don't judge so fast

okay. I got a good work out today from my PERSONAL trainer. I was straight up like "teach me NEW exercises and destroy me" and he did. I almost vomited. He made me work out stabilization muscles and i pushed myself too far after the session and because I couldn't walk straight or keep my balance, i got dizzy and nauseous. AWESOME.

generic trainer

There was only two options. weight loss or gaining muscle. How about being healthy? My personal trainer, or rather "generic trainer" gave me some info on some generic exercises using the balance ball thing and some generic information on nutrition and food. I wasted fifteen minutes of my hour arguing against vitamin pills and supplements.

It did, however, get me to go to the gym on a day I was tired.

life's answers are on the third mile

the third mile is where all of life's answers lie.

Math

371 calories in a single taco
I ate 12 in a day once (5 for lunch, 7 for dinner)
371 X 12 = 4452 calories

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING

AND since i sleep very little that's a 47% times more chance of getting cancer
and since i have a 41" belly which is 7"-9" more than I need, that's 17% X 9 =153% more likely I'll die early

If I stayed this course that's 200% times more likely of dying early/getting cancer/shit happening to me.

I lost 5 lbs since I realized this. I've been going to the gym everyday again. I'm back to 199. I'm back on the bus. take me to a new place where i can live longer.

LACK OF SLEEP = CANCER

MOTHER FUCKER
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AG7B520081117
"Those who slept less than seven hours nightly had a 47 percent higher risk of cancer than those who got more sleep among the physically active women, the researchers reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research."


that means I'm at like A 100% HIGHER RISK FOR CANCER.

I never sleep.
FUCK FUCK FUCK.

my device logged my sleeping and I only slept 4 hours and 34 minutes last night. it says my sleep efficiency is 68%! FUCK.

not losing weight

now my goal is to lose belly fat! not about losing weight. but losing belly fat! let's see where this experiment takes me.

Waste Waist Away Your Life

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/14/big.waistlines/

"The study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that an increase in waist circumference of about two inches raised the risk of death by 17 percent in men and 13 percent in women."

Exercise makes you smarter!

Exercise makes you smarter!
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/gs_11excercise


on a separate note. I haven't exercised in a week . I got sick. I'm back up to 200 lbs. which is still a net loss of 35 pounds, but not good enough. At least the "bounce" isn't that severe. Well, this is a section I'd write in the book called "recommit" and figure out how to do that.

go wear fit

I just bought this badboy that my friend manufactures. It knows EXACTLY how much calories I'm burning, when i'm sitting, sleeping. I tried an older version but this just came out:

http://www.gowearfit.com/

buffet finding

"We found that obese people behave very differently at buffets compared to normal weight people," said Wansink.

While thinner people tended to browse the buffet before serving themselves, obese diners usually jumped right in.

Thinner patrons were more likely to use chopsticks, and sit facing away from the buffet, while overweight people tended to choose forks and tables much closer to the food."

OH MY GOD. I EAT LIKE A FAT PERSON EATS BUFFET.

http://www.king5.com/health/stories/NW_110308HEK_mindless_eating_SW.178dab544.html

Crepe burp

I ate nutella whipcream crepe one hour before exercising. I felt kind of nauseous but when breathing hard, it tasted like crepes. TOTALLY AWESOME.

Sleep is the most important component of exercise

After much experimenting, varying diets, time lag between eating and exercise, sleep schedules, number of hours, naps, etc.... I have concluded that the MOST important part of being able to have a good workout IS....

SLEEP.

