The Fat Loss Times

Ahhhhh..... Comfort Food

Here is a fitting post on the perils of comfort food on Mark Joyner's Blog.

What a fitting cartoon. That is exactly how I feel right now.

I hate my body and my body hates me.

Here I am after a 5 day blogging hiatus and I must report that I am fatter then when I started this damn blog. I started to slip Wednesday night and that slip turned into a total free fall by Thursday. I ate everything imaginable over the holiday weekend. I did have fun but I am paying for it now. I hit rock bottom this morning.

I stepped on the scales and I was 268 pounds even. I put on 11 pounds in 5 days. I know it is mostly fluid but my pants were tighter this morning. I feel heavy as well. My body is rebelling from the excesses over the weekend.

But 11 pounds????

I started to blame my diet. I started to tell myself that my metabolism is wrecked from dieting all these months. I told myself that it must be because I didn't exercise after I pulled my groin. All of that is horseshit.

The truth is that I saw my ex-girlfriend on the road Wednesday and just that glimpse of her in her car on the other side of the highway ripped me to shreds. I comforted myself with what always makes me feel better.......... food. I started Wednesday night and I didn't stop until this morning.

I have to get this in check now or I will lose everything I have accomplished so far. I wont go back to being 324 pounds. I have to make a stand starting now and start living again instead of killing myself with food. I would rather die then gain another single pound.

So what am I going to do about it?

I have to go to war with myself yet again. I am going to start to grind it out one day at a time, one meal at a time, one bite at a time. That's the only thing I know to do.

Poverty an indicator of obesity in teens?

Is poverty a factor in teen obesity?

Apparently it is says Jonathon Bor in the article Poverty an indicator of obesity in teens.

Some of the factors include:

• Cheap junk food
• Healthier food sold in more upscale areas while the poor depend on convenience stores.
• Sports Leagues are more concentrated in wealthier communities.
• Lack of safe parks in poor neighborhoods.

That all makes sense to me. Why jog if you are going to have to dodge a "drive by"?

What happened to me then? I was a fat teen and my family had an in-ground pool. Or maybe we were poor and I just didn't know it. Either way, I don't think poverty is alpha and omega of teen obesity but I know that it has to be factored in. Ramen Noodles........ Little Debbie's snack cakes.... 3 liter sodas for 70 cents. If I was dead broke then this would be my diet. But instead I drink protein shakes that work out to $1.33 each.

$1.33 each????? That's crazy if you think about it. A McDonald's double cheeseburger is cheaper then one of my protein shakes. I can get about 2 dozen eggs for one shake.

It makes me wonder how healthy one can eat on the cheap. It sounds like I have a research project.

I have done some bad things.

I have done some bad things.

• I ate at Chick-Fil-A last night. I had been craving it all week and i gave in last night. I had the combo with the big waffle fries (waffle fries are the best) and a large diet coke. The rest of my diet wasn't bad yesterday. Two protein shakes and ham and scrambled eggs and cheese.
• I weighed myself this morning. I weighed in at 257. I picked a terrible day to weigh myself because of the salty waffle fries I ate last night. I am probably retaining some water because of that. I didn't piss ass much this morning so I knew something was up.

My groin feels much better. I can still feel some pain if I move a certain way but I think it will be ok.

I plan on giving it a go in the gym tonight. If I am smart I can get in a good workout and not cripple myself so the keyword tonight is caution. But sometimes I am not Albert Einstein when it comes to doing the right thing so its extremely likely that I will be on here tomorrow talking about a setback with my groin. I am still going but it just may not be good.

I'll tell you all how much I am limping tomorrow.

Man goes from 400 pounds to doing Triathlons

I found this web broadcast on Endurance Radio on the topic of Weight Loss via Endurance Training.

John Hibbard once weighed almost 400 pounds. He began to exercise 5 minutes at a time and in less then 2 years he lost 170 pounds and finished the Florida Ironman Triathlon.

What does this prove? It tells me that small steps lead to great things.

Check it out.

My Barbaro Moment

We are going to see how our hero (me) can handle adversity.

Yesterdays workout was the sprint 8 program. I warmed up, I stretched, and I walked at a good pace for 5 minutes. About 2 strides into my first sprint, I came up lame like Barbaro did in the Preakness.

Thank God I didn't break my ankle but I did pull my left groin. It hurt really bad yesterday but it is just sore today. I will take that for improvement. So what should I do now? Do I try to work around this injury or do I stay away from everything for a week and just concentrate on my fat loss diet?

Anyone have any ideas?

Fat Loss Log for 5/23/06

Everything went well diet wise yesterday. I may have come up light in protein but I did what I had to do. Here is what it looked like.

• 2 Protein shakes
• 3 slices of roast beef and 3 slices of cheese
• grilled tuna
• bowl of vegetable beef soup
• pint of hoods low carb fat free milk

I was probably higher in the fat department then I would like but I can live with yesterday.

I still haven't weighed myself this week. I'm trying to hold of until Monday but I am a scale whore so we shall see if I can hold off that urge.

Fat Loss Diet Log 5/22/06

I had a very good day yesterday. My diet went well. Here are the details.

• 3 protein shakes. The last one was made with 16 ounces of hoods low carb milk.
• Large grilled chicken breast.
• 2 slices of Roast Beef and 2 slices of cheese.

That was a good low carb day to get back into the week. I plan to have a similar day today. I need to add more vegetables to my diet.

My workout yesterday was good also. I did a long depletion workout and a hard 20 minutes on the elliptical machine. I can tell a difference in my body today. A good day of PSMF dieting and a carb depletion workout can really burn off any bloat that has been picked up.

Tonight's workout will be the sprint 8's. It was torturous Friday but kinda fun so I am gonna do it again.

I'm still fighting the urge to weigh myself every morning. It was tough this morning but I made it. I think I'm going to put my scales away until Mondays weigh in. That will solve a lot of the problem.

I'm starting to feel stronger mentally with each passing day. I am once again believing that I am going to reach my goals and that is 99 percent of the war. It feels good to start to believe in yourself again. I will never let anyone take that away from me again. I'm going to come out of this stronger and better.

I wonder if the butterfly feels like this before he comes out of his cocoon?

Fat Loss Update 5/22/06

I am back on track today. My plan for today looks like this:

• PSMF today. Meals will consist of protein shakes and meat and cheese.
• Lift weights today. I didn't do anything over the weekend because it felt like I had been hit by a truck. The soreness from the sprints Friday set in and I was hurting. I do plan to sprint tomorrow. I think I will do a whole body depletion workout tonight. Gotta love the high reps.

That's all I got for today.

But I will add that I am feeling better about life. Everything should be a much better this week.

Fat Loss Log. 5/19/06

Had a really good day yesterday. Diet looked like this.......

• 3 protein shakes
• One large Caesar salad with a tuna steak on top.
• Over a gallon of water

My workout yesterday was the sprint 8 workout. It was brutally hard but fun. I felt out of breath for a couple of hours afterward. Sprints like that cause the body to dig in places that are foreign. I'm sore but I haven't felt like I've been in a car wreck.

Today is a low carb Atkins type of day. I need to drink more water today.

I'm pleased about the past few days.

I'll check in tomorrow.