So I have been bad. I have not done a post in a while. I have lost 2 pounds since my last update but that could have been out of a combination of waking up and just going to the bathroom…

Really I am writing this out of shame. This is one thing i have learned. I’m upset because of not understanding how freaking hard this could be. not the eating the right food. not the drinking more water than cokes/beer. not the working out when you should. but rather, changing your life. your routine that you have established just to get out through each boring day. That is what is so damn hard. My life has been built around 8.5 hours in a office, in a chair, hands stretched across a keyboard. fingers ready to ponce on the next letter. The time around that chunk of the daylight is what is so difficult to transverse. You wake, get dressed, do traffic, ——–work——–, do traffic, eat dinner, maybe an hour or 2 of personal time with the wife, sleep, repeat.

there is no dead time, no missing gap to fill with working out. I mean, sure I can remove my personal time but then I really don’t have any time that is my own. I don’t have a life. I am all routine then. Is it worth it?

Well that is the end of me bitching. I start a new job on next Monday. I think they might have a gym membership and i can possibly take the subway and walk to work. I will try to get back on track with the updates.

Well on the diet front nothing really happened. I still gained a pound. My wife was sick most of it so all the possibilities of working out didn’t really pan out. I did break a sweat playing Rock Band 2 with a friend of mine while I was playing the drums. So that was fun. The food I ate was really all over the place. I ate out on Friday at a New Orleans style fancy place in Chinatown and had red-fish. Saturday was bad . I had a couple of slices of Papa Johns Pizza. Sunday night food was boring with just yellow rice and chips and salsa for dinner. I know don’t those go together lovely…

I gained a pound. not happy about. I wish I had something else to talk about but that has been the only thing on my mind. I need to say NO to eating out and YES to eating my health food.

I have fallen off the wagon with today’s lunch. We had lunch for a  coworker’s birthday at Serria Girll. A great little Mexican restaurant with super quick service. Great for lunch in 30 to 45 minutes. And the food was sooo good. I knew it was going to be huge portions but i couldn’t resist. enchiladas, rice, and beans. Man I am fearing this weeks weaigh in.  This meal had to be over 1000 calories.

Getting my body into a sweater is like threading a needle with a sausage.

Today my winter wardrobe was going on its last couple of days before i would run out. I need to do laundry. I put on a sweater that I haven’t warn since last year. Yes the musty aromas of stale lint and moth balls hit you like a wall of bricks but it was 6 am and it is 20 degrees outside because of the windchill so it would do. I pulled the wooly fabric over my head, rammed my arms into the sleeves and – stuck-. yes  I was stuck where the arm holes are and the head socket wraps around my nose. I had to push will all my morning might to grind my way into this sweater. I think this must feel the same way Catwoman feels every day getting ready for work.  As normal my belly button still is outlined and the man boobs looked especially sexy today.  When I cut myself out of this thing tonight I’m going to be doing a extra 20 mins on DDR on Master Mode.

I also found out that extra sharp cheddar cheese has 110 calories PER OUNCE! WTF! I love cheese. I used to (as of yesterday) cut little slices and put them on crackers and have it as a afternoon snack. And I would have way more than 1 ounce. Not anymore. Just more water I guess. Any suggestions on a good healthy substitute?

I hate Nintendo.

I really do. I mean how hard is it to stock stores with one of your products. Everyone else can do it. But you can’t. Somehow Japan has 1 tiny canoe to go back and forth bringing 1 Wii Fit across the Pacific. I guess the rest of the fleet is out hunting whales.  If I was this company’s CEO I would FIRE the distribution manager for the United States. Think of the sales lost when someone comes in looking for a Wii Fit and he is like “hum well he said Wii Fit or Rock Band 2 and there are 10+ Rock Band 2s and 0 Wii Fits in the this store (or 50 mile radius that i live in) so I will get a Rock Band 2″. Do you see the logic. FIRE THE BASTARD.

This anger has half has to do with the fact that I am currently looking for a Wii Fit and I call the same 5 stores every day. But the other half is that I did a peek weigh-in this morning and I’m still at 189. I fear I won’t have the results I had last week when i do the offical weigh-in on Sunday.

So I know have been talking alot but here are some photos of my recent doings. PS.  It looks like I might hit 500 Hits today hOOt!

So in just over a week I have some good news!

I have been intensely training and watching my diet and it has paid off. I have been eating very healthy mostly from tasty FoodNetwork.com recipes  that have included such goodies as Shrimp Tacos and raspberry chicken salad. and doing a daily routine that I started this weekend.

This has been my daily workout routine.

1. Stretch. Lara (my wife), who was once a ballet dancer, has me do some simple stretches.  It is nothing special since I can barely reach my knees without the burning pull of my tendons.
2. Play DDR for 20 minutes or until I reach My Calorie burn amount which is about 300. DRR isn’t exactly a exact math on calories burning since it just measures the same amount each time you step. It could either be a tap of the toe or a full jump plant on “Stand by me” by the AHa (current favorite song on DDR).  I just bought the DDR SuperNova 2 since my old DDR games were given to my sister-in-law
3. Do 10/15/10+ sit-ups and push ups. This is one area where sadly my wife has me beat all the time. Lara has the uncanny ability to crank these out like it is nobodies business. She is one tough little italian girl! I blame it is because her low center of gravity and the fact she weighs about 1/2 of me.
4. recover.

I say recover because it takes everything for me not to want to pass out! Pictures from these events are on my camera and I will upload them when i get home.

What happened to Day 1!?!

Well I was recovering from New Years Eve. No No I didn’t eat more than I should have and then drink more than I should have then talk trash more than I should have ending in getting kicked out of the nice club (with embarrassed wife in tow) when I broke the glass to my 4th or 5th refill of Rum-and-Coke. No that was last year. This is a new year. And my new year started out sickly. Gosh I hope it isn’t like they say where the way you spend your New Year is how you are going to spend the rest of your year. I was really sick. Like I blew the noise-maker-then-blew-chunks sick.  I think it might have been my lunch (see past post). I knew that stuffing tasted funny.

So Day 1 wasn’t all non-productive. I went grocery shopping with Lara (my wife). I found several healthy snacks and meals for dinner. Including a selection of Oatmeals for breakfast and fruits and nuts for snacking.  Last night was one of meals I pulled of the internet. Lara ,who is the best cook I know, made Raspberry-Chicken Salad with nut bread and cream cheese oh it was so good. So well balanced with the bread to soak up the juices. Delicious! Jesus, healthy eating isn’t all bad! While this recipe was in the healthy food section of the foodnetwork.com site the real challenge for me was portion control. I knew I could eat that whole thing by itself but rather than gorging myself I only had half of what was available to eat and saved the other half for lunch today. This I know is where I am going to make the difference into the new lifestyle. I have ever intention to weigh myself on Saturday and take a picture to start the record keeping on my new lifestyle.

wish me luck.

Food Food Food.  How I will miss you.

Except the nasty crap i had for lunch today. dry tasteless chicken, half cooked rice, and something that looked like stuffing but tasted more like vomit of a horse.  Not that I know what equestrian vomit tastes like but that is what I imagine it does. The food at my office might be the worst food I have ever eaten.

If could figure out how to get pictures off my phone I would upload them but until then it looked kind of like …