Without proper sleep it is VERY difficult to exercise.

challenges

new challenges
hit 7 minute mile (8.5mph)
5 mile run 6 times a week at 6 mph

Confessions of a dangerous taco

I am addicted to tacos. I ate it for dinner AGAIN. Seven tacos. I still went to the gym. I still felt like puking after weight training and could NOT do cardio. I am addicted to tacos.

this is the twelve steps for alcoholics anonymous. I've replaced the word "alcohol" with "tacos"

1. We admitted we were powerless over tacos—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to taco addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

on a separate note, there was a guy at the gym who kept lifting his shirt up in front of the mirror to check out his own abs.
an old indian dude was standing in front of the mirror doing upper cuts. FUCKING COOL.

fell off

It's been a week and I'm trying to get back on the weightloss wagon. as HARDCORE as i once was. this is proving to be rather difficult. I'm back up to 199 from a low of 189. I am blaming the tacos, but I should be blaming the taco eater.

tacos can weight. weightloss now!

the challenge now is to get back on the bandwagon. I will take advice from the old me and bring back a brand new "No list" a do-not-fucking-eat list. on it so far is tacos. no more tacos.

Drunken Taco Puke

I've been eating tacos and more tacos. I only ran three miles one day this past week. I gained 10 pounds.

Today I had five tacos for lunch and seven tacos for dinner. Typical taco experiment week. But this time, I went to the gym. I feel so nauseous I want to puke. I'm breathing out taco fumes. FUCKING TACO FUMES from three hours ago.

This is the same as being DRUNK. I can't walk straight, I couldn't even jog at all. my breath smells like tacos and I want to puke but can't. I am drunk on tacos. don't taco and exercise folks.

oh yeah, and i only slept for four a half hours last night. that might be contributing.

food money and dates

My date last thursday, we'll call her "free-sushi girl", orders a bunch of beer, including one for the chef, sake, and sushi. The bill came and she didn't even look at it, no flinching, nothing. This was a girl that's done it before. Checks are not a reality for her. It's like the toothfairy, it may not exist, but it leaves some money behind. I paid. it was $90. This has nothing to do with losing weight, but having shopped at supermarkets during this weight lost endeavour, ninety bucks can get you a month's worth of fruits! exotic fruits. not like grapes.

Two Day Tacos but Cold Turkey Tacos

Experiment number 867:
I exercised 6 times this week with 4 mile jog/run and weights.
I ate super healthy, like the start BUT I ALSO ate tacos for dinner last night and the night before fried in LARD at that makeshift shack.
I lost 3 pounds from 197 to 194 still.

but something I realized is that they could be frying that meat in some gnarly chemicals and the customers wouldn't know it. Like toxic chemicals. Probably tons of MSG. It's so addicting. Like a drug. Time to go cold turkey

Wine Experiment

I drank two glasses of wine and will now go exercise. Let's see what happens.

Taco Experiment

I ate tacos. the authentic shit. meat fried in LARD. I got addicted, six meals in a row. gained four pounds.

NOTE:NOT GOOD FOR WEIGHTLOSS DONT DO THAT.

shotgun

every day you don't fucking exercise is like squeezing the trigger a little bit tighter on a shotgun pointed at your knees. When it clicks, you'll blow off the lower part of your leg right off.

Not exercising isn't going to kill you. But the diseases will fuck you up. Diabetes will blow your fucking leg clear off. You'll be the lucky few if you just die from a heart attack.


This is what I tell myself when I'm on the third mile and I want to quit running. I get to the fourth mile no problem.

I also want a taco.

wash your face

wash your face after you work out so you don't get zits. zits is gross. I haven't gotten it in a while. but jsut a reminder. becuase i used to.

Pain

I'm in so much pain. Two weeks not working out and suddenly going back is painful. Lesson learned.

FUCK SALADS

I fucking hate salads.
I hate it.
But when I'm hungry as hell, DAMN THAT SALAD TASTES GOOD!!

I think it's some sick twisted way that our brain gets you to love stupid shit.
Every logic and rationale in my body says salads SUCK.
but after a few days of being hungry and salads satiating my hunger, I love the leafy goodness.

salads, it's a love hate relationship.

(I'm talking about that leafy crap, not like the fancy "mediterranean olive salad" or "tomato basil freshm mazzarella salad" or any pasta salad, because we all know that shit is goooooooood)

Self Segregation in the Gym

There's a shit ton more women doing Cardio than Men.
There's a shit ton more men doing Weight Training than Women.
There's a shit ton more women doing those classes than Men.

