Maintained again.
Fruit for breakfast
Chicken strips for lunch
Popcorn for dinner (hey, I watched "Jersey Girl" I needed something...)
Diet Day 8 - Total Loss 4lbs
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Diet Day 7 - Total Loss 4lbs
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
I maintained.
Monday
breakfast
2 eggwhites while walking to a meeting
lunch
sliced grilled chicken in a whole wheat wrap with a piece of lettuce
fruit
snack
banana
dinner
turkey burger a little bit of bread
small salad
Still 165
Weekend Movie Reviews
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Bridge - Documentary about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge. Controversial because they show footage. Very good, not great, but good. I could not relate to a lot of it, from a "family" perspective. Maybe that is a good thing. And the long-haired leather jacket guy should have "jumped" in the beginning...that was frustrating. I also wouldn't have minded a background on the work involved to film the documentary, but maybe that was in the "extras" that I didn't watch.
Eyes Wide Shut - Seen it before, watched it again, late at night with Laurie as we both remember it being good, but didn't quite remember it in detail. I still don't care for Nicole Kidman, even more so in this movie, however, I really dig this movie. Then again, I'm a guy and it has lot's of nudity. Kind of a dark twist on a actual more than "realistic" issue of infidelity and trust.
The Cincinnati Kid - Steve McQueen...Ann-Margret...that SHOULD say it all. It was great. Not top 100 great, but up there. Steve McQueen is a great actor, and Ann-Margret in this movie...should be next to the definition of sexy (however also next to brat). Favorite scene...after Steve McQueen takes her to the cock fights, and drops her off home...the script is genius, and her acting is genius. I liked the ending to this movie too...not spectacular, which is why I liked it. P.S. Don't try to search You Tube for "cincinnati kid" the only two clips are an Ann-Magret clip (and not a great one) and the entire ending to the movie.
I started watching a few Hitchcock movies, but fell asleep, so I need to finish watching Rear Window and Dial M for Murder...from what I saw, they were great....but it's Hitchcock what did you expect?
Diet Days 6 & 7 - Total Loss 4lbs
Maintained a 4lb loss this weekend. Considering what I ate, I am happy.
Saturday:
3 eggwhites with Cajun Seasoning & Kethcup
Banana
Dinner - Chicken Parm & Ziti w/ whole wheat pasta (not that it helped!)
Baked sweet potatoes
Wine
Sunday:
Houlihans for lunch
1/2 Chicken ranch type wrap, all fat sauce on the side, didn't eat
House salad, local dressing (only at about 1/3rd of it) no croutons, cheese, or bread
Dinner - Ria Mar for dinner
Garlic Chicken
Potatoes (like the homemade fried chips kind)
Rice
Veggies
Ugh. it was horrible for one, two....it was bad.
At one point I was down to 164 this weekend, this morning I was 165.
Diet Day 5 - Total Loss 4lbs
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Friday
Breakfast:
Some pineapple
Banana
Lunch:
Grilled chicken caesar salad
Dinner:
Some Asian grilled chicken salad
Drinks (Jack and Diet Coke)
Before poop weigh in this morning was 165 even. Only 15lbs more to go.
Going to Laurie's co-workers house for dinner tonight...no clue what's in store for meal but I'm quite sure it is going to be great.
Diet Day 4 - Still total loss 3lbs...however...
I estimate loosing many-a-lbs to the porcelain god in a short moment.
Thursday's meals
Breakfast:
2 eggwhites ketchup...brought banana, wasn't hungry
Coffee
Lunch:
Jalapeño Cheddar Chicken Burger, no bun (cheddar was mixed in with the burger unfortunately)
Small cup of fruit (I'm on a pineapple kick)
Pickles
Dinner (went out):
grilled chicken with fresh moz. and roasted peppers - BAD
Water
Still at 166.
Diet Day 3 - Total Loss 3lbs.
Yesterday, I got back into my usual wake-work-home-laurielovin routine.
Breakfast:
2 scrambled eggwhites with ketchup at 7:30ish
light and fit yogurt at 10ish
Lunch:
Roasted turkey lunchmeat
(I ordered a sandwich on whole wheat, but threw out the bread as soon as I got back to my office)
big leaf of lettuce
a few pickles
small cup of fruit
dinner:
left over turkey burger
string beans
applesauce
all water to drink all day.
woke up this morning to 166lbs.
Starting to get that "eating right" good feeling. I slept GREAT last night and felt great when I woke up. Not sure if I should wait until I get down to 150 to start really working out or what...
Diet Day 2 - Total Loss 1lb.
Day 2.
Still away from home in Bumblefuck, NY on business. Therefore, I was pretty much stuck with crap to eat as being pressed for time, and 3 other hungry employees brings you to places like Panera Bread for breakfast. Have you ever been in there? I feel like I absorb carbs before I even walk through the door. As tempting as it was to get a cinnamon crunch, french toast bagel or a few chocolate chip muffies (muffin tops). I managed to squeak out still with "shit" for breakfast. A toasted multi-grain bagel with low-fat spread. I redeemed myself a little bit by not using spread...maybe half a teaspoon at MOST.
When you are dieting and used to eating crap, and a lot of it...when dieting, even crappy food tastes good.
I had a medium coffee with skim milk as well.
