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dantheman650 posted:You are an incredible inspiration. I have to say, this last weekend was rife with temptations I usually submit to. I went to Outback with my family and a good buddy wanted to drink IPAs with me. At Outback, I didn't touch the bread or Bloomin' Onion and passed on dessert, and I ended up not drinking at all that night. The last week I've been right at my calorie goal with 200+g protein and a big part of it came from just thinking "Would Adaz eat this candy/bag of chips/etc.?" Thank you. You can do it, we all can do it, it just takes hearing and being around supportive people and seeing their struggles and inspiration that can push us over the edge. Sometimes it's a reminder that yeah this sucks like rear end but person X (or poster X) has done it so hey why can't I. I mean look at you and Tenchrono's logs, that's some serious lifting for swole power (or in Tenchrono's case, how much JP8X FOR MAX GAINS can a human being take before liver failure  ). For me, looking in that seems an insurmountable goal but I know you guys have done it so why can't I.Or hell, before I even posted this log seeing Vainglory having the courage to do so made it possible. Actually, without Vainglory I wouldn't have ever set my goal to 250, I was thinking more in the 300 range - 250 seemed impossible. And really you guys help me too besides just your stories and inspiration. Sometimes I'm stuck staring at a piece of whatever fatty food I really want and I think how the gently caress is that going to look on the log you know amongst many other things. Tenchrono posted:WWAD? 16 months ago I would've drank a case of beer and ate 2 #2's from McDonald's tonight. AA & my higher power do wonderful things , as do you folks. adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 6, 2012 around 02:06 |
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Oh poo poo son. You're doing fantastically well and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. As you shed more you are gonna be a whole new person and you are gonna be so goddamned awesome (if you are already awesome now, imagine where you will be if you keep at for a year, or two... or even ten).
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New page needs new dog pix  Also, cool log and congrats on being awesome at weight loss!
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boxorocks posted:Oh poo poo son. You're doing fantastically well and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. As you shed more you are gonna be a whole new person and you are gonna be so goddamned awesome (if you are already awesome now, imagine where you will be if you keep at for a year, or two... or even ten). I was thinking about that as I walked, not about being awesome but the fact that I'm halfway to my goal and while I'm still obviously a real big dude how much easier things are in life and how much better I feel. Now imagine I lose the same weight from where I am now, it's hard to imagine. I haven't weighed ~250 probably since I was a freshman or so in high school. Fanky Malloons posted:New page needs new dog pix Dogs got a rest day today (too many days in a row and the harness will wear too much of their furs) also they needed a bath after being stinky trail dogs. Dog PIXS tomorrow maybe! Daily Update 06/05/2012 Should mention new diet plan next two weeks starting tomorrow. Remove 1 optifast replace will 160-200 calories of real food. For me that probably just means a bit of leftover dinner for lunch or an extra apple, eggs in morning or something like that. Cals: 1120 3 x Optifast = 480 2 x delicious ham and potato soup (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/delici...nd-potato-soup/) = 390 by the way, that recipe is goddamn amazing 1 x atkins bar = 130 2 x apple = 120 Exercise: Feet starting to really feel pain of new shoes/blisters/faster paced walks. Hopefully they heal up nice and good for tomorrow's walk. The jagged up/down towards the end of that walk was me trying to keep up pace and shift my gait/steps a bit to avoid pain, didn't work out so well! adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 6, 2012 around 03:55 |
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We need a chest bump emoticon.
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Regnevelc posted:We need a chest bump emoticon.  not good enough for you?
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I'm at work, images on SA don't show up. I may have just been unaware of one.
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Adding to the already enormous list of congrats! You're absolutely killing this thing. :chestbump:
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You have just lost a whole entire adult person of weight. I'm crying for you I'm so proud. Thank you for sharing with us. You are amazing.
