Day 14

So it has been 2 weeks of diet and excersise and i weighed myself, i know i should not have but i did. I am now at 304.5 pounds. So in the past 2 weeks i have lost almost 10 pounds. I can tell that i have been losing weight which is encuraging. I need to get back to blogging more. lol
So what did i have today to eat

breakfast:
1 1/2 cup Rasin Bran (Post)
3/4 cup of whole Milk <-----it should have been skim or 1% but my wife bought the wrong one

Snack:
Apple

Lunch:
2 small lowfat yogarts (1.5g fat each)
1 bowl of chicken noodle soup w. crackers (12g fat)

Snack:
small low fat frozen yogart icecream cone (2g fat)
12 oz unsweet tea

Dinner:
Chicken w/ noodles (6g fat)
Pear
sm yogart (1.5g fat)

I have ben trying to keep my fat intake at arround 30g and my calories arround 2000. I think what will help me beat the lat night cravings is going to bed early. I uusualy goto bed arroun 11-12 at night. This leavs me craving anouther late night snack at arround 9 or so. With me getting up at 5 am, a 9pm bed time might not be such a bad idea.

Day 5-Not All Nuts Are Created Equal

Well I excersised yesterday morning and today i am taking a small break. Hy foot was hurting, but actualy it feals great today. I am short on time, so i will not list all that i ate. i had arround 1500 cal and 40g of fat. 1/4 cup of mixed nuts accounted for most of the fat i consumed yesterday. my next post will be more detailed. I was eating them for my afternoon snack and did not pay much attention to the fat content of them. In a small can of nuts there is a 12 servings at 15g of fat each. buy questimation there was about 5-6 1/4 servings in the can.

This was copeid from the planters website:
Many people are aware that fat, the most concentrated source of energy in your diet, is a vital nutrient. It provides essential fatty acids, helps maintain skin, and carries many fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K. The fat content of nuts varies from nut to nut. To see each individual nut type's fat content please.

I am sure once i lose wieght, i will be able to add some nuts in my diet.....Wow did i say Add nutts to my diet....that just sounds bad..lol

Day 4

Ah, Day 3 of running and all is fine. I am little sore but other then that, my ankle has not given me any problems. I told my brother Donovan i was running and he could not believe it. Aslo when i took abigail to the doctors, she noticed i had lost some weight. She told me the first 20 lbs are easy to lose but the next 20 "you have to work for"..Of Course i was left wondering...."What about the other 120 lb's i have to lose?" My goal is to get to 240 by my next birthday and then 180 or less by the one after that. I hope anyway. At least 240, i will be at the size where girls say "He is kind of big, but he sure is cute"..lol

I find myself want o snack on things in the afternoon/evening. Like right now, i could use a little something-something, i need find some stuff i can keep readly available that i can just grab and eat. Maybe i just beed to keep my chompers bizy. I also have been drinking Perrier. I know what you are thinking, "Gay" right?? I know Perrier has its' negative conotations but i love soda. I love the fizzyness of it. That all perrier is spring water that is force-carbonated. The only side effect is that it makes you burp.

Breakfast:
2 cups Rasin Bran (380 cal, 2g Fat)
1 cup 2% milk (130 cal, 5g Fat)

I have to say, i like rasin bran and it only has a handful of ingrediants and all of them i knew what they were. The 2% i have been drinking just becuase it is about to spoil and it is all we have at home.

Lunch
Chicken stirfry w/ vetables on white rice (About 500 cal, 8g fat)

The about information is a guestimation based on adding the idividual ingrediants.

Dinner
Healthy Choice, Samon on pasta and brochli (260 cal, 6g fat)

Rough Totals: 1300 cal/21g fat

And no i will not cut out all the fat, that would be very hard to do. With that being said, i do not understand why my body can not use the overwhelming supply of fat that it already has. I mean, Why eat out when all the food in the world is right there in the kitchen?

****INPORTANT QUESTION****
I know from doing exams on people that your wieght vaires through the day. Does anyone know when the best time to weigh yourself is?

