one week, seven days

has the south beach diet broken me? no. have i eaten things from the forbidden list? yes... but not much. i have had roughly one day's worth of sugar in a week, and possibly two days worth of carbs.

i stopped eating a snack at 9pm, and i only drank twice this week. quitting drinking is definitely way harder than any other thing so far.

if someone could give me some kind of south beach approved alcohol, i would be forever grateful. i don't think rubbing alcohol is on the "forbidden" list.

The Biggest Loser

I am currently watching the two hour season premiere of the Biggest Loser. It is awesome. I am watching it instead of reading my kinesiology textbook. It is not awesome.

So the first two days have been pretty good. I have a vague headache all the time, which I imagine happens when one does not satiate oneself with octople cheeseburgers and buckets of soda. My first day looked like this:

running 30 minutes at 7AM!

BREAKFAST
Granola and skim milk with a banana and almonds
coffee with skim milk

SNACK
1 nectarine
small bag of almonds

LUNCH
chicken pasta salad with w/w rotini, broccoli, and balsamic dressing

SNACK
2 plums
Kashi granola bar

DINNER
chicken veggie stir fry on brown rice

Instead of ordering a pizza like I wanted to right before bed, I have a cup of green tea. SUCK ON THAT, ID!

It's time for a new beginning

Weigh in: 242lbs!

The Plan: Bob Green's Best Life Plan (yikes)

Phase One (Four weeks):
-get some exercise, you cheeseburger eating slob.
-eat three regular meals a day and 1 to 2 (definitely 2) snacks.
-completely avoid alcohal, pop, trans fats, fried foods, white flour, high fat dairy.
-no eating two hours before bed.
-take a multivitamin, you malnourished schlub.

And that is basically it. I decided to go with good old Bobby Green's plan, because it sounds more like how I would ideally live if I wasn't so into consuming incredible amounts of shit. It may be a less drastic pound loss, but I think if I can keep it up, it will be the better choice. Plus the South Beach diet food sounded icky.

As for exercise, I am committing to running three 30 minutes sessions a week, and strength training two days a week. Later in the month, I might join the Queen's Tae Kwon Do club like I am 12 years old.

Oh, and tomorrow is my first day of professional graduate school. I have spent the last week doing things like going to corn mazes and going on pub crawls. I am in an undergrad university town surrounded by jabronis. It should be an interesting month.

i have a headache

maybe this will fix it.

Start today!

Can you tell the difference between these two models? One is me now, one is me in a month or so.

I officially started the South Beach diet today. For two weeks I will shun the advances of sugar (even fruit) and carbs. I don't imagine it's going to be fun, but it's 10am and so far so good. UGH. I already wish it was 12am on Thursday, September 24th.

Anyway, this is kind of my hail mary effort to lose the 10 pounds that I put on this past year of touring, so if it doesn't work, I guess I will just have to lose weight through exercise or something ridiculous.

A picture is worth a thousand double cheeseburgers.

Next week is going to be tough.

They’re the black sheep of modern day society

I just ate a Guinness braised lamb shank. I am really living it up in the days before I give up meat and beer.