Web-Foot's Rededication

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Web-Foot Freak

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*warning: freakishly long post*
I've done really well since August... considering... I know I haven't hit a plateau per se, but I cheat WAY too much on my diet which I haven't even perfected yet. Soooooo I'm starting a journal since I'm here pretty much every day anyways doing research. I plan to keep track of both my diet and fitness goals. I would hope very much for getting chewed out when I cheat :D.

Let's start with today. For the month of December, I am down a total of 5lbs. As heavy as I am I expected to lose more, but I also take 5 measurements once a month. Shoulders: 53" (-2.25"), Chest: 47.25" (-1.25"), Naval (around belly button): 42.5" (-1.75"), Waist (where I wear my pants): 39.5" (-1"), Hips: 53" (-2.25"). This puts me down 8.5" over the last month. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this means to me that I'm burning fat & building muscle at a relatively even rate. I'll post pics later today when my photographer gets home.

I think I've got my workouts nailed. I have 2 full-body routines that I swap out to keep my body thinking as I understand this is a good thing. Right now I'm on the second routine & will switch back in Feb. I use a Bowflex Power Pro w/the 310lb upgrade. I'm doing 3 sets of 8, always trying to push a 9th rep on the last set. When I hit that 9th rep twice in a row, I up the resistence by 10. Right now I'm doing Chest Fly, Delt Row, Front Shoulder Raise, Lat fly, Bicep Curl, Tricep Pushdown, Leg Press (maxed out), Hamstring Curl, Reverse Crunch, Resisted Ab Crunch and I finish it off with 5 bench presses @ max resistance which is 270 last wed. I do this 3x a week.

I also run 3x a week. Tue & Thu at work which is a 1.8mi run which I do during my 30 min lunch break. My best time so far is 17:09 which comes out to about a 9:30 mile. I want to get this down to an 8:00 mile. so my goal time is 14:24. The 3rd run is on the weekend at the park which is a .75 track, and I basically go until I'm ready to drop.

My goals for this year are to run 4 road races. I'm looking at 2 5k runs, and 1 10k later in the year. The 4th race is the Du Run Run Duathlon in Nashville, TN. It's a 2mi run, 10mi bike, 2 mi run. I'd also like to see myself in a pair of 32 waist jeans. I can wear my 36 waist jeans right now with no strain to button them.
 
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Pic Update: 1-1-07

*I am NOT posting Feb pics... major lack of progress has just got me pissed off... Hopefully in March.*

Front 8-2006

Front 1-1-07

Side 8-2006

Side 1-1-07

I found a few old friends 1-1-07
 
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gah... all the crap about wanting to rededicate myself, and i go and jack it all up the first freakin day!!! I woke up late and didn't eat breakfast, but instead went to my 2nd meal... Lunch was okay, but completely forgot the 4th meal. Went to Memphis when my wife got home, and went to Joe's crab shack thinking I could find something. I was starving and got stupid, so my day was like this:

1st: missed
2nd: 3.5oz tuna (bagged, not canned)
3rd: healthy choice meal (didn't eat the dessert, had a banana instead)
4th: missed
5th: Joe's Crab Shack (Crawfish Gumbo w/ crawfish tails + steamed veggies. I ate the whole thing before I knew what I was doing)

Believe me, I'm kicking my own arse much more than any of you could right now. On top of all that, MWF are my lifting days & I couldn't find my sheet with all my settings on it. Ergo, I didn't life yesterday. Today I'm running @ lunch, and lifting this evening to make up for it.
 
okay... pulled my head out, and got to work today...

1st: .5c oats w/.25c strawberries
2nd: 3.5oz tuna + 1 small apple
**Ran 1.8 mi @ noon in 17:06 (best time by :03)
3rd: 1 light yogurt + 1 banana
4th: Healthy choice meal (yeah i know), didn't eat the dessert + 1 can sardines
**finished my 1st liter of water @ 5 + had one thin mint
5th: Eggplant Parmesan + 1 6oz plain chicken breast w/2tbs bbq sauce

that puts me just about 1800 cals and 110g of protein. I know I need to tweak my diet, I'm just not sure what to do here... I do want to add a shake in there
 
I didn't keep track... all I know is that I really screwed up...

