another workout, kind of…

Man, I really love adding ‘…’ after all my titles. So suspenseful… Anyway, I mowed the lawn again today. I’m totally counting it toward my workouts, deal with it. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually start using exercise as a workout, what a concept. I have no more excuses, this past semester was really rough, but it’s over with now and I have time to actually go work out during the day. One of these days… Sorry, I keep …ing. It must be annoying… Oh well…

Please sign up for my forum, I need help not cheating! Linnea and I went to Chili’s last night. While we did cheat, we only half-cheated, which is a big step for us eating out. We both got something with grilled chicken, but then one of us got fries and the other corn as a side, and we split them. Oh, and Louis ate some fries too! BTW, if you know me and don’t have access to Louis’ blog (and would like it…) let me know.

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ballin’ like a fatso

Played basketball today. 2 hours of full-court. You could say I got a good workout. Weight Watchers says I get to add 13 points today. I’m not going to eat them all, since I cheated yesterday (below), but I’m definitely not measuring my ice cream tonight!

Do you like how I waited until I could talk about working out before mentioning how I cheated yesterday? It was a special occasion, so it wasn’t like I just cheated out of the blue. A few of us in the lab were helping a Chinese visitor (agricultural engineer) perform some apple picking experiments, so he took us out for a Chinese lunch. You could say we ordered A LOT of stuff, and I felt like trying it all since I’d only had one of the dishes before (besides the rice…). Once I tried it all I knew I was already in trouble, so I just didn’t worry about it anymore. Oh well. I worked out today.

Forum coming soon!

man, i’m tired…

I wish the White Sox would just score a run already. I want to go to bed. 11th inning… Anyway, back on track today. Counted my obligatory 5 flex points for yesterday. I only used 2 today, so that’s nice. Except now that I typed it I’m hungry again. Oh, the life of a dieter. I weighed myself the other day and was back around 260 lbs. I had a feeling the 4.2 pounds was too good to be true, but it looks so good. I’ll probably wait until later in the week to post a weight, in hope that I don’t have to post a higher number than the previous one. Sorry if there are typos or some sentences aren’t making sense. I can barely make out the words on the screen anymore; so tired.

To business. I’m stupid. I didn’t realize that after purchasing my new domain I had to actually go into a separate part of my hosting control panel and choose to “host a new domain.” I assumed it would just happen as easy as the first one they set up for me. I could have probably gotten it set up last weekend. Oh well. It’ll get set up eventually. Hopefully this weekend. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to have a “home” page or just a forum. Everyone is lame and not giving me advice on the matter. You all suck, I hope you’re more interactive in the forum. That’s the whole point of a forum. Duh.

I was going to add some advice, but I better go. I just did the thing where you half fall asleep and your hand falls on some keys and totally messes up what you were typing. Don’t worry, I think I fixed it all.

not even a week…

I did it. I cheated. I didn’t even last 1 week. I just couldn’t do it. We’re home visiting family, so the dinner we had wasn’t exactly #ImAFatso friendly. For those who don’t know, and don’t use twitter, the “#” is something people use to categorize their updates so others can search on that topic. I totally invented #ImAFatso! Back to me the cheater. We had bbq chicken (w/ skin) and ribs. I didn’t do too bad, honestly. I had 1 chicken breast, 2 ribs and salad. The problem was the chicken skin, and the oil I used in my salad dressing. I also snacked on some almonds before dinner. Oops. Oh yeah, and I had a hoho.

I know, it sounds really bad, but honeslty, if I wasn’t on my diet and feeling really bad about eating all that, I would have eaten A LOT more ribs, and more almonds, and more hohos. I thought I handeled the situation decently well. I still cheated less than Linnea yesterday . I actually still had 23 of my 35 weekly flex points left as of yesterday, so if I actually counted everything I’d probably be fine right now. Unfortunately, we’re going to brunch with Linnea’s grandma. Ouch. That’s gonna hurt. She’s making us brunch, so I can’t exactly pick a healthy option on the menu. Oh well, it’s still a MUCH better week than previous ones.

I’m just waiting for fatsoforum.com to “propogate” through the net so that it actually works, then my awesome fatso forum will be up and running! I can’t wait, it was my fear of posting this that kept me from doing worse yesterday, so my whole public accountability strategy has worked so far!

four point two, holy cow!

The scale said I lost 4.2 pounds, and I didn’t even drop the kids at the pool yet (as my friend Adam would say)! It might be slightly flukey, but it makes me feel great about averting the code red last night. I had scrambled eggs instead of burger/fries. Only used 3 flex points. Now, I just have to stay strong this weekend, we’re going back home so Linnea can go to a bridal shower, and I’m sure there’ll be good (well, bad) food and cookies to eat.

