Slimdude

I’ve had “good diet nights” and “bad diet nights” and last nite was yet another “blow it” kind of night. WHY DO I DO THAT?

 Eat healthy all day long, and it’s not like I’m eating seaweed or something (although I’m sure there are folks who love it…). I’m eating delicious healthy food that I enjoy and yet at night here I am polishing off Danishes and fried chicken at midnight?

So. Enough is enough. I stepped on the scale this morning and it says “156″ pounds. Not too shabby but not where I want to be.

So I tell myself, “Matt, if you ever want to get your flat abs back… if you ever want to see that thin 140 person again, you have got to get serious here!”

So I am. And I’m laying it out for you BSers. If I calculate a modest weight loss of 2 pounds per week I should be able to lose this last 16 pounds in 8 weeks. That is SUNDAY, November 18th, 2007.

The week before Thanksgiving. I will exercise, I will eat healthy foods and I will stop bingeing at night! And I will meet my goal by then or before.

REWARD : a Nintendo Wii!

I will continue to use BuddySlim to find support and motivation. Also, I have decided to keep on walking in order to meet that 300 mile challenge by Thanksgiving. In addition, I will start doing the Ashtanga Power Yoga routine in P90X. It is about an hour and a half. The first 45 minutes is the tough part with the vinyasas, and then it is more stretching and balance postures and also some pilates type core work. Pretty intense. I will also do the P90 Circuit weights routine with Abs 2x per week and then the Leslie Sansone Walk DVDs 2x per week. I think this will give me a pretty good fitness mix.

Also I continue to work on my push-ups and sit-ups. Sometimes I can do as many as 30 but sometimes I can only get to 15 or so. I want to be able to do 50 of each in a minute…

It’s a lot of fitness goals but I think I can handle it.

In other news…

Still organizing the house. It’s getting better and better. We got such a great deal on this place I hope nothing starts falling apart! I think the previous owner had to sell in a hurry due to bad circumstances, that was the Vibe I got. Because everything else around here is about $30,000 more than this place and even our place was appraised by multiple sources at about $30,000 more than what agreed to pay.

I hope it’s not “The Money Pit”. remember that one?

I’m on Graveyard Shift this week. That is always weird. Working out and eating right is more of a challenge because of the wonky schedule.

My wife bought me a snake for our anniversary. He’s cute. He is a baby ball python. He’s about 2 feet long now but he’ll get up to five feet. He just sits in my hand and watches TV with me.

I have to go now and mow my lawn for the first time. And no, I’m not counting the miles for the mowing towards the challenge.