Monday, August 31, 2009

Not doing a good job with food journal

The great idea was to write every day what I eat on the blog and then on the weekend break it down with a cool software program I have. That has failed, diet is like life when you fail stopped and find something that will work. ( I'm not saying stop your diet) If you go low carb and eat pizza 3 times a day, you need to switch the diet. A small 50 cent notebook has always worked the best. Have it with my billfold, so you always have it. Keys,phone money and doet notebook. This help stop me from fastfood the best? I'm not saying it will help you. That is the hard thing about diet everyone is different. Rikkie Lake lost tons of weight the first time doing nothing but drinking diet coke and jello. That worked for her but would it work for you?


Check this out

www.myfooddiary.com

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So much to write-

Friday night on ESPN I was watching Aplington Parkersburg play football. A town I have never lived in or worked. I love Parkersburg have always had a special place in my heart and I need to get back into coaching. I'm almost 36, I have my degree, wife and son. But I need to be coaching. Its been my calling for years. I have time to build up my coaching resume so I can get into a postion to help DJ in football if he goes down the road.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Quick Little Tweaks to Lose Weight

Quick Little Tweaks to Lose Weight FasterSELF.comBy Lucy Danziger, SELF Editor-in-Chief - Posted on Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 4:45 pm PDT
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Usually I like to go big: Dream big (I want to cut 5 minutes off my 10K time), breakfast big (I actually like to have two A.M. meals--one at home early and one when I get to the office midmorning), and give big (ask my friends, family and coworkers--my gifts are usually generous).

But I've also come to realize that sometimes little tweaks are all you need to make a big difference. Last year, I adjusted my running technique ever so slightly, and within weeks I had shaved a minute off my mile pace and my legs felt great.

So while going big is still my preference, I like these simple changes you can make to get trimmer and more toned without having to make a totally grand transformation. Try them today!

Grab a Granny Smith
An apple a day can keep pounds away, a study from Penn State University at State College reports. People who ate the fruit before a meal consumed 15 percent fewer calories overall than those who didn't munch on a Macintosh. Apple eaters spend more time chewing, so they feel full on fewer calories.

Speed up
Calling all walkers: If you want to shed inches in less time, speed up to a trot. When one group ran for 30 minutes at a moderate pace and another walked at an incline at the same perceived effort level, the runners burned 2 more calories per minute, a study in the Journal of Sports Sciences reveals. The quick math: That translates to almost 5 pounds lost in a year!

Set a goal
Simply making a mental note to curb your calorie intake could help you cut back on stress eating. When offered dried fruit and chocolate after sweating through an anxiety-induced task, dieters ate 32 percent less of the snack than nondieters, a study in the journal Appetite finds. Seeing a healthy option may remind dieters of their eat-right goals. Keep nutritious food in view when tension mounts. Join the SELF Challenge for inspiration and motivation to eat right and work out.

Work it
Offices can help support your workout goals, a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine reveals. Workplaces that made changes, such as adding pro-fitness signs, say their employees maintain their weight during the year while those who toiled at businesses without such emphasis on exercise gained weight. Researchers suggest posting inspiring magazine pages deskside to stay on track. For more ideas to get inspired, visit the Fresh Fitness Tips blog.

Read the fine print
Checking out the calorie counts on menus might affect your choice. After New York City required some chain restaurants to post the data, 53 percent of diners said the numbers were higher than expected and 82 percent said the counts influenced their order, a survey from Technomic, a consultancy in Chicago, indicates. Many eateries have the stats online, so log on before you dine out.

Take note
Picking up a copy of SELF might be the only trainer you need! When people who aimed to work out for at least 2 1/2 hours a week received monthly printed fitness advice, they kept exceeding their goal up to a year later, according to a study in Health Psychology. Researchers say that written reminders are key. Register for free at Self.com and get your own personal online workout logs.

Keep a journal
You've heard it before, but just in case you weren't paying attention, I'm going to refresh your memory: People who write down what they eat are the most likely to drop pounds, research at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, finds. The reason: Food diaries reveal your healthy eating black holes. Jot down every bite for four days, without changing your diet. At the end of each day, look up each food you wrote down and tally up the calories.

To analyze your records, draw an x when more than four hours went by without eating, circle high-calorie meals, highlight fruit and veggies and underline anything that triggered guilt after you ate it. For day 5 and beyond, change your diet based on your notes. Replace x's with 150-calorie snacks and circled meals will magically downsize. No highlights on day 2? Hit the produce aisle! Didn't need those underlined cookies before bed? No late-night snack tonight!

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

I need to cut back on monster

Monday, August 24, 2009

Eat to Increase Your Lifespan

Eat to Increase Your Lifespan
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Some health experts have long held that eating a Mediterranean diet increases lifespan and promotes optimal health. (This diet, if you remember, is mostly plant-based and is modeled after the traditional eating habits of the people living in the Mediterranean region.)

