mmm tasty cortisol

This week I have had unhealthy levels of cortisol inundating my body. I can feel its effects as I can feel slight weight gain as I am too tired to fight my mouth. Hopefully things settle down and clear up soon.

Still Cracking

It has been rather frustrating working out so frequently and not melting off the pounds. I pulled the kids behind me on a long bike ride father's day. After 2 hours I was still looking for hills to climb and up shifted much of the ride. So my endurance and stamina is much improved since starting our program. I am happy with that but still wish I would budge off of my 205 mark. I am considering going veggy for a week perhaps breaking the plateau.

Update: started off with all vegetables for breakfast and lunch...then promptly ate a steak sandwich for dinner. I will try again tomorrow...:)

Imbalanced equation

It seems as if all of my hard work exercising is being lost to my inability to not eat. I am going to start calorie counting tomorrow to see just how bad its gotten.

The proof is in the gravy

One of my first posts I monologued about how bad my cholesterol and fat levels were. I just recently got retested and while the results are promising...it really underscored the fact that I am not out of the woods yet.
I dropped my total cholesterol from 289 to 223...under 200 is recommended...so I am moving in the right direction.

Really?

So I haven't been posting as much because it is no fun to post the same weight constantly. Well I finally broke the 30 pound mark!!! 206.5 sure I may have stalled for a month, but the point is I am still going down!

my dork/rational ratio got the best of me and the rational won

Office Challege Log

I will probably just keep editing this same post for the work challenge. If there are dissenters to this opinion, well then let me know.

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Date	Activity	Duration	Weight
20090513	Cardio	35 Minutes	208
20090516	Cardio	35 Minutes	206.5
20090517	Cardio/Walk	90 Minutes	209.5
20090519	Cardio	45 Minutes	206.5
20090521	Cardio/Weights	60 Minutes(45/15)	206.5
20090523	Cardio	30 Minutes	206.5
20090525	Cardio	30 Minutes	206.5
20090526	Weights	30 Minutes	207.5
20090527	Weights	40 Minutes	208.5
20090530	Bike ride	240 Minutes	205.5
20090530	Cardio	30 Minutes	205.5
20090531	Cardio	35 Minutes	205.0
20090601	Cardio	45 Minutes	206.0
20090602	Weights	45 Minutes	206.0
20090604	Cardio	55 Minutes	207.0
20090605	Cardio	70 Minutes	206.0
20090606	Cardio	30 Minutes	205.7
20090609	Cardio	35 Minutes	205.7
20090612	Weights	30 Minutes	205.7
20090614	Cardio	35 Minutes	205.7
20090615	Weights	30 Minutes	205.7
20090617	Cardio	30 Minutes	205.4
20090620	Cardio	40 Minutes	205.7
20090621	Bike	120 Minutes	206
20090622	Cardio	30 Minutes	205.4
20090623	Cardio	45 Minutes	205.4
20090623	Bike Ride	105 Minutes	206.4
20090625	Cardio	30 Minutes	205.7
20090629	Cardio	30 Minutes	206.7

A challenge has been heard from the authorities of the land

A challenge has been placed before me by my employer (and all employees). The gauntlet has been thrown down, and it landed on my pinky toe and bounced back straight into my face.
I am to work out 4 times a week with moderate to high intensity until August 21. I am to document said sessions and figured this would be a good place to do it. The first day of the challenge is today. So I must work out 60 times between today and then. I will keep a running entry with updates and stats from today, gosh I hope I grow taller.

Um Captain why aren't we going anywhere?

Passengers:	We have been sitting here for nearly 12 days.
Captain:	I have been sick and everyone knows its hard to go anywhere when you aren't feeling well.
Passengers:	We have places to go, we want to get off the ship.
Captain:	Believe me I want you off of here too, you whiny bastards just hold me and my ship down.
Passengers:	Why we never...Have you been drinking?
Captain:	Pipe down, how many calories are in Nyquil and cough drops?
Passengers:	Well can you just stop here and let us off?
Captain:	Stop? We haven't been anywhere in nearly 2 weeks, why haven't you just jumped? Seriously, why don't you passengers work like that? Sigh...well let's get this ship moving...Wait where were we going?

There is no spoon (not in my hands at least)

211...210...209 How interesting, I believe I have reached a peculiar point in time. At this time 2 years ago I had reached 209 before going to Vegas with the wife. The 3 day trip single handedly destroyed all of our hard work. Vegas proved to be too powerful of an excuse to over eat at every opportunity. I learned my lesson that the brain absolutely controls every aspect of weight loss (and pretty much everything else), and making just a few exceptions/excuses can easily cascade into an avalanche of setbacks.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

I knew I would go up a little after a holiday, but the only thing that rose Sunday was my appetite. It was all there: lox, cream cheese, bagels, chorizo, potatoes, eggs, bacon, ham, pancakes..etc. Not to be undone by the fact that dinner also featured ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, rolls, strawberry blinis...AAAHHHH!

