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

Breakfast Menu for May 6, 2009

1 package unflavored instant oatmeal, prepared with 2/3 cups water
2 cans Sugar-Free Amp Energy Drink

Total Calories – 130

I know slamming two cans of energy drink is not the best way to start the day, diet or no. I promise to do better.

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…

Akismet + ReCaptcha = Spam-Free Blog!

I could say that I miss the days when my blog attracted 2000+ comments per day. But seeing as they were all spam, I don’t miss those days at all. Thanks to Akismet and ReCaptcha, I see less than a spam per day on average get through. Awesome!

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.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1

Not expecting anything funny to come about because of it, but I recently upgraded the blog software. Just thought I’d mention it, since I’m not doing much actual blogging lately. Besides neglecting my blog, I’m also researching semantic web tech, and vaguely plotting to build my own Google Maps Mashup.

Sup Dawg?

I made a funny. Click for a larger version.

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