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Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it and I don't know if I could've done this good and kept up this pace throughout transition without the tracking and help everyone has provided. I'm sending positive fat removal/swole building thoughts your way Daily Update 06/06/2012 Cals: 1243 2 x Optifast = 320 1 x Atkins bar = 150 2 x apple = 120 1 serving potato soup = 195 8oz Chicken = 336 3 cups veggies (1 cup mushroom, 1/2 cup onion, 1/2 cup green peppers, 1/2 cup yellow squash, 1/2 cup zucchini) = 82 2 tbsp stir fry sauce = 40 [/b] Hrrm, I am going to go get a goddamn scale because I know my chicken oz's are guesstimates and it's bugging me. Exercise: whew 6 days in a row all good times, despite a really bad blister last 4   Let me cleanse the mind with some DOG PICS. Got the girl a pretty pink bow so I could tell which harness was hers, of course the other one decided to shake his head at the moment I snapped the photo :grr:  Nike+ decided to update their layout 6 days after they said they would, thereby loving up all my goals and forcing me to relearn the system gahhh adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 04:45 |
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adaz posted:Hrrm, I am going to go get a goddamn scale because I know my chicken oz's are guesstimates and it's bugging me. I really highly recommend this one - I use it every single day on every single thing I eat. It's incredibly easy to use and has a sweet auto-tare function. Put your plate on it, turn it on, and it automatically tares to 0. Add food then eat! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ils_o01_s00_i00
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You've done awesome man - if you're amazed at where you are now compared to before, just imagine where you'll be a year, five years from now!
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dantheman650 posted:I really highly recommend this one - I use it every single day on every single thing I eat. It's incredibly easy to use and has a sweet auto-tare function. Put your plate on it, turn it on, and it automatically tares to 0. Add food then eat! Awesome, I shall order it and it'll be ready for me when I come back from orlando. It's just bugging me cause I don't know if I'm over or under on chicken and I'm half guessing I'm over-estimating but then again it took me forever to go through a 40oz bag of chicken so  and that's what bugs me.KBD posted:You've done awesome man - if you're amazed at where you are now compared to before, just imagine where you'll be a year, five years from now! I know, I keep thinking of the rewards and how great it is now and trying to imagine what it'll be like when I'm done but it's hard to envision such a drastic life change you know? I don't think I've mentioned it here but I was talking tonight to my wife about a reward when I finally hit my goal of 250. I'm not super huge on rewarding myself because that can be dangerous, for me, but I think I settled on something finally. I spent a semester abroad in the UK back in 2003 (Lancaster university) and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I've always wanted to go back but frankly my weight was a big reason I couldn't do that. I mean, I'm fat in the US but in Europe I get stares. We were discussing selling our house and buying a new one next year but I think now we'll go back to England instead and delay that for another year or so. We'll see, depends on money and all that. For some reason that's more tangible to me, because I know what it'll be like, than the general feeling of "what the gently caress will it be like to only be overweight instead of morbidly obeses!" I'd like to revisit there, see some old friends, and actually be able to fit in without feeling so out of place - at least not more out of place than one usually does in a foreign country. Also tomorrow going to learn how to cook Tofu tasty-like from my friends wife who is Japanese and an amazing cook, they eat some of the healthiest, tastiest dishes i've ever had.
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adaz posted:Awesome, I shall order it and it'll be ready for me when I come back from orlando. It's just bugging me cause I don't know if I'm over or under on chicken and I'm half guessing I'm over-estimating but then again it took me forever to go through a 40oz bag of chicken so
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I had this tofu with spinach on top and preserved vegetables at this restaurant last night when my folks came to visit. It was so deliciously good. Make that!
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adaz posted:Hrrm, I am going to go get a goddamn scale because I know my chicken oz's are guesstimates and it's bugging me. dantheman650 posted:I really highly recommend this one - I use it every single day on every single thing I eat. It's incredibly easy to use and has a sweet auto-tare function. Put your plate on it, turn it on, and it automatically tares to 0. Add food then eat! I came to give the same link. My wife hadn't figured this out and was doing math in her head was driving herself nuts until I showed her this feature. Unfortunately I have turned into some sort of a food scale fascist and that might even be more annoying to the wife.
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^^^^^ Want to be a food scale fascist  . I try not to inflict my neurosis on my wife but she'll probably have to deal with scale fascism!deathbagel posted:I'm envious. I need to become friends with an amazing Japanese cook! All of the amazing cooks I know are Italian or Mexican and, while being able to cook amazingly tasty food, don't really bother with anything really healthy. It's really hard to have italian or mexican food while on a diet, or at least "traditional" since there tends to be so much bread/meat/sauce involved =/. I haven't had any since I've started at least and I would kill the son of a bitch who ate nachos in front of me right now. I should look up some mexican/italian recipes on allrecipes and see what I can do while staying in the cal limit. boxorocks posted:I had this tofu with spinach on top and preserved vegetables at this restaurant last night when my folks came to visit. It was so deliciously good. Make that! I'm not sure what we're making to be honest! I'm guessing tofu + vegetables but who knows. I've certainly made Tofu before but like, in a restaurant setting and then we just smothered it in olive oil and like vinaigrette which isn't the healthiest thing in the world! adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2012 around 15:28 |
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I'm not big on self-rewarding either, but a vacation after meeting such a significant milestone is totally healthy. Going abroad is the best! Also, the cool thing about tofu is it's sort of a blank canvas for flavor. A good chef can turn it into almost anything. And being a food scale fascist rocks. It's even helpful for cooking recipes - no more measuring cups, just keep adding ingredients in the same bowl and taring the scale!
