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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Intake Summary 6/22/2008
Summary: I was sick on Saturday. Yesterday was mostly about recovery.
| Category | Observed | Goal | % to Goal |
| Calories | 661 | 2000 | 33% |
| Total Fat | 28 | 65 | 43% |
| Saturated Fat | 10 | 20 | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 40 | 300 | 13% |
| Sodium | 1178 | 2400 | 49% |
| Total Carbohydrates | 81 | 300 | 27% |
| Dietary Fiber | 10 | 25 | 40% |
| Sugar | 10 | 50 | 20% |
| Protein | 35 | 50 | 70% |
| Water Consumed | 3/4 of a Gallon | 1 Gallon | 75% |
| Minutes of Exercise | 0 | 60 Minutes | 0% |
| Calories Burned | 0 | ? | 0% |
I'm a loser
So far I have lost 15 pounds! I dipped below 180 for the first time in ....well.....since I was a teenager. I gained a lot of weight when I was married to my ex. A lot of it was depression weight since I had the supreme lack of will to do anything. My blubber Zenith hit 195lb and that is when I told myself that this is it. I simply cannot continue to live this way.
So I told you about joining the Krav Maga gym as a way to help my son with his karate. A side goal was for me to lose weight. The problem I was having is that I talked a good game. "Oh yeah, I'll do this, that, and the other thing and presto" I would say to my wife. Then I would promptly watch a movie and forget about the whole thing.
I even joined the company gym and was a regular for like......a whole week! Come to find out that like most people the goal of losing weight to reach x pounds is just to elusive. You might be in the same boat on this but have you told yourself "I'll lose 20 pounds" and there is no real connection to that goal. Like its just a number and there is no emotional retainer to it?
Well, I am doing Krav Maga as a way to goal set and put some weight (punny) behind it. See, have you ever started in something and wished that you weren't the new guy? Wished that you were better at something? That is the way I feel with Krav Maga, I don't want to be a yellow belt. I want to try for the higher belts. I want to become good at this!
So I have three methods of attack on this....by the way, see what I mean. Attaching my emotional wants to this has helped me bring this goal into my sphere of control. I am now making plans to reach this goal that I want badly....the goal is Green Belt in Krav Maga, and my weight is not the goal. The weight is simply the means to my goal.
Sorry, back to how I am going to get my Green Belt. First, attend Krav Maga class every chance I get. This ensures that I get my physical exercise and gives me the hands-on time I need to perfect my training.
Second, Losing weight through a proper diet. This plan will help me subtract negative compounds and chemicals in my nody. This allows my body function correctly as time goes on. Where love handles hindered my movement before, I hope to lose them in the future to free my range of motion.
Third, better fuel through proper diet [yes, two sub goals with one category of strategy]. See increase my consumption of the minerals and vitamins that I need helps my body function correctly. It also helps my development, like having all the right fuels for muscles development and making sure I don't have excess' [sugar] that can be burned before I have a chance to start burning fat. Fiber is another good example! Good fiber intake help my absorption of hydrating fluids. This is crucial to proper cooling during long work outs.....say for a certain three hour green belt test!?
So all of this is starting to work for me. I am losing weight I am now able to find stuff. Like being able to look down and see my.......uh.....feet. I've been working out but now I really need to bring my diet into check. To help with this I signed up for my calorie counter. Its a fantastic little tool that allows you to keep track of the foods you eat and their nutritional contents. Their database on foods is fairly robust and what I could not find on their site only took a single Google search to get the break down.
From here on out I'll try to post a daily summary of the previous days intake. What I hope to do is to show how I lost my weight and maybe inspire a few readers to do the same.
OH! I also put a weight lose counter on the side of the blog. I don't put a lot of stock into BMI but it is a widely accepted index. My target weight should be 140 (I say 160) and I started at 195. So keep track of that and my food summary and lets see where this thing goes. Green Belt I hope!
So I told you about joining the Krav Maga gym as a way to help my son with his karate. A side goal was for me to lose weight. The problem I was having is that I talked a good game. "Oh yeah, I'll do this, that, and the other thing and presto" I would say to my wife. Then I would promptly watch a movie and forget about the whole thing.
I even joined the company gym and was a regular for like......a whole week! Come to find out that like most people the goal of losing weight to reach x pounds is just to elusive. You might be in the same boat on this but have you told yourself "I'll lose 20 pounds" and there is no real connection to that goal. Like its just a number and there is no emotional retainer to it?
Well, I am doing Krav Maga as a way to goal set and put some weight (punny) behind it. See, have you ever started in something and wished that you weren't the new guy? Wished that you were better at something? That is the way I feel with Krav Maga, I don't want to be a yellow belt. I want to try for the higher belts. I want to become good at this!
So I have three methods of attack on this....by the way, see what I mean. Attaching my emotional wants to this has helped me bring this goal into my sphere of control. I am now making plans to reach this goal that I want badly....the goal is Green Belt in Krav Maga, and my weight is not the goal. The weight is simply the means to my goal.