Went and finally met my National Guard recruiter face to face. I showed him my before pic, and he got this "holy sh*t" look on his face. Then he did some bodyfat measurements, well BS measurements... took my age, height, weight, neck measurement, naval measurement and came up with about 27% bf... probably in the ballpark... ohwell... I still haven't lifted this week either with the bowflex blocked in as we're rearranging the room... hoping I can clear room tomorrow so I can lift Thurs & Sat so I pick up my schedule on Mon...

oh well, just blah i suppose...
 
Thurs 1-04-07

Still wasn't able to lift today. There was a meet & greet for Amy's clinical portion of nursing school, so I got home kinda late. After cooking dinner, there just was no time to dig out the bowflex as Rebekah went right to bed. Yeah we're all in the same room, it's pretty big tho (16x22)

okay...
1) Sausage McMuffin w/egg & hashbrowns
2) 3oz tin of tuna
3) 1 banana, 1 yogurt (ran during lunch)
4) Healthy choice meal (no dessert) & 1 tin sardines w/ 8 saltines
5) 10 pieces cocktail shrimp
6) Spaghetti w/ meat sauce

I don't normally do 6 meals, but since that meet & greet was going to be long, I improvised... at least I'm getting a correct start for this morning... Forgot my run... I did my 1.8 @ work in 16:58!!! I lengethened my stride a bit, pushed thru the pain, and cut another 8 seconds off my time... Now I just need to cut that last 2:34 hehe
 
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Fri 1-5-07

Oh well, other than running, this week was a bust.

1) Oats /w peaches & .5tsp splenda
2) 3oz can tuna
3) Healthy Choice Chicken Marghartia
4) banana + lite yogurt
5) 3 slices Dominos Meatzza

I'm perusing Amy's coursebooks for this semester. She's retaking nutrition :D . She needed the credit hours, and maybe a point in the right direction for us. We're going to plan our meals to roll over to lunches. The only real problem night I see in our future are Tues & Thurs because we're BOTH going to be in class...
 
Sat 1-6-07

Well, I've designated saturday as my scale day. I came in at 245.5, so somehow I'm down 1.5lbs. Bear in mind I'm not using weight as a true goal, but my size and fitness level. I would like to be able to say that I only weigh 200 tho :D. I almost forgot. I've been wearing a 40" waist, and an XXXL shirt. I had to return some pants from xmas (38/30), and got 34/30 khakis from Old Navy. I tried them on when I got home thinking that they'd be a goal to get into... they fit. They're just a bit tight around my quads, but they're friggin huge anyways. We went to Kohl's to get a coupla polo shirts, and The two Xl shirts actually pretty good (except for da man boobs)! I need to set aside some $$ to go clothes shopping this summer!

1) .5 cup of oatmeal w/peaches
2) coupla pieces of beef jerkey (my addiction btw)
3) Order of wings from Dominos (I work there on weekends, they're baked and I use NO sauce on them)
4) 1 tin of sardines
5) Steak/chicken/shrimp fajitas (the wife wanted Mexican, and this seemed to be the healthiest thing.

I did manage to lift today. I went above and beyond on as many exercises as I could. I never did find my last sheet, so I guesstimated the resistance. of course I'll be posting those every week too.
 
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Sun 1-7-07

Came to a realization while running this morning... well 3 actually
1) I have WAAAAY too much Metallica on my Sansa (mp3 player)
2) As much as I like Depeche Mode, it is not good for running
3) Electronica (borderline Techno) is actually pretty good for running. Psykosonik is what was thumping in my head this morning.

well... to the meals & will update later...
1) 1 banana before running
2) .5 cup oats w/ strawberries & a dash of splenda
3) Another order of Dominos wings (again, baked + no sauce)
4) Roasted chicken breast subway sammich (wheat bread, provolone, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, salt-n-pepa)

I went to the track at the lake this morning (.75mile). I walked the first lap, ran 2.66 laps (2.0mi), and walked the last .33 lap. Going to Dominos in a few, hopefully the lousy weather means lots of runs & tips!
 