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I'd say a kickass vacation is a good reward for meeting such a big goal. If you reward yourself with bad food at home, you're just doing things you could've done when you were huge. When you fly back to Europe you can be all 'this is something I would physically been unable to do and enjoy if I hadn't taken charge of my life'
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dantheman650 posted:I'm not big on self-rewarding either, but a vacation after meeting such a significant milestone is totally healthy. Going abroad is the best! It is true! She taught my like 7 recipes which are all sitting at home, some of what she said were the most popular diet recipes in Japan. They were all very, very tasty and really low cals. Trying to remember off hand what they all were, vegetables and tofu in a sort of sweet bbq sauce w/ seaweed, shrimp sauteed in a sweet rice sauce and soy sauce, miso soup, a huge thing of cabbage/mushrooms/green onions/tofu which had virtually no calories - cooked in sake, rice wine vinegar and obligatory soy sauce, spring rolls with sweet chili sauce, salad with a dressing made of oil/vinegar/soy sauce/sweet rice sauce and tofu with a special citrus soy sauce. Late update because yesterday went to the midnight showing of Prometheus on imax 3d which was pretty sweet. 4 months ago I wouldn't have been able to on account of not being able to fit in the seats. Daily Update 06/07/2012 Cals: 1325 1 x Optifast = 160 2 x Apple = 120 1 x Atkins Bar = 150 1 x Potato Soup serving = 195 Misc Japanese Tasty Dishes = 700 guesstimate on the calories for the food I had over at my friends, hard to measure portions but I ate a little of each dish we prepared and they were all really low calories so I'm probably over-estimating. A little over my calorie goal so I'm going to skip my potato soup lunch for today to make up for it. And if I'm not over calorie goal well then I'm just going to get skinnier faster Exercise: Rest day, lettin' those blisters heal up. adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 8, 2012 around 18:01 |
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New Nike+ does have some sweet graphs. I started walking in March more or less, got my ipod a few weeks after I started.    Daily Update 06/08/2012 Cals: 1117 2 x Optifast = 320 2 x Apple = 120 3 cups veggies (1 cup onion, 1/2 cup bell peppers, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 cup zucchini, 1/2 cup yellow squash) = 151 8oz Chicken = 336 2 tbsp stir fry sauce = 40 1 x atkins bar = 150 Exercise: Shoes broken in, blister more or less healed 
adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 9, 2012 around 17:09 |
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18:15 pace for 5 miles at 375 pounds totally rules. Do you realize how spectacularly fast you're going to be when you finish losing the weight?
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Regnevelc posted:We need a chest bump emoticon. Will a gif do?  Also, Adaz, you're an inspiration. Amazing work!
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Zugzwang posted:18:15 pace for 5 miles at 375 pounds totally rules. Do you realize how spectacularly fast you're going to be when you finish losing the weight? Well thank you. I do need to quit smoking before I start up with running or jogging but it's been pretty cool the way my pace has been increasing over the last few months. fortryllende posted:Also, Adaz, you're an inspiration. Amazing work! Thank you. Of course all this next week is going to be tough as I'll be in Orlando for MS Tech ed and surrounded by poo poo I don't do (namely eat or drink). But I will keep it up and I will keep up my walks because vacations have traditionally been places where my routine gets destroyed.
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Hey you rock! Great job on losing an entire human worth of weight! Regarding Italian food - if you can find it, try out spaghetti squash! I make a rad pasta sauce with lots of mushrooms and olives in it and then dump in a bunch of shredded chicken to finish it off. I then serve it over spaghetti squash (when it's available) or just dump it on top of more chicken! It really does help me kill that craving for pasta.
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hello clarice posted:I then serve it over spaghetti squash (when it's available) You can freeze spaghetti squash with hardly any loss of texture/flavor, so if you've got the freezer space this doesn't have to be a problem 
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adaz posted:Well thank you. I do need to quit smoking before I start up with running or jogging I'm pretty sure when you decide to quit, you're going to have no problems. Go willpower! Have fun on your vacation, and remember it is very possible to keep going with your routine when you're on it.
