Labor Day weekend

Jacob made another 5 on his AP test! Maybe I'll get him a car as a reward instead of having him ride his bike to school... Maybe. 🤔

Fitness journey and 2019 recap

Back in college (when I thought I knew everything), I was pretty sure of what exercise and fitness should look like. I would run an arbitrary number of laps around Gregory Gym. I would do bicep curls with one 10 pound dumbbell (because that's all I had). I would frequently do sessions of 8 minute abs because I wanted six pack abs. 😑

A good weekend

I didn't do anything special or extravagant this past weekend but it was a good one. At this point in my life, if I can get multiple things crossed off of my long list of to-do's, then that's considered a good weekend. But if we have time to clean the house AND go out... that's the ultimate.

Wedding, water and weigh-out

This past Memorial Day weekend was non-stop action. It was fun but very exhausting. I think I have finally recovered and it's Wednesday... and I just woke up from a nap... and I'm drinking coffee. So I'm good, for now.

I eat, sometimes

It's funny how when something is restricted or off-limits, I want it that much more. In this case, I'm talking about my diet. Last week (or was it two weeks ago) I decided to be serious again about my diet and start counting calories so that I can calculate my caloric deficient (or surplus). So the beginning of what was supposed to be my hardcore diet was actually the start of my bad eating habits. Tell me I can't have something and I will continue to think about it until I get it. But tell me I can eat as many donuts as I want and I will probably stop at one two. So a new month starts tomorrow and maybe I'll restart this diet. Maybe. We'll see. Bleh.

My goals to getting/staying in shape

In my previous post, I wrote that one of my resolutions is to keep in shape. It's quite vague so I'm going to set goals for myself. Ultimately I'd like to get  to <10% body fat. But for now, I'm going to set short term goals that are more easily attainable and it will be a gradual step-wise process that will eventually end (I hope) with my ultimate goal.

The Texans are making me fat

Papa John's has a local deal on Monday where you get 50% off of your entire purchase if the Texans win on Sunday. Promo code: TEXANS (duh). So for the past couple of weeks, pizza was what's for dinner. Go Texans! Being that it's such a good deal, we're not ordering just one measly medium pizza. We're going big. So with leftovers, I can say that I've eaten pizza at least four times in the past two weeks. Needless to say, my diet as of late has been quite unhealthy. I'm almost glad the Texans lost yesterday because if they won again, I would have been forced to order more pizza since I simply cannot pass up a deal.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you get me a burger

Today was the end of the weight loss bet and unfortunately I was not the biggest loser. I was just a loser. Mike (Nez) won the bet with an impressive 24 lbs lost, 13.8% weight lost! The detailed results are posted in the weight loss page.

How early is too early?

Last Saturday Jacob had a T-ball game at 8:30am. It looked fine on paper but realistically, it was a disaster. That morning he uncharacteristically woke up last among all of us (usually he's the first person up) and I had to force him up. He was still groggy and a little whiny but seemed okay in the car. Damn Google maps put me in the wrong spot so we were lost in freakin' Alvin. Eventually we found the place but we were also really late, which did not help the situation. Rushing a sleepy child, who was just denied of his OJ because of our lateness, created a bad situation. Right when we got there, grumpy Jacob was up to bat. When he hit the ball, he barely walked to first base. When on the bases, he wouldn't move until told to do so. They had to guide him by gently pushing him on the back, at which point he sloooowly walked to the other bases. This went on for the entire game. What a waste.

A good problem

Is that an oxymoron? I never did well in English. Anywho (is that a word?), my problem with exercising and dieting is that I'm getting skinnier and my clothes no longer fit well. My slacks are bunched up in the middle when my belt is tightened and my shirts are baggy... I look like a kid who doesn't know how to shop for himself, one who has his mother buy all of his clothes. I look ridiculous. "Oh boo whoo" is what you're probably thinking as anyone would love to have my "problem" but it is truly annoying. My one thing with clothes is that it has to fit well. I don't care if it's name brand or from Target, it just needs to fit. So at this point, most of my shirts are too loose on me. This weekend I got a couple polo shirts on sale. The size... XS. This was my first time ever to buy anything extra small. I was contemplating whether to even buy XS shirts because it would snowball and eventually lead to buying a completely new wardrobe and I have no money for that. Besides, what if I get fat again... all of those XS shirts would go to waste. They would sit in my closet as a sad reminder that I was once that small. So after the weight loss bet is over, my new plan of action is to bulk up (not get fatter) so that I can fit into my old shirts. For the time being, I will only wear those two new XS polo shirts.

I want your body...

...in a non-sexual way.

Does it make me gay if I post pictures of shirtless dudes all around my house? I don't think so. I need that constant push, motivation, focus, "eye on the prize" mentality since I'm feeling pretty miserable right now in this last month of the bet. So I've had multiple discussions with others regarding losing weight and keeping motivated as I think I hit my peak for weight loss. When making these bets, I knew that I was instantly an underdog as I didn't have as much to lose as the other fatties, i.e. Thang, but I figured that it would motivate me to exercise and diet, which it did. But now the competitor in me wants to actually win the whole thing! And I'm hoping to kill two birds with one stone by getting 6-pack abs in the process. IF I ever do get a 6-pack, I will be narcissistic and post shirtless pictures of myself on Facebook, this blog, MySpace, Xanga, Craigslist, and anywhere else that's possible. That would be a defining moment in my life. That is my ultimate goal. Let's do this!!

Off the wagon

So the past couple weeks I haven't really kept up with my exercise and have been eating worse than usual. I was a little discouraged that I've remained at the same weight for over a month which made me stop trying. Just this past weekend, I ate Popeye's chicken with skin, mashed potatoes and a biscuit, Spring Creek BBQ chopped beef sandwich with potato salad and cole slaw, Ruggles Cafe bacon bleu cheese burger with fries, and 1/3 of a large pepperoni pizza from Pizza Parlor. The good news is that I didn't do any damage and didn't gain any weight. So now there's a little over a month left until the first weight loss bet is over and I need to refocus/rededicate myself... so that means not going over my set calorie intake limit, no more junk food (maybe) and exercise every day. It's going to be really hard to loose those last 10 pounds.