Archive for August 2018
Day 20180831 Walk
Weight 265 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I tried walking my 3 miles while waiting for my car to get fixed at Kauffman Tires, but my GPS stopped working. I could get it to work while walking one direction, but not when I did my return. I tracked 1.56 miles one way, and each time…
Click to read the full post . . .Eggs, Arugula, Colby Cheese and Bacon
This is brilliant. Lots of fat to enhance the taste. Will make me very fully, almost too much. Could have shared this with a friend. Big meal. Calories Carbs Fats Protein Breakfast Coconut cooking oil , 2 Tbsp 260 0g 2g 0g Onions, raw, 0.6 cup, chopped 38 9g 0g 1g Silk – Cashew Unsweetened…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180830 Walk
Weight 268 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Felt really good this morning. Didn’t really eat yesterday evening and I slept great. Woke up and was down some more weight. Ate breakfast at 10:30 AM. Made fish with grilled onions over arugula. Super awesome. Ate dinner around 4:00 PM and it made me feel slow and…
Click to read the full post . . .Did Tony Really Do a Selfie?
I have no desire to ever have those weight loss belly shots you see in adds or on YouTube videos. Seems a little too private to show a huge belly to the world. So, I am taking an occasional face shot. If I stay on plan it will show the same kind of changes over…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180829 Walk
Weight 269 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the Publix shopping center to finish my .9 miles for the day, but the GPS didn’t track me. Oh well. Walked 2.1 in Holcomb Bridge during lunch. Feeling great! Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein g Fiber g Sugar g Death Wish Coffee Company…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180828 Walk
Weight 270 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the ATA Karate Strip Mall for three miles. Felt great. Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein g Fiber g Sugar g Generic – Avacados, 1 Whole 232 12 21 3 10 1 Jimmy Dean – Sausage Pattie, 1 pattie 145 1 13 6 0…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180827 Walk
Weight 271 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked around the ATA Karate Strip Mall for a mile and a half, then did the same distance in my neighborhood. Feeling good. Working out. Trying to eat less than 30 carbs a day. Very hard to figure that out. Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs g Fat g Protein…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180826 Walk
Weight 272 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I had an interesting day. Started out feeling really crappy. Muscle aches and unmotivated. Ate a very small breakfast. Lunch was after church and we had hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill at our home. Very good salad from the neighborhood dinner club Saturday night: spinah and…
Click to read the full post . . .Week TWO
Weight Loss: 7 lbs
( 279 lbs – 272 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 2.17
Total Miles: 15.22
In the Gym: 3 days
Calories per day: 1,459
Day 20180825 Walk
Weight 273 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Started Keto diet today. Went to Walmart and bought a bunch of stuff. Bacon, fish, eggs, sour cream, cream cheese, avocados, almond milk, heavy cream, etc. Ate my first breakfast and freaked out that it was so many calories. Then by the early evening I was drained. Keto…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180824 Walk
Weight 273 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped off Caleb to the Orthodontist at 2:00 PM and went for a quick 2 mile walk. Wasn’t too warm. Right leg is still cramping up on the shin area. Makes me limp. Everything else is good. Looking forward to the 3 mile increase Sunday! Breakfast Calories…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180823 Walk
Weight 275 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Left the house around 8:45 PM and walked the neighborhood. Nice walk. Cool. Not much to report. Watched Caleb for a minute in his window playing on his tablet. Funny. Called him and said, “got to bed turkey!” He called me a Peeping-Tom. =) Breakfast Calories kcal Carbs…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180822 Walk
Weight 274 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped the kids off at church youth group, and instead of going home for an hour, I walked. Dropped from Zion Hill Baptist to the Kroger, then walked Hamilton Mill and came back to Ridge. Walked up to the other side of Glenn Middle School and turned around…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180821 Walk
Weight 275 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Tried to run. Didn’t work. Too heavy. Need to be less heavy. Seriously! Crazy heavy right now. Exercised during the hottest part of the day. Still fell good. Walked out of the office and walked up Crabapple to the corner of Lebanon’s property. Took a left and went…
Click to read the full post . . .My Gear: BLITZU Compression Socks
So I noticed in the picture of my shoes that you could see black socks under my jeans. It’s true! I wear black socks with my blue jeans. Sad . . . LOL I could get arrested by the fashion police! My daughter freaks out when I wear the pink ones. These are the best…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180820 Walk
