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Day 335 Tuesday Grad School Stuff

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Has a day ever slapped you in the face? Today was like that and I’m pooped with a capital poo poo.

Breakfast: I had 8 points of grape nuts. Yumness.

Lunch: While I was working on homework (yes I already have homework) I had some lunch. I just had a turkey sandwich with some grapes. Hooray for a 3 points lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snacking: life was crazy between class and work so I had a clif bar and a Nature Valley pack. Not too shabby 8 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: I had 11 points of leftover chili. It was awesome as always. For dessert I had some Quaker chocolate rice snacks for 2 points.

So I got to about 32 points which isn’t bad at all. I am exhausted so my desire to work out is lacking. I’m going to have more time tomorrow so I’ll make up for it tomorrow. Wordless Wednesday. Huzzah. See you tomorrow.

Day 334: Grad School Craziness All Over Again

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It feels like the summer went on for eons…

Our noses are officially back to the grindstone… and my face has already been smoothed out. With the combination of my internship, classes, and my TA work (what I like to call: the trifecta of craptasticness) I’m trying to establish good habits now so I can succeed in both my school journey and my weight loss journey. I was a little overwhelmed today thinking about everything that is ahead this semester, but I keep telling myself to just take it one step at a time. Either way, I still feel blessed to even have an internship, a TA position and classes to go to so I want to make everything I do count. Game time.

Breakfast: (Do you like my awkward/constipated grad school game face? I thought you would.) This morning, I just had two servings of Nutty Nuggets which really got me through the day. I thick breakfast like that really stave’s off the 10:00 am hunger pains. 8 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: This year, I’m going to have to bring my lunch the majority of the time so that will help with my lunch options. This will mean lower point and healthier lunch options. I had a turkey sandwich on this awesome Publix brand shredded wheat multigrain bread. I had carrots, but I was in a Bugs Bunny mood so I had my grapes and my Clif Bar. 7 point lunch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snacking: When I got home, I snacked like stoner. I had baked cheetos with ketchup and pretzels with mustard. Yes, I’m a weirdo. 7 points of random snacking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Dinner: For dinner I made some Uncle Jim’s Vegetarian Chili with brown rice. It made my day. Some meals just makes life better and that’s one of them. I only ate one serving and I was stuffed. 9 points of hearty goodness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dessert: There was a dollar of froyo at TCBY so we went over there for a study break (yes, we already have homework.) I didn’t have much tonight and I felt fine after so that was good. About 4 points.

So today I got to 35 points which is high but it is what it is. I should have just cut out the cheetos which were 4 points but sometimes something like that just sounds good. I didn’t exercise which sucks so I’m going to rectify that. My schedule is bonkers so if I don’t make time for it, it’s not going to happen. Once I get in to a rhythm, life will be better. See ya tomorrow.

Day 333: Weigh In G Skillet!

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Why Hello!

I know I know, no post on Saturday? I’m such a jerk. You know you still love me… right (please don’t leave me. I’m needy.)

So this past week I really put a focus of kick starting good habits before life gets insane again and it has made a big difference. I’m in a better mind set of looking towards the future and how making the right choices now will benefit tomorrow. This week I lost 2.6 pounds! I am officially back in the 100 pounds club and that is where I’m going to stay! I am officially down 102.2 pounds at at 254.8 pounds. (254 is my old area code. Shout out to the Hilltop what what!) Tonight, my friend David said that I have almost lost him which really blew my mind away. I have almost lost an adult male. This is craziness. This week, I’m going to shoot for 252. I think if I keep my mind on a figure, it will help me make good decisions in the week. Game time yo’s!

Breakfast: One thing I have been doing is eating a big breakfast so I won’t be starving during the rest of the day. This morning was no exception. Last week, we finally used the waffle iron we got for our wedding so I decided to make some waffles this morning with bacon and eggs. It was pretty epic. I eventually turned it in to a sandwich and the Fotographing Fat Kid said “nom nom nom nom” (Translation: “it was good.”)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch: After church, we went to Momo’s with some friends for church. Like the last time we went, they set up a buffet (aka, two ginormous pizzas) for us. I held myself to two slices (which were the size of Roman city-states) of bacon and of pepperoni. It was pretty awesome. I wasn’t really hungry until about an hour ago.