IS IT as simple as THIS!?:
Men want muscles.
Women want to lose fat.

Here's my thought:
Men want commoradorie and use weight lifting as a social time to bond with other men. Why not gather around a grunting activity?
Women enjoy the solace, independence, and mental rejuvination that a cardio exercise gives.

I like both. I must be a tranny.

Two Weeks

I went away for work for a week and then away on vacation for an additional week. Since I couldn't exercise anyway aaaaand it was vacation, I just said what the heck, let's EAT LIKE A SONNOVABITCH. I stuffed my face with pizza in a drunken state, gorged on fried fish, tacos of all kinds, burritos, chorizos and the all mighty churro! Ice Cream, Chocolate Mouse Cake, Coca Cola! Cookies, fresh and bagged. Twix, twix, and oh how I love twix. Porterhouse, half a chicken, carne asada, eggrolls, korean bbq, frozen yogurt!

I didn't eat ANY of this stuff while I was exercising and eating healthy.

FUCK IT WAS DAMN GOOD.

and so I gained seven pounds. back up to 200. That's not bad, but I think I lost muscle mass too. I can still do 120 crunches on that ab thing at the gym, but it hurt like hell. I can still run 2 miles comfortably. time to get back on the plan. I turn 29 in a month and a half, maybe I can get down to the weight I was at TWELVE years ago! holy shit i'm old.

plenty of sleep + no food + exercise at night= cramps and sleepy
little sleep + food two hours prior + exercise at night = cramps, feel like throwing up, and sleepy
little sleep + food four hours prior + exercise at night = headache and sleepy


Plenty of sleep + food four hours prior + exercise in the afternoon= optimum

Three weeks

One Week I was sick - so I ate a TON of food to get better, from chicken soup to hearty meals.
Second week I got better and I was back to exercising
Third week I had to go away on business and ate a TON again just because I was at home and with friends. lots of drinks, lots of late night food.

I'm back home now and I weigh the same as before the sickness, no more, no less. all that food I ate didn't go anywhere!?

I weighed myself on my mom's scale. I was at 196.5 with 20% bodyfat. I'm in the HEALTHY category now apparently. I skipped "Overweight" from the last time I was on that scale. I went from Obese to borderline healthy in two months. Way to go Ko! so now I have 39.3 lbs of fat.

It is interesting to note that the weight loss from the last time I was on this scale in early July has all been fat loss.

0% bodyfat is 157.2 (I'd be dead).
3% bodyfat is ~163 lbs (Very very very fit wrestlers)
7.5% bodyfat is 170 (highschool weight)
13% bodyfat is 180 (college freshman weight)

Fuck you throat infection

FUCK YOU THROAT INFECTION. I've conquered you. Now it's back to exercise, eating right and not a whole lot of social life.

sleep is important

People are already asking me 'How did you do it?'. I'm only halfway to my goal but I guess thirty pounds is good enough for a positive response. I used to be more humble about it, saying "oh, it was just eating right and exercise". I've decided to be more honest recently with a response of "I ate nothing but good healthy shit. Shit, did not touch this tongue the entire time. AND I worked out every single fucking day for two to three hours sacrificing dates, social life, parties, and personal hobbies, sometimes til 2AM if needed".

THIS as it turns out GOT ME SICK. the doctor said it was strain and my immune system went down. This week I exercised as intensely but added social time and personal projects back into my life sacrificing sleep. This destroyed my immune system and made me get a throat infection.

Diet Research

Long-Term Diet Study Suggests Success Is Hard to Come By
They tested a low-fat diet vs a low carb diet vs a Mediterranean diet (whatever the fuck that is) for TWO YEARS to see what was best... what a WASTE of money.

YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING WORKS!? a low-fat-AND-low-carb-don't-eat-like-a-fat-person diet. With two to three hours of exercise a day.

Dear diet research people: Don't waste your research dollars! Give ME a million dollars and I can tell you what works!!!

