Posted by admin on July 17th, 2009
So I mentioned my trip to Mexico while the so called swine flu epidemic raged, and well Mexico is great and anyone who tells you different. I will keep my opinions to myself in any case back to my weight loss, I actually lost like 5 pounds but it was not dieting, I had a home project painting the house and man was the house in bad shape so scraping down all the bad paint was rough, but mind you good exercise, so I found out that painting or any other intense household chore can help you drop the pounds, but I am done painting so today was my first day back to formal exercise and getting back to the program of exercise , so I started out with 15 crunches 15 minutes on a stationary bike and so moderate weight lifting.
This mornings breakfast is coffee and oatmeal not very exciting but I plan on going to the beach this summer and want to shed of some serious weight so I can look half way decent in a pair of swim trunks.
Posted by admin on June 15th, 2009
A lot has happened over the last couple of months I have been…. well not dieting. I came to Mexico to visit my relatives for a few weeks during the swine flu epidemic, and man the only damaging effect I could see during the whole ordeal was the businesses closing, especially the tourism industry, the funny thing is that my relatives know tons of people trough church, social events and have yet to know of someone infected by the H1N1 virus its really weird. I managed to fly to Mexico during the outbreak and fly back to the states with no infection, personally I still think the media has overdone things as they tend to do with everything else.
In any case I just got back and yes I have managed to drop a couple of pounds, but not doing what you would think.
But I will post on that in the next day or so.
Posted by admin on April 13th, 2009
Week 10 of my personal diet and with the long Easter weekend I found myself kind of going off the deep end with some of the foods that I consumed, more carbohydrates than I should have and more of everything. So today Monday morning I will tone it down a bit.
I found an iteresting article this morning on MSNBC on stress and dieting which I found very interesting and of course it goes right after my principal that dieting constantly is bad , as I mention here in my blog its called my personal weight loss and that’s what it is weight loss, we lose weight by eating less and eating the right foods, so if you want to call it a diet you may, I would like to rather think it is just more about eating smart and givimg our bodies what we need and that is good food and exercise if you put yourself in a position denying yourself constantly the things you love it only makes things worse.
Tomorrow I will jump on the scale and see how things are going my clothes are fitting much better now so hopefully the results will be positive.
Posted by admin on April 7th, 2009
So week nine and things are moving right along, 2 more pounds lost but my clothes are fitting better, plus I have more resistance when exercising to the point I am not almost fainting when doing my daily work out, I have added a few carbs to my diet, mostly because I felt the need of a little bit more energy boost, especially working out twice a day. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on April 4th, 2009
So I had not been posting as often as usual int the past few weeks as time would not permit, but just wanted to say that as I mentoned yesterday as time goes by things get better , yesterday I decided to turn up the heat and I began doing 200 crunches yesterday afternoon, this morning another 200 hundred I think I will have to break down and take a picture and post it, now that I am getting confident of my progress, I must say that those protein drinks I am taking must be working cause my energy level is picking up. Plus I am still doing my daily light weight lots of reps routine. So I am going to pick up the pace over the weekned now that I hace some time and try to work in 2 work outs in a day , morning and afternoon. we shall see the progress. so stay tuned.
Posted by admin on April 3rd, 2009
So week eight has been interesting , there has to be something said about persistence in anything you do whether it be dieting, work or exercise the more you put in to it the more you get out of it, so perseverance is half the battle, I have been eating some carbs lately and have not been as strict on my diet but I am starting to see not so much huge amounts of weight loss but I am getting comments from people of me looking thinner, plus my clothes are definitely fitting much looser. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on March 25th, 2009
So my weight loss success continues, well sort of, after coming back form the beach I have gotten kind of lazy the time change or daylight savings time does it to me, plus once the weather gets a bit warmer it makes me lazy so for 2 days now I have only walked one of them, This morning I decided to get up and hit the weights, in case I have not mentioned my age before I just turned 43 and used to be an avid weight lifter and loved to go to the gym, but with family and all the activities in a day like work getting the kids to school it can be rough trying to stay in shape, unless you have the money for a personal trainer. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on March 23rd, 2009
I have not kept up with my progress here because week six I took the family on vacation for a week to the beach, we had a great time, but well… the diet went out the window, but one thing I made myself and the family do was stay active so we took plenty of sunscreen and spent a better part of the day in the water playing volleyball anything we could do to keep the kids entertained. We did take along with us our vitamin supplements and continued taking them, as mentioned in one of my previous post my wife has been taking Hoodia because she has been having some positive progress with it because it has helped curb her appetite. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2009
Week five of my diet and progress continues although this week I did not see any weight loss I am still continuing to see my clothes fitting loser, so even though I am not seeing weight loss this week I am seeing progress in other areas, more energy , better sleeping patterns and less stress.
I have been maintaining my diet with still no starches but since I have been exercising more I have been hungrier in the morning, so some days I have been sticking to a bowl of fruit or oatmeal or Special k cereal, but one day I week I have been having a scrambled egg or poached egg on toast here is a recipe for low fat scrambled eggs I came across recently the only difference is I cooked mine in a skillet I am not big on cooking things in a Microwave mainly because I think that microwave ovens are bad for our health. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2009
So today’s the day I jump on the scale again after four weeks, I should definitely see some progress and hopefully I have shed a pound or two.
After three weeks I have definitely nailed down my menu, and this last weekend I did splurge with some great Arrachera beef on the barbecue with some flour tortillas, but things seem to be getting easier and my body has adapted more, when I first started eating chicken I would eat parts of the skin, which is my favourite 
Now I completely take the skin off, salads taste great with just a little olive oil and apple cider Vinegar and although I have eliminated breads this last week with my salad I have added a bread stick or whole wheat cracker to change things up. Read the rest of this entry »
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