. After my workout I had a couple more chunks of fresh pineapple. Then for Dinner we all went to Firehouse Subs and I had a “small” club on a sub.
My wife and I eat out a lot, I mean a whole lot. We go out to eat probably 4 nights a week. Most of the time it is to sit down restaurants, but sometimes it is fast food.
My whole out look on this is I don’t want to really change what I eat, I don’t think I eat that bad. I do however need to work a bit on portion control. Just like lastnight at Firehouse Subs - I had to make a decision between a large sub and a small sub.
The large sub would have been good and I could have eaten it all and been very satisfied, instead I went with the half-size. The half-size sub was also very good, it had all the same stuff as the large one - ham, turkey, bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato - and after I finished eating it I was just as satisfied as I would have been if I had stuffed down a whole sub.
Portion control is what I want to focus on and it is probably going to be one of the hardest things to get a handle on.
I just finished my afternoon workout. I try to do at least 45 minutes on my elliptical machine 3 or 4 times a week. I enjoy working out on the elliptical and I always feel good when I complete a workout on it.
I currently weigh-in at 230 lbs. Now this is not the heaviest I have ever been, several years ago I was pushing nearly 300 lbs, but I have also been right much lighter. My goal is to get down to (and maintain) somewhere around 195 lbs.
The purpose of this site is more for myself motivation, to help me try to stay on target, keep track of what I am doing. If someone else enjoys reading it or maybe even gets some useful info out of that would be a plus.
I am not sure exactly what I am going to write about here. I am not a writer by any means, if you read this you will probably notice that my grammer and spelling are just shy of terrible. I will probably try to post a few times a week, if not more often. I think I will most likely post at least one weighin a week and I will try to pick an afternoon that I am able to post this on the samel day every week.
Later this week I will probably post a bit on what I think about diets and gyms.
Now it’s off to the shower and then to figure out what is for dinner.
This is my first post here and I do not have a lot of time right now, but since I have the site up and running I figured I should at least say something.
I am planning on posting here often about things that I am doing to lose weight and live a healthier life. I am not looking to bulk up or be some kind of muscled up body builder or whatever, just looking to drop a few of the extra pounds I have put on, eat a little better, and be more active and healthy than I have been in the past.
I will post a little more about me later but I just wanted to howdy and I look forward to sharing what I do and learn with you.
