Brawny's time machine

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YOU SAID IT SO WELL! Even now I have days where I'm lazy and I don't want to go work out or eat right but I can't just throw away all my hard work. I'm SOOO PROUD OF YOU for sticking with your plan and following through thus far. I know by the time Spring comes, we will all look 10 times better! ANDDDD when summer comes, we're going to be like 12903819023xxx hotter. You'll be giving brad a run for his money. you know, mr. pitt. haha. YAYY HAVE A GREATTT REST OF THE WEEEEK!
 
and PS -yes! please join us in the challenge! :) everyoen could use your positive encouragement! :) plus, we'll keep you in check! ;)
 
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Hello Tuesday!

Hi to the new friends that popped on here! How cool is that when somebody new stops by!
And extra special thanks to my old buds on here (old..ha we've only been posting for like 6 weeks but we have covered some ground together havent we?)

Now for a deep thought from Brawny (pay attention because they dont happen very often).......I went back to the thread from when I started posting on here. It was the first week of Jan and I started on the newcommer thread. Do yall realize most of those who started then are long gone from this place? I mean that so describes me so many other times...Start hard for a few days maybe a few weeks drop 5, 10 maybe even 20 and then.....wham...off the wagon for whatever reason. I got a lot of reasons that I let derail me in the past, an injury...I got sick so I couldnt exercise for a few days...I couldnt pass up that good food at the superbowl party...I didnt have time to fix anything healthy so I will just hit the drive through....(Yall know don't you?) Then it would be well I will start back up tomorrow...then it would be I will start back up someday....Well I'm standing here right here right now to tell you that THE ROAD CALLED SOMEDAY LEADS TO A TOWN CALLED NOWHERE!!! I am shakin the dust of that town off my feet and I am very glad and thankful to have had the encouragement of some of you cool people. Now is the time and this is the place.
Okay deep thought now over. Back to dumb jock mentality...UHG Put me in coach!
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Damn, Brawny, you have a way with words!! I couldnt have put it better myself!! Coach?? are you sure that isn't short for lifecoach!! You just ooze positivity!!Keep it up mate, we can all do this together as we all walk away from that town called NOWHERE!!
 
I have to agree with wannabsexee... wow that phrase is awesome.. I've been discouraged for the past week and that really made my day better!! Thanks Brawny!!! I'm going to add that to my motivational board!!!!
 
Things keep happining to keep me on track.
Today I learned that one of my cousins is in the hospital.
He is like 7 years younger than me and he has a diabetic sore on his foot that will not heal. In his early thirties and already insulin dependent. He has always been heavy and the last time I saw him i bet he was like 380. He is also shorter than me. I am about 6'1 and he might be 5'10" so he was worse than me but not that much worse. I was 336 at my heaviest. I have always been more athletic and active than him but I know that those same genes that might kill him lurk in my own body. I am so determined this time. It has to be now. That could very very easily be me instead of him. Damn Damn Damn why do we let ourselves slip until it kills us?
I watched this fat dude in front of me at the convienence store this morning. He bought 2 packs of cigs and 2 corny dogs. And I thought shit man youre killin yourself. I have never smoked anything exept about 3-4 cigars a year but yall dont even want to know how many corny dogs I have bought right there at that store. Today I bought a beef jerky (the healthy 3 dollar kind) and a diet coke. I know I gotta get off the diet cokes but they are about the only vice I have left. I will ditch them after I shed about 25 more lbs.
My eyes are opening and I am seeing the world very very differently.
 
Sorry to hear about your cousin, Brawny.

You are doing great, keep on at it, you WILL do it.
 
Have you considered drinking diet rite?? Diet coke was the HARDEST THING for me to give up.. but I did and now allow myself to drink one diet rite a week and its zero everything!! Just a thought :)
 
Hey friend how are you?? obviusly I can see you are doing wonderful.. Sorry about your cousin that sucks...but your right truer words could not have been said.. that could have been you and you decided to make a change... Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!! You doing this and I am so happy for you.. We doing this.. For sure I see people drop out get unmotivated but us hell naw.. that's not even a thought.. Everytime I pop in your diary I agree and agree with everything you say... :party: :cheers2: Keep it up Homie!!!!
 
Hello Thursday!
I made it to class last night and stayed at my target calories! I just drove right by all those fast food joints on my way home. I had saved up about 250 calories so I bought a bag of corn nuts and I allowed myself 3 corn nuts per mile. They are crunchy and salty and you can eat em slow. Well they lasted me the whole trip home! It is like a 60 mile commute to my class. A bag has about 210 calories so it was a Way to feed my urge for salty crunchy chiplike stuff.
Okay that was boring but it worked like a charm and 210 calories beats the hell out of a Jack in the box drive thru binge.
Heres a confession that is hard to admit. Last year one time coming home from class, I went to the Jack in the box drive thru and ate an ultimate cheeseburger, a large curly fries and 6 of those 2 for a dollar tacos! OH MY GOD!!! I used to eat like that!!! How many calories is that? Holy Crap!!