Also, as an update, I bought the domain name “fatsoforum.com” this morning, so that’s exciting. I’m still debating whether I want to start it right now with a basic theme or take some time and modify it first. I’m also flirting with the idea of having a separate homepage rather than just the forum. The homepage could have links to everyone’s personal sites. Any thoughts?

i forgot…

I weighed myself this morning, but forgot what it was. it was 261.something. At least a pound, I remember that much. Forgetting the decimal is unacceptable so I’m not listing it. Anyway, I was right. I knew the 2 pound loss after 1 day was inaccurate. Now I’m beginning to see my scale’s true colors. Or, the 3 slices of angel-food cake I ate on Tuesday weren’t so light and fluffy after all. They were pretty small though.

Advice: (*TMI alert*) You should always weigh yourself at the same time of day. On occasion I’ve been >5lbs heavier at night than in the morning. Thus, I weigh myself in the morning. If you want to make yourself feel better about it, weigh after a poop, and before breakfast, if possible. Depending how regular you are, that could give you that extra pound you were looking for.

Forum: I think we have a decent amount of people interested in joining the forum. I think I’m going to start it soon, so I hope everyone who expressed interest will actually participate, otherwise it’ll be a big waste of a domain registration. I’ll keep you posted. Any recommendations on what should be included with the site, outside of the actual forum?

day 2.5 begins

It’s not really day 3 since yesterday was our scheduled “don’t count” day. I didn’t splurge, which is good. I have some advice about cheating days below. Today is the make or break day of the week. It’s hump day, and I didn’t keep track of points yesterday. We’ll see how today goes. I don’t have a weight update because I haven’t weighed myself yet today. Deep stuff huh?

I’ve got 5 people intereseted in starting a public accountability weight loss forum with me. 5 more and we’re in business. I’d start it right now, but my wife won’t let me buy the domain name for it until 10 people have expressed interest. So fellow fatsos, express interest! Anyway, to the business:

Advice: Everyone goes off their diet for one reason or another. When I’m being serious about it, my only reasons are when we have dinner events with friends. I’d say only about 1 in 4 times we actually count points. Otherwise I pretend beer is zero points (it’s 3, 2 for lite). When I’m not being serious about it a high stress day will make me convince Linnea we need to eat out. Another big reason is we didn’t take anything out for dinner.

So, to the actual advice. If you go off your diet, only do it for one day. We would usually just neglect the rest of the week. This leads to splurging and trying to “eat it while I can,” before the new week of dieting begins. DON’T DO IT! We’ve also found that making a weekly dinner menu virtually eliminates the “what should we have? oh, let’s go out” aspect.

survive day one? check.

Day one went as I expected. When I thought about food, I wanted it, whether I was full or not. The idea of knowing you can only have so much just makes me want it more. Oh well, like my first post title says, I’m addicted to food. It just tastes so good. While I normally won’t give “updates” on a daily basis, I decided that, since I just started, I would anyway. Overall, day one was a success, I only used one of my flex points. As a recap, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, the weight watchers points system (well, the old one if it’s changed) gives you a certain number of daily points based on your weight and gender (30 in my case), and 35 weekly “flex” points. These points are based on calorie, fat and fiber content. So to the update…

Weight loss: 2.0 lbs. I’m not marking this at daytum.com/diberard, because I fluctuate by more than 5 pounds throughout the day. Granted, both weigh-ins were in the morning, but I’m only showing this to brag. It’s only been a day and that could swing back the other way tomorrow.

Cheating?: Technically, I had a “pinch” of shredded cheddar that I didn’t count. It’s a wash because I never exactly measure all my servings when I’m following WW anyway, but it still works (assuming I stick to it for more than 1 week).

Today will be our designated cheating day, we have our bi-weekly bible study/dinner. We’ll count 5 flex (35/7 days), and be done with it.

Advice: (pertaining to the above statement) I’ve actually heard though, that diets are MUCH more effective if you have one day where you don’t calorie count. Otherwise, your metabolism adjusts to the lower calorie intake and you burn less.

Forum anybody?: So I learned there is a really cool domain name I would use if this “public-accountability” weight loss system picks up interest. Anyway, please email me (or comment) your interest if you think you’d post either weight loss stories, struggles, advice, etc. Since I’m poor, I’ll need some “donors” to buy the domain (it’s only $10/yr), but then I bet if I threw Google’s Adsense on it we’d recoup the cost. Let me know, I think it would be a cool support system for people like me who always “wait ’til next Monday” to start their diet.