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Finding the Words

Writing has become increasing difficult for me lately. My mind is overflowing with thoughts and emotions and things to say, but my fingers are frozen and my frontal lobe seems to be on vacation. I wonder if my recent bout of writer’s block has to do with my two-week absence. Two weeks is a long [...]

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Finding the Words

Change & New Challenges

The last two weeks have been chalk-full of awesome choices, bruises from stick practice, and a 4-lb loss. Unfortunately, I’ve also spent the last fourteen days buried under piles of work due to an incapacitated co-worker. Her absence has been seriously detrimental to my mental capacity and erased all opportunity to blog from the comfort [...]

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Change & New Challenges

Don’t Ask

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 164 lbs Loss last week: -4 Total Loss: 107 lbs Thoughts: Apparently the scale does accept bribes. In-depth blog post to follow. At some point! Post from: Body By PizzaDon’t Ask

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Don’t Ask

Going the Extra Mile

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 168 lbs Loss last week: +1 Total Loss: 103 lbs Squeaking by with a mere one pound gain after consuming around 2,250 calories per day for the last week is a win in my book! According to my GoWearFit, I still managed to create a small calorie deficit each day [...]

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Going the Extra Mile

Artifacts of a Past Life

Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to respond to my last blog entry. I don’t quite address the masses as much as some of my fellow bloggers do. Believe me when I say that no word, no syllable, and no second you throw my way goes unread or under appreciated. This [...]

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Artifacts of a Past Life

Stress and Adjustments

Alright, alright. All that shit I said about not caring if the scale doesn’t move is total crap. I care and it’s stressing me out. I’m stressing because as much as I’d like to go home after work every day and suck down a pizza and a pint of ice cream, I’m at the gym [...]

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Stress and Adjustments

Observations

I’m not sure how creepy it is for me to pick up on my co-worker’s eating habits, but I can’t help it. I sit next to these people for eight hours each day and forty hours each week and thrive on pattern recognition! Here’s the skinny on my co-workers’ eating habits: RoboBoss - Never snacks - Lunch is [...]

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Observations

Game Face, Bro

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 167 lbs Loss last week: 0 Total Loss: 104 lbs Thoughts: I may have consumed more calories this week than originally planned (around 8%), but there is no way in hell I ate through my deficits — especially after jogging 23 miles and lifting over 16,000 pounds within the last [...]

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Game Face, Bro

Ain’t No Biz Like Show Biz

I’d absolutely love to sit in one place long enough to pour my scrambled thoughts onto paper, but with the workout shedule and the clinically insane amount of freelance and the picking up of slack at my 9a-5p thanks to a coworker who takes three consecuative days off with a case of the sniffles and [...]

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Ain’t No Biz Like Show Biz

Prevention > Regret

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 167 lbs Loss over the past two weeks: -2 Total Loss: 104 lbs I’ve eaten enough pizza in the last two days to feed a small country. I wish I was joking, but I’m not. Between my mother’s birthday gathering last night and left overs for breakfast, I’ve eaten a [...]

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Prevention > Regret

Current Playlist

When it comes to workout music, I tend to err on the high energy/good beat side, but as you can see, that’s not always the case (Party in the USA much?). I’m a sucker for my favorites, but I’m always looking for new songs to add. Got suggestions? Leave ‘em here! Top 5 1. Feel it in [...]

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Current Playlist

Choosing Your Battles

New obsession: Fat free no sugar added frozen yogurt with Grape Nuts I don’t do a lot of ‘diet foods’ (fat-free, sugar-free, reduced fat, etc), but sometimes you’ve just got to compromise! When my friend Chris and I decided to have ice cream delivered last Sunday, I immediately knew what I wanted: vanilla frozen yogurt with [...]

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Choosing Your Battles

Frankly, You Suck

Dear Frank’s Hot Sauce, How dare you taste so good yet be so high in sodium! I was shocked and horrified when I turned your bottle over last night before dousing my chicken and tomato wrap with your sweet, sweet amrita only to find that you contain 200 mgs of sodium per teaspoon. Considering the fact [...]

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Frankly, You Suck

To Do: Live in the Moment

As I continue on my journey ‘full steam ahead’, it has become obvious that I don’t reflect as much as I’d like to. For example, I could write a dissertation on what it means to be wearing size 12 jeans at this very moment. I could write about what that number symbolizes rather than simply [...]

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To Do: Live in the Moment

Work Hard, Play Hard

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 168 lbs Loss last week: ? Total Loss: ? Thoughts: Too busy having a blast! Weekend Review Thursday - Cooked under florescent lights while putting in a good eight hours of work - Hit the gym for a 5K and weight training before arriving fashionably late to a work-related marathon fundraiser - Ate two oatmeal [...]

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Work Hard, Play Hard

Clean Socks

I had a dream last night that I was at some multipurpose Panera Bread/Laundomat deal with The Girl. She was doing laundry and I was ordering something to snack on — a vanilla soft serve cone with Oreo topping for her (even though she hates Oreos) and something for myself. I can’t recall what I [...]

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Clean Socks

Options = Headache

I am now the proud member of two (yes, two) gyms. Why the dual membership? I no longer have access to a gym directly from work because Janice has decided to cancel her FitCorp/Sheraton combo since 1. she no longer swims during her lunch break and thus, no longer needs access and 2. they keep [...]

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Options = Headache

Getting My Bearings

Weekly Weigh In Starting weight: 271 lbs Current weight: 168 lbs Loss last week: -4 lbs Total Loss: 103 lbs Thoughts: Operation Increase = promising! The Bod Pod 3…2…1….BLAST OFF! That’s the first thing that came to mind yesterday as The Girl, Cassie, and I all stepped up to the Bod Pod to have our body composition tested. It looked like something [...]

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Getting My Bearings

Operation Increase

Today is day three of Operation Increase and I’m enjoying every minute of it. I’m eating a ton more veggies, a ton more fruit, and! I even added a slice of yummy aged Swiss to my sandwich on Wednesday. I can’t even remember the last time I enjoyed a sandwich with cheese. Such blasphemy fell [...]

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Operation Increase

Calories

It has been decided. I am going to increase my calories. This seems totally counter-productive and counter-intuitive, but I am open to trying it for 2-3 weeks and reassessing once I have some data to consider. According to my BodyMedia Fit (aka GoWear Fit), I burned an average of 2810 calories per day in December (includes [...]

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Calories