I am so proud that I am taking control of myself now! It may be slow but it is happening now and I am refusing to lose focus. I am in control now, The new me. The active me, The me who cares what he looks like and the me who wants to live to be a grandpa (and someday I gonna be a hell of a fun Grandpa!) It aint nothin but stringing a whole lot of little good choices together!

Musical Quote of the day:
Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero,
soy capitan, soy capitan. - La Bamba
 
HELL YA BRAWNY!!!! :cheers2:...you are a TRUE CHAMPION!!!....looking at how far you have come now is an amazing way to stay on track!!! ....often times.....I think we have to little of that in this life....we tend to allow the NEGATIVE to take control, when it's just that.........NEGATIVE thinking!!!......I love that you are seeing your cup half full, not half empty!!!

......WAY TO GO COACH!! (now drop and give me 20 :reddevil:...:D)!!!heheh.....I've always wanted to say that!!!


...but really though....I used to do things like that too....and even worse...DRUNK...can you imagine the things you eat DRUNK and NOT CARING....:biggrinjester:,...there are so many times...that I have found receipts of food, or leftover chicken nuggets or fries in my car...LOL....REALLY...LOL......without knowing how they got there :confused:...."DID I BUY THOSE? HUH? WHEN? AND WORSE....DID I EAT THOSE?!?!? :eek:.....Lucky for me, I shy away from those habits now!!! THANK THE HEAVENS FOR OUR CHANGE IN HABITS!!!

...keep it up rockstar!!!!! "Yoooooooooooo No sooooy Marinero......Yoooo no soy MARINERO......., soy CAPITAN, soy CAPITAN....paaaaa la BAMBA....paaaaaa la BAMBA"!!! :party:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Thanks Alta my friend.
Sorry no posts from me this weekend yall. My Big Big Test is Thursday and Friday. That right 16 hours of test all so I can someday be Dr. Brawny. I ave either been studying or exercising nothing else. Oh By the way.
I busted the 290s
289.6 And now in Elvis voice...Thankya Thankya vury much!

Musical quote

I believe in miracles...Where ya from ?.you sexy thang!!- Hot chocolate
 
brawny77 said:
Musical quote

I believe in miracles...Where ya from ?.you sexy thang!!- Hot chocolate
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Im from Oz! LOL j/k love the new musical quote!!
Good job breaking away from the 290's, Dr Brawny!! Dude, I think you are going to need this for that 16 hours of exams!!
GOOD LUCK
Because I can clearly see luck has nothing to do with your weight loss just sheer determination!! Keep it up mate!
kc :)
 
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I feel you on the tests.. I have 3 tests this week talk about stressful but I couldn't imagine 16 hours of tests!! I wish you luck!! But I don't think you'll need it!!
 
Oh Im gonna need the luck on the tests. But I am kinda just wishing it was friday afternoon and they were over.
Sorry to yall that I didnt get on this next challenge. I havent even had time to read it.
Study...exercise...work...study is my life for 3 more days.

Rode bike 14 miles last night.

Musical Quote (This one is for all my friends on here)
“We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.”-Led Zeppelin
 
CRAP!
I had a crummy day yesterday. I didnt exercise and I just studied and nibbled all freakin evening. I am pissed at myself! I even thought ....oh you really shouldnt be eating while you are studying but I just did it anyway...Crap
I probably ate like 2800 calories instead of my target 1800 and no exercise either.
I hate this feeling. I am gonna dwell on this feeling today use it to get refocused. I mean yesterday was nothing compaired to some days I would have had in the past. But I feel like I let myself down. All I had to do was just stop eating and I didnt. The worst was that I actually thought about it and still didnt. It was not like I had eaten it before I realized it. And it wasnt like it was worth it like having and occasional off plan meal that is kinda planned for like I did on that steak dinner when I was in Austin at convention. Why the hell did I do that? It was so not worth it. I gotta really let that soak into my soul because I cannot allow several of those kinday days to string together or I will lose my progress that I have fought so hard for. Hell I am like 4 lbs from having lost 50 freakin pounds! Why in the world would I blow that?
Today I will be perfect. Yesterday was NOT the way I am now. Yesterday was only a glimpse of the old FAT me...and I do not like that guy.
 
brawny77 said:
Today I will be perfect. Yesterday was NOT the way I am now. Yesterday was only a glimpse of the old FAT me...and I do not like that guy.
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HHHMMM - I like this:)Exactly how ive been feleing.Yesturday I ate way more than usual no binges or anyhting and no junk....some crap I dont normally eat, drank lots of water BUT i didnt exercise either:(

TODAY is A NEW DAY!!!

Im glad I dropped by thanx, i needed to read that::hug2:

Hopefully things will settled down a bit for you after these next few days are over...

 
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