Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Losing Weight Leads To Obesity

After returning from Canada where we ate like kings for our entire vacation, Bri and I decided that we need to drop some poundage. We have been passively whining about gaining weight for a really long time, so we needed to find a way that we could both be motivated, and what would be more American than a little friendly competition. She and I are both incredibly competitive, so we knew if the stakes were right, we would be highly motivated to lose weight quickly.

The idea is simple. The person who loses 10% of their body weight first is the winner. And what are the stakes you ask? The stakes are big, really big. The loser has to buy a flat screen TV.

I do not want to shell out the cash for the TV, so I am highly motivated to win. How will I win? I am running far and eating right. So far it has been 24 hours, and I am realizing how much i miss these things: Hamburgers, Cheeseburgers, Cheese, Pizza, and beer.

I am going to track what I have been eating here and the amount of exercise I have been doing in order to get down to 181.8 lbs.

Track my progress here!

August 18th: Official weigh in was 201.8 lbs.

Food:
mixture of fat free Rosarita refried beans with 1/4 avocado with onion and pico de gallo in a brown rice tortilla

10 Snap Peas

2 bananas

3 slices of deli turkey

Exercise:
Ran 3.3 miles

First 8 minutes were at a constant pace, then started interval training running hard for 30 seconds then returning to a slow jog for 30 seconds. Repeat 6 times. Then returned to a jog and finally a 4 minute cool down.

Total time :29 minutes

Also did 20 push ups.

This morning I weighed in at 197.4 lbs. which appears to be a loss of 4.4 lbs. in 24 hours. Woo Hoo!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Canada. America's Friendly Hat.

By now, most of you know that Bri and I have escaped to the Great White North for a week. As of now, we are in Vancouver and are just beginning our exploration of the city this morning. We have a very ambitious day planned out so far, and will be cramming about 4 days worth of activities into one. We are having a wonderful time so far, and have just arrived from Victoria, which is a beautiful place.

For some unknown reason I woke up at 6:30 this morning with the inspiration to chronicle a bit of what has been going on. We arrived into Victoria by way of Anacortes, WA on Sunday, and stayed at Goldstream Provincial Park for the first two nights. It was a lovely campsite that was remarkably secluded for being only 10 minutes from downtown Victoria. We were spoiled by this. When we arrived in Vancouver last night, I had done some research on camping near the city, and came across a wonderful looking spot that was under one of the main bridges in a "park." I think a more accurate description of this place would be "tree-less asphalted redneck corral: featuring some jackass revving his motorcycle and driving around with no shirt and a gut he could have balanced his beer can on." Actually the motorcycle noise was not so bad considering that it covered up some of the honking from the stand-still traffic on the other side of the chain link fence in which the park was contained. Needless to say, we got the hell out of there as fast as possible.

We found a little motor inn for the night, and aside from the fact that it smells a lot like the ashtray can at the bar, it is not too bad. At least it has electricity and continental breakfast. I have never understood why it is called "continental," Shouldn't it be called "Breakfast that you could find at a truck stop at 3 A.M.?" I shouldn't make fun, I am already getting excited about cheese danishes from the wrapped in plastic, the large plastic dispenser of Raisin Bran, and above all orange juice that comes from a machine. Yum yum.

Well as they say in the "tree-less asphalted redneck corral: featuring some jackass revving his motorcycle and driving around with no shirt and a gut he could have balanced his beer can on," "continental breakfast is good, eating fresh possum hit in traffic right by your campsite is more good."