Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Update - 07/17/2007

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while - been pretty busy.

So what's the update? I stepped on the scale this morning and found that I've dropped another few pounds. Now, we won't get into specifics just yet, but let's just say that I think it's about15 pounds so far. Not too bad!

Now all I have to do is keep this up and I'll be there in no time!


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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

PROGRESS UPDATE - STILL BEGINNING BUT GOING WELL

OK, I've been working on this seriously for just under a week. More like five days. Time for a sitrep.

I think it's going well!

Breakfast lately has been a banana & bagel (usually no cream cheese). Lunch is a sandwich, something like a salad, maybe some pickle spears, definitely some fruit, and some baby carrots for munchies. We had some of the Mahi Mahi last night, but we're still working on getting the rest of the stuff out of the freezer so it hasn't been all fish and chicken on the grill yet. Dinner has still been very healthy - lots of salads, veggies, and a bit of chicken or fish.

I've taken to eating sunflower seeds when I get the muchies at night. Not that many, just something to do with my mouth other than fill it with junk.

Stepped on the scale again last night and while I'm still glad it's not alive, it didn't go quite as far around the dial as it did before.

PROGRESS!!!


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Saturday, June 30, 2007

FIRST STEPS

So I kicked off this endeavor with the fanfare initial post. Yes, I'll do this and I'll do that.

Now it's time to take some action.

What have I done so far you might ask? Let's review.

The first order of business was to obtain a better version of the Foreman Grill than what I already had. What I already had was good enough for a couple of small peices of meat, but you'd have to do one at a time if they were a reasonable size. Wal Mart was out of the size I wanted with the Foreman signature, so I got a slightly different model instead. Details on this will follow in later posts.

With the fat reducing grill in hand, it was time to go grocery shopping. At Costco.

No junkfood on this trip! Nope, I got the good stuff I used to eat a while back. Tops on the list were some individually vacuum packed mahi mahi steaks and boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Next up was fruits and veggies. Big bags of baby carrots, broccoli florets, a jar of pickles, and salad. Unsweetened, fresh mango slices (YUM!!!!!), raineer cherries, and bananas.

I've never gone away from diet soda, but I also picked up a whole bunch of 1 liter bottles of Kirkland Signature water. Trouble with soda, even diet, is that it has caffeine and a few other undesirable things. Granted, diet is better than all the sugar in regular for calories. The problem with the caffeine is that it pulls water out of your system. If your body constantly thinks it needs more water, it will start to try to retian it - and its weight. A well watered body is a better working body, too because all the bad stuff is regularly flushed out as well.

Breakfast the past couple of days has been something like some Honey Nut Cheerios with soy milk and a banana. Lunch is usually a turkey sandwich, pickles, fruit, carrots, and salad. Dinner has been a bit different (reasonable portions of normal stuff) while we use up the stuff in the freezer before going to the chicken and fish. Last night was small shrimp on salad with salsa and baby carrots on the side.

You get the idea. I'll try to go into a bit more detail in later posts, this is just a beginning.

Thanks for reading and as always, feedback is appreciated!


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