Day Thirteen - 331 lbs
Breakfast - Nothing
Lunch - Double cheeseburger, large fries, large diet coke
Dinner - Four slices pepperoni pizza, half a bag of potato chips w/ french onion dip, three slices of apple pie, cookies and cream ice cream, much diet pepsi
For anyone who lived in a cave during the early 2000s or just chose sensible diets instead here are the basic facts about Atkins. For a while Atkins was labeled as the eat as much as you want diet. You could have as many steaks, cheeseburgers, and sausage patties as you wanted so long as you didn't have the baked potato, bun, or english muffin to go along with it.
Later on Dr. Atkins amended his book a bit telling people that while they may be losing weight on Atkins eating recipes such as bacon fat soup and hamburger pudding may not be the best thing for their long term health. The basic idea of the diet is that sugar equals fat so dieters stay away from carbs (bread, rice, potatoes, etc.) and sugar (snickers bars dipped in marshmallow fluff, deep fried frozen bananas, elephant ear and neutella sandwiches, etc.). We'll see how things go.
On the upside today is a bit of a holiday, it's "Day before Diet" day and I have decided to take full advantage. Make sure to read the Dinner section of the blog. Today is probably the first day I can say"the diet starts tomorrow" and actually mean it. Wish me luck... and of course by luck I mean self-discipline.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
August 9, 2008 - And the Oscar goes to...
Day Twelve - 332 lbs
Breakfast - Honey nut cheerios w/ two percent skim milk
Lunch - Twelve inch turkey and ham submarine sandwich with everything but jalepanos and onions, garden salsa sunchips, diet coke
Dinner - Grilled Chicken, Baked Potato w/ sour cream and butter
So I have spent the last week or so looking into a variety of different "quick start" diets and I have come to a conclusion. When doing my research I was looking for a couple of different things. First of all I wanted to pick something that I wasn't interested in continuing after the two weeks were over. I also wanted to pick a fairly popular diet that many of you may have tried in the past yourselves.
So after discussing this with Sarah (who has decided to work with me for the first two weeks, and in some fasion thereafter) and looking at the options we have decided on...
THE ATKIN'S DIET!!!!
This is not going to be fun.
Breakfast - Honey nut cheerios w/ two percent skim milk
Lunch - Twelve inch turkey and ham submarine sandwich with everything but jalepanos and onions, garden salsa sunchips, diet coke
Dinner - Grilled Chicken, Baked Potato w/ sour cream and butter
So I have spent the last week or so looking into a variety of different "quick start" diets and I have come to a conclusion. When doing my research I was looking for a couple of different things. First of all I wanted to pick something that I wasn't interested in continuing after the two weeks were over. I also wanted to pick a fairly popular diet that many of you may have tried in the past yourselves.
So after discussing this with Sarah (who has decided to work with me for the first two weeks, and in some fasion thereafter) and looking at the options we have decided on...
THE ATKIN'S DIET!!!!
This is not going to be fun.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
August 5, 2008 - Well I Never!
Day Eight - ??? lbs
Breakfast - Sausage Egg and Cheddar Cheese on an Onion Bagel
Lunch - None
Dinner - Two Onion Rings, Spinach & Artichoke Dip (w/ Tortilla Chips), Bacon Cheeseburger (w/ Mustard and Ketchup), French Fries (w/ Ketchup), some sort of weird cup with Baked Apple Slices and Whipped Cream
As I was writing yesterday's blog and complaining about malnourishment it occurred to me that it could be viewed as hypocritical because as anyone who glances at the little food journal I keep can see I am not exactly the poster child for good food decisions. I don't eat well right now and I have a long, ugly history with food. I think some of it is nature, some of it is nurture but frankly none of it matters. As I mentioned before I lost my father last year to kidney disease but I had watched his body turn against him in the last few years and slowly take away the things he loved to do. He loved to read so his eyes went, he loved his independence so his legs went, at the end it seemed like an awful race of maladies trying to do him harm. But the whole time he kept his sense of humor and tried to make my Mother and Sister as his primary caregivers laugh as often as possible. The reason I say this is because I know that is my path, and more over my father knew that it was my path and it broke his heart.
At the end of the day we just need to suck it up and do what needs to be done no matter how muddled our past is with genuine issues and a parades of excuses. A bucket full of excuses does nothing to stem the tide of diabetes nor does it allow you to run around outside with your children. I'm all done with excuses.
