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Monday, February 5th, 2007
My parents came in to town on Friday, so I took this opportunity to take them to Bahama Breeze here in Fort Lauderdale. We ordered paella, kabobs, and lobster/shrimp pasta. All were great, and probably pretty fattening… but I don’t get a chance to take my folks to dinner very often, so who cares!
Saturday, I took them to Lesters (a local all-night diner) for breakfast. We all had 2-eggs over-easy and home-fries. We skipped lunch, and had spagetti for dinner. I made my special Reeses peanut butter bars… I tried to limit my portions, but considering the family atmosphere, I probably ate a bit more than I should have.
Sunday, was my neice’s birthday party. My brother had stayed up all night smoking a Boston Butt, of which, we gorged ourselves on. I also had a piece of birthday cake with some Coke Zero. I then attended a Super Bowl party, where I ate chicken wings and some tortilla chips.
This morning, I weighed myself, and it seems that, even though I ate like a crazy person this weekend, I lost some weight. Go Me!
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Last night, I walked about 5 miles as I tried to prepare for today’s weigh-in. I had 2 chicken breasts and a bit of corn for dinner (120 calories x 2 for the chicken, and 60 cal for the corn)… My official weight this morning? 245. Down 3 lbs this week.
Big winner was my friend Dave, who lost 4 lbs. this week. He’s down a total of 9 lbs. since we started this thing three weeks ago. I’m currently tied for 3rd in the weight loss game.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Lunch was a half of a sub sandwich from Publix. If any of you have not had a sub made from Publix, you don’t know what you are missing… really… you don’t. It doesn’t taste nearly as well as a Quiznos or Subway sub, but… its convienient for me. Its only a stone’s throw from my office, and is usually enough to satiate the hunger during the day. I don’t really know what makes it different from Subway, its all the same ingredients… it just tastes different.
After work, I warmed up my Snapper from the other day, and ate that for dinner. Snack was a couple of spoonfuls of ice cream and peanut butter.
I’m down a few pounds from over the weekend… hopefully I can continue to make up ground on the other guys in my office this week. I expect to only lose 2-3 lbs. but judging from what the other guys are saying about their diets, I may still have a chance, since most of them splurged over the weekend.
Friday is weigh-in… so we’ll see.
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Well, I was right. As soon as we all got in yesterday, everyone was put up on the scale. I weighed in at the same weight I started with last week. Its kind of discouraging to some extent, but I know that I ate less/better, and did some exercise… so I’m hoping it was just a little bit of muscle weight that I gained… but who knows.
Last night, I went to a friends house for dinner, and she made spagetti. I tried to limit my portion to the size of my head (yeah, I like spagetti).. Along with ice cream and a very wicked chocolate cake, I’m afraid I will have to starve myself this whole weekend to make up for all the calories I took in. Bright side was that I only drank one glass of Merlot, and had water the rest of the time.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Weather might have something to do with it, but my sunny warm Florida turned bitter and cold today. Overcast and rainy most of the day, and down in the 60s… Yeah, I’m sure all those people under a few inches of snow are thinking, “What a cry-baby”… but heck, I didn’t move to south Florida to be cold. I could have done that up North.
Anyway.. lunch was a small side salad with fat-free ranch dressing and a chicken noodle soup. Dinner was a chicken breast with corn and ramen noodles. With a little pack of carrots as a snack. No exercise today… too cold and too bleak for me.
Weight loss still has eluded me. Perhaps its the beer and wings from last night, but I’m about at the same weight as when I started. Weigh-in is tomorrow at work, and I fear I’ll be the same weight, despite all the reduced portions and exercise. Oh well… Maybe next week.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Yes… I had Subway today for lunch. I looked up some stuff on the internet about which fast food restaurants had the lowest caloried foods, and it seems that Subway had a couple of items (like the 6-inch Turkey breast sandwich) that was less than 300 calories. So I walked a few blocks to the local Subway, and got a Turkey sandwich and a chicken noodle soup (like 90 calories) for lunch. Not only did I get some exercise in, but also got a lo-cal meal that lasted until dinner.
At dinner though, I went to the Steak place next door to my office with some people, where they were having $1 beer and 25 cent wings. I limited my beer intake to just one, and had about 10 wings. I also ate a garden house salad with a vinegrette dressing and a side order of green beans. Although it seems healthy, I imagine there are probably hidden calorie items that I didn’t see, like cheese on the salad or something like that.
OH.. and today, I found this article on LifeHack.org: How to Lose 50 pounds in Three Months. It pretty much describes my entire diet philosophy… Good show Kyle, thanks for the tips.
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Yesterday, we took my good friend out to Hooters for his birthday. Ordinarily, we’ll order a pitcher of beer, get a batch of 50 wings (wet and nekkid) and chow down. But being that we’re having this “biggest loser” weight-loss competition at the office, I chose to just have about 10 wings and a glass of water. I also ate a few celery stocks.. It was good, and I didn’t feel guilty about it.
Then last night, I went out and played basketball with some folks from work. I guess “played” is a bit of an overstatement… I just ran around trying to play basketball.. 
I then went home, had a couple of pieces of wheat bread with a tablespoon of peanut butter on them.
After all that, I still had a bit of energy, so I walked 1.5 miles afterward.
Yeah, I can’t imagine that I’d keep this up, but I felt like doing it, so I did. Good for me.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
It seems that for some reason, this new year has brought on some serious dieting in my office. There are a number of us guys that are dangerously close to being considered “fat”… So we are all trying our different methods to try and lose some weight. As an added “incentive” we’ve started talking about doing a “Big Office Weight-Off”… basically we’ll weight ourselves, take some photos, and then see who can lose the most weight.
We’ll see how it goes. Seems fun..
UPDATE: We had our weigh in, and I topped 246. Ouch. We took pictures, and started a chart that is now hanging in our office for all to see. We have approximately 10 people now competing. The prize? Weight-loss and the recognition of our peers. We will re-weight ourselves on a weekly basis to chart our progress.
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