Beav's Journal of Goodness

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:piggy: <--- That's too awesome.

Anyways, hello everyone. It's a new year, so, just like most of America, one of my New Year's resolutions is to, you guessed it, lose weight. But also, it is to give up fast food and soda/beer of all kinds.

Some stats about me: I'm 6'1, 262 pounds. I put on about 40 pounds last year (uggh). Depression and stress are not good things. So, this year, I'm going to take those pounds off, and get down to 200 pounds flat. My biggest problem stems from no motivation to lose the weight, but I'm hoping by posting results here, for all the world to see, I'll be motivated to show some improvements daily or weekly.

And once more: :piggy:
 
01/01/08:
Weight: 262


I spent a few hours today trying to find a good pair of walking shoes. Unfortunetly, my feet are fat at the ball (4E's are sometimes too tight), and narrow at the heel. It makes fitting me rather tough. So, after 5 stores, I gave up.

Worked out for about 20 minutes, nothing too hard, this is the first day of working out in quite some time. I really need to start walking, but man, it's so cold out, and my treadmill broke.

For breakfast, I had a bag of David's Pumpkin seeds. Lunch was some sausage mushroom and onion stir fry, and dinner was a load of carrot sticks.
 
I totally understand what you mean about it being to cold outside. I really want to go running but when it's cold out all I really want to do is curl up in the bed. :sleeping:
 
rar!

Howdy, I'm back from a brief hiatus. Hopefully to stay this time. :willy_nilly:

For an update, I see my last post was 1/1/08 and I was 262 pounds. I'm currently down to 247.5, which I reckon isn't too bad.

The good news is though I've got a new treadmill, which took two painful Wal-Mart experiences to find. Word of advice, never make a 6'3 300 pound Wal-Mart employee sporting biker tattoos do their job, it makes them furious to the point they tear apart pricing signs and scowl at you like you may be next.

As for today, I'm trying to start waking up at 7am sharp. I've read on how it helps give you energy and such throughout the day.

For breakfast, I had a protein bar and have drank about 2 liters of water so far by 9am. I've also read drinking around half a liter first thing in the morning refreshes your cells for the day and kicks start metabolism. But then again, I've also read U.f.o.s have touched down in Nevada :)conehead:), so who knows what is true on the internets.


I've walked 30 minutes on my new treadmill, biked 30 minutes on my crummy little bike machine, and lifted weights for around 20 minutes. I've found the treadmill is a lot easier to walk on while watching t.v., and the bike gives me much needed time to catch up on reading my "Tales from Margarittavile" novel by Jimmy Buffet.

Alas, I need to go give my mud covered pup, Rasputin (he's meaner than the man he was named after), a bath. He's a beautiful lil' Siberian Husky, but he's taken a liking to digging a hole in the backyard, so right now he's not so beautiful.

Hopefully I'll be back to update tomorrow. This was a bit of a long-winded update, wasn't it? :ack2: I'll try to keep them more short and sweet from here on out . :gnorsi: Adios.
 
"beavaler journal of goodness" Im sure this will be a favorite of mine!

lets see a picture of that puppy of yours! I love siberian huskies!!
 
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Beavaler said:
Here's a picture of Rasputin for ya.
Click to expand...

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I want a siberian husky!!!!

maybe that could be my goal... lose the weight, earn a husky!!!

thank you for sharing! cool name, too!! :biggrinjester:
 
My soccer team just played in Cleveland, a bunch of fans drove over, they said it was fun there!
 
Heyo.
I'm back two days in a row, which is a new record for me.

Yesterday's meals:
Breakfast: Protein bar.
Lunch: Protein shake.
Dinner: A healthy choice beef and peppers meal.

Unfortunetly, my will power caved after work, when my family took me out to celebrate my new job. A local place had a new burger I just had to try. I won't even begin to describe it. Let's just say, it probably had more calories in it than all the food I had last week.. combined.

Today though, I got back on track.
Breakfast: Protein bar.
Lunch: Healthy Choice Chicken Fajita Soup (half a can)
Dinner: Protein shake with a few pieces lightly sauced chicken wings.

I also finally finished my Tales from Margaritaville book, and start into "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain. A few pages in, I find a terrific passage that, while talking about drinking, applies incredibly well to dieting, so I figured I'd share a bit of Twain's wisdom for those who care to read it:

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The brightest passenger in the ship, and the most interesting and
felicitous talker, was a young Canadian who was not able to let the
whisky bottle alone. He was of a rich and powerful family, and could have
had a distinguished career and abundance of effective help toward it if
he could have conquered his appetite for drink; but he could not do it,
so his great equipment of talent was of no use to him. He had often taken
the pledge to drink no more, and was a good sample of what that sort of
unwisdom can do for a man--for a man with anything short of an iron will.
The system is wrong in two ways: it does not strike at the root of the
trouble, for one thing, and to make a pledge of any kind is to declare
war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and
reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.

I have said that the system does not strike at the root of the trouble,
and I venture to repeat that. The root is not the drinking, but the
desire to drink. These are very different things. The one merely
requires will--and a great deal of it, both as to bulk and staying
capacity--the other merely requires watchfulness--and for no long time.
The desire of course precedes the act, and should have one's first
attention; it can do but little good to refuse the act over and over
again, always leaving the desire unmolested, unconquered; the desire will
continue to assert itself, and will be almost sure to win in the long
run. When the desire intrudes, it should be at once banished out of the
mind. One should be on the watch for it all the time--otherwise it will
get in. It must be taken in time and not allowed to get a lodgment. A
desire constantly repulsed for a fortnight should die, then. That should
cure the drinking habit. The system of refusing the mere act of
drinking, and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war
tactics, it seems to me.
 
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