The way we choose to write on the Internet, the things we say, whether we take ownership over them are all increasingly important parts of our lives. Employers are now looking at our MySpace pages, the news media scrounges around in our online lives to find pictures, news, and gossip that they can use/exploit. I am big on accountability and I try very hard to not write anything that I haven't either researched or had personal experience with.
Those are my credentials.
Breakfast - Sausage Egg and Cheddar Cheese on an Onion Bagel
Lunch - None
Dinner - Two Onion Rings, Spinach & Artichoke Dip (w/ Tortilla Chips), Bacon Cheeseburger (w/ Mustard and Ketchup), French Fries (w/ Ketchup), some sort of weird cup with Baked Apple Slices and Whipped Cream
As I was writing yesterday's blog and complaining about malnourishment it occurred to me that it could be viewed as hypocritical because as anyone who glances at the little food journal I keep can see I am not exactly the poster child for good food decisions. I don't eat well right now and I have a long, ugly history with food. I think some of it is nature, some of it is nurture but frankly none of it matters. As I mentioned before I lost my father last year to kidney disease but I had watched his body turn against him in the last few years and slowly take away the things he loved to do. He loved to read so his eyes went, he loved his independence so his legs went, at the end it seemed like an awful race of maladies trying to do him harm. But the whole time he kept his sense of humor and tried to make my Mother and Sister as his primary caregivers laugh as often as possible. The reason I say this is because I know that is my path, and more over my father knew that it was my path and it broke his heart.
At the end of the day we just need to suck it up and do what needs to be done no matter how muddled our past is with genuine issues and a parades of excuses. A bucket full of excuses does nothing to stem the tide of diabetes nor does it allow you to run around outside with your children. I'm all done with excuses.
The way we choose to write on the Internet, the things we say, whether we take ownership over them are all increasingly important parts of our lives. Employers are now looking at our MySpace pages, the news media scrounges around in our online lives to find pictures, news, and gossip that they can use/exploit. I am big on accountability and I try very hard to not write anything that I haven't either researched or had personal experience with.
Those are my credentials.
Monday, August 4, 2008
August 4, 2008 - So many bad choices to choose from
Day Seven - ??? lbs
Breakfast - Four of Sarah's Mom's homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Delish)
Lunch - Some Fried Chicken Sandwichy type thing with Large Fries and Large Diet Coke
Dinner - Grilled Chicken, Green Beans, Baked Beans, Half a Slice of (overpriced, dry, tasteless) Olive Oil and Rosemary Bread, Salad Wedge with Cheesy Ranch Dressing, Carrots and Cucumbers, 8 oz of Diet Pepsi, many many ozs of Water
I spent much of the weekend thinking about what type of terrible awful crash diet I want to start out on. They seem to all seem to be pretty similar, lots of water, little to no carbs, exercise, etc. The point is to get your body into the ketosis stage where it is just trying to burn fat off for energy like crazy. A fun fact about ketosis is that it's a form of starvation* so if you do it too long you can do some not so good long term stuff to your body... but you may end up leaving a slightly slimmer corpse.
One big problem I've found so far is that most diets (and virtually every "fad" diet) are based on either mild starvation or mild to severe malnutrition. But I can't get too upset about people malnourishing themselves for two weeks because I don't think they'll do too much harm. The people I worry about are the hard core dieters who think that making a lifestyle choice to just do the first two week jump start over and over is a good idea. Just a quick hint about that one... IT'S NOT! And the hardcore parents who try to get their 110 lb daughters to lose weight - I'll get to you A-holes later.
So anyway I am researching now and I think by next Monday (Aug 11, 2008) I will start my two week malnutrition diet to jump start my metabolism and bring about glorious ketosis.
*I should aknowledge that there is still a good bit of controversy about this but most of the nay arguments I've seen either boil down to how mild a form of starvation it is or the definition of starvation.
Breakfast - Four of Sarah's Mom's homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Delish)
Lunch - Some Fried Chicken Sandwichy type thing with Large Fries and Large Diet Coke
Dinner - Grilled Chicken, Green Beans, Baked Beans, Half a Slice of (overpriced, dry, tasteless) Olive Oil and Rosemary Bread, Salad Wedge with Cheesy Ranch Dressing, Carrots and Cucumbers, 8 oz of Diet Pepsi, many many ozs of Water
I spent much of the weekend thinking about what type of terrible awful crash diet I want to start out on. They seem to all seem to be pretty similar, lots of water, little to no carbs, exercise, etc. The point is to get your body into the ketosis stage where it is just trying to burn fat off for energy like crazy. A fun fact about ketosis is that it's a form of starvation* so if you do it too long you can do some not so good long term stuff to your body... but you may end up leaving a slightly slimmer corpse.