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: For small group tonight, our friend Ana made an epic lasagna for everyone, but we had to go so we took a piece home. After the last bite, I realized I hadn’t taken a picture of it. Fail. Regardless, it was pretty awesome so thank you Ana. Anyways, I also made a salad for dinner with some spinach, a little cheese, turkey, and a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I can’t wait to try that again with a hard boiled egg which would be an omelet salad?

Dessert: I had a little (a scoop) slow churned chocolate chip cookie dough that’s half the fat of regular ice cream but with all the awesome taste.

So today I did alright and tomorrow I will be back in the throws of it so to speak. School starts tomorrow, so the temptation of grazing at home will be lessened which will be awesome. I’m also ready to start back up Insanity tomorrow. It should be epically awesome. See ya tomorrow.

Day 331: Friday Stuff

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MEOW!

Breakfast: I had two servings of grape nuts which made life bearable. More and more I’ve realized that the bigger the breakfast the better. I usually work until 1 pm and when I eat more for breakfast I don’t snack at work. Novel idea huh?

Lunch: I came home to a pretty simple, but nonetheless delicious, lunch. Sometimes, there’s nothing better than a turkey sandwich. For dessert I had a Kashi bar. Pretty awesome.

SAWS!!! This afternoon, I went and played racquetball with our campus minister Adam and Jonathan, who is just about to start grad school at FSU. We play five rough games of cut throat which was exhausting, but nothing like sweating out awesomeness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: It’s been a while since we have grilled, so we finally decided to give it a shot. Earth Fare had a sale on boneless chicken breasts so we cut them up and Megan made this awesome rub with brown sugar and other deliciousness. So I grilled the chicken and Megan sauteed some zucchini and squash. It was a pretty awesome dinner.

So today was pretty good. Yumtastic. See ya tomorrow.

Day 329: Why Hello Wordless Wednesday!

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Day 328: SAWSing Through Complacency

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What up yo!

If this is your first time on my blog, welcome and thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out my facebook page as well for more of the silly things I say.

Breakfast: I knew that it was going to be a while before lunch so I decided to eat a good breakfast. I decided to have two servings of Back to Nature Cherry Pecan cereal. It was fantastic and really filling. It was 8 points and it held me over until lunch!

Lunch: After I got to work, I came home to an awesome lunch made by my awesome wife! She made a grilled turkey and cheese with some tomato soup. It was also fantastically awesome. Yumtastic and lunch with a cornbread muffin with some honey as a dessert was 8 points.

Snacks: I had a Clif Bar (which I am in love with) and I also had 2 points of almonds. It was a great afternoon snack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: We have a bunch of leftovers left… over of bean soup so we had that for dinner with a few cornbread muffins. It was as good as usual. Loved it. 10 points.

SAWS!!!! Today, I was not feeling it. I was just hit hard with being tired of my weight loss journey. When you have to keep being “on” all the time it just gets hard. Last week I boasted that I wasn’t panting during Insanity, and I realized that it wasn’t because I am some workout beast, it’s because I haven’t been working as hard as I should. Today, I laid it all on the table and boy did it pay of. By the end of the warm up, I was sweating out of every orifice and during the rough parts I was praying for death. I was finally doing Insanity the way I should be. I used to think that if I didn’t wake up sore after a workout I wasn’t working hard enough and somewhere I’ve lost sight of that. I am now back in that mindset and it feels like I’m really accomplishing something. It feels good to be back on the SAWS Wagon once again. 9 exercise points.

Snack: Immediately after Insanity, Megan made us some smoothies with a banana and strawberries. Pretty awesome stuff. 3 points.

Snack: When we were watching the King’s Speech (which I loved!) I had a yogurt ice cream blend of chocolate chip cookie dough. It was the perfect movie snack 3 points. 

So today I got to 43 points which is a lot but with the exercise points and my quest to eat my weekly points as well means I’m okay. Wordless Wednesday. Get stoked. See ya tomorrow.