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adaz posted:Well thank you. I do need to quit smoking before I start up with running or jogging but it's been pretty cool the way my pace has been increasing over the last few months. The exercise will mitigate some of the fun having, it's double plus good if you find exercise fun too. I find high quality, amazing food to be more satisfying for the senses on vacation than the fleeting enjoyment of masses of junk food and beer.
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hello clarice posted:Hey you rock! Great job on losing an entire human worth of weight! I can in fact find it, and my wife is growing some in our garden. I just need to find a sauce that's low cal enough to fit with it but that shouldn't be too difficult. Thanks for the suggestion! will have to add it to my meal plan when I get back from vacation. dantheman650 posted:I'm pretty sure when you decide to quit, you're going to have no problems. Go willpower! Have fun on your vacation, and remember it is very possible to keep going with your routine when you're on it. I tried in the beginning of January and lasted like 2 hours. It's a long term goal but at the moment focused on weight lossfortryllende posted:The exercise will mitigate some of the fun having, it's double plus good if you find exercise fun too. I find high quality, amazing food to be more satisfying for the senses on vacation than the fleeting enjoyment of masses of junk food and beer. Well it's not really vacation as it's 4 days filled of computer classes nonetheless you are plied with booze and food constantly while there. I'm not worried about the booze part but I am worried about sticking to my exercise routine and calorie routine. I'll just have to keep doing what I have been doing which is documentation and looking up what I eat and I'll trust that will be enough. And the hotel has a treadmill so I really have no excuse for not walking. adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 9, 2012 around 22:00 |
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My wife Here is my upcoming donation of big clothes to the Goodwill (not the dog, she stays):  Daily Update 06/09/2012 Cals: 1196 1 tsp Sesame oil: 40 2 tbsp stir fry sauce = 40 3 cups misc veggies = 150 8oz chicken = 336 1 x 100 cal kettle corn = 100 1 x apple = 60 2 x Optifast = 320 1 x Atkins bar = 150 Exercise: Was trying to tucker the dogs out as a friend is going to be watching them while we are in Orlando and he's basically the only person around who can watch them as my male hates very nearly every man he meets. So I was trying to set a personal best time and I did it. 
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Throwing away too-big clothes is awesome. Unfortunately, having to keep buying new ones isn't.
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Noxville posted:Throwing away too-big clothes is awesome. Unfortunately, having to keep buying new ones isn't. Well, luckily enough I still have some old clothes that fit but in another 30-40 lbs... Long day today. Got up at 4am my time with 3 hours of sleep. In Orlando and have been up all day non-stop. Played in the ocean for the very first time in my life - hey when one lives in the midwest you don't get a lot of opportunities to play in an ocean. n I did keep up my exercise routine in addition to the ocean swimming used the hotels treadmill. First time on a treadmill and it killed me, I don't know it felt a LOT harder than a normal walk couldn't keep my pace up. Could've been exhaustion, who knows. Cals: 1257 1 x Optifast = 160 1 x NutriMed bars= 150 1 x Apple = 60 10oz Corvina = 331 2 cups misc veggies = 100 3 tbsp butter = 306 1 Cup misc sald = 150 Upset at myself, waited far too long to get dinner and I was starving and made bad choices. Didn't notice veggies came glazed with butter when I ordered them and I them compounded the bad choice by eating them. I am just guessing on the amount of butter on the veggies, and I'll err on the high size. Also ate a half cup of the dinner salad which had some oils/cheese on it that probably have far too many calories but I guesstimated on the high side I think I want to try more local restaurants (the place we went to was amazing and had fantastic food, all fresh caught seafood) but I might have to switch to places that publish nutrition info. Exercise: Hour of playing in the ocean + the following time of the treadmills. I accidentally killed the time once so you get two graphs. Of interest the treadmill had a heart rate monitor and I started at 125 and gradually peaked at around 150.   I''ll leave you with a shot of the absolute gem that is Cape Canaveral national seashore
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From the sound of it your being very active on your trip. I bet you will end up losing a lot of weight without realizing it.