Now a new study published in the June 23 issue of BMJ appears to offer some data supporting these claims.

The study, done by U.S. and Greek scientists, spanned 8-1/2 years and examined data from over 23,000 men and women living in Greece during that time. The authors concluded that the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet were due to certain of its particular features, such as

using meat only as a garnish, instead of as the entrée
drinking moderate amounts of alcohol
eating more fruits, vegetables, and nuts
choosing olive oil over saturated fats (e.g., butter)
Here are some ways you can get the most out of the Mediterranean diet, so you can reach your optimum weight and improve your chances of living a longer, healthier life:

Even if you choose extra-virgin olive oil instead of the other vegetable oils, do remember that olive oil contains the same number of calories as do all of the others: 125 calories per tablespoon, or the equivalent of 3 servings of fat.
Aim for at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, preferably fresh.
One serving of fresh fruit is, logically enough, about the size of a whole apple or orange.
One serving of canned or cut-up fruit amounts to 1/2 cup, or an amount about the size of a tennis ball.
Wine does have some healthy antioxidants (aka polyphenols), chief among them resveratrol; however, you probably shouldn't start drinking alcohol now if you don't already, since it means extra calories and the risk of addiction.
To gain the health benefits of wine without having to worry about its down sides, consider taking a resveratrol supplement.
Use meat as an accent or garnish in a meal, not as the main course.
Trim the visible fat off of fatty meats before cooking them, or go with leaner cuts.
If you're eating red meat more than 3 times a week, think about cutting back and eating tofu and beans instead, along with more fish, chicken, and turkey without the skin.
To lower fat, calories, and cholesterol in chilies, casseroles, etc., try using lean (7 percent fat or less) ground turkey instead of ground beef.

Today 8 -24

What did i eat???


2 walffes
2 brats in a blanket-
3 monsters
3 small turkey sandwich
1 pork chop
green beans


The numbers are coming soon-

Sunday, August 23, 2009

The new life style is working!!!





We had a great family meal tonight. Fish and green beans with cut up bake potato, then to top it off I had water. The whole family including my 11 month old son wanted pizza so badly. But we need to do this for my son.

Good News!!

  • I have lost weight since last year. Right now my weight is 320 to 324 depending on the day- Which sounds like a huge scarry number. I found a diet bet I had with a old childhood friend. The bet failed as we both didnt stick to it very well. But looking at the numbers last fall, I was 337 to 340. So you could say I have almost lost 20 pounds since last summer.
  • A note book can be a lifesavor. With out that number I would feel 500 pounds today.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Need a different game plan.

This game plan has been tossed out the window. Starting in the am. I will blog every thing I eat and during the weekend post the charts . I have a killer software program that is perfect for this.

Didn't eat pizza, today however started the day off wrong caving into a Donut. And ended the day eating Taco Johns, I don't even like Taco Johns. What the heck. I'm sick today and a new diet this happens but I havn't stuck to the diet perfectly.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Does your job make you fat?

Do you sit all day?
People in the office eat bad and you cave?
Stress leads to you either eating or wanting to get drunk.

Its eazy to stay on a plan when you have no outside forces-

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Slow day in the media

Ok, this is so so stupid- Are you joking-


NoticedIt’s Hip to Be Round
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Buz- zPermalinkBy GUY TREBAY
Published: August 12, 2009


THIS summer the unvarying male uniform in the precincts of Brooklyn cool has been a pair of shorts cut at knickers length, a V-neck Hanes T-shirt, a pair of generic slip-on sneakers and a straw fedora. Add a leather cuff bracelet if the coolster is gay.

In truth this get-up was pretty much the unvarying male uniform last summer also, but this year an unexpected element has been added to the look, and that is a burgeoning potbelly one might term the Ralph Kramden.

Too pronounced to be blamed on the slouchy cut of a T-shirt, too modest in size to be termed a proper beer gut, developed too young to come under the heading of a paunch, the Ralph Kramden is everywhere to be seen lately, or at least it is in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, the McCarren Park Greenmarket and pretty much any place one is apt to encounter fans of Grizzly Bear.

What the trucker cap and wallet chain were to hipsters of a moment ago, the Kramden is to what my colleague Mike Albo refers to as the “coolios” of now. Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.

Until recently, men were under no particular obligation to exhibit bulging deltoids and shredded abdominals; that all changed, said David Zinczenko, the editor of Men’s Health, when women moved into the work force in numbers. “The only ripples Ralph Kramden” and successors like Mike Brady of “The Brady Bunch” had to demonstrate were in their billfolds, said Mr. Zinczenko, himself a dogged crusader in the battle of the muffin top. “But that traditional male role has changed.”