 

Day 327: Monday Wagon Riding

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Luckily, I started writing this during halftime of Monday Night Football. A man has his priorities.

Today was just a crazy day of craziness which usually entails a lot of snacking and binge eating. I was able to hold my ground today to maintain the momentum from last night. It was good to reexamine where I am in my weight loss journey. My struggle with food will always be there. It’s not like smoking where there is a patch to ease you off (what would a weight loss patch have in it? Olive oil? Splenda? Some of Jenny Craig’s Tears? Hmmmm) and eventually you are done with it. Eating is something you have to do everyday to survive so it’s an issue you face every meal. I’m not saying that if I stopped counting I would go off the deep end and end back up where I started, but that’s because I have this community that wouldn’t let me, but you can look back in my posts and the weigh in that week directly correlates with how I did with food and exercise that week. So anyways, today was a struggle emotionally, but I didn’t let my emotions bleed in to my eating habits, because gorging myself with food to feel good is no longer apart of me. The old me’s dead and gone… dead and gone. (TI is legit.)

Alright, where was I…

Breakfast: So this morning was a bit nutzo, but I was still able to have an awesome breakfast. I made a pb and banana toast sandwich with bread from Publix that doesn’t have an expiration date on it. (The mold growing inside the bag looked up at me and said it was okay to eat.) Breakfast was a filling and delicious 4 points.

Lunch? I had to run errands during a lunch break that I actually work during and since I hadn’t packed a lunch this morning (super fail on this schmucks part) I had a Nature Valley bar and a Diet Coke from the Circle K by campus. Plus I got to see my friend Lindsey so that was an added bonus. Anyways, it held off the hunger demons for a while until I could get off work. 4 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snack: After I got home from work, I had a cup of mutligrain cheerios. They really tied me over. 2 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: So for the rest of the day when I was doing stuff around the house, all I could smell was the bean soup cooking in the kitchen and it was driving me crazy! So when it was done, we consumed, and it was good. 1/2 cup was only 2 points and so were the cornbread muffins so I had 18 points worth of dinner which sounds like alot (which it is) but considering I had only had 10 points up until that point, I was pretty hungry. It was a super awesome filling dinner.

 

 

 

 

SAWS! Today, we got back in to Insanity and it was a blast! (No! Really!) I did the Fit Test today and I did better on some, but stayed the same on other exercises. Megan thinks that it might be focusing more on form than the first day. I felt like I should have pushed myself a little more, but I still sweated like crazy. I’m going to go super SAWSIAN (the SAWS version of super sayian) tomorrow which is going to be rough. Hooray. 6 exercise points

After SAWS Snacking: I had a Clif Bar after my workout, and it was filling, but I need something to munch without the calories. Megan made some stove popped popcorn without any salt and it was the perfect snack where it feels like you’re eating something like chips while you’re eating something healthier instead. 8 points total.

So today I got to 36 points which means I ate my exercise points which will work of me. See ya tomorrow.

Day 326: Weigh In Time!

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So last week, I celebrated a monumental occasion in my weight loss journey with losing 100 pounds. This week, I had let a lot of things slide, thinking that I could do it on my own. For some reason, I thought that the weight loss training wheels were off and so I didn’t worry about counting points or calories. I thought that listening to my body was going to be enough, but it’s a hard thing to do when you eat out 8 times in a week. It was just a week of social eating and I absolutely blame no one for that but myself for not being more careful. Granted, I still did awesome at the Chinese buffet last night, but I should have been better the rest of the week. This week I gained 1.6 pounds which means I am out of the 100 pounds club for now. I’ve been pretty bummed about it all day, but really I’m kind of glad it happened because it has really humbled me. I haven’t been coasting as of late, but I sure as heck haven’t been focusing like I should be. Last week though showed that when I really focus I can still have an almost 4 pound loss in a week even after almost a year. So I know I’ve had a lot of wake up calls like this, but this is a big one. This week, we really can’t afford to eat out a lot (so that kind of works out) so Megan has a super awesome menu lined up for the week, I’m going to do Insanity every day along with two days of racquetball thrown in there and I’m sure other fun things will pop up along the way. The fire I had for losing weight is back and I can’t wait to shed some pounds this week LIKE A BOSS!!!