Offset

A man, clearly a smoker, with residue of his freshly finished cancer sticks emanating from his clothes filled the locker room. This man had it right, you can offset your smoking habit by exercising. Genius.

I ran 4 miles. I sweat so much the sweat stain on the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt, connected.

updated schedule

well I stuck with it so far. I had planned up to this date:

week 7: July 4 to July 11

• 3.0 - 4.0 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• start looking at a new bike

so I guess I should continue and plan for the coming weeks. 7 weeks and losing 33 pounds.
I was also going to hit 200 at the end of August. It's only Mid July. New plan

Mid July - 198
End of July - 194
End of August - 188
End of September - 182
Mid October - 179
End of October - 176 (my weight in highschool mostly)
End of November - 170
End of December - 165 (my lowest weight in highschool)


week 8: July 13 to July 19

• 3.5 - 4.0 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• try a new exercise
  

week 9: July 20 to July 26

• 4.0 - 4.5 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• try a new exercise
  

week 10: July 27 to August 2

• 4.5 - 5.0 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday

week 11: August 3 to August 9

• TRAVEL FOR WORK
• WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!!?!!?!??
• I need to BRING workout clothes
  

week 12: August 10 to August 16

• 2, 2 mile sprints 5 mile jog
  
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday

Last week I could not sleep

Last week I could not sleep because I went to go exercise til 1:00AM and my heart was racing. Commons sense would be to "not exercise so fucking late". ON THE OTHER HAND I should be able to sleep whenever I want. I should have enough control over my body. SO, I'm going to train myself to exercise and still be able to fall asleep quickly.

I just got back from the gym. 11PM to 1:15AM. Lifting and 3.5 miles. it's 2AM now. we'll see if I can fall asleep.

cardio vs resistance

Resistance/Weight training is physical. No mental skills needed. Perfect for meat-heads.
Cardiovascular exercise is NOT physical. It's mental. My highschool cross country team was full of nerds.
Flexibility is not for meat heads or nerds but from what I've seen there are a lot of women in Yoga.

Certain exercises draw certain crowds. fascinating.

I am a machine

I ran 3.5 mile just now (I started excercising at 11:30PM yesterday til 1AM, does this count as two days of working out!?) .

I was really tired so I kept repeating in my head "I am a machine! I am a machine!" to keep myself going, but after awhile it felt very mechanical and so I changed it to "I am a highly motivated organic matter! I am a highly motivated organic matter!" and that seemed to work much better.

Still Sweating

This week my goal was to run three mile run/jog. It's Friday and I FINALLY got up to three mile jog. It's also been thirty minutes since I stopped running and I'm STILL sweating. WTF!

Plateau

My weight has been hovering around 208 for a week now so I talked to the trainer at the gym to see what's up...
okay he wasn't really a "trainer" per se, some might call him "the guy behind the counter who scans your gym membership card" but whatever. HE said I need to change up my routine. Which is exactly what Joetta and Richard told me today. I got some good ideas from my trainer guy too.

work out different muscles in a different way, move from the machines to free weights for example.

So... I gotta join those free aerobic classes. I have to start doing weight training in a different motions, and maybe eat something different than tropical fruits and leafy green love.

I hate the beach but I love beach fruit

I've been going to the grocery store every other day because I keep eating mounds of fruits and veggie! yum! I buy pineapple and papaya every time BUT
pineapple = $6
Papaya = $6

$12 just on some tropical fruits

I'm trying cheaper fruits now
7 plums = $1.45
bag of grapes = $1.13

we'll see how they pan out like a forty niner in the river trying to sift away some fat.

Die A Bêtes

I sometimes imagine a character chasing after me when I jog. His name is Die A Bêtes and he cuts off legs and limbs.
This stat released today by the CDC:

http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20080624/nearly-24-million-have-diabetes

I currently eat a diabetes menu so I can eat pizza when I'm 60

The worst part about diabetes, besides cutting of limbs? "Do not drink more than two drinks of alcohol in a one-day period."

FUCK YOU DIABETES. I'm not dying early and I'm fucking drinking.