As women have come to outnumber men in the workplace, it becomes more important than ever for guys to armor themselves, Mr. Zinczenko said, with the “complete package of financial and physical,” to billboard their abilities as survivors of the cultural and economic wilds.

This makes sense, in a way, but how does one account for the new prevalence of Ralph Kramdens? Have men given in or given up? Are they finished with asserting the privileges that have always accrued to men. Or is the Ralph Kramden Barack Obama’s fault?

Hipsters, by nature contrarian, according to Dan Peres, the editor of Details, may be reacting in opposition to a president who is not only, as the press relentlessly reminds us, So Darn Smart, but also hits the gym every morning, has a conspicuously flat belly and, when not rescuing the economy or sparring with Kim Jong-il, shoots hoops.

“If we had a slob in the White House, all the hipsters would turn into some walking Chippendales calendar,” Mr. Peres said. Instead, the streets of Williamsburg are crowded with men who are, as he noted, “proudly rocking a gut.” Mr. Peres’s magazine has a term for these people: the new “poor-geoisie.” But the people lining up for $13 lobster rolls at the Brooklyn Flea last weekend hardly looked as if they were worried about making the rent.

“I sort of think the six-pack abs obsession got so prissy it stopped being masculine,” is how Aaron Hicklin, the editor of Out, explains the emergence of the Ralph Kramden. What once seemed young and hot, for gay and straight men alike, now seems passé. Like manscaping, spray-on tans and other metrosexual affectations, having a belly one can bounce quarters off suggests that you may have too much time on your hands.

“It’s not cool to be seen spending so much time fussing around about your body,” Mr. Hicklin said.

And so guys can happily and guiltlessly go to seed.

Women have almost never gotten a pass on the need to maintain their bodies, while men always have, said Robert Morea, a personal fitness trainer. (Full disclosure: my own.) It would be too much, he added, to suggest that “potbellies are suddenly O.K.,” but as lean muscle and functionality become the new gym mantras, hypertrophied He-Men with grapefruit biceps and blister-pack abs have come to resemble specimens from a diorama of “A Vanished World.”

“When do you ever see that guy, anyway?” Mr. Morea asked, referring to those legendary Men’s Health cover models, with their rippling torsos and famished smiles. “The only time you really see that guy, he’s standing in front of an Abercrombie & Fitch store.” Perhaps, he suggested, there is really only one of them. “It’s the same guy. They just move him around.”



This might be a true sign of the end of the world. A pot head dude with a belly came up with this great idea how he is sexy. Dude just because the girl had sex with you doesn't mean she willn't leave you if LL Cool J came into the room. Or any other man that had a 4 pack-

Friday, August 14, 2009

Winning today-

Today was a better day- I did eat a small pizza today- However at work we got to take the kids to Godfathers Pizza and make are own small Pizza is was fun, I did walk away from a cupcake today that was screaming my name-

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Junk food won this chapter-

Out of monster Low Carb - Took a drive to Kum & Go and a small bag of Dounuts were screaming my name- I caved in and eat them quicly-
Calories 330 Fat 13g Carb 50 OMG 50 carb that is 3 times more Carb then all of Wed.

Junk Food gave me a great upper cut to the head- Thank god my head is hard as a rock -


My weight is 322 that is low I have beem around the 335 range for most of of the last 6 months- I have been higher and I have been lower- Not much lower since I moved to the Des Moines area.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The first battle starts today.

Back to work an back to battle of my diet. Junk food has always been my drug. Mountain Dew has been 2 months sober. I still think about how I want a nice ice cold can. The first time i switch to diet pop, I lost 30 pounds almost over night. HoweverWhen i cut regular POP I still couldn't live with out my Dew. I cut back to one can of Dew a day. Then nothing but diet pop. My weight dropped quickly, granted i went from 24 cans of pop a day to only one with sugar still in it. Pop controled my life like beer comtrols many other people.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Battle

I have been OK with food- I stopped POP cold turkey a few month ago- Granted Don't say good job- Pop Has helped with my Fat battle and the fact my teeth are in such bad shape- I live on 3 cans of monster low carb a day and tons of water. Now working out has been bad- Other then getting beat up by my 11 month old son and picking up sticks in my yard.
I need to start moving and i need better food control. My wife doesn't understand If i live in Hy Vee I would eat the store every day. I have no self control. The best I have been on a diet in the last 5 year? I had basicly food for the day in my house and nothing more. I ate a cow (low carb) a day and anything life afruit or diet pop was bought in small portions.
In the coming weeks. I will start a blog about my road to rebuilding a better me. I have lost control of my weight an need to change this ASAP. I invite you to follow my road from 33o pounds to 230.