Weight Loss

Breakfast for May 7, 2009

Looks bad, but I have to run errands during lunch today, so this is it until dinner:

1 Large Orange Juice
1 Hashbrown
2 Sausage Burritos
1 Egg McMuffin

1300 calories so far today – I can’t keep these big meals up, I need to start spreading my intake out.

Dinner for May 6, 2009

This is where I fall apart:

1 Wendy’s Double
1 20 oz light lemonade
1 small fry

then, later:

6 oz prime rib
caesar salad
1 roll (buttered)
french fries

I’m not even going to total it up – I know it blew my day up.

Lunch Menu for May 6, 2009

1 McDonald’s Cheeseburger Happy Meal with caramel apple dippers and milk
2 20-oz bottles of Diet Sierra Mist

Total Calories: 500

A single McDonald’s Cheeseburger is 300 calories. I usually order a double quarter pounder with cheese and a filet o’ fish “sidecar”. That’s a cool 1120 calories, and we haven’t even gotten to the fries and soda yet.

Total Calories so far today: 630

On Blogging Your “Weigh” To Weight Loss

I started this blog in October of 2007 to chronicle my weight-loss journey from 435 pounds to (hopefully) 185 pounds. Unfortunately, the journey turned out to be a round trip – after reaching a low of 367 pounds, I have watched my weight creep back up until I have arrived back where I started.

Well, shit.

I lost 68 pounds. I know how to lose weight. What I’m doing a piss-poor job of is staying motivated and not letting my personal issues with food overpower my desire to be fitter and live longer. That was supposed to be what this blog was about, and instead I tried to get cute and write little funnies, blog about television, my job, and whatever else. All those things would be fine to blog about if this was just a blog about a fat man who watches too much TV, spends too much time at work, and makes funny pictures of rappers and the pope. But when I started this blog, I stated that its primary purpose was to be a chronicle of my weight loss journey. Like Bugs Bunny, I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, and I’m nowhere near where I intended to be. Read more…

This Week on “The Biggest Loser”

Just when I begin to think that my perception of Ron as the “mastermind” of this season is off-base, tonight’s episode confirms that the Brown team is really running this game. Tara may still win this thing, but with Mike and Ron both still in the house, if she slips below the yellow line, it’s over. Next week should be an awesome episode.

Biggest Loser Catch-Up

So, I’ve missed posting on the last few weeks of Biggest Loser. While I watch this week’s episode, I figured I would think about the last few weeks and catch up. Three weeks ago, Nicole came back to campus and went right back home, but not before Ron felt betrayed by the Tongan twins. The rhetoric between Blue and Brown got heated, but ultimately, it didn’t matter because… The week after that, Laura was given the sole vote at elimination by “winning” a temptation challenge, and chose to send Sione home. If you had told me Sione was going home before his cousin, you could have knocked me over with a feather. Last week, Laura went home after suffering a heartbreaking sports injury. Despite his image as the master game runner, Ron proved to be loyal to Kristin, who he voted to keep on campus up against a wounded Laura, who most assuredly would have remained below the yellow line for the remainder of her time on campus. That’s a very quick catch-up, now back to watching the current episode.

The Week’s “The Biggest Loser”

So just when I think I’ve gotten Ron pegged as the mastermind of the Blue Team who schemes without actually pulling his own weight (pun intended), he shows up big and wins immunity at the weigh-in. The “pop challenge” this week was a half marathon for a $10,000 prize, with an interesting twist – contestants could eat cookies and penalize other contestants. Only one contestant chose to do so, with simultaneously baffling and hilarious results. The Blue Team is down to only three players, with no sign of things improving. I was wrong about Tara pulling a huge number this week, but I still think she is the favorite in this competition – they even got her to do the product pimp this week instead of Bob. Finally, the Jillian / Cousins spat is the biggest thing since Fiddy and Ja Rule had beef. All in all, I’m enjoying this season.

This Week’s “The Biggest Loser”

So, Ron continues to run the Blue Team, even though he is by far their weakest player. I think I’ve figured him out – his plan is to stay in the game as long as possible, ensuring that the Blue Team continues to lose challenges and that his son Mike stays safe on the Black Team. The Black Team tried their hardest to shoot themselves in the foot, but to be honest, I don’t see the Blue Team as it is currently configured winning any challenges, and I think the Black Team knows it. Could Laura and Tara have been any more blatant in throwing this week’s weigh-in? I wonder why they don’t show the film of them waterloading, because I know it’s happening. Tara is going to put up a huge number this week.

This Week’s “The Biggest Loser”

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

To be continued? You gotta be freaking kidding me…

Thoughts on this week’s “The Biggest Loser: Couples”

The “twist” on this week’s episode(s) was that the teams were shuffled. Through what must have been an intervention of the Reality Show Gods, almost every player ended up having to switch trainers, which caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the rending of garments, etc. Ron and Mike ended up on different teams, meaning that the father and son pair I’ve come to enjoy watching so much are now technically competing against one another. Speaking of Ron, apparently, the Blue team has forgotten they are actually playing a game. As much as I like Ron, keeping him was a suicidal move. As long as he stays on the ranch, the Blue team is going to find itself sending someone home every week.

Also, not that we didn’t already know this, but Bob Harper is a class A product shill. I’m going to enjoy some frozen vegetables now, and wash it down with some protein powder and water.