Sorry, back to how I am going to get my Green Belt. First, attend Krav Maga class every chance I get. This ensures that I get my physical exercise and gives me the hands-on time I need to perfect my training.
Second, Losing weight through a proper diet. This plan will help me subtract negative compounds and chemicals in my nody. This allows my body function correctly as time goes on. Where love handles hindered my movement before, I hope to lose them in the future to free my range of motion.
Third, better fuel through proper diet [yes, two sub goals with one category of strategy]. See increase my consumption of the minerals and vitamins that I need helps my body function correctly. It also helps my development, like having all the right fuels for muscles development and making sure I don't have excess' [sugar] that can be burned before I have a chance to start burning fat. Fiber is another good example! Good fiber intake help my absorption of hydrating fluids. This is crucial to proper cooling during long work outs.....say for a certain three hour green belt test!?
So all of this is starting to work for me. I am losing weight I am now able to find stuff. Like being able to look down and see my.......uh.....feet. I've been working out but now I really need to bring my diet into check. To help with this I signed up for my calorie counter. Its a fantastic little tool that allows you to keep track of the foods you eat and their nutritional contents. Their database on foods is fairly robust and what I could not find on their site only took a single Google search to get the break down.
From here on out I'll try to post a daily summary of the previous days intake. What I hope to do is to show how I lost my weight and maybe inspire a few readers to do the same.
OH! I also put a weight lose counter on the side of the blog. I don't put a lot of stock into BMI but it is a widely accepted index. My target weight should be 140 (I say 160) and I started at 195. So keep track of that and my food summary and lets see where this thing goes. Green Belt I hope!
Constitution Blog
I am adding a new blog to my blogroll list. Its called Constitution blog and it is written by a college of mine in the liberty movement by the name of Jon Roland. Now I typically jest that Jon Roland can put you to sleep. Yet, to be fair and frankly honest, he brings up clear and concise discussion about civil and criminal law in regards to the constitution all in the light of classical liberal philosophy.
For those of you Republicans that get hung up on the word liberal....its what Thomas Jefferson was before the word liberal was attached to socialism. Orwell warned you.....you failed to listen.
Further more Jon doesn't people to sleep. So if you are reading this Jon then you have it in writing and you can shake your finger at me and remind me about the blog.
Please check out his blog, read as much as you can, comment frequently, and let him know how much of a snooze fest his blog is, but remember to thank him for teaching you about civics!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Shhhh, I'm hwunting wabbit
Nothing.....that is actually what I felt and heard when I ran over a rabbit leaving the house today. I thought that maybe a little bump like a low speed bump or something. Nope! nothing.
It was a quick death before all you PETA freaks skin me alive and wear me for a coat. The rabbit, for reasons unknown, decided to bolt across the street. I didn't see him, and lets be fair, or her until it was too late. All the weight of my truck was brought down to his/her little rabbit head. It happened in less than a fraction of a second. The timing was, ironically, perfect for a quick bunny death. I don't even think the Texas Death Row has a quicker and more humane method of death.
So this brings my road kill stats up to: Frog, squirrel, a bird (yes, for real), and now a rabbit.
No card carrying members of PETA were harmed in the making of this post......but they should have been.
It was a quick death before all you PETA freaks skin me alive and wear me for a coat. The rabbit, for reasons unknown, decided to bolt across the street. I didn't see him, and lets be fair, or her until it was too late. All the weight of my truck was brought down to his/her little rabbit head. It happened in less than a fraction of a second. The timing was, ironically, perfect for a quick bunny death. I don't even think the Texas Death Row has a quicker and more humane method of death.
So this brings my road kill stats up to: Frog, squirrel, a bird (yes, for real), and now a rabbit.
No card carrying members of PETA were harmed in the making of this post......but they should have been.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Oxymorons
I actually hear this stuff at the office from time to time.........
Coming from how stuff works:
1. virtual reality
2. original copy
3. old news
4. act naturally
5. pretty ugly
6. living dead
7. jumbo shrimp
8. rolling stop
9. constant variable
10. exact estimate
11. paid volunteers
12. civil war
13. sound of silence
14. clever fool
15. only choice
Coming from how stuff works:
1. virtual reality
2. original copy
3. old news
4. act naturally
5. pretty ugly
6. living dead
7. jumbo shrimp
8. rolling stop
9. constant variable
10. exact estimate
11. paid volunteers
12. civil war
13. sound of silence
14. clever fool
15. only choice
Monday, June 16, 2008
1930s Marital Scale
I picked up this little test over at Tam's place. Don't asked me how I rank so high, I really did answer everything honestly.
 | 110 As a 1930s husband, I am |
Scoring:
0-24 - Very Poor (Failure)
25-41 - Poor
42-58 - Average
59-75 - Superior
76+ - Very Superior
Pee fingers!
