So I have managed to sufficiently cripple myself...

...via rigorous exercise so that shoveling snow is just agony.

Tuesday I did a ridiculous amount of upper body and chest stuff. Yesterday I did all legs and hips and what not. Today I'm The Incredible Hurting Man.

My chest still hurts like I was hit like a hammer. A lot.

Week 87- pound for pound

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 223.9
Current weight: 222.8
Lost this week: 1.1
Total lost to date: 40.4

Weight remaining to lose: 42.7 pounds

First off, congrats to the missus who hit 65 pounds today. Good job, honey! I'm super proud of you!

All right, I can see the 220 mark, and I think if I really really bust my ass this week I bet I can hit 220. 2.8 pounds is doable but I have to really apply myself to this.

Made myself some nice fish and rice last night with a side salad. Looked like a meal you'd get out someplace too. Good stuff and a good start!

OK, everybody out of the pool!

Yeah, so I enjoy a good chicken sammich. I bought some Perdue chicken cutlets which are 5 points each. I pretty much polished off the package in two days with them on sammich flats.

THE THING IS, the damned things have 13g of fat each. So, needless to say, after consuming 52g of fat in less than 24 hours, my stomach revolted and it was, well, revolting quite frankly.

That'll learn me, right?

Just goes to show you, kiddos, just because the Weight Watchers Points value seems reasonable, let's not get stupid about it.

Your tummy will thank you for it.

Try this instead:
1- Fit and Active Multigrain Wrap (1 point)
2- 2 Kirkland chicken Tenderloins grilled up on the Foreman (2 points)
3- load that bad boy up with whatever veggies you want
4- you can put a little (I said a little! Don't drown your food! Did you learn nothing from Saturday Cartoons!?!?!) ketchup or BBQ sauce or whatever. (generally 1 point)
NUMMY!

Please note, cheese is optional and considered offensive by the author. You may also choose tofu or something I guess if you're a meatophobe.


Oh, I don't go for bloodwork until the fifth. The previous entry is invalidated by my inability to read a calendar properly sometimes.

30 Day Jumpstart- please pass the jumper cables...

just did this

now I'm doing this

I'm more in tune with Daniel on this DVD (the first segment is Ally, Sione, Liz, Daniel, Danny and America's Choice led by Tara. I got through half of the first workout before I thought I was going to fall over.

I like it so far because, yeah, I'm already sweaty as blazes and I think this helps you if you're a beginner like me. I do still consider myself a beginner, at least with aerobic stuff.

I go next week to get my bloodwork done. Cross whatever you go that you can cross.

Week 86- Half a pound is half a pound.

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 224.4
Current weight: 223.9
Lost this week: .5
Total lost to date: 39.3

Weight remaining to lose: 43.8 pounds

OK, it's obvious that at this pace I will NOT reach my goal. Thus, I gotta get to stepping a little bit more. We have a Biggest Loser DVD that has a couple short cardio rutines on it, and it might just be time to get them cracking.

I had a Weight Watchers prepared meal tonight of turkey and stuffing, and while it was good, I now am besieged with the most foul and noxious gas.

Tomorrow night the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank will be showing a FREE showing of The Maltese Falcon. 8PM, be there!

I love me some Sam Spade, and while I own the film on DVD, I have never seen it. Yeah, I'm kind of a dope like that sometimes. Don't get me started on things I own and have not watched.

Feeling pretty sore about it....

...shoveling, that is. Man alive so many different parts of me hurt, it's preposterous.

I mean, in reality, I feel pretty good about it. I'm not nearly as crippled as I would have been say, forty pounds ago, but last night my joints were snapping like Jiffy Pop.

Got a lot to do today but I have to feed the kiddo lunch first and then we run our errands.

Also, it would be good to wait until a little ice melts so I don't have to skate to the car.

Week 85- told ya so!

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 225.1
Current weight: 224.4
Lost this week: .9
Total lost to date: 39.8

Weight remaining to lose: 44.3 pounds

Yeah...

I told you so. I was actually feeling a lot thinner and that, for some dumb reason, means i don't lose a lot of weight. On weeks where I loose a significant amount I never feel like I did. Is it some wackadoo delayed reaction?

I'd love to talk to an expert and see if this is an actual phenomenon, or just me.

Cool Cardio Coming!

Yeah, I got my cardio on Saturday by digging my cars out of the 8" of snow we got. Now, we're supposed to get another 18" of frosty ass-whupping* Tuesday into Wednesday. Sigh.

Ah well.

Weigh in tomorrow, and I feel thinner which usually translates to a small loss on the scale.

I wonder why that is...





*eep!

Week 84- De-rutted it seems!

Also, Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 227.0
Current weight: 225.1
Lost this week: 1.9
Total lost to date: 38.7

Weight remaining to lose: 46.1 pounds

Sorry for the delay in posting! I have been figting off a cold or something (You know, like Tapanooli Fever or the Black Formosa Corruption*) for a couple of days now.

Well, I managed to miss both Lost AND Biggest Loser. DAMN!

Also, Punxsutawney Phil and Essex Ed (the groundhog @ Turtle Back Zoo) saw their shadows, the damn fools. Only Cornfield Larry** predicted an early end to winter. I'm getting on the Corn Wagon. Truth be told, I want one of those snazzy Essex Ed hats too.

I appreciate that while a lot of Groundhogs*** are named via alteration, Cornfield Larry is just that I am sure. A big ol' Groundhog from a corn field.

Of course, Phil was vindicated today by dumping some snow on us, the tubby so and so.

* Come on, where is this from? Someone has to get it!
**From Indiana I believe. He, amazingly, has no website.
*** I capitalized, because he's a local celebrity.

Happy Anniversary!

Yep. It's been one month of not eating Chinese food. This is more than likely the longest I have gone in my adult life.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, General Tso!


Mind you, I really want some.