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Why do I do this?

Howie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:21:43 +0000

Ok so what the heck is wrong with me? I have this several thousand dollar surgery on my back 3 years ago and then I precede to put 100 freaking pounds on. Every day I get up and tell myself that today is the day I will start to lose weight again. And every day at the end of the day I make bad decisions to thwart my progress. I don’t understand why I keep doing this to myself. I don’t know how many times I’ve posted on here that I’m going to do this only to not. Maybe this will be the time it sticks. I sure hope so. I am going to make a stab at blogging about healthy things and you can watch my tweets on the side for updates though the day. I need some accountability so if I have any readers out there help me out.

Trying something new!

Howie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +0000

We are on vacation and this time I am trying something new. Instead of letting this be a week of treating myself to food and coming home 10 lbs heavier, I am going to try and come home a few lbs lighter. We have one big group get together this weekend so Friday night I will have a treat night. The rest of the time I am trying to make a good attempt at eating healthy. I have done so lousy on my diet that last 3 years and it shows something horrible. I just keep gaining and my back and knees are killing me. So I here I am trying to make the effort once more.

What makes us eat more food?

Howie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:56:41 +0000

Here are 7 reasons we eat more food. Number 5, alcohol is one that I decided to cut out all together. I was letting it go way to far and it’s true when you drink you do, or at least I do, tend to eat more food.

There seems to be a lot more reasons I eat more food though. I have always eaten when happy, sad, mad, etc… I am trying to figure out why I do this and then change this in my life. I know one of the biggest areas in my life that help to fight this and figure it out is my relationship with Jesus. I think that I tend to try and fill voids in my life with things like food and sports when I really should be filling it with a relationship with my savior. This takes time and dedication but I’m working on it.

What I watch!

Howie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:08:06 +0000

No not what’s on TV. What I watch in my diet is what I want to talk about. I have always pretty much just watched fat and calorie intake. However lately I have been keeping an eye on protein, carbs and fiber thanks to Fatsecret.com. From what have read, for me at my desired weight and my current calorie intake of 1800 a day this is what I should be eating. The below 5 things are all I care to track at this moment.

Carbs - Fat- Fiber – Prot – Calories
270 – 50 – 25 – 75 – 1800

So for what I have eaten today the count is

Carbs - Fat- Fiber – Prot – Calories
41.33 – 237.92 – 30.8 – 74.22 – 1542

I just wanted to post this as an example of what we should be eating. I’m going to try and stay within these guide lines for the next few months and see how things go.

Here is what I ate today.

Breakfast
1 Bowl of Kashi Go Lean
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 banana

Mid morning snack
1/2 pecan nut muffin

Lunch
1/2 Subway Turkey sub with cheese and light mayo
1 Orange

Mid afternoon snack
1 Ice cream sandwich
1/4 cup wheat puffs

Dinner
1/2 Subway Turkey sub with cheese and light mayo

Snack
258 calories left ???

Breakfast needs to be good

Howie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:31:43 +0000

I went in a different direction with my breakfast this morning. Even though there was some protien in it I’m already feeling hungry. Our normal breakfast consist of a egg fried with Pam cooking spray and then put on one slice of toast with a half ounce of sharp cheader cheese. This is 245 calories and then a couple hours later I have a banana and an apple. That works really well for keeping hunger away. This morning my breakfast looked good as you can see but it was 470 calories and I ate my fruit with breakfast. I had yogurt walnuts and a banana. I am now hungry 2 hours later but if I eat a couple of pieces of fruit it will put my calories up there for the day.

So I guess what I’m trying to say here is eating in small amounts more often really helps to keep hunger away and helps you to stay within your calories. What I like to do is eat a breakfast under 300 calories then have a mid morning snack of 200 calories. For lunch I try to stay around 300 calories and then again a snack of 200 calories in the mid afternoon. That leaves me 600 for dinner and 200 for a snack at night for a total of 1800 calories for the day.

breakfast

Four Year Anniversary!

Howie — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:08:41 +0000

Well here we are in April. That is the month I started this journey 4 years ago. I wish I could say the journey is over but it will never really be over. What I mean is I wish I was at the maintaining stage of this journey. I keep messing around with gaining and losing and more on the gaining side than the losing. I am proud that I have kept my weight under my milestone of being less than 300 lbs. However I have flirted with that number on several occasions. So what I’m saying is I’m here in April ready to keep this journey going and we will see what happens. I’m 290 as of yesterday and I have readjusted my weight chart to start in April and I hope to make goal sometime in October. So wish me luck.

New site new start.

Howie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:55:18 +0000

Well here I am with a brand new look and brand new host. So maybe this will get me motivated to lose some weight. However I’m not necessarily going to base the whole site on weight loss. I may talk religion, sports, photography, computers or life in general. So I hope you like the new look and stop in to see how I am doing.

We were going to go to Maryland this weekend but that did not pan out. Our friends that we were going to see are having some bad times with sick and injured family members, human and animal. So we postponed it for another two weeks to give everyone a chance to heal up and feel better.

That proabably worked out for the best anyway. I have been having some back problems this week. I think it’s just some pulled muscles but it sure hurts and it always worries me that something is wrong with my back. After having two surgery’s it just scares the crap out of me to have anything go wrong. I need to give that fear up to God and let Him take care of it but that is hard to do sometimes. The men in my mens Bible study prayed for me Tuesday night and it’s been getting better each day.

So that’s what is going on here. I’m off for the weekend with no big plans. Just going to enjoy the time off and let my body heal.

Happy New Year! Here we go again and again.

Howie — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:42:42 +0000

This is probably similar to the post I posted last year. But you know what at least we are persistent. And we both weigh less than we did when we started this journey.

I have added in the progress box at the top of the page our new weight charts. So check in and look at our progress from week to week. If we really stick to this KImberley could be at her goal by October 31, 2008 and I could be at mine by August 8, 2008. I lost 4 lbs this week and Kimberley lost 3 lbs. So we are off to a good start.

We both have been through this before and we feel like people are just going to think here they go again. However I always say it’s the fact that we do keep coming back that we are not a ton heavier than what we are. Once you have a weight problem it is going to be a constant battle. It becomes a life time commitment to keep it off. As they like to say these days it’s a lifestyle not a diet and I agree with that.

So look for more video’s and more post and we can all go through this together.

New years realizations

GW — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:58:28 +0000

Yesterday, I read the term “new years realizations” and thought about what a good term that is. It’s kind of an in-your-face idea, realizing the things which weigh you down and keep you from being the person you want to be. With realization comes responsibility. Ouch.

Of course, this blog’s focus is weight loss and health; putting it in that context, the realization is that we are still overweight and out of shape. There. The (not so big) secret’s out! It’s embarrassing that we let ourselves gain back so many pounds, but that’s where we are. There’s no point in denying it, no point in wishing it away. It just IS.

That said, what do we do about it?

No one can force us to take responsibility for these things. We have to make changes for ourselves, not for those who expect them from us. It’s not enough to want to look good for spouses, partners, children or any number of people. No, it has to be for ourselves that we make these changes.

Howie and I are the first to admit, we’re struggling. It’s not easy. But we’ve definitely made new years realizations in many areas of our lives, and know change needs to come out of them.

So, here we are, once again, getting back at it. Come with us.

A big congrats to SWLA Tricia!

GW — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:18:14 +0000

Hey, Tricia made it to the final four in the SWLA Biggest Loser entries! She has her work cut out ahead of her, but she’ll rock. Thanks for your votes, everyone! Here’s what’s in store for her.