Final Tally: Not Bad. Not Good Enough, But Not Bad!

Two months ago when we started this journey I said my goal was to drop 15 pounds.

This afternoon when I finished working out and hopped on the scale, three great numbers popped up.

182.

Since I started at 197, that means I actually pulled it off. 15 pounds lost in two months. Overall, I’m pretty happy. Especially considering I spent 10 days of the contest on vacation in Europe, 5 days in NYC for SES and a full two weeks sick enough I couldn’t work out.

Granted, it wasn’t anywhere close to enough to keep up with Scottie. This is why the phrase “Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line” keeps getting replayed as “Never go in against Atkins when rapid weight loss is… ...Continue reading

Where Have I Been?

Well, I vanished two weeks ago to head to SES NY, knowing I wouldn’t be able to post much while I was there.

Unfortunately, I got sick while there and came home with a case of Bronchitis so bad I’m STILL down sick a full week later. That means I haven’t been able to make it to the gym for two full weeks. It also means that while I’m tracking my food and taking pictures, I haven’t had time to post them here.

I stayed pretty darn on track in NY. As with the Italy trip, I mostly ate what I wanted, when I wanted it…but it’s interesting to see how my “wants” have changed. Overall, I want healthy food. I’ve gotten used to it. Empty calorie “crap” just doesn’t sound good… ...Continue reading

Weigh in - A Day Late and a Pound Short…

Well drat. I was sick all week, so didn’t get to work out as much as I would have liked. That left me down only half a pound…not enough to see a move on the front page listings.

Here’s hoping SES NY includes enough walking and skipped meals to let me throw up a big number next week.… ...Continue reading

Well this is new…

So I’ve been doing some reading and thinking and talking to folks who know a little something about nutrition.

It appears I need to actively work on INCREASING my calorie intake.

I’ve noticed in the last week I’ve been REALLY tired. I mean like REALLY tired. I got to thinking and started wondering if I was actually ending up too low on the calorie count each day. In other words, I wasn’t giving my body enough energy to get the job done.

Then I thought about what I ate in Italy. I’d estimate I averaged 2400-2600 calories a day on that trip. Granted, I was walking 10 miles a day, so I was really active, but I lost three pounds that week and I felt fantastic.

I also noticed it’s taking less and less… ...Continue reading

Weekly Weigh-in

I gotta tell you, I wasn’t holding out a lot of hope this week. After losing 3 pounds on the trip, I seemed to level out for a few days. I’d been watching food pretty closely though (mmm, lots of veggies) and working out regularly though in the hope my body would start cooperating.

And it did!

185.2 pounds this morning, which now puts me at 12 pounds total loss. Woo hoo!

We still have a little more than 3 weeks to go, so I’m hoping I can hit my original goal of 16 pounds. (20 would be nice…) Clothes are certainly starting to fit more loosely. In fact, I can no longer wear my favorite jeans without a belt. Guess this gives me a good excuse to go shopping before SES NY… ...Continue reading

All That Vacation Food…

Oh yes…the vacation food. No way I can get it all posted here and I haven’t had time to hunt info on making a collage…so I’m just going to link you to it.

Here ya go: all my vacation food, including the meal with a face.… ...Continue reading

Home from Vacation Weigh-In

So the official weigh-in after 10 days in London and Italy?

187.

Oh yeah baby…I lost 3 pounds while on vacation in the land of pasta! Let’s hear it for hiking and walking.

That’s 10 pounds total, though Scottie is still ahead of me. Time to get back into calorie counting mode.

I’m Baaaaaaaaaaack…..

I know, I know…you’ve all spent the last eleven days sitting around your monitors trying to stifle sobs of anguish over the lack of photographs of my meals in your RSS feeds. You wondered what you’d do with yourself…how you’d go on.

Ok, ok, so actually, you REALLY wondered if I could stay on the Fat Fighting wagon while in London and Italy.

Now there’s no possible way I could take the time to post day by day breakdowns of everything I ate. (Though I’ll post a collage and link you to everything over at Flickr if you are curious.) There was also no way for me to know what the calorie counts of most things were. That meant I had to use common sense to try and make good food choices… ...Continue reading

Off to London to Tempt Scottie and Simon

Well, those of you who aren’t fans of my “food feed” (ha! get it?) will be getting a nearly two week reprieve.

Greg and I are hopping a flight to London today where I’ll be doing a half day “Blogging for Business” training session on the tail end of SES London. On Saturday, we’ll catch another flight to Rome, where we’ll spend a week working our way up through Tuscany and the Cinque Terre before we fly out of Milan and back to London for another night.

Simon and Scottie are already over there and I hear word that food has been flowing. In fact, Simon told me they had 15 plates of food for  4 people.

I was tempted to take Scottie a big dose of my homemade peanut butter fudge, since… ...Continue reading

Meals for the day - 02/16/08

02/16/08 - Breakfast

I’m out of Kashi and haven’t been to the store, so it’s Zone bars for breakfast for awhile.

Breakfast: 210 calories, 7 grams fat, 25 grams carbs, 3 grams fiber, 14 grams protein

02/16/08 - Lunch

It was a drive-thru day as I was out running errands. Usually I’d snag a grilled chicken, but Elnora desperately wanted a “cheeseburger, no meatball.” In other words, she wanted a bun with ketchup on it. I hate throwing away food, so I did the math and was surprised to find it wouldn’t “cost” me much more to just get a Jr. Cheeseburger and put her patty on my sandwich.

Mmmm…hamburger!

Lunch: 390 calories, 20 grams fat, 28 grams carbs, 2 grams fiber, 24 grams… ...Continue reading