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I'm crashing....

yesterday was crap... today's gonna be crap... I look at my last few posts & I see myself slipping slowly back into old habits. Heh, that may be why ppl post in here, I dunno. I look at my pics, and while I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt I've made major progress, I can't see it. I KNOW I've lost 40lbs. I KNOW I've gone from 40 to 34 pant size. I KNOW I've gone from an XXL to an XL shirt. Yet I still look at my self and I see this fat, bloated piece of crap. I keep comparing myself to ppl I see around, and not to my old self. I know this sounds bad on the 9th day of a journal, hell I'm not even on the 2nd page yet but please bear in mind I've been at this since August of last year :).

My diet yesterday was okay up until dinner but I'm not even gonna post it. I was at school registering last night & got home too late to lift & I can't run today. I'm not going to post my meals today either, but I'm at least sticking with water (2L/day) and I'm shifting my workouts over a day. I'm going to sit down today and we're going to talk (Me, Myself & I), We're going to figure this out because I don't need to be back where I was and I really want to be where I was going. This is one of those time I wish one of you guys was local so I can just sit down & talk to someone about this.
 
stop eating the crap and you'll soon start feeling a lot better. stop looking at the guy in the mirror and judge how you feel. you've done well to shift the weight you have, its just an unfortunate reality that the more weight you lose the harder what you have left is to shift.

from the diets you've posted it seems that you're eating foods you shouldnt and then making up for them elsewhere. you have to be interested in your healthy foods rather than forcing them down, if you dont you look to the next best interesting thing, which seems to be mcdonalds and bought in chicken.

once you get a clean diet you'll feel better when you're exercising and will soon not want the crap as you know how it will affect your performance. you can still eat plenty when losing fat, in fact you should be able to eat more as cleaner food often has the least kcalories. you can still eat the nice things, so dont feel guilty about one thin mint. have 2 or 3 thin mints just make it a nice treat, getting fit has to be enjoyable or else you wont keep it up - similarly its no help feeling bad about eating crap - just get your head up and be more determined to get it right tomorrow.

keep it up but if you want the guilt to stop you need to change not only your diet but your whole approach to food. enjoy good food, feel better and train better, eat more good food, feel even better. you'll soon look at sausage mcmuffin with a real sense of hatred!

also, chuck out the scales, or at least reduce how frequently you weigh yourself. you body weight will fluctuate according to water levels, exercise etc so go off how you feel and how well things fit.

good luck
 
benelson101 said:
from the diets you've posted it seems that you're eating foods you shouldnt and then making up for them elsewhere. you have to be interested in your healthy foods rather than forcing them down, if you dont you look to the next best interesting thing, which seems to be mcdonalds and bought in chicken.
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The big thing is that I just don't understand how to set one up. I have no probs with healthy food. I'm not having to force anything I'm eating down. I've cooked enough bad food that I know how to season good food to make it more palatable. I even found a meal replacement bar recipe that I'm trying out.

benelson101 said:
chuck out the scales, or at least reduce how frequently you weigh yourself.
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I've actually done this... I only step on the scale on Sat mornings now... I'm more worried about actual size lost and those are taken once a month. Once my wife learns how to measure body fat in her Nutrition class this semester (nursing school) we're going to get a set of calipers and do that once a month as well.
 
Wed 1-11-07

1) Oats w/ strawberries & a dash of Splenda
2) Homemade meal replacement bar
3) South Beach Meal & Sardines
4) Yogurt & banana
5) Mac & Cheese w/ hotdogs

was doing great up until dinner... we are working on getting better food in the house, but just ran outta time last night. The meal bar was good. I followed the recipe i found, but I couldn't get them to set up. It looked like a prop out of the new Jackass movie... 'nuff said.
 
Thurs 1-11-07

Finally completely registered for skewl. Going for an AAS in Information Technology. I've been spinning wrenches since '02, but before that I was a Network Admin for 4-5 years. They just did everything so bass-ackwards that finding another job proved to be impossible. When I finish up (Dec '08 I hope) I should have added Network+ & Security+ to my A+ and I'll be ready to take the CCNA...