My first mile

Well, I ran my first mile. Actualy it was just over a mile. And now that is in the evening, my legs are bit sore and my ankle to. The ankle pain is nothing big, and does not feal to be skeletal in nature so i am givng myself the green light for tommorows run. I think i am going to maintain running 1 mile the walking the 1 ml back for a while. I want to use the run/walk thing to lose weight and when i get down i might cycle to maintain myself. Sitting on one of thses tiny, hard bike seats is like having a battering ram slowly inserted in your butt, not fun.lol

Well let look at what i ate

Breakfast:
None

I know that breakfast is the most inportant meal of the day but i was running late to meet robert, my firend, so i skiped eating breakfat, by the time we could eat it was 10:30.

Lunch:
Turkey Breast Sub w/mustard, lettus, tomatoe, jallopena (misspelled). bell pepper, onions (280 cal, 4.5g fat)
Baked Lays (110 cal, 1.5g fat)
32 oz Unsweet ice tea

Snack
1 apple (110 cal, .4g fat) <-------------does fruit have fat in it?
14 oz water melon (140 cal, .6g fat

Dinner
2 cups Rasin Bran (380 cal, 2g Fat)
1 cup 2% milk (130 cal, 5g Fat)

I am not a big cereal eater, but had to retreat to something i knew not to be terible for my body. My wife made mc donalds for dinner tonight..

So my totals are
Calories: 1150
Fat: 14g

mmmm, it looks as if i did not eat enough today and i need to work on my schedule for meal times.

Well first leat me write down what i had to eat:

Breakfast:
1 Apple (55 cal)
1 Banana (72 cal)
6oz skim milk (60 cal)

I ate this arround 8:30am and i was suprised on how good the skim milk was. It iwas a the Food Lion brand skim milk and it was not that regualer blues skim milk you see and it tasted more like 1%. mmmm I am wondering if food lion is cheeint and putting there 1% milk in skim milk jugs. The banana was for potasium but then i found out it only gives 8% potatsium for a day which means i would habe to each 12 of them to meet my potasium needs...lol


Lunch

Tuna Salid Sanwhich (W/lettus + Tomatoe) (500 cal/21g fat)
1/2 Fruit salad (76 cal)
32oz Unsweat Ice Tea


lol you know if would have know that there was 21g of fat in the sandwich i would have chose a different one.


Dinner
One note on dinner, tonight was scouts and my wife cooked, so it was hot dogs

2 hotdogs w/bun (760 cal/34g fat)
6oz 2% milk (90 cal/3.6g fat

Total Fat: 58.6g
Calaries: 1581


That would mean (58.6g x 15cal/g = 879 cal) 879 of the 1581 was from fat.....That is 55% of my caloric intake was from fat..Well that will have to end emediatly. I will be eating mor raw vetables. I love raw vetables. I like broklie, tomatoes, colaflower, celerie, carrots and so on. Also i am goint to start packing my lunch.
Tommorow morning i will start running every morning maintainf my heart rate at 137~157, with starting out hard and easing up if need be.

My First Entry

I have created this blog so I can peronaly track my progress over time, tward a goal. My goal is to first and formost to change my life style so that i can inprove and extend my quility of life. Seconld i want to be example for my famly members.
My imedit goals i have to meausre my proggress are:
* Reduse my weight to 180 lb
* Be able to run 3+ miles
* Develop and daily rutine that envolves excesise.
* Excersice daily
* Change my diet to one that is more healthy

As a bace line
Weight: 314
Hight: 5' 10" (there is a 1/2 but i guess i lose that in the calulations
Body Fat: 37.7%
Water: 46.9%
Resting heart rate: 72
Target heart rate: 145-159 Per http://www.sarkproducts.com/targetzonecalculator.htm
BMI: 45


Resting (basal) metabolic rate: 3356 calories per day Per http://www.stevenscreek.com/goodies/calories.shtml
Typical daily activities: 1615 calories per day
Total calories burned: 4972 per day

Every day I will post what i have been eating and doing for excersice. Nuetritional info provided by http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/ for now.

I will have to look up what my calorie intake should be to lose weight.