Does anyone else find it disturbing that some people answer their cell phones while in the rest room? I for one do....find it disturbing that is! I think it is gross! Do you (if you are one of the people that do this) realize that we can hear you and other people doing their business. Frankly when I am discussing quarterly business performance I don't want to hear the guy in the next stall going in a full out blitz to clean his colon.
And I am going to spend the rest of my days know that the cell phone is never going to get washed. Yeah, that's right! You may wash your hands after you spray down the urinal but does your cell phone get sanitized? The answer..... NO. No it does not! And you know what!? About five second after you walk out the restroom you are reaching for that phone again, assuming you ever put it away. Now all that funk is back on your hands and just waiting for you to run head long into a spear like attack in an attempt to shake my hand.
Then you are going to stand in my office smearing your hands all over my desk.....your pee hands, all over my desk. Did you learning nothing of Athens! Hygiene is paramount in cramped and crowed spaces. My god I work with crazed feces throwing baboons. Why even come into the office dressed and hair combed? Screw it! Really! I mean you totally cannot respect anyone else. Why give us the curtesy of business dress code. Just come into work in your scooby-doo PJ's and a wicked case of bed head.
Hell, just bring you breakfast too! Plop down in the middle of the hall way and slurp your frosted flakes as your read your god damn comics! Why, for the love of a civilized society, should you even give a damn about common courtesy. And you might as well relief yourself in the corner, you've shown you can't even take time out of your life to dress yourself on our behalf.....go for it all! Just completely abandon the last threads of what makes us top of the animal hierarchy. Just start eating your own children you horrible animal! Wander these lands in a primary driven lust for the basics of the Maslow hierarchy!
Piss on all the accomplishments and standards we set for civilized human behavior! PEE BOY! ARG!
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Happy Monday everyone!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Happy now!
OK MATT! I POSTED! Now get off my ass!
It has been a while....
Busy times, not a lot of free time to blog. Or sit down and collect my thoughts! my neighbor is going back to Iraq. Before he left he wanted to finish some projects around his house. I pitched in as much as I could. We built a fence for his back yard that is about 150' long if stretched out in a line. We also built a deck for his wife (again for the back yard). We also managed to build him a little parking lot for all of his cars. He has a whole mess of restored cars he fixes. And finally we fixed his septic line to his drain field pumps.
To top all of that off I built my own fence, at 100' down the front of my property. Its a lot of work and I am drained of enthusiasm for any other projects that spring up. Not to mention I got a wicked sun burn! I usually don't get sunburn bad being a sun child and all but this one has me AWOL from my Krav Maga classes. I rarely miss class!
Last time I got burned anywhere close to this is when I turned 20. My friends took me to one of the thousands rivers down here, Comel is the name of it I think. We lathered on the sunscreen and hoped in the innertubes and went a float. Some where between the beer, bikini's, and other party favors I lost the sun screen (rubbing on the tube or something). Twelve hours later I am in pain and later that night I go to the E.R. I kid you not!
My skin was starting to bubble and fill with fluid! I was in agony....what would you have done? Anywho, the doctor just about smacked me with his clip board and told me I had voluntary second degree burns from the blazing sun and my amazing stupidity.
To this day I do not having a lot of feeling on my shins and I can wear shorts in winter and not be phased. Cute little story huh? That's what you get Matt, for pestering me. The bubble skin story! Now go back to work before I drop another load of "To-Do" on your desk. I don't pay you to read my blog you little bastard.
Tell the wife "hello" for me
It has been a while....
Busy times, not a lot of free time to blog. Or sit down and collect my thoughts! my neighbor is going back to Iraq. Before he left he wanted to finish some projects around his house. I pitched in as much as I could. We built a fence for his back yard that is about 150' long if stretched out in a line. We also built a deck for his wife (again for the back yard). We also managed to build him a little parking lot for all of his cars. He has a whole mess of restored cars he fixes. And finally we fixed his septic line to his drain field pumps.
To top all of that off I built my own fence, at 100' down the front of my property. Its a lot of work and I am drained of enthusiasm for any other projects that spring up. Not to mention I got a wicked sun burn! I usually don't get sunburn bad being a sun child and all but this one has me AWOL from my Krav Maga classes. I rarely miss class!
Last time I got burned anywhere close to this is when I turned 20. My friends took me to one of the thousands rivers down here, Comel is the name of it I think. We lathered on the sunscreen and hoped in the innertubes and went a float. Some where between the beer, bikini's, and other party favors I lost the sun screen (rubbing on the tube or something). Twelve hours later I am in pain and later that night I go to the E.R. I kid you not!
My skin was starting to bubble and fill with fluid! I was in agony....what would you have done? Anywho, the doctor just about smacked me with his clip board and told me I had voluntary second degree burns from the blazing sun and my amazing stupidity.
To this day I do not having a lot of feeling on my shins and I can wear shorts in winter and not be phased. Cute little story huh? That's what you get Matt, for pestering me. The bubble skin story! Now go back to work before I drop another load of "To-Do" on your desk. I don't pay you to read my blog you little bastard.
Tell the wife "hello" for me
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