Basically I've decided that if I'm down to 145 by Sunday then for lunch Sunday my wife and I are going to this Italian Restuarant. She's doing BODY FOR LIFE and she's doing great and Sunday is her cheat day so I'll come along and cheat too. IF I meet that goal. YESTERDAY'S DIET : Breakfast - shake (strawberries, fat free milk, supplement powder, egg scramblers) , peanut butter, english muffin, crackers with cottage cheese almonds and cheese LUNCH - chicken breast, brown rice, veggies...

Let's get one thing straight : I am not out to "lose weight". I am out to "lose fat". My philosophy towards exercise and diet is that it should be part of your life, and your ultimate goal should be to just be healthy. That being said, I do desire to have a six-pack. It's free (you can choose to pay for the gym or supplements, but essentially all it takes is a time investment) and I don't see why I don't deserve to be able to take my shirt off and have hard abs. You know how some people ...

I am so crazy that it has taken me this long to uncover a habit that is completely destructive for me! Last night I decided to make myself a healthy sweet treat by mixing cottage cheese with SugarFree, FatFree chocolate pudding mix. Well, it WAS good but I ended up eating three servings, even though I wasn't hungry anymore. The rest of dinner was crab and salad greens, steamed broccoli and whole wheat pasta with salsa and mushrooms. Well as if that wasn't bad enough, it set of something and I fo...

Okay so many people believe their boss is incompetent, or a jerk, or maybe just plain lazy. I just can't decide about my boss. Mainly because he is a pretty decent guy. So he is not a jerk. At least I have that going. A few quick details about my boss: *He is Japanese (not Japanese american, full japanese) and he works in an American company. His grasp of english is okay but limited. I know a little japanese but it is not even as good as his english so there can be communication issues. ...

So it's Sunday morning and the official end of my first week of re-commitment to GETTING ABS. And, well. I'm the same. 147.5 pounds and 14.5% body fat. The same percentage that I once read our president has. So I did just enough to maintain the STATUS QUO. With that in mind, what do I do about today? I was going to give myself free rein to eat whatever I wanted. But now --- So I am compromising. I had lots of cereal this morning and rice crackers but I am going to eat my normal hea...

Nobody's Watching Me! Things I Do When Nobody Is Looking #1. Pick My Nose. #2.Scratch My Butt. #3.Talk To Myself. #4. Strip Down To My Underwear and Clean The House While Chanting: "I Will Sell This House Today" #5. Bite My Toenails. Then I Put Them In My Cats' Fur. #6. Pinch My Abdomen to Try and Determine if I am Losing Any Fat. #7. Floss. #8. Pleasure Myself To The Nine Inch Nails song, "Closer". #9. Check My Moles and Wonder if Any Have Changed. Ponder...

Okay. So I am at lunch. I take my lunch every day from 2pm - 3pm right after my boss gets back from his lunch break. Well, today after I eat I have some things to get done so I call the library to re-check some books and then change the lightbulb in the spare room so that ---oh wait, wait a minute, it's not lighting up --- what the heck, I KNOW this is a brand new bulb. Oh, what's this? The LIGHT SWITCH seems to be completely screwed up. Probably from the EARTHQUAKE we had yesterday. So I call ...

December 16,2003 (Tuesday) 5:35am S omething is not right with my life --- I'm sitting here after finishing my workout. My Legs are sore from the workout on Saturday. I guess my biggest hang-up right now is how really close I was to achieving my goal before and now it all seems so far away. And I have nobody to blame but myself. So I trudged through my weight-lifting and cycling this morning. I ate so well all day yesterday and then screwed up by having four bowls of cereal late la...

I don't really have any great advice about this but I wanted to vent and rant and maybe you'll know where I am coming from. We know that 2 out of 3 Americans are overweght. A lot of us are trying to diet. Some need to diet. These are the 200-300 pound people who have no knowledge about calories or food and they are going to DIE unless they lose some weight. Really, I shouldn't say "diet". What we should all be striving for is to eat healthier. In other words, change our diet. Diet used as a ...

Almost everybody knows the name "atkins". We all know people who have tried the diet, maybe even lost weight on the diet. Well, I bought two of his books, "New Diet Revolution" and "Atkins For Life" and I believe this is really the plan I have been needing. Twice in my adult life I have weighed for brief periods at a weight I was personally happy with. Right around 135. I even almost had my coveted abs. Right now I weigh about 150 and I feel like --- well, like the marshmellow man. I know tha...

Well. It's been over three weeks since I started this blog and I've GAINED fat. I'm up to 16.5% now. Holy cow. I only have one big bad problem and that is eating at night after dinner. Those cravings. Where the hell did they come from? I have never ever had this problem before. Now all of a sudden it is? Nothing I have tried has worked. But I am still determined to get my abs. If it takes three months so be it. This sucks big time. At the beginning of November I was SO CLOSE. Man. oh well. Gotta...

Well, it is early Christmas morning and what I am most excited about is what I am giving MYSELF for Christmas, namely, control over my eating habits and a new way of eating and the abdominals I have always wanted. Here is my inspirational person for the day : Rich! He is 3 inches taller than me but weighs just a few pounds more than I did at my last low weight and the guy is ripped. Starting Weight: 152.5 Starting Body Fat: 17 PERCENT Actually, let's see if I can't...

So if I could travel back in time to 1994, what would I change? #1. I would have developed better study habits. #2. I would have realized sooner that school is a huge waste of time and so were 90% of the people there. #3. I would have saved more of the money I was making when I had no real bills. #4. I would have stopped cultivating such a geeky image sooner. Let me add to this for anyone still in high school : stupid little things like your haircut, your clothes, and w...

Yes, it's that time of the year again. Time to forget about all the little regrets you have of 2003 and instead look forward to 2004. First, let me say that 2003 has been a very good year for me. I am happier than ever in my marriage. I never ever thought being married would be this much fun. It seems like nobody I know is happy being married. Either that is really the case or they are hiding it. And why do OTHER couples, both married and unmarried, always want to give you advice on your rel...

So I'm sitting here at lunch and I decided to do a sort of "journal" type article. My friend from work decided to give me a giant box of tangerines for Christmas. I swear, there is like 50 of them in there. They are delicious but I am eating tangerines every morning. One tangerines a morning, I should say. I am never going to eat all these. Hmmm, wonder if my cats will eat them? Have you seen the Fred Durst video, I believe it is a cover--- and he is kissing all over Halle Berry? Oh m...