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Bedevere posted:From the sound of it your being very active on your trip. I bet you will end up losing a lot of weight without realizing it. We will see! Spent a lot of time walking around (that convention center is huuuuuuge) and also exercise. Tracking calories... difficult. Doing my best guesses here on portion sizes and food choices. Ate tons of meat because the chicken/shrimp was cooked as paella so I could scrape off most of the rice and know what was in it, the steak was cut into thin strips, and the mahi-mahi was wrapped in banana leaves. Like everything else was covered in gravy or some poo poo. Cals: 1252 2 x Optifast = 320 1 x Apple = 60 5oz Chicken = 212 2oz Steak =116 2 cup salad = 19 2 cup misc veggies = 100 8 oz Mahi-Mahi = 192 2 tbsp zesty Italian dressing = 84 1/4 cup rice = 51 1/2 cup shrimp = 102 Best guesses on portion size and calories, some of the stuff was marinated and the catering staff wasn't sure in what but appeared to be Italian dressing. I was conservative in portion size to compensate, or at least I think I was. Except the banana leaf wrapped mahi-mahi which didn't appear to be marinated in anything (so help me god if it was I will cut someone). Exercise: Spent 20 minutes on the recumbent bike while waiting for a dude to get off treadmill. Was ok I guess rather walk though. Other than that, set treadmill to keep heart rate at 140 which seemed to helped to ease the workout a bit. Still soaked in sweat and good lord spending 1 hr 30 minutes on a treadmill is boring as gently caress adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 12, 2012 around 05:35 |
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Daily Update 06/12/2012 Cals: 1226 1 x Optifast = 160 1 x Apple = 60 3oz Pork = 134 2 cups salad = 38 1 cup broccoli = 30 1 x power salad = 600 1/2 cup shrimp = 104 2 tbsp dressing = 100 Exercise: Had to skip today due to someone else using the treadmill after I got back from conference/dinner and I have an 8:30 am class  . I'll just have to make sure I get one in on Wednesday and Thursday.
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I should mention that the reason there was no weigh-in yesterday was because I'm down in Orlando for tech-ed, so you know no scale. Will resume regular weigh-in schedule next Tuesday. Yeah I know, annoying! Daily Update 06/13/2012 Cals: 1280 1 x Optifast = 160 10 oz Marlin = 336 1 tbsp butter = 104 2 cups Broccoli = 50 3 cups misc veggies = 150 4 oz salmon = 160 1 tbsp orange vinaigrette = 50 1/4 serving crab cake ( guess) = 100 1/2 sierra mist = 70 (So pissed about this, drat sierra mist for having diet/regular that look nearly identical!) 1 tablespoon food to die for = 100 I also had a single spoonful of this decadent thing, it's called a baked Alaskan and it's a brownie topped with vanilla bean mango ice cream, covered with meringue, then has flaming bacardi 151 w/ peach schnapps poured over it to give it that smores taste. I don't know how much is in a tablespoon so I am just going to guess a ridiculous amount but good lord it was good. For that matter so was my dinner, big old plain grilled marlin steak and a lot of broccoli, and I'd rather have more of the marlin if I had a choice between it and that thing. I had to try it - well that's not true, I CHOSE to try it knowing a single tablespoon wouldn't put me over my calorie goal. It's amazing the healthy, good food you can have even when eating virtually nothing.  Exercise: Wasn't really a 17 minute pace the iPod stopped recording time for about 5 few minutes but still recorded the distance, more like 18:15.
adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 14, 2012 around 04:58 |
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Dedication. Right here. Up in this thread. Also, is it weird that I was bummed we didn't get a weigh-in this week?
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dantheman650 posted:Dedication. Right here. Up in this thread. Yeah it's been tripping me out all week :/, thanks though. Went to the closing party of tech ed and had a thin slice of prime rib, guessing it was 6-7 oz , and my lord was it good. I didn't realize just how many calories were in prime rib though whooo lordy. I also tried a little bit of butterbeer and had a few sips of a sour green slushy. About 250 calories over my goal which I'm not thrilled about. Should've skipped the prime rib and ate more veggies. And, you know, looked up the calories in prime rib. Also reminded of why I need to keep this up, I couldn't go with my coworker on any roller coasters as I was far too big. Cals: 1451 2 x Optifast = 360 3 Cups misc veggies = 150 1 tbsp stir-fry sauce = 50 7 oz prime rib = 467 3 oz meat loaf = 174 3 oz sirloin beef = 157 butterbeer/green slushy = 50 1 tbsp balsamic vinaigrette dressing = 43 Exercise: Walk walk walk while I sing this song. adaz fucked around with this message at Jun 15, 2012 around 04:50 |
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adaz posted:
You'll get there. Just keep cracking away at it, then you'll be able to go on all the rides you want and you'll never want to go home (until you vomit). 
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