One big problem I've found so far is that most diets (and virtually every "fad" diet) are based on either mild starvation or mild to severe malnutrition. But I can't get too upset about people malnourishing themselves for two weeks because I don't think they'll do too much harm. The people I worry about are the hard core dieters who think that making a lifestyle choice to just do the first two week jump start over and over is a good idea. Just a quick hint about that one... IT'S NOT! And the hardcore parents who try to get their 110 lb daughters to lose weight - I'll get to you A-holes later.
So anyway I am researching now and I think by next Monday (Aug 11, 2008) I will start my two week malnutrition diet to jump start my metabolism and bring about glorious ketosis.
*I should aknowledge that there is still a good bit of controversy about this but most of the nay arguments I've seen either boil down to how mild a form of starvation it is or the definition of starvation.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
July 31, 2008 - Baby Steps
Day Three - 330 lbs
Breakfast - Two packets of low sugar oatmeal
Lunch - Double Cheese Burger, Large Fry, two sips of Coke (just long enough to find out it wasn't diet), one liter of diet Pepsi (from the fridge at home)
Dinner - Two sauerkraut balls (have you ever heard of these?), dinner salad (w/ ranch), broiled buffalo chicken sandwich (w/ bleu cheese ), small fries (w/ ketchup), one tortilla chip (deftly stolen from Sarah's plate when she wasn't looking), two 16oz diet Pepsi(s)
Is Pepsis the plural of Pepsi? It just looks like some sort of disease that your doctor would have to give you anti-biotics to clear up. Anyway, although it appears that I have lost two pounds today I have to assume it is just my bodies normal fluctuations because I have certainly done nothing in the last two days to merit any weight loss.
Onto that. At this point you have to be asking yourself if I am ever going to start dieting or if it's just a clever ploy to get you to read my ramblings. Well the answer to both questions is yes. Tomorrow I am off to buy myself a pedometer. If everything goes according to plan I will start posting my pedometer readings everyday along with my meal plans. In addition to that I am going to be tracking my caloric intake over the next week along with the laughable amount of 'exercise' that I do.
I will be trying out a variety of different diets as the Blog goes on and letting you know some information about them as well as how they work out in actuality. Some I'm sure I'll do for a few weeks and some I will be lucky to get through two meals with. Either way it should be fun... for you, not for me so much. My ideal diet involves a lot of meat and dairy along with a big helping of early onset diabetes. So lets try to avoid that diet, shall we?
Breakfast - Two packets of low sugar oatmeal
Lunch - Double Cheese Burger, Large Fry, two sips of Coke (just long enough to find out it wasn't diet), one liter of diet Pepsi (from the fridge at home)
Dinner - Two sauerkraut balls (have you ever heard of these?), dinner salad (w/ ranch), broiled buffalo chicken sandwich (w/ bleu cheese ), small fries (w/ ketchup), one tortilla chip (deftly stolen from Sarah's plate when she wasn't looking), two 16oz diet Pepsi(s)
Is Pepsis the plural of Pepsi? It just looks like some sort of disease that your doctor would have to give you anti-biotics to clear up. Anyway, although it appears that I have lost two pounds today I have to assume it is just my bodies normal fluctuations because I have certainly done nothing in the last two days to merit any weight loss.
Onto that. At this point you have to be asking yourself if I am ever going to start dieting or if it's just a clever ploy to get you to read my ramblings. Well the answer to both questions is yes. Tomorrow I am off to buy myself a pedometer. If everything goes according to plan I will start posting my pedometer readings everyday along with my meal plans. In addition to that I am going to be tracking my caloric intake over the next week along with the laughable amount of 'exercise' that I do.
I will be trying out a variety of different diets as the Blog goes on and letting you know some information about them as well as how they work out in actuality. Some I'm sure I'll do for a few weeks and some I will be lucky to get through two meals with. Either way it should be fun... for you, not for me so much. My ideal diet involves a lot of meat and dairy along with a big helping of early onset diabetes. So lets try to avoid that diet, shall we?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
July 30, 2008 - A New Beginning
Day Two - 332 lbs
Breakfast- Three Slices Apple Pie
Lunch- Two Hot Dogs (w/ ketchup & yellow mustard), yellow tortilla chips and chunky salsa
Dinner- Corn on the cob (w/ butter), green beans, two pieces of white bread, BBQ chicken, pork tenderloin, one spicy turkey bratwurst, one slice of rhubarb and strawberry pie
Between lunch and dinner today I was all American, hot dogs and apple pie. Now if we make a leap and assume the corn in my tortilla chips was picked by migrant workers we really get a well rounded picture of America. Having said that, clearly I haven't started my diet yet.