23

I was at 208lbs this morning. a drop of 23 pounds from 23 days ago.

I'm going to write a book.

Brainstimulation

Courtney said trying different things is good for the brain. Like eating with the wrong hand.

Eating with the wrong hand is also good for eating slow!


I'm down to 217.

14 pound loss in two weeks.

weight drop

I lost 11 pounds in the first week. which is good. This week so far it's only been 1.5 pounds. The eating habits and exercise routine has gotten slightly more rigorous. It's probably water weight from the cells that I lost initially, and on top of that I am probably gaining muscle mass. So things should slow down and pick back up again in a couple of weeks.

It's almost like the initial loss was an initiation to REALLY lose the Fatness. At 2 pound loss of fat per week...

End of June - 212
End of July - 206
End of August - 200
End of September - 194
End of October - 188
End of November - 182
End of December - 176


It's a long term committment but I can't just lose 28 years of fat without some effort!

plan the man the diagram

week 1: May 24 to May 31

• monday - vacation
• tuesday - upper body. 1/2 mile jog. 1/2 mile walk
• wednesday - 1 mile jog. 1 mile walk
• thursday - upper body. 1/2 mile jog. 3/4 mile walk
• friday - 1 mile jog. 1 mile walk. abs. stretching
• saturday - upper body. 1/2 mile jog. 1/2 mile walk. abs. stretching

Week 2: May 31 to June 6

• 1 - 1.5 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday (check!)
  
• bring something for lunch once (check! brought yogurt)
• rode a bike machine (tues. 5 miles difficulty 8)
• Stretch
  

Week 3: June 7 to June 13

• ** June 12 night is for travel - LIFT work out in the MORNING
• ** June 13 is in New York - jog 1.5 miles
• ** June 14 is REST!?
• ** June 15 is travel. REST again!?
• 1.5 - 2 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday

week 4: June 14 to June 20

• Try Yoga
  
• 1.5 - 2 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday

week 5: June 21 to June 28

• 2 - 2.5 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• start looking at a new bike!

week 6: June 28 to July 4

• 2.5 - 3.5 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• start looking at a new bike!

week 7: July 4 to July 11

• 3.0 - 4.0 mile jog
• upper body, abs, stretching
• learn to cook a new veggie dish
• eat breakfast everyday
• start looking at a new bike!

Committed

I'm now committed to getting healthy.

step 1) Lose shitloads of weight
step 2) maintain a healthy lifestyle

for step 1 I am exercising and eating right

I am making rewards for myself
230 - start
215 - new shoes
210 -
200 - new jeans!
195 - new bike, korean barbeque
190 - live til I'm 60
185 - case of wine party
180 - live til I'm 70
175 -
170 - live til I'm 80, a motorcycle
165 -
160 -

May 26 will be a monday

I'm back in LA on May 26 and it will be a new day.

I weigh 231 now.

I gained 20 lbs while working at my current job.
I gained 20 lbs while working at my old job.
I gained 20 lbs in College.

I measured my percentage fat on my mom's machine and I am at 33%
I'm supposed to be at 10% to 20%.

I am carrying around 76.23 lbs of fat. FUCKING DISGUSTING!

20% body fat is 192
10% body fat is 175
5% body fat is 162

50 lbs goal

Objective: To lose 50lbs in 6 months WITHOUT learning more about food.
Megan says I can't do it!
I bet I can!

it'll all started with a cookie

I keep forgetting to stop eating those damn cookies. so here's a post from the cookie monster himself. I guess he wrote for McSweeneys.
LINK
"Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn't normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside."

Artists and Walking

There's something about artists. Although not overly muscular or fit in anyway, they are however, thin. Apparently I live in the "artist district" and there are certainly no overweight people here. It may be do to walking.

My internet disappeared and so I walked to the closest place that I knew of with internet, the los angeles public library. It was a four mile round trip walk, plus the eight pound laptop. This is the life of thinness.

