Meals - 04/23/09

Starting weight - 230.6

This was a little disappointing, but more realistic than the 2 -3 pound drop over two days.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal - 340 calories
Carrots - 30 calories
Celery - 20 calories
One piece of turkey bacon - 35 calories

Exercise:
Commuting to work
Duration: 40 minutes
Calories burned: 680

Snack: cookies - 150 calories

Lunch:
Quarter pounder meal w/supersize fries & coke - 1410

I know, I know...I forgot my lunch at home, but I could have eaten something smaller...I just started riding the bandwagon, let me fall off a time or two will ya? :P

Dinner
2 x pork cutlets - 240 calories

Desert:
Med. Tim horton's coffee double-double - 150 calories
10 Timbits - 640 calories

Daily Total: 2334 calories

This is what happens when you don't pay attention to what you're putting into your mouth. I had no idea the Timbits were that bad. Suffice to say, today was not good. :(

Meals 04/22/09

Starting Weight: 230.8

Breakfast:
6 free range eggs - 420 calories (yes, six eggs. They were at the end of their expirey date.)
Snack bar - 130

Snack:
Beaver Buzz Core Energy drink - 260 calories

Exercise:
Commuted to work
Duration: 40 minutes
Calories burned: 681

One thing I've noticed about days I've exercised, the more I exercise, the more I can eat! Obviously, you have to be careful with this or you'll end up eating tons of food when you exercise and end up not losing any weight. But if you do this responsibly, it'll really make life easier during the times you want/need to 'cheat.'

Lunch:
Chicken breast - 202 calories
Celery - 20 calories
Carrots - 30 calories
Apple - 80 calories
Pear - 60 calories
Coke Zero - 0 calories

Dinner:
Lasagne - 400 calories

Exercise:
Commuted home from work
Duration: 40 minutes
Calories burned: 680

Total Calories:

Meals - 04/21/09

Breakfast:
None, way too stressed from work - 0 calories

Lunch:
A&W Mama burger - 400 calories
Big Mac Meal - 1100 calories
Cookies - 150 calories
Donut - 300 calories

Dinner
None. Too tired.

Total calories: 1950

Okay, not a good day. But I did managed to stay under my 2000 calories/day cap.

Meals - 04/20/09

The first of my daily(excluding weekends) weight/calorie tracking posts. So, without further ado...

Starting Weight: 233.3 lbs.

Breakfast:
3 eggs (free range) scrambled - 210 calories
2 large celery stalks - 20 calories
Handful of carrots - 30 calories
Breakfast total: 260 calories

Exercise: commuted to work by bicycle.
Duration: 40 minutes
Estimated calories burned: 680

Snack:
Cinnamon cookies (5) - 150 calories
1 litre water with lemon juice - 0 calories

Lunch:
2 large celery stalks - 20 calories
Handful of carrots - 30 calories
Chicken breast - 202 calories
1/2 a cup of white rice - 121 calories
Coke Zero - 0 calories
Lunch total: 373

Okay, here's something wierd. I've been doing this for a week and now 1/2 way through my lunch, I realized I wasn't hungry anymore. According to friends who have already dropped weight, that shouldn't have happened for a few weeks.

Well, I'm not complaining! To success! (raises a Coke Zero)

Snacks:
Apple - 80 calories
Coke Zero - 0 calories

Exercise: Went to shopping mall by bicycle.
Duration: 20 minutes
Estimated calories burned: 360

Dininer:
2 bowls of home made chicken soup - 302
2 dinner rolls - 150
Chai Tea - 70
Piece of cake - unknown. It was very plain, so I don't expet it to be a lot.

Exercise
Duration: 1 hour
Walk - 130 calories burned

Total: -371

Good day. I burned more calories than I consumed.

So it begins...

Here we go. The beginning.

I promised I would never stoop to having a blog. To me, blogs were a soapbox where the ignorant stood up and pontificated on subjects they knew next to nothing about.

Goes to show what I know.

Hunting for stones, by StoneJager. In case you didn't know Jager means 'hunter' in German. It was originally a name of a character that I used in online games but now has come to mean something different.

Hunting for courage.

My adult life has been ruled by fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of just about anything you could put a name too. I'm so tired of living in fear, yet I don't know how not to do it.

So how do you combat fear? One thought is that fear is a lack of self confidence. So how does one go about building self confidence?

Someone once said, "Fake it until you make it." In order to be confident, one should look confident, and I don't feel confident at 5'9" and 235 lbs. I know this is somewhat of a backwards view, but hell, I have to start somewhere, and diet and exercise is something I can easily (okay, not easily but at least it's within) control.

A word of warning, don't expect a lot of preaching or rambling on (except for this post. Hey, it's my first one, after all!). This is starting out as a chronicle of my journey to healthfulness. What it grows into, we'll see.

Thank you everyone for reading.

StoneJager