For lunch, we stopped on the way home to a pizza place/Italian place. I got a small side salad, no dressing, which came with roasted peppers, lots of onions and cucumbers. I didn't eat any of the onions for fear my co-driver/co-worker would pass out from my breath, but I did manage to eat about 3/4 of the salad....so yeah, I had 3/4 a plate of lettuce cucumbers and roasted peppers. And a diet Dr. Pepper. 0 calories, but still bad...however I needed a little caffeine for the car ride home in the torrential down pour.
I got home early, about 3:30pm. I made MY homemade turkey burgers. I'm too lazy to write out the recipe right now, but the ingredients consisted of:
Lean turkey
Italian breadcrumbs (I tried to avoid, but its a necessity. However only 1Tbspn to 4 burgers)
Onions
Garlic
Worcestershire sauce
Jalapeño peppers
salt/pepper
Parsley
1 Egg white, whipped
Then I made 1 can of french cut green beans. Moms homemade pickles (I tried to like them, but I'd rather vlasic...she's still perfecting them) and applesauce.
Ketchup on the George Forman cooked burger, and no bun.
Pellegrino to drink.
Yum.
Here is what I looked like after dinner.
at 169lbs!!! Ouch. I need to loose 20lbs. Goal is 150 with a 6pack.
Well, this morning I woke up and weighed myself again, and was 168lbs. I lost 1 lb in most likely water weight in 2 days. Expected. I also haven't shit in 2 days (being away from home stage freight and all) I plan on loosing a good pound to the porcelain potty today.
Diet Day 1
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Being away from home and traveling for work made day 1 a little challenging, and without a scale I have no clue on progress yet.
Breakfast:
Egg whites - Approx 1.5
Few small pieces of melon
Half a Lowfat yogurt
Coffee
Lunch:
Skipped due to being in the middle of bumblefuck, ny
I managed to score some Snackwells cookies (waste of 200 calories) and a diet Dr. Pepper
Dinner:
Ruby Effing Tuesdays
Salad bar where I filled half a plate of salad with cucumbers and chickpeas....low fat dressing. Only ate half of that. Then a "mini" turkey burger.
Few glasses of wine.
I didn't drink much water throughout the day yesterday.
I will be home today and I'll take some pictures and record my weight.
Back on diet. Details to follow....
Monday, September 10, 2007
Day 1 of my Diet.
To give a background about 2 years ago, I was 203ish lbs. I got down to 148. Then bounced slowly up to 160-165ish and have been that way ever since. Maintaining that weight. I did it without exercising. I am now hopping on the scale every now and then and noticed 167 a few times, and haven't seen 160 is a while. So, I decided to diet again, and when I get down to 145-150, start exercising and maintain 150ish.
I binged ate yesterday. I won't list. It will make you sick and involved brownie ice cream and Jack Daniels steak.
Everyone asked how I lost 50lbs in two months AND the most important part...KEPT IT OFF. (It's easy to lose the weight) So, I've decided to kind of track it here.
I will weigh in with my official weight when I get home and what I ate for the day.
Here is a previous before after.
Before
after
and
Now, I don't look like this anymore, stomach is a little bigger which is the reason for the diet...I'll take a picture later today and post so you can see a better before.
However this is how I look now. Picture taken last weekend.
My goal is to have a 6 pack by New Years.
Right now I am:
167lbs
5'8"-5'9"
32" pant size waist
Looking for a TiVo/Netflix reconciliation application
Friday, September 7, 2007
I have a TiVo and NetFlix and it pisses me off when a movie that came in on my list is on TV that week.
Is there any way to sync the two up? Cross reference and RSS feed from my NetFlix queue to a TiVo wishlist?
Interesting Statistic
Last week the Houston Chronicle reported that one in three women who met partners through online dating sites had sex with them "on the first date" -- and that 75 percent of those women didn't use condoms.
This has to be skewed, but maybe not. By skewed, I bet you they are counting Craigslist and the like as well as sites like AdultFriendFinder which are SPECIFICALLY for fucking.
Slow news day
Thursday, September 6, 2007
"I hope it wasn't his "good" hand..."
"give this guy a hand..."
"Gotta hand it to him..."
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14055671/detail.html
RIP big fella...but look at the bright side. The mortician fee should be a lot less considering what he's been looking like before he died. (read: The fucking guy looked horribly like a poorly done up corpse before he died!)
The local "sketch" artist...work of art
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
So, I'm reading the paper like every morning and I also shoot right over to the central NJ section, police briefs to play "who do I know that got in trouble today"
http://thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070905/NEWS010302/709050377/1005/NEWS01
I see this sketch for a attempted kidnapping suspect.
Come on...that is HORRIBLE. I don't think there is a person on the planet that looks like that. I wonder if the kidnap victim was just fucking with the sketch artist to see what kind of goofy picture he could come up with.
Somewhere....out there....there is a kid laughing his ass off...
Luxury and how I'm a yuppie.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
There was ironically a good article in todays paper. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709040318
I say ironically because I spent the weekend shopping. One day at Short Hills Mall, which, instead of Hyundai's in the mall with ropes around to showcase, has Bentleys and Porsches. Then the next day went to Woodbury commons outlets. It's amazing the type of people who only buy a "name". There was a line, like waiting for a ride at Disney, in front of the Coach store. Inside, there wasn't even anything nice.
Got a good deal on pair of shoes though...
Return of the Mac
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Went out and bought a Mac. A MacBook to be specific. Taking a bit of getting used to, however, I'm digging it a lot. I just have to figure out how to beef up the plugins/java/flash/etc in Safari browser and I'll be set.