I was telling my wife (Sarah, she'll come up a lot) about my brilliant plan to embarrass myself into losing weight by posting the details on-line when she popped a hole in my idea by asking one question. "How are you going to do it?" While certainly a fair question I have to admit that my plan up until this point is something like... lose weight. So clearly I've got some research to do.
Which brings us to our next problem, I am not a very trusting guy. If you tell me that eating like a homeless man for thirty days is going to result in a fifteen pound loss, or that I simply have to try the stone soup diet because it did wonders for this girl at your work I am going to need a bit more information. Now I am certainly more than willing to be proven wrong but proving me wrong generally involves proof.
Breakfast- Three Slices Apple Pie
Lunch- Two Hot Dogs (w/ ketchup & yellow mustard), yellow tortilla chips and chunky salsa
Dinner- Corn on the cob (w/ butter), green beans, two pieces of white bread, BBQ chicken, pork tenderloin, one spicy turkey bratwurst, one slice of rhubarb and strawberry pie
Between lunch and dinner today I was all American, hot dogs and apple pie. Now if we make a leap and assume the corn in my tortilla chips was picked by migrant workers we really get a well rounded picture of America. Having said that, clearly I haven't started my diet yet.
I was telling my wife (Sarah, she'll come up a lot) about my brilliant plan to embarrass myself into losing weight by posting the details on-line when she popped a hole in my idea by asking one question. "How are you going to do it?" While certainly a fair question I have to admit that my plan up until this point is something like... lose weight. So clearly I've got some research to do.
Which brings us to our next problem, I am not a very trusting guy. If you tell me that eating like a homeless man for thirty days is going to result in a fifteen pound loss, or that I simply have to try the stone soup diet because it did wonders for this girl at your work I am going to need a bit more information. Now I am certainly more than willing to be proven wrong but proving me wrong generally involves proof.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
July 29, 2008 - Happy Birthday to Me
Day One - 331 Lbs
Breakfast- None
Lunch- Double Whopper with Cheese (no onion), Large Onion Ring, Large Diet Coke
Dinner- Two Large Onion Rings (w/ Ketchup), Dinner Salad (w/ Bacon, Cheese, and Ranch), three dinner rolls (w/ honey butter), 14 oz New York Strip Steak (w/grilled onions and steak sauce), Large Baked Potato (w/ sour cream and butter), three 16 oz Diet Cokes
We all have hurdles to jump over at some time in our lives. The nice thing about hurdles though is that if you don't give a damn about the race you can just pick them up and carry them with you. Today is my birthday and I have decided to drop the hurdle I've been carrying around with me since I was a child.
Alright, now that I have streched that analogy about as far as it will go let me tell you the deal. I am 30 today and I have picked today as my arbitrary day to start losing weight. My father died last year, he was in a coma for his 60th birthday and then died a few days later. My father was a complicated man who I loved very much but when he was younger he loved his food. He told me that after finding out he was diabetic he freaked out for about a week and then went on eating the same stuff for the next decade.
Today is my starting date because I am hoping to be able to push back my mid-life crisis for another ten or fifteen years. I'd like it to involve some sort of sports car and frankly that is just out of my budget for right now.
Breakfast- None
Lunch- Double Whopper with Cheese (no onion), Large Onion Ring, Large Diet Coke
Dinner- Two Large Onion Rings (w/ Ketchup), Dinner Salad (w/ Bacon, Cheese, and Ranch), three dinner rolls (w/ honey butter), 14 oz New York Strip Steak (w/grilled onions and steak sauce), Large Baked Potato (w/ sour cream and butter), three 16 oz Diet Cokes
We all have hurdles to jump over at some time in our lives. The nice thing about hurdles though is that if you don't give a damn about the race you can just pick them up and carry them with you. Today is my birthday and I have decided to drop the hurdle I've been carrying around with me since I was a child.
Alright, now that I have streched that analogy about as far as it will go let me tell you the deal. I am 30 today and I have picked today as my arbitrary day to start losing weight. My father died last year, he was in a coma for his 60th birthday and then died a few days later. My father was a complicated man who I loved very much but when he was younger he loved his food. He told me that after finding out he was diabetic he freaked out for about a week and then went on eating the same stuff for the next decade.
Today is my starting date because I am hoping to be able to push back my mid-life crisis for another ten or fifteen years. I'd like it to involve some sort of sports car and frankly that is just out of my budget for right now.
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