Weight 277 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Dropped off Eli at Chorus at 7:10 AM so I got to Roswell at 8:30. Went to Planet Fitness and did arms and full squats. Worked it hard for 25 minutes. Also did my walk, even though it was late at night. My whole body is starting to…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180819 Walk
Weight 279 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Week #1 Summary Weight Loss: 12 lbs Average Miles/Day: 2.04 Calories per day: 2,034 In the Gym: 1 day Walk felt fine, but my right leg has a shin muscle that cramps up. Hurts. Mike Pfender stopped me to say congrats on meeting my goals. He is doing…
Click to read the full post . . .Week ONE
Weight Loss: 12 lbs
( 291 lbs – 279 lbs )
Average Miles/Day: 2.04
Total Miles: 14.28
In the Gym: 1 day
Calories per day: 2,034
Day 20180818 Walk
Weight 281 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat Protein Fiber Sugar Fuddruckers – Hamburger With No Bun, 0.6 burger 167 0 4 23 0 0 167 0 4 23 0 0 Lunch Mcdonald – Fish Filet No Tartar, 1 sandwich 320 39 11 18 2 5 Halo – Tangerine, 2.7 Small 108…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180817 Bike Ride
Weight 283 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Eli took me on a bike ride from our house to the Publix where we ate at McDonalds. For his birthday we bought Eli a red Gary Fisher mountain bike off Craigslist for $100. The chain needed some work, but Adventure Cycles got him up and running for…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180816 Walk
Weight 284 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walk felt awesome. Didn’t do much jogging. Tried. Passed Kyler twice. Told him I was going to catch him someday. Food calorie intake was not low enough for weight loss. Ned to do something radical like pulling out sugar for a month or eating a Paleo diet. Tracking…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180815 Walk
Weight 289 last night at 10:30 PM Felt really good today on the road. Didn’t like the way running felt. Too heavy. I could have walked another mile though. Also, the tracking software didn’t pick up for at least a tenth of a mile. I am going to start including a food category. I had…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180814 Walk
Weight 288 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Felt almost sick walking. Very tired. Legs hurt. Shins were painful. Tyler needed pickup from his job at Karate Atlanta at 9:00 PM so I showed up at 8:25 PM and went for a walk. Tried to run a little, but my body felt sick. Just too many…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180813 Walk
Weight 289 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Walked .54 miles during the afternoon at the office Monday, but the phone tracking software didn’t read correctly. Adding the .54 to the 1.73 for a total of 2.27 miles on my second day. I planned to go much further Monday night, but my eldest son called just…
Click to read the full post . . .Bowling Stars and Stripes
Back in May we bought two of these Groupons here in Buford for Stars and Stripes at 1601 Horizon Parkway Buford, GA 30518. It’s two hours of unlimited bowling with shoes and a pitcher of soda for $36.00 We bowled for fun, not competition. Lots of fun.
Click to read the full post . . .Paul Locke at Bell Mountain
My brother Paul took the whole family up Bell Mountain in late June. It was awesome.
Click to read the full post . . .Who Does My Website?
I’ve been working as a top level Full Stack Developer for Training Property Managers the last two years. That means I manage a technology project from start to finish including securing the domain, hosting, software platforms, personalized emails, theme development, logo design, video production, security, product marketing and much, much more. I can provide these…
Click to read the full post . . .Day 20180812 Walk
Weight 291 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) I decided I felt better than just one mile. Plus, the preparations to get this all ready made me feel like a mile was not a good start. So I walked to the next neighborhood and down the first cul-de-sac to the left. I then came home by…
Click to read the full post . . .Test Run — Really a walk =)
Weight 291 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Made my heart race, but seemed very easy. Considered adding a mile a week until I hit 4 miles a day, then adding half a mile a week. Still working this out. Maybe . . . Adding One Mile a week for 4 weeks. August 12– September 8…
Click to read the full post . . .One Day before Launch
Weight 291 (started August 12 at 291 lbs.) Produced, rendered and uploaded over 50 training videos within the last 48 ours. Only problem is I am sitting so much I can almost feel my muscles atrophy and my body age. It’s freaking me out. I joined Planet Fitness, but it isn’t enough to fix things. I…
Click to read the full post . . .My Gear: Oboz Men’s Hiking Shoe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FJ2MDFO Yep. I run/walk in a hiking shoe. Crazy eh’? Why? Because you need hiking shoes and the extra support thy provide when you have an extra 100 lbs on your knees and feet. Right now I am running with the equivalent of a 100 pound backpack. So I need the extra support. Plus, in…
Click to read the full post . . .Two Days Before I Start
Feeling a bit unmotivated to get out there and start running. Might need to invest in a bottle of anti-inflammatory. I am doing this website support for myself and to motivate my progress. Might just be another failure to make it happen moment. We’ll see. Everytime I see this mountain I want to run up it.…
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