My diet officially begins again today. I should be getting my twitter scale today as well, so I’ll be doing my first official weigh-in soon. If you wish, you can keep up with my progress at http://twitter.com/JasonsDiet
For the record, the day’s not even half over and I’m starved… But more because I’ve been too busy to eat than being limited by what I can eat.
So if you’ve known me for any length of time, you know my weight fluctuates nearly as much as Oprah’s… and I recently noticed an odd correlation to my charted weight with the 5 year NASDAQ chart.
So it’s time again for me to take the financial sector to it’s knees with another diet.
Last year about this time I started a diet and managed to lose 65 pounds. I did it using a diet comprising of extremely bland food in exactly measured quantities with little exercise. It worked great for 6 months, but as soon as I got sick of the crappy food, I started regaining weight. I’m still netting 20 pounds less this New Years than last New Years, but all those clothes I bought at my low no longer fit.
So time to get back on the wagon. I really think I need to get back to the gym, so I’m going to start doing this with good exercise regimen. Also, I’m going to try to do it with a little less effort on measuring what I eat. I’ll just stay away from the bad stuff and stick to more of the good stuff. We’ll see how it goes.
The biggest diet change though that I’m going to make this year though is that I’m going to do this in public. I’ve created a new twitter account http://twitter.com/jasonsdiet where you will be able to track my progress. I’ll be tweeting from there throughout the diet, but more importantly my daily weigh-ins will be automatically tweeted from my new twitter enabled scale. I won’t be able to lie about it, even if I wanted to.
I’m calling out to my friends and family who are out there reading this. Please help keep me accountable. Diet starts Saturday and tweets should start rolling through on Tuesday.
I finally passed my goal weight of 270 thanks to a good 3 pound loss over the last two days. I had two days in a row on unexplainable gains but today I lost the gain plus another pound to put me under 270 for the first time in a long time. If I hold the loss through tomorrow, that would mean I’m heading off to New York under 270, just want I was hoping for.
My wife has been terrific and instrumental in my making this goal. I never would have stayed on this if I had to be the one to cook all 6 meals a day. She has put a ton of time into it for me and I couldn’t thank her enough.
This puts the total loss at 55.5 lbs since the Super Bowl (exactly 90 days) and 65.5 since September.
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is the devil. Pepsi is hopping on the anti-HFCS bandwagon by offering a real sugar versions of Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Soft drinks always taste better in other countries. Our government apparently likes it that way because they tax the hell out of sugar imports. In Belize, they use locally grown cane sugar in their soft drinks and they taste better than anything you can get here.
I really wish I wasn’t on a diet right now. Kudos to Pepsi and I hope they continue this long past the 8 week trial.
I’m still dropping weight at a pretty good pace. My latest goal of 270 before I head to New York for a week seems attainable. I just passed 275 today and I leave in two weeks from tomorrow. I’ve been dropping about 3lbs a week. So unless something out of the ordinary comes up, I should be good. That would be only 10lbs over when I first went to New York to do my initial consulting work many moons ago.
The lower I go, the more I think I could go. I was at about 250 my senior year of high school. I think that will be my next goal, but I won’t get a chance to work on that again until almost June thanks to my May trip to Belize.
I’m not even going to try to diet while in San Pedro. My diet plan will be not to rent a golf cart like I normally do and instead walk everywhere I need to go. We’ll see how that works. It sounds good in theory, but I’ll probably end up spending the extra money I saved on extra Pedro’s Pizza or Blue Lotus Indian food.
After I get back, I’ll only have 2 weeks before my next trip to see the folks. I’ll have be sure not to put on more than I can drop in those two weeks.
Enough fat talk for today.
Well in the two days I was off my diet for my birthday, I managed to put on a little over 10 pounds. In the two days I’ve been on my diet since, I managed to take off 8 with 7 of that in one day. I can only guess that most of the gain was water weight and the true gain for the binge was around 2 pounds. If you have another explanation, I’d love to hear it as I find it hard to explain otherwise.