The other thing about artists is that it's difficult to make money in a society that values money. So they make very little of it, and then buy very little. Less food, more walking = thin. basic, yes, but getting thin in theory doesn't seem that difficult.

Superior Negotiation Skills

I took a few college courses one summer at the gorgeous gorges - Ithaca New York. The topic of the last class in psych 101 was on what we learned and its application in the real world: He taught us how to buy a car (or sell one). It was everything we learned that summer, applied in the real world, by car salesmen. How people interact, manipulation/persuasion, social pressures, decision making, cognitive dissonance... car salesmen probably read every psych paper written and apply it to sell you a car.

For example: The foot-in-the-door study where if you agree to something small you'll incrementally agree to something huge later - If you agree to put a tiny flyer on your lawn for a politician, within a month, you'll incrementally agree to bigger and bigger flyers, until you have a giganto billboard with his shiny grillz facing the street.

At 24 hour fitness I used this knowledge to diffuse the jedi sales tricks they tried to use on me.

the calculator trick "with this discount you'll save (punch in some numbers) $145.32"
- uh huh, to your overly bloated price to begin with.

the manager trick "well, I have to ask my manager"
- no you don't, you have the power right there

the making you feel special trick "I like you and I shouldn't do this but I have this expired coupon... "
- yeah whatever

I finally negotiated down to a $29 a month flat rate. (okay, okay, Dr. Joetta also told me to flat out just refuse to pay a fee except the monthly. Note: she studied psychology!) I also piggy backed on Richard's account to just get rid of the initiation fee all together. (thanks richard!)

But the good part is when the business is all taken care of we can just shoot the shit for real. I was making fun of rich people and celebrities in LA and he let me into the swankalicious executive locker room that I could never afford... and by the way, seeing a naked white rich man makes them all too human, without that facade of excess. You're just like the rest of us.

Dressing Blue Cheese

how come the blue cheese in dressing don't go bad?

Pizza Response

I had three slices of pizza left in the fridge. My roommates ate them. That was my dinner! Without it I have nothing to eat. Lesson #1 Don't even think you can keep pizza for later living with two other guys. Lesson #2 that'll teach me to order a large when I only needed a medium.

Negotiations of a Fat Man

I'm going in tomorrow to negotiate with Bally Total Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, and Gold's Gym for my membership fee and monthly fee. Being fat and negotiating at a gym seems impossible. Statements like "Look, I'll stay with you guys for at least a year" or "Let me try it for a month and I'll probably stick around", sounds like utter lies coming from a fat man.

Hands On Your Hips

Jack La Lanne - the godfather of fitness!
Step 1) place hands on your hips
Step 2) show off your whitey grillz
Step 3) look awesome

I just learned about this guy, I've seen him before but it looks like he's got something to teach me.

What the Eggs!

I bought a brand new carton of eggs. One of them had translucent polkadots. This morning I went to go separate the egg whites but after cracking it open it, the egg white was murky. I thought I might've been sold some rotten eggs so I picked up the bowl and leaned over to smell it. THEN IT SQUAWKED AT ME!! WTF!!!! I screamed at the top of my lungs and threw it in the sink. I think it might've been gas build up in the egg, or air pockets, or it could've been a half baby bird all ready to hatch. It's now in the garbage disposal. I hope it doesn't crawl out. I'm done with eggs, or at least cooking them.

Palindrome

Manager at the grocery store to an employee:
"if you have time to gab, you've got time to bag!"

Efficiency of Healthy

The grocery store is way too big. Like Disneyland for food. For maximum efficiency of a time well spent, eating healthy saves you at LEAST twenty minutes of your life. I skipped half the grocery store today. junk food aisle, soda aisle, cake frosting aisle, condiment aisle, frozen food aisle, nope nope NOPE! it was straight to the veggie aisle, then to the breads, then to the dairy, boom boom BOOM! done done DONE! so quick.