I suppose I am too much of a gracious guest to turn down the hard work of an individual. To make matters worse we haven't gone grocery shopping in quite awhile and raiding the stockpile resulted in a giant plate of nachos last night. I am Jack's distended belly. I am pacing myself today, as a Buffalo Wild Wings just opened near us. I have done my research and can afford 6 measly buffalo wings (72 calories each), with all the celery and carrot sticks I can choke down(Jack LaLanne would be proud).

As of right now I am back up to 214 from my low of 211.5 Sunday morning.

Back to losing

Finally back to where I was a little over a week ago. Monday night I put in 30 minutes of cardio, and yesterday I did 2 thirty minute sessions. I weighed in this morning at 214! I was surprised that I lost weight, because yesterday I had consumed nearly one metric ton of pasta(there was hardly any left at the end of the day). Which coincidentally spurred the second cardio session out of guilt for eating so damn much. It was a box of whole grain penne pasta (7 servings, 200/10) with a 6 Italian turkey sausages (6 servings, 161/90 lol how is that lean?), 1 onion carmelized(1 serving, 60/0), 2 cans of diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings (6 servings, 30/0). So the entire dish was 2606 calories. So yesterday I easily consumed 2200 calories, but burned about 800 with an hour of cardio. Stupid food...:)

I also wanted to make a mention that Anna Mae is looking hot. :)

Stop toying with me scale

So last week I failed to make as many strides as I had hoped. I weighed in this morning at 216.5, which is still up from the previous week. Yesterday morning I was completely famished and dehydrated and weighed 215. Which was exciting but not healthy, as it was brought on by a night of heavy drinking. I also failed to do any cardio last week so this week I plan on rekindling my like-hate with my elliptical machine, and weather permitting my bicycle<*gasp>.

Fluctuations

Things were going swimmingly until we went to a 4 year olds birthday party at the D Note in old town Arvada yesterday. I binged on pizza like I was a zombie on the 28th day. And with that I went back up to 219 from 215.5. This week I will have to fire my mouth and my will power for being horrilbe door guards, in addition to trying to get my newly acquired fat reserves to take the hint and leave the party they were never invited to.

Wheels of change Day 17

I weighed in this morning at 222...only 37 more to go! Whenever hungry between meals I have been making vegetable egg white omelets. At only 30 calories for a 1/4 cup of egg white mixed with every vegetable I can find in the fridge. It has proven to be a very filling and satisfying meal/snack when another cup of water won't cut it. My other healthy out is Gai Gra Pow (Garlic, Thai chilies, Fish Sauce, half a chicken breast, lots of Thai/Lemon Basil) I top it with a fried egg because the richness of the yolk really works well with the fish sauce and chilis. The dish is simple, flavorful, only around 160 calories.

Thus spake The Fat Man

I know with a title like that you are expecting parables and rhetoric to ooze out of every letter, or perhaps a little paradoxical soup for your mid day bloggercize.

Alas I am the other half of this blog's title. Although not needing a fork lift to ease me into my morning slippers before I taxi out to the runway. I am technically obese and have just about every Doctor's "No-No" symptom -(large belly, high cholesterol, high LDL, low HDL, high blood pressure, blah blah blah). Being a bit of an enginenerd I like the how do you say "Math". So knowing I am playing the odds for the onset of just about every major preventable disease is a bit overwhelming at times. Especially when I look into the eyes of my beautiful little ones.

Where/when did the weight come from? Although I still hold out the very plausible theory that I am part of a secret military plot where they inject me with fat whilst I sleep in attempt to make me the largest sexiest weapon in the world. I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that it is likely more to do with my love of food.(err addiction to eating). I worked/cooked/managed restaurants for 8 years of my life. The last being a Thai food restaurant where I ate/breathed/slept thai food for 2 years of my life. That is about the time I met my wonderful wife and began making sure she was well fed ;) and of course you never cook for one, so I cooked for 4.

So there it began, I started channeling Paula Dean and butter happened to jump into everything I made. Every meal started with a base of cheese, Chipotle burritos became snacks and a Super value meal wasn't enough without a side of burger.

183 lbs to 245 in a couple of short years, went quick. So begins the epic battle!

...When The Fat Man had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. It wasn't because they didn't get him, it was because he had forgotten what he was going to say next.