Eric's Diary

Congratulations on that big loss. Can I borrow some of that? Actually, since I don't want to give it back, I guess I'll just have to do it myself. Good job Eric!
 
Lol, MissP. And thanks. :)

Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich, 2 apples.
Exercise: 1/4 mile jog, some light running around playing games for about 40 minutes.
Snack: Banana.
Dinner: Sushi, apple.
Snack: Banana.
 
Vegetables.. my downfall. :p

Lunch - Turkey sandwich w/ mustard. 2 apples.
Exercise - 1/2 mile jog. 40 minutes of free play.
Snack - Banana.

I need water! Ah!
 
How's it going there Eric? Have you made friends with any green veggies lately (and then cruelly luring them to their doom by eating them)? Sorry just my maniacal anthropomorphization of broccoli...
 
Doing great! I'm so happy to see you reaching your goal! You've really stuck with it and proven your strength and dedication. You rock!
 
Well sadly, I've really been slacking. Things have been keeping me busy elsewhere online and I haven't really been posting my diary. I hate not writing in my diary! This keeps me in check. I've done pretty bad the last week and half. I haven't gained anything back but I've slowed down to about nothing lost and that's discouraging. So, I've decided to quit eating Flintstones Vitamins. I found since I started them a month ago they make me really hungry when I shouldn't be. I also haven't had water for the last two days and I'm really disappointed in myself. But hey, I just read Chip's (troutman) diary and he really inspired me to get back into the groove of things.

I actually have a great thing going for me right now. An acquaintance of mine, and possibly future friend (though it's unknown at this time), is a track and cross country runner. During P.E. he runs anywhere from 2-5 miles every day!!! Skinny people are crazy! Just kidding. Well, anyways, he's trying to get me to run with him. So yesterday, he pushed me to do 6 laps (1.5 miles) without stopping to walk. Afterwards I didn't feel good and now my legs are KILLING me, but I'll get over it. I'm glad I ran. I just feel kind of stupid and more of a pain in the butt then someone to run with him. I mean, he can do his running pretty fast (compared to me) and he slows down so I can keep up. Well of course that makes me feel like I'm getting in the way of his running. I tell him to go on without me but he refuses.

Yesterday he told me that we were going to do another 1.5 miles the next day (today). I'm in pain but I'll get over it and try to do the 6 laps. Then this crazy runner told me I'd be running 2 miles (8 laps) on Wednesday. OHEMGEE!! I'm going to give it my all but I don't know. Maybe I'll be absent on Wednesday... hmm.. j/k. Well, before I go, my breakfast was a bowl of fruit loops. That's all for now folks. I'll stop by after school and then sometime after dinner.

One more thing, for the rest of the day I'm going to try a new technique. I don't know how this will work but it could make or break me really. I'm calling it, "Half It." I'm going to eat only half of everything. Well, almost everything. I'd eat all my vegetables, but half of my sandwich. And half of my apple, etc. I also had my full bowl of cereal as cereal is important (and I forgot about "Halfing It" until just now. Okay, I'm heading off to school. BYE!!!
 
I don't have much time but I'll fill everybody in on how my "half it" plan has been working. At lunch, I had half of a pb and j sandwich. And then I had half of an apple. Of course, I had another half of an apple, so I basically ate a full apple. I also had six carrots that I got from my friend. :p I just had a snack and I had half of a banana.

But for even better news of the day, I've come up with a running plan. Oh yes! :D On Monday, I ran 1 and a half miles. I really pushed myself and it was really hard. I was hurting today. BUT! I still ran another mile today and had to stop there. So here's my plan comes in. For the rest of the week I will 1 mile each day. Then, next week, 1 and a quarter mile. And each week I increase it another 1/4 mile. Within 4 weeks I'll be running 2 miles a day (excluding weekends). For weekends I'll have to use a treadmill (ew) or something of that sort. And over the summer, I'll need to get one of those trackers that tells you how far you've gone as well as a secluded place to run. :( Well that's all for now. More later tonight! :)
 
In It For The Long Term

Ocire, With exercise I don't tend to push myself hard enough. The way I look at it is I'm in this for the long term. So it really doesn't really matter if I just make little increases at a time. In a couple of years I'll be able to do more exercise than I choose to do.
Keep up the good work your doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chip
 
hey....i agree with ocire in terms of not pushing yourself so hard, but i think that is so awesome of your friend to bring you (or force you, ha ha) to run with him. dont feel too bad w/your friend, i am sure he is loving helping you run and it doesnt bother him if he has to slow down at all. that is so cool. it is like your free personal trainer/motivator. ;) great job. i betcha those lbs will start really falling off more with adding that part of your plan!! great job. good luck with the 'halfing it'. not sure i could do that :).
 
Thanks Chip, and I understand what you mean, about not pushing yourself. I don't think a 1/4 mile increase is really all that much. Obviously we'll have to wait and see how it turns out next week but I should be okay. I'm not sure though. Things are looking up now with the running and "halfing." I'm still a little unsure of my "halfing" method and how it will affect me in the long term but as of now I seem to be okay.

*Edit: Oops, didn't see your post until just now Skyler. Thanks for the post and thanks for the compliments. :) You're right about the free trainer, lol.
 
