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?
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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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