The Center of the Anomaly

Well, I started another blog - Fat Man Blogging.  As you might expect from the title, it’s where I’m going to record my efforts to lose weight and related information.  Why another blog, when I hardly ever do anything with this one?  Because I can and it’s free.  Also, I want to keep a tight focus without a bunch of extraneous stuff.  I am going to try and keep it updated every day.  Drop by if you’re inclined!

Pupster  has launched on a New Year Resolution campaign to lose weight and quit smoking.  This has led to friendly challenge to develop among Mr. Pupster and a couple other bloggers - Geoff and Dave in Texas.  I decided to horn in on the action as I REALLY need to something about my situation, and I could use the additional incentive.

According to the Navy Circumference calculator thingy for me:  the Bodyfat Percentage (BF%) of a 71 inch male with a 18 inch neck, and a 60 inch abdomen is 48%Recommended BF% for a man is 15%.   Eeech! 

Alas, I currently have the general shape and typical activity level of Homer Simpson.  However, I have a Plan. 

***Update***  Sorry, lunch break was over before I finished but I wanted to have something up.  Follow after the fold…

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I’ve lost another 5.5 pounds this week!  So that’s about 7 pounds total since I started my quest.  That’s certainly encouraging, but I think I can do better still.  I haven’t been doing my calisthenics like I intended - once I start getting those into the mix I think I’ll really start shedding some pounds.  Overall I’m fairly pleased with the South Beach method.

Do you like mushrooms?  I love mushrooms myself.  I came across a nifty little recipe a couple weeks ago for roasted mushrooms and they go perfect with the SB diet.  Take a bunch of whole cleaned white mushrooms and roll them around in a few tablespoons of olive oil, salt and pepper them, and them pop them into a 425 degree oven for about 25 minutes.  Crazy delicious!  I like them even better than mushrooms sauteed in butter - and it’s easier to boot.  I’ve also used some flavored olive oils like basil and roasted garlic and added some herbs with great results.  Today I’m going to try it with some portabella mushrooms.

Later!

According to the scale this morning I lost 1.5 pounds in one week.  :-(  That’s not very good, although I must say I didn’t adhere very well to my guidelines in the latter part of the week - so the results weren’t too surprising.  Dave in Texas has highly recommended the South Beach diet.  I already have the book, so I’m going to give it a go.  I’m in the process of going through my kitchen and tossing out what little bread I have left, and crackers ‘n whatnot.  In Phase 1 of SB, sugar and white flour are the evil things that must be banished. Since I already had some bread and other carby things this morning I guess my official South Beach plan will start tomorrow.  I am writing up my grocery list now.  If anyone else is following the no/low carb & sugar thing and you have some good and easy recipes you’d care to share please do so in the comments.  Thanks!

Hello!

Yes, sorry about the non-posting again.  Truth be told I’ve been in a rather prolonged Funk and unmotivated to do much of anything.  I am implementing Changes to finally counter the Funk and re-motivate my life.  Simply speaking - I MUST lose weight.  I’ve struggled with this issue almost all my life and sometime in the last year laid in a course to Comic Book Guy stature and have headed there at warp speed.  No, I’m not there yet, but I’m well along the way.  Major course corrections are in order and so this week I’ve started the long, slow turn around.

How Far Is the Journey to Cobol? 149 light years.  Sorry, no - 146 pounds to my ideal weight.  Yeeahup - it’s a ways to go, but I’ll never get there if I don’t get started.

The Plan  Well, diet and exercise of course.  For exercise I’ve started walking and (trying) calisthenics.  Yesterday morning I put 2 miles on the treadmill at the gym and 2.5 on the elliptical tonight.  As for the diet - common sense stuff, for the most part:  cut out the bad fats & sugary stuff, more veggies, smaller portions, etc.  Weight loss isn’t rocket science: calories in < calories out = smaller me. 

Well, time for bed - I get up now at 4:30am to get my workout in before I head to the office.