I've also been thinking about the Guard after Amy finishes her school (and now me too). My DD214 was destroyed in a house flood, so I requested a copy and a copy of my awards list. I got that list last night, and not only did they send the list, but they also sent me my National Defense Service Medal. I never bothered to pick up the medal, I just wore the ribbon when it was necessary. Funny thing tho, they listed the Vietnam Service Medal w/1 bronze star. Heh, they stopped awarding that particular medal two years before I was born. Gotta get that off my record :D .

1) Oats w/ Strawberries & a dash of splenda
2) 1 tin tuna & banana (two great tastes that do NOT go great together)
3) Healthy Choice Meal
4) 6oz Lite Yogurt, Meal replacement sludge (I gotta find a better recipe)
5) Cleaned up the leftover Jambalaya... yeah, I know.
 
LiveFromNY said:
you have a very nice name, btw
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heh... look at the avatar... describes me perfectly

Gonna keep it short:
1) oats w/ berry mix + dash of splenda
2) 1 can tuna, 1 6oz lite yogurt (again, 2 tastes that don't go together)
3) healthy choice meal 1 can sardines
4) 1 banana, 1 6oz lite yogurt
5) 5 slices Meatzza on thin crust, protein bar

Today was a cluster. Had to be at work early to finish up a truck (did not get done :mad: ) so I just threw some stuff in my lunch bag. Dinner rolls around, and I was going to do baked whiting and veggies w/ brown rice. The :mad::mad: whiting was a frozen block, PLUS... they were whole. It was so late I didn't have time to clean AND cook 'em so I called Dominos to feed the family. They're cleaned now + I'll cook dinner BEFORE I go to work tomorrow night. I'm also dreading tomorrow morning's weigh-in :(
 
1-13-07

First day of the new work schedule (Sat nights instead of mornings). I actually got a few things done around the house. I'm plowing my way thru my water (2L/day)

1) Oats /w mixed berries (black, straw, blue, rasp) + 1 scoop vanilla whey (This was really good, wish I had thought of it before)
2) Meal replacement sludge (researching new recipes)
3) QPC, some fries (yeah I know, but I'm only at about 1200 cals for the day)
4) Tuna sammich...
5) 1 fish, whiting (yeah the whole thing), veggies were nasty, low fat yogurt for dessert
 
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1-14-07

ugh it's late... today was a good/bad day. It seems to be hard to keep to my diet on the weekends. Probably because I've set my meals to go with my breaks at work and there's no time for snacking, or anything like that.

1) Oats w/ mixed berries + 1 scoop whey (vanilla)
2) 2 pieces pizza (no sauce, beef, green pepper, a few black olives & provolone cheese)
3) Steak sub, some fries

I hate to only eat 3 in a day cuz when I skip meals I gorge myself. Although I did show remarkable restraint with the pizza... it was DAMN good
 
1-15-07

Today was better... I'm having a hard time remembering...

1) oats w/ mixed fruit
2) 1 banana, 1 6oz lite yogurt
3) Healthy choice meal, w/o the dessert (it's nasty)
4) 1 can tuna, 1 apple (these go together better...)
5) 1 scoop protein shake in skim milk.
6) 1 bowl chili, heavy on the meat.

I don't normally eat that many meals, but I bonked hard when I got home... I also pulled the bowflex back out after a week off. It was actually kind of good to take a week off of everything. I still ate in the ballpark of healthy (waaay out in left field), but i didn't run or lift. The good part is that my knee is feeling a bit better, but I'm still worried.
 
1-16-07

Not a good day... but I'll get to that in a second...

1) oats /w mixed berries
2) tuna/apple
3) Healthy Choice
4) yogurt/banana
Sn) 2oz pkg jerkey (I had class tonight)
5) Spaghetti w/ meat sauce

I'm having to totally rework this now. I can't run anymore because I'm terrified. I tried to do UNweighted squats last night and every time i got close to 90 degrees my right knee would collapse. When I tried to push back up even before 90 degrees, it would quit & my left knee would bedoing all the work. :( I guess it's time to find a dr....
 
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