Ok, so one week into this, and I'm shaky, foundations are crumbling and my hand keeps on slipping towards the Reeses Pieces candies like Thing from the Addams Family... kinda creepy actually. However, an easy fix of tying my hand to my waist with my belt has worked quite well.
I weighed in first thing Saturday morning at exactly four pounds lighter than original weight: 198.4. I will weigh in every Saturday morning and post the results. Every Saturday will be my cheat day where I let myself have a few beers and a not so healthy meal. BUT here's the trick: Nicole is great in the kitchen and can make a completely healthy meal taste like it's not :) Last night we experimented and made a couple Indian dishes: Garlic Naan, Tandoori Chicken, and Matta Paneer. Tasted fantastic and pretty darn healthy. I completed the meal with a couple Magic Hat #9s and a couple White Mountain Weasel Wheat Ale brewed at the Woodstock Inn in NH.
...I can see this blog easily turning into a beer blog since I'm now only drinking once a week and trying to drink interesting beers. I'm already planning on drinking my favorite beer next week!
This Libra application I downloaded on my droid measures a trend of losing 2.6 lbs a week. That, obviously, is way too early to tell. I've done this before and I know what's going to happen, like a Biggest Loser re-run. I'm going to drop a lot of weight in the beginning, that will taper off and I'll hit a plateau. Then I'll up my game and throw in a little jogging and heavier workouts. As of now I'm only working out a few days a week.
By the way, I've gotten a few comments saying that 30 pounds is too easy to lose. Look, I'm not trying to look like Christian Bale from The Machinist:
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| Soo huuuungrryyyy... |
Chunky... reminds me of:
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| TRUFFLE SHUFFLE!!! |
dan,
ReplyDeleteyou dont even know how proud of you i am for choosing to do this & ask for public support. i know that you will succeed in the end & possibly even surpass your extremely reasonable goal. you have set yourself up for success by setting an achievable goal and giving yourself room to enjoy life with your "cheat day." of course, it makes me happy to know that youre only choosing to drink once a week... major kudos to you for cutting back on alcohol. i was going to say that if you slowly but surely cut that out of your diet, along with soda, you will definitely see & feel a difference. once you get into the groove of your program, you will start feeling somewhat addicted to how good you feel & wont want to quit. you have actually motivated me to get my butt in gear with making better choices than i have in recent weeks & establish a workout schedule thats conducive to the amount of hours i work (50-60 a week). so... we will see, but i want to thank you for inspiring me! hope that you & the family get a chance to enjoy the massive amounts of snow! miss you & ill be following your blog to check in on you here & there =)