Alright, so along came dinner. Dinner wasn't too bad I s'pose. I did alright with the halfing plan. I had half of my salad (it was a large salad as it was). I had half of my bowl of clam chowder. Then half of a piece of corn bread. Half of a slice of garlic bread. And then 1 piece of low-fat sourdough bread. Eww.. there's was quite a lot of bread there. But it wasn't big pieces so it should be okay. I've also had about 64 oz. of water today. :)

Water - Great!
Food - Great!
Exercise - Great!

Hopefully I can keep this up!!! AH! :D
 
Alright, started off the day with a full bowl of a cereal. I feel that halfing breakfast is just stupid. Breakfast is really important for you in general, and great for losing weight. It helps you get through the rest of the day as well as keeping you filled. I'm running short on time so I'm headed off to school. Good bye for now. :)
 
Makes sense to me. If you eat only half, then another hour you will be hungry again. This way you can plan your food for the rest of the day around it and have the energy to make it thru till Lunch. Keep up the good work!
 
Thanks BCG. :) Today was insane! I got like four compliments!!!! It was very strange... My brother mentioned that the particular shirt I was wearing looked good so I think it's because this shirt is smaller than what I normally wear and people were able to see the weight loss without a shirt so baggy on me. This is definitely making me think. Hmm :D I got compliments from two teachers and a few students. One of my fellow classmates really surprised me when he mentioned my weight loss. We've never personally talked about me losing weight or anything so that's really cool! Well, now that I've posted all this great stuff here's some more great stuff for you all. :p

Lunch was alright. I had half of my PB&J sandwich and half an orange. I also had a banana. I had only eaten half at first but I decided I wanted to finish it and so I did. But that's not going to kill me, I'm sure. :eek: I got in another mile today. The trainer of mine was urging me to do another 2 laps (1/2 mile) but I told him I didn't want to. I'd really like to stick with the plan I have come up with. Increasing 1/4 miles each week. Very reasonable in my opinion.

Moving on, I've decided to try another plan. Basically, I'll have three categories; food, exercise and water. Each category is worth ten points, making it thirty points in total. My goal for each day would be to get all thirty points but even twenty-eight would be good. Points are based on how well I did in the certain category. Below is my grading system for each category.

Food This is a pretty obvious category. If I'm eating healthy and in good proportion I'll score higher. Vegetables, fruits and lean meats would raise the score. Chocolates, overeating and sodas would lower it. I should be alright in this category for the most part but the vegetables part might hurt me.

Exercise If you've read the last couple of entries, you will see that I have a goal of 1 mile everyday (excluding weekends which I need to rest). Every week I'll be increasing this mile by a quarter of a mile. If I miss my running for the day I'd get a zero, unless I make up for it with some game play. Though I still wouldn't get 10. If I do finish my running goal it's an automatic 10. If I run half of my goal and no game play, I'd get 5. Hopefully you understand the idea. Moving on...

Water A vital ingrediant in the weight loss. I figure for every cup of water (16 oz.) I get one point. This makes my goal 10 cups (80 oz.) of water a day. This wouldn't be exact but approximately of course.

So, there you have it. My grading system. I think I'll bring this up with my mom. Maybe we could discuss me earning money or something to that sort for getting a certain amount of points every week. :D $20 if I make a perfect score of 150/150. $10 for 135/150. Etc. Obviously the details will need to be worked out but you get the point. :p

And one final note. I've had approximately 4 oz. of water so far today.
 
I have to hurry and go do my homework so I'll leave you all with my dinner and water and points and whatnot. :p For dinner I had half of a large piece of half a sub. So a quarter of a large sub really. With ham, turkey, cheese and lettuce. I had 3 celery sticks (about 4" long each), 5 grape tomotoes, 2 broccoli things and carrots. Pretty dang good for me. :)

Food I did, in my opinion, very good on lunch today! Eating a healthy sandwich for lunch (btw, I it was ham on wheat bread not a PB&J sandwich.. I wrote the wrong thing). Plenty of fruits and vegetables. And sticking well to my half it plan. 10/10

Exercise Not much to say other than yes, I did do my mile today and that's what I was shooting for. 10/10

Water I had approximately 84 oz. of water today reaching my goal of 80 oz.! 10/10

Yay! 30/30 for today! Hopefully I can keep this up! I want to make at least 28 points a day. :)
 
Don't feel bad bout eating a whole banana :) fruit and veggies are great ways to load up on antioxidants and nutrients, so ya know :D
and celery is a negative cal food- so eat as much as you want! I personally love celery, and if I ever feel like it needs dressed up, I take a wedge of laughing cow lite cheese(35cals) and put a little dab on...
have a great day tomorrow, and congrats on the running!!
 
I just have a few minutes to post a little something real quick. Thanks for the support Jess. :) Laughing Cow? Lol. And I don't feel bad about the banana, it's healthy after all. Breakfast this morning was a bowl of fruit loops. Now I'm off to school. BYE!
 
Looking Good Eric And I Hope You Have A Good Day At School!
 
Thanks, Tina. My day was alright, nothing special though. I don't have much time so here's a quick little update of my food, water, and exercise.

I did run my mile today so that's good. Water so far, 106 oz.!!! And I'm only half way through my day! As for food, lunch was half a ham and cheese sandwich, half a banana, half an apple and carrots. At home for a snack I had half of an orange.
 
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