Slimdude

Well, BSers. I have a confession to make right up front : The momentum I picked up last week concerning eating at night and all that… it is gone. I have pretty much gotten up to eat every night. I’m very dissapointed because I really thought maybe I had finally beaten the one habit that is keeping me from my Vanity Goal Weight of 140 pounds. I know I cannot get to that weight and maintain it unless I stop eating crackers and sandwiches and cereal at midnight while watching Jimmy Kimmel.

I even made the mistake of stepping onto the scale to see what kind of damage I have done since Saturday, and the truth is not kind : 158 pounds. That is back up from 154.

But you know what?! Despite that, I’m feeling pretty decent this morning. All I can do is eat right and exercise and focus on the good things in life and vow once again to stop eating after dinner. That’s it. It’s not too hard. I will try very very hard to Log On to BuddySlim and scan some blogs when that Urge to Eat hits. I think if I do that on a consistent basis it will pleasantly replace my current habit of eating mountains of food while watching TV.

My new habit will be to have a diet soda or some herbal tea and surf the BS blogs for half an hour and then go back to bed.

As many times as it takes.

On the Good side, I am doing very very well in my Walking Challenge with Ellen and Tatiana. I think I am up around 30 miles in the first week, and I clocked in 4 more with Leslie Sansone this morning. If ya’ll don’t know, Leslie gives you one heck of a workout. Maybe you’ve seen the DVDs in Wal-Mart or Target and thought “Walking? That’s nothing.” But you would be wrong. I do the Four Mile ones like the Walk Express Challenge and the new Fast Walk series. It’s really a low-impact aerobics class on DVD. Much more of a calorie burn than many many other fitness videos out there because there are no complicated steps, you are just steady moving and sweating for about 50 minutes and then  you stretch and cool down.

I have the next three days off of work so that I can do stuff for the new house. My wife has already moved a lot over there and by this weekend we hope to be totally moved in. Then the fun part of unpacking / organizing / decorating begins. Decorating is my Wife’s Department.

So today I plan to be busy busy but around 1pm if I feel good I may walk a bit more and lift some light weights. Just to give myself a little “exercise break” from all this other stuff. Moving is fun but it’s also kind of stressful.

In other fun news, did anybody catch “The Biggest Loser” last night? I love that show, and I admit I like Bob more than the other two trainers. I think Bob’s approach to fitness and nutrition sets people up for whole lifestyle changes forever much  more than Jillian’s “Hard and Fast” approach. But I admit it was badass the way they had Jillian show up on a motorcycle to lead the black team. Even though I think it was a stunt driver the whole time until she finally took her helmet off.

Also that very first challenge where they had to run to meet Bob and Kim gave me a funny moment… when all the people started going back for that one lady who was lagging behind… if I had been her and I saw all these ginormous people heading towards me, I would have thought “Oh crap… they must be hungry after that jog they are going to gang up and eat me.” and I would have turned around and ran.

Okay I know that’s not the nicest sentiment in the world but I could not help but think of it… a sort of “Lord of the Flies” moment and maybe I just have a dark sense of humor.

—Matt