Making progress

Do we care? Not sure, since I have ping ponged back and forth around 'fads' and here is what I have discovered for myself.  As I get older, I eat less, just naturally do, I get full and things that I used to love now mess with my GI tract like no one else's business.  I used to drink 2+ liters of Pepsi a day, now, if I drink more than a SMALL 6-8 oz can, my stomach let's me know how unacceptable that is.  More than that, a previous fave, ribeye steak, I am now ok with taking a few bites from someone else OR just ordering a leaner cut OR, going for something not even meat. 
So what this leads me to is the evolution of eating healthy, and whether or not if you get older and still eat like crap, what does that mean?  Fast food tastes like literal cardboard, when I used to LOVE some fast food cheeseburgers.  Oh, so the big question, have I lost weight? Yes and no, I have lost about 15-20 pounds and now fully realize, yeah, have to work out.  So, to that end, as feedback for some other stuff I posted before.  Skip the EODD (every other day diet) and go for the other one...Uhm, what is it called? Isabel Del Rios one? Beyond Diet; http://www.beyonddiet.com/, reasons for this include the scope of the nutritional recommendations and insight.  Also, there is a reality about her recommendations.  For instance, when she admits that her family may not be as wholly into the eat every vegetable concept so there are other ways she finds to make sure they are getting optimum health.  There is also a very practical way she recommends things, I cannot tell if it is a downside or just my preference but the 'point to this site' recommendations are, on the one hand, appreciated but on the other kind of prickle me the wrong way.  I get it, this is how people network and 'share' their resource pools as I am the one making the choice to click on it (if interested) and I am the one who has to either snoop around the site or just leave after the information.  And, in fairness, none of them lead to buy now before you can see this information sites (at least not the ones I have clicked :))
What else, oh yeah, juicing, digging on the juicing and when I do it, not unlike they say, I look better and I feel better.  Who would have thunk.
I now know and I hate that I know it that the next step, as stated above, is I have to work out.  So what will it be?  I am thinking I am pulling out the ol P90X, and you know why? Because I like it, I like the pace and know that I control the level of my commitment and that it doesn't matter that I am not that buff mad ripped cardio endurance machine but that all I have to do, every day, every time, is do what I can.  And do it again the next day.
I guess that does it for the semi annual update although maybe, just maybe, I will be doing some more here :)  Or not, ah ha~!

Once a year and how's it going

So, since it is not a well read adventure I am having out here, there is no harm in admitting that no big deal, I have lost a total of 8 pounds when last we spoke, 5 of which came back over the most recent holidays.  HAHAHAHA.  Maybe more later, maybe not.

How long has it been

Not that it matters, but I have a new plan..  less than a year, I am inspired by the big numbers from the biggest loser so I am going to see if I can do that in the same time frame.  I have the exercise program figured out, the meal plan figured out and will let everyone know (all 0 of you) how it goes.

Starting weight 225 Let's rock this shit!

And the results are

NOT in.  I got a little distracted and then went on a trip and in the end, I proved that eating unhealthy makes me feel not so great all the time but that it is SO easy to not eat healthy healthy per se.  Ok, really, all that means is is that I was lame and wandered from the path but I am back and ready to GO!!

Yay me, more later

Barely a week

So I was doing the whole exercise thing, I am, right, but the thing that gets to me is the minimum exertion.  So here is the thing about exercise and when you haven't and I am not sure if the trainers and all those people remember this.  Hi, this is a little hard.  Run at 70strides per minute, crap I can barely do the 45.  I try but how many people out there are with me in the hi when you start here (((()))) and the whole sweat thing is like shit to get to this () is going to be a pain in the ass. 

I suppose I can go find someone who is also blogging and stuff and maybe this crawling towards the goal and I will find commiseration in the agony.

Right isn't that the point of the online communities, Hi I don't want to work out today, oh yeah you can do it.  I mean hardly, sometimes I want to lay down and just READ.  Oh yeah right.

I had a whole bunch of other rants but mostly it was that.  The exercise thing, like WTF, crawling towards this goal.  I am wondering whether or not this whole diabetes thing is providing a little bit of a challenge.  The reason being in the past, and perhaps you can join me here, is the eat healthy a little exercise and then bam, hi, weight melts off.  I guess all those fat fuck bastards who blah blah blah health, blah blah blah age, blah blah motherfucking blah diabetes.  Tedious and mundane is this whole thing.




Also, I know there are articles and I will be checking them out.  Tomorrow, big day, let's see if the one diet produced any results.  I have some Apple apps I am using, but don't want to mention them since I use some and then delete them.  All good efforts, good effort peoples.  Do any fat people trying to lose weight develop these?

Let's talk about the crawl

And by the crawl I mean that thing that occurs when the alarm clock goes off in the morning and I know more than anything I need more sleep but instead I promised I would work out.
Here is the truth about the working out vs the sleeping vs the staying up late and doing whatever it is I do.   In stack ranking of top 3, 1 is staying up late, 2 is sleeping, 3 is working out.  I am getting better, and I am wondering, without the benefit of the whole googling the internet (love how that is a verb now) on whether or not the struggle with dropping weight this time is because of the diabetes, the age, or my body basically saying piss off bish, I am about done with this shit.

I am holding steady at the 215 but in fairness, I am also 'retaining' water which is just a nice way of saying well, you know.  Since I was speaking of working out, maybe for grins and tears I should add up how much  money I have spent on the exercise videos, equipment and etc etc crap that litter my place and then chalk the statistic up to the crap I should be thin for that amount.

PS: waiting for the omg I feel so fucking amazing since I have been eating healthy rush

Revamped and revised

LOL I am kidding ;-) Ok so this week we are trying a menu plan from EODD and upping the cardio.  BTW does cardio stand for OMFG I am about to have a heart attack.
So yeah, trying the cardio 3x a week and upping the strength training and seeing what happens.  What more am I talking about?  Who knows? I discovered I am not fond of people, so how is this supposed to work?  They say you do better at this with talking to people and working it out with them, but that does not appear to be the case.  Or does it?