I go to a relatively "rough" neighborhood grocery store and somehow asking the gruff vegetable shelver the location of the "alfa alfa sprouts" made me feel shi-shi posh-posh. It's such a pansy sounding vegetable."Over there", he points and walks toward a shelf. He looks at the shelf, smiles and says "Hey!! you got the last one! phew! there was only one left!" climbs up on the railing reaches for the container, checks behind the mushrooms "yup! the last one! you're lucky." hands me the alfa alfa sprouts and walks back to shelving yellow onions, still smiling. I felt like the luckiest guy ever, hey, I DID get the last alfalfa sprout!

The Oatmeal Reminder

Hectic life sets in and I forgot that I'm supposed to be eating healthy. But I've found that if I remember to do one thing in the morning, then I will remember throughout the whole day. My heroic oatmeal in the morning is a reminder for the day that eating healthy means I dont have to cut off my legs from diabetes.

No hesitation

I pause and lean to hear through the elevator doors. The elevator isn't making those usual whizz and whirls that let's you know it's on it's way to pick you up. I pause, and press the button again, and again. The 2000 pound box is usually submissive and comes to me at my beck and call with the push of an index finger. I press again, nothing. I look at the elevator doors again and ask in my head "now what!?". The thin man next to me does not hestitate. He takes the stairs.

Orangeade

Apparently I shouldn't drink entire containers of juice in one day. but it was so good. and what the fuck is orangeade? I didn't know either. That's why I bought it. I bought Limeade too, but that made more sense. It's probably similar to the 'purple stuff' that they mentioned in the Sunny D commercials, except they couldn't call it 'orange stuff'. would be bad marketing.

Experiential Oatmeal

I followed the directions on the box and the oatmeal still tastes bland. It tastes like bread so it's like eating some mushy baked good with a spoon. The taste experience is no good. BUT

breakthrough!

the brain LOVES oatmeal. My soul loves oatmeal. Every bite of the bland adventure is a reminder that "this thing's gotta be healthy, it tastes like blah". And I'm lovin' it. Every bite, I'm like, "huh, I'm totally healthy and it's defining the new me". It's a new experience for my brain rather than my palate.

weight: 222lbs.

Breakfast

This breakfast thing is phenomenal! I lost 5 lbs. Eating oatmeal has an emotional appeal. It tastes so bland I feel AWESOME and feel like I'm getting healthier just eating it.

design of urban landscapes.

The design of urban landscapes to encourage exercise and health.

http://www.dexigner.com/architecture/news-g13440.html

Living til 90

Living til you're 90 is all well and good, but finding the reason why you want to live 'til you're 90 is even more important.

When I find something worth living for. something worth dying for. Is maybe when living til 90 seems like a necessity.

Yogurt

Fat people never buy yogurt. We just don't. I bought it for the first time. EVER. Not one of those pansy single size cups. I got one of those big huge tubs. I control my yogurt intake, not Yoplait, not any body.

I like yogurt because you don't have to chew, you can just suck from the front of your teeth. That'd be fun to do with a veggie burger.

Law of Thin People #1

Law #1 of Thin People is You gotta eat food to lose weight. Sounds counter intuitive.

so I bought some groceries for breakfast
eggs
italian parsley
cucumber
roma tomatoes
pineapple
bannas
whole wheat bread
oatmeal
onions
juice
yogurt

this should be at least ten breakfasts.

Interview with Richard Huskey

He may be named Huskey, but Richard lost 75 pounds from 250. I googled "250 pounds" to see what that looks like. I found an article of a pig, stuck in a pool, who needed the help of firefighters to get out. It weighed 250lbs. No pictures, but I get an image of what that is. Richard is thin now because he lives like a thin person.

He says:
He eats breakfast, lunch and dinner. Three meals no matter what.
He doesn't eat after 8PM.
He exercises.

Today I had a cookie for breakfast, two cookies for a mid morning snack, and a cookie for lunch. This is when he said I'd get diabetes so I went and bought an avocado sandwhich and started this blog.

still 227 lbs.

Live Like Thin People

Get Thin By Living Like Thin People is a new book I'm writing. This is where I'll log my journey and formulate my thoughts.


227lbs