I had a great 35th birthday yesterday. The best in years.
Here’s the tally on the foody goodness…
And the grand total weight gain for the day….
4.7lbs
… and it was totally worth it.
I’ll start up my diet again tomorrow while I spend today putting away the left overs. No binging on it today though. Whatever we don’t finish will be disposed of outside of my body in some way.
Today is my Birthday. No need to sing. I’m not fond of that song anyway.
I wanted to share why today is the most excellent of birthdays. You see, I have been on a Naziesque diet of sorts at the behest of my lovely wife. She insisted that I join her on a diet that we both started on Superbowl Sunday Feb. 1st. The diet consists of mostly tasteless food in small quantities eaten throughout the day. Not very much fun for sure.
However, over these last 8 weeks or so I’ve managed to drop over 40 pounds. I’m just a few pounds over what I was when my wife and I met. While it has been hell suffering through dry tasteless chicken, bland veggies and sodium free diet pop, I guess the results can’t be denied.
Today though is my birthday. And it marks the end of my 100% faithful dieting. No cheating, no bending of the rules. Just pure 100% willpower. I asked for no gifts today. I asked only that today I be able to eat whatever I want, and in whatever quantity I want.
It has been a glorious day.
The day is not even half over and I’ve managed to eat some oatmeal and egg-white omelet (was still officially on the diet until 10am), 4 krispy kreme doughnuts (2 glazed and 2 creme filled chocolate covered), a foot long Chicken Pizziola sub from Subway, two deep fried burritos from Carls Junior and a can of God’s nectar (Diet Dr. Pepper). Oh, and can’t forget the cheddar kettle potato chips I had for desert. Not bad for a morning.
Since I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night I decided to lay down for an afternoon nap. As I was dozing off to sleep, I distinctly heard my heart crying out for rescue. I just laughed and laughed as I imagined it drowning in vats of cholesterol, saturated fats and sugar. Sorry sap of a heart anyway. What has it ever done for me?
I’m feeling much better now and awaiting the party tonight where we top of the festivities with a selection of my favorite things… namely Pizza, Hot Dogs, Popcorn, Jalapeño Poppers, Doritos, Wine (special delivery from the Pahrump Winery) and of course my favorite… ice cream and cake!
If I’m still alive tomorrow, I’ll fill you in on the tally of food intake and what that accounted for in number of pounds gained. I then resume my diet for another month until I go to New York on business where I get to binge for a whole week.
If my heart ends up giving out, rest assured that there will be a smile on my face.
I’ve been on a diet since the start of football season. Doing Atkins as it’s the only thing I can reliably stick to when I have a lack to time to dedicate to dieting. Regardless, I was down about 18 lbs until this weekend.
Every October here in Vegas, 94.1 puts on a killer food and music festival called Bite of Vegas. It’s my favorite local activity each year and I wasn’t about to miss out on it. B
Bite of Las Vegas has booths from resturaunts all around town which show up to offer a selection of appetiser sized portions ranging between $1 and $5 each. It’s a great sampling of places you may or may not be familiar with here in town.
So Saturday at the festival, besides listening to bands like Puddle of Mudd and Lifehouse, I managed to eat, fried calamari with fried pepperonchini, chips and queso, chips and guacamole, a mini hamburger with some fries, an order of chicken fingers, 3 mini pizzookies (warm cookie pizza with icecream topping) and a slice of pizza. not to mention that I enjoyed several glasses of a delicious white wine called Reggae from Rock and Roll Vineyards. And since I already went all out Saturday, on Sunday I enjoyed some of my favorite pizza from East Side Pizza here in Vegas.
Needless to say, my weekend binge resulted in a 6 pound gain for me.
The weekend was a blast, but was it worth 6 pounds? Absolutely.
Back to super strict induction Atkins today.
