Thinspiration

Just some more reasons not to eat junk from the vending machine just because it's 3pm.

Stopped After Two Pop-Tarts

Almost lost it today, but after two Pop-Tarts for breakfast (420 cal), I just slowed down and had soup and crackers for lunch. I'll make Outdoor Fitness Camps tonight, and it'll probably be a usual day --- about 1000 calories before working out for an hour. I'll try to cook, eat a smaller-than-usual dinner, and keep moving tonight.

Day 7: -0,3kg

The reason I jumped back up to only -0,3kg loss (for the week), is because I sat around after spinning on Sunday, and cooked and ate and watched old movies and UFO "documentaries". What I should have done is just headed out to the casino, or gone for a hike. Either would have been a nice, slow-burn of calories, and I probably would have been -0,7kg today. Oh well. I tried to make up for it yesterday, and went to the gym for spinning and strength. I didn't cook great yesterday, and made rice and carne asada, and baked some sweet potatoes. I'll try to keep it together today. Maybe I'll do some walking tonight. It'd be a good use of time.

Day 5: -0,5kg

See what happens when you're good? Yesterday I got up just in time to watch most of the time trial (Stage 18), and figure out Landis won the tour, then I made Outdoor Fitness Camp. After camp, I went to the gym, and caught the last 20 minutes of spinning, then did some strength training. And even after I got home and made lunch, I worked on the project. I figured out how to use hidden form fields with RoR and AJAX. Woohoo.

Angie and I saw Kathy Griffin last night. She was great, and the crowd loved her. I'm amazed that I caught almost all of her celeb-culture references. Well, okay, it took me a little while to remember who exactly John Paulus was (google: +"Clay Aiken" +"John Paulus"), but I caught the TomKat/Suri joke about "with the fringe on top". (Who wouldn't? Well, the gays next to me didn't get it. BTW, I caught Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry today. She was amazing back-in-the-day.) The gays really love her. Sure, there are gay-friendly celebs, and gay-icon celebs, but Kathy is beyond getting it, they get her, and they want her approval. Anyway, it was a fun night out. They need to keep ice cream places open after 11pm.

Day 3: -0,3 kg

I'm moving along according to plan. Last night after spinning, I was tempted to pick up a burrito from the drive-thru, and figured it wouldn't be that bad, but I decided to just get home and make something fresh. I barely had any rice left (probably < 80g cooked), but I fried it up with some ground beef and vegetables. I had some yoghurt and baked some sweet potato fries. I had a salad, and it all satisfied my hunger. I didn't wake up hungry, but I'm going to cook the day's rice, etc. and watch the Tour. Floyd Landis is amazing.

Oh, I was watching Celebrity Diet Secrets on VH-1, and I saw an "expert" interview, and thought I recognised him from over 10 years ago at school. I looked him up, and sure enough, it was David Wolfe, author of a bunch of books on the Raw Food Diet. Very cool to see that he's following his passion. He was pretty motivational back then, and got me to try an exclusive raw food diet for about a day.

Day 2: Still at -0,1kg

Yesterday was a half-rest day, because I went to Outdoor Fitness Camps, but there was a huge traffic jam downtown due to ComicCon 2006 at the Convention Centre. Which is fine with me, because I was pretty tired since working out 5 days straight.

I fried up some brown rice with vegetables for dinner, and re-watched parts of the Tour. Such drama. Landis bonked and dropped 8 minutes behind the new yellow jersey, and he's 6 minutes behind 2nd place. I watched part of today's stage this morning. More drama as Landis made an insane early break away (>120 km from the finish). I can't wait to watch the rest tonight after spinning with the gays.

Day 1: -0.1 kg

It's the second day getting on the scale in the morning, and I'm down by 100g as expected. I cooked all my meals yesterday, and will try again today. I make 280g (dry) of brown rice in the morning, then stir-frying up some veggies and meat. The difference with real food is that I don't get the cravings to binge. Processed food has something that makes you want to eat more and more of it (probably the "natural" flavouring additives). It's also the texture, it's so smooth and easy to go down. The combination of sugar and fat in an easy-to-eat form is a pure endorphin fix. Real food has more bulk and fibre, and you realise you're eating something from the ground or off an animal. It's harder to abuse food in this form.

Sure, I'll forget about all this eventually, and go back to eating two pizzas, a side order of wings, and a side of tater tots in front of the tv, watching some bad Lifetime movie, and falling asleep. But for now, I want to get to into Tour de France shape :)

Ok, I'm Back

And, ahem, I have to lose a few kgs. I've been way too distracted developing my RoR-based web application, and I went a little crazy with the pizzas and Klondike bars. BTW, they don't just deliver one pizza anymore. The "Manager's Special" is either two large pizzas with one topping each, a side order of wings, and a side of potato poppers for $24.99, or one large deep dish pizza with two toppings and a medium with one topping for $15.99.

And I went crazy on the 4th of July weekend, eating like four hamburgers and a big bag of Lay's Potato Chips, and a bunch of Klondike Bars in front of the tv. I was describing one of these binges to the poker table (Anna was dealing), and these two young Marines at the table knew all about ordering a few pizzas and putting themselves (their quote) into a "food coma".

But I'm back now. I've been working out the whole time, but I've decided to eat better and get back down to 75kg, and then down to 70kg. My inspiration? The Tour de France. These guys are exactly my height (174cm), but they typically weigh about 65kg. Amazing. One of the guys I was watching today weighed 62kg. I'm sure I'd be a lot faster dropping 15kg. I'd probably feel a lot better too.

Well, I'm going to get there by cooking my own food again. I finally made my brown rice, lamb, and veggies stir-fry, and it was good. (Lately, dinner has been two huge burritos from the local Mexican take-aways.) It's the vegetables, whole grains, and clean proteins that are going to get me to my goal.