Posted by admin on February 16th, 2009
Over the weekend I totally misbehaved myself, on Saturday some Mexican friends of my wife’s invited us to a sweet sixteen party or quincianiera, so needless to say when it comes to traditions the Mexican people know how to have a good time, thus the diet goes out the window today, they served a huge variety of food some healthy some not, like Nopales “fresh cactus” with sliced onion and tomatoes, guacamole , beans, sopes and traditional tacos with hand made corn tortillas , I tried to stay within my limits with a few tequilas to wash it
down, but it was tough. On Sunday I kind of straightened things out eating some fresh beef stew with lots of veggies that my wife cooked up, so it was not a complete wash. It was probably not as healthy as it could have been, one thing though I did though is jog three miles on Saturday and did some weight lifting.
One thing I want ot stress here is exercise, I was reading an article over the weekend about positive thought end enjoying what you do including exercise, if you exercise with negativity it can actual do more harm than good. I personally dont love to jog but I do not totally dislike it, its hard now but it has become a little easier, so make sure you do something you like even if just for 35 to forty minutes at least three or four days a week, tenis , raquet ball , swimming , aerobics anything that will help burn a few calories , this will help the weigh come off a little quicker.
Posted by admin on February 13th, 2009
Today the morning started out a little shitty, number one, another sleepless night, why I do not know, there’s no stress going on in my life , I ate some good food and plus I ate early, maybe its the full moon, who knows, in any case I did not go to either walk or jog although I had good intentions, we all know where the good intentions take us. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 12th, 2009
Wow today I woke up with a bunch of energy, don’t know if it was the salad last night or what, but I felt great , I’m really looking forward to my weigh in next week, although the weekend could be a little turbulent, weekends for me are hard , a little more time on my hands and of course more time to think of what to eat.
This morning I went for my usual jog I walked my to miles and jogged the other two and a half , it was rough but seems to get easier, in fact I still had enough energy to ride my cheap stationary bike for 20 minutes 40 minutes of light weight training, this I know will help, in theory, the more muscle we have the more calories are burned. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 11th, 2009
This morning I woke up a little late 6:15 am and did not look forward to walking or jogging at all, but my wife coerced me in to it, plus I gave myself the mental oh come on you will feel better afterwords, so half way through the jog i started to feel better and get my second wind, I am glad I did, exercise to some is overrated, but it helps me clear my mind and gives me a more positive outlook throughout the day its not just about burning calories, but about overall health, remember any kind of aerobic exercise increases blood flow, lowers stress levels and can you a more positive outlook on things plus I like the feeling of accomplishment. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 10th, 2009
This morning my alarm woke me up at 5:30, I had awakened earlier dreading the alarm, mainly because as I mentioned in my post before that I probably would not sleep well, because of eating to much for dinner, plus I ate after 6 o’clock. I may have gotten away with the extra portion if I had eaten earlier.
This morning I added an extra half mile to my already 4 1/2 mile walk. After my walk I came home and did 3 sets of reverse ab crunches and 3 sets of 15 dumbell lunges and 3 sets of 15 dumbell shoulder exercises. Right now I am just using light weight, I have a simple weight bench at home with some cast iron weights and dumbbells, nothing fancy I just want to make sure as I am losing weight that I can kind of keep my muscles toned , my over all weight loss goal is to lose weight slow and naturally. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 9th, 2009
So Although I say I am not dieting , once you start the quest to lose weight, it finally hits you, you know deep inside that fat causes fat so we need to eliminate it as much as possible out of our diet, after all if we are overweight then the less fat the better , our bodies need a certain amount of fat but right now in my case I need to eliminate as much fat from my diet as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 8th, 2009
Breakfast
This morning I had my first semi healthy breakfast which consisted of 1 cup of Special K cereal a half banana sliced up and 3/4 cup of skim milk and a 6 0z glass of orange juice. so it was pretty basic , the hard thing was taking the kids to the movies today and skipping the popcorn and soda but hey you definitely feel better after.
So instead of eating lunch because I was not really hungry, I just had about 4 ounces of mixed unsalted nuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 8th, 2009
Yesterday me and the wife where talking about different topics and the one topic that brought the conversation to a stand still was that my wife mentioned that my stomach had gotten rather large, this conversation came after me giving a lecture to my teen age son who is overweight and just refuses to eat properly. I have to admit I do try to watch my weight and yes I could probably stand to lose a few pounds like 20, Yikes! how easy the weight goes on is amazing but even worse it can be hard to take off, my biggest downside is beer amongst other things , I have never been a big fast food junk but I do like beef and probably eat more than I should, just like I drink more beer than I should , but then again there are some solid nutrients in beer. Read the rest of this entry »
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