Breakfast: I just had some Nutty Nuggets for breakfast which was only 4 points. Megan brought cookies to church and I had a few so through out the day I ate 3 points of cookies.

Lunch: So I know I just spent an entire paragraph talking about being back on the wagon and then you’ll see this meal and you’ll be like SAY WHAT!?! but we knew this was going to be a super caloric meal (it is a Rachel Ray recipe after all) (please don’t sue me Rachel Ray) but we had to try it. Megan found this awesome looking recipe for a jalapeno popper waffle so we gave it a shot. Basically, it was a waffle stuffed with cream cheese, cheddar and a cut up jalapeno. The recipe also suggested to serve it with an egg on top of it to enhance the awesomeness. So one waffle is 8 points alone and I had two with an egg so lunch was 18 points which is really high, but it was like the best comfort food I have ever had. I think next time, I’ll just have one waffle, an egg and then some bacon which would only make it 12 points which would be good for brunch.

Snacks for the day: I had 1 point of almonds and a 1 point banana. Hooray.

Dinner: We had some chicken and rice while watching Kill Bill Vol. 1 (one of my favorite movies ever.) It was pretty good! Dinner was 6 points so not too bad.

So today might seem pretty bad but I only went over 3 points! A 33 point day is not bad considering the Waffle of Awesomeness. With all the exercising I’m going to do this week, it’s going to be important to eat all my points and even some weekly points to save my body from going in to starvation mode. This week is going to rock. Get stoked dear readers. Prepare for awesomeness. Thanks for reading. I love you all and you smell nice. See ya tomorrow.

Day 325: Saturday Silliness!

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Sup my sassy-saucy-sillies!?! (If you keep reading after such a weird salutation, I will be impressed. The rest doesn’t suck. I promise.)

Just another Saturday in the Dirty South…

Breakfast: I had some Nutty Nuggets (the Publix brand Grape Nuts) and they are good and definitely better than the WalMart version. Anyways, they are pretty filling and pretty yummy.

SAWS!!!: This morning, we helped our friend Danny move in to his apartment. It wasn’t bad since there were so many people helping out, but we still did our share. SAWS!!!

Lunch: It was time of the week where you have to raid the leftovers in the fridge. I had some roast beef with some of the rotisserie chicken from the other day. It was a hodgepodge of protein, but it was pretty good!

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner: So tonight, we went to our friend Daniel’s actual birthday dinner at this Chinese Super Buffet. Growing up, Chinese Buffets were the epicenter of my developing obesity. I remember back in 5th grade going back for seconds and thirds of massive plates. Today was the first time I have gone to a Chinese all you can eat buffet since I started my weight loss journey and even though I have changed revolutionized my eating habits, I was still nervous about how it was going to go. Would old habits come back? Would the aroma of General Tso’s chicken lead me like a siren in to the rocks? Sometimes you just get worried about stuff like that. Anyways, so I asked the Twitter masses for help and y’all came through! I had about 3/4 cup of rice a lot of broccoli, some dumplings, some veggies and a little chicken. I decided to grab another plate and filled it up with watermelon, cantaloupe and oranges. That really filled me up, but for dessert I enjoyed myself. I had a scoop of some cookies n’ cream, a wonton with honey and my favorite thing in the universe: canned biscuits with sugar on them. Compared to any time I have been to a Chinese buffet, this was definitely the most successful.

I know a lot of people that say “man, losing weight is hard and I just like bad food too much.” While I agree losing weight is no picnic and some bad foods are amazing, the key to successful weight loss takes a concerted effort to look beyond the immediate “need” and remembering the greater goal. Of course, life happens where the only thing that will cheer you up is some ice cream or you go to a restaurant that is not weight loss friendly; but when you can overcome the binge eating mindset and reduce the portion sizes even when it is not cost efficient, nothing can stop you. See ya tomorrow.