Still Counting and Tracking

I am still watching the calories and the sweets that I eat. I have not yet lost a pound, typical. I hope that this will show that I need to workout more than and do more exercises. I am currently lifting every M, W, and F and having very little time between reps so my workout is more of a cardio than a lifting session. I also try to get my cardio in on thursday as well as on the weekend.

Linkin Park - Bleed It Out

The song and video says enough.

Putting your faults in front

I have been taking a good look at myself and what I have done in the past to lose weight. Yes, I am still counting calories but not calculating out every little bite. What I have been doing is, in addition to counting calories, is having a check list of my faults. I like to eat at night, eat more than 2500 calories and eat a lot of sweets. All of these things are not good for someone who is trying to cut down and trim up. So what I did is created a checklist to show me what I have done that day for eating.

Here is a picture of it.


With this chart I am writing down when I have eaten or done the bad habits. This will show me while I cannot lose more weight.

Seether - Fake It

This song has a pretty good beat to it. I makes me want to work my back for some reason.

Night Time Hunger

I have been trying to fight my night time hunger. IT IS HARD! The only way I have succeeded in keeping from eating at 7:00pm is to brush my teeth after supper and try to go to bed by 10:00pm. This has kept me out of the refrigerator and thinking about the fact that I am hungry. I was weighted after doing this and in my first week I went down 5lbs. That is not to say that I lost it but fluctuated 5lbs.

Nickleback - Rockstart

This song and video is funny and it has a good beat.

Counting Calories

I am sure that I have talked about counting calories before but I just want to chime in again on this matter. I have just started to count my calories. The most success stories that I hear are how people counted their calories and they lost a lot of weight. I am one of those people who think that the caloric countdown is a mind over matter. If you think that you will lose weight then you probably will.

I just so happened to notice a weight change when I least expected it, and that was when I was doing one hour of walking on Tuesdays and Thursdays, weight lifting at nights on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and I was playing racquetball during lunch on the days I lifted. I happened to notice by chance but when I stopped lifting for the three months because of my feet, I gained it all back and have been at the same weight for a long time.

Anyway, I have started on counting my calories and we will see what this brings us.

Plantar Fasciitis

For the last 6+ months, I have been having a huge amount of pain within my left foot. It started with both feet hurting and then I went to China to give training. I received a foot message over there and both feet felt great after that. I then played racquetball after that and my left foot started to hurt again to a point that it was hard for me to walk on my left foot. I had to stop lifting and cardio and concentrated on healing that one foot.

I have been meaning to go to the doctor and find out what is going on on that side. I went into the clinic and we took some x-rays and found out that nothing was wrong. All of the joints look great and the bones look very healthy. (That is what exercise and lifting does for you. Healthy, Healthy, Healthy) We did some more exploring of the feet and it appears that I have Plantar Fasciitis.
In short, Plantar Fasciitis is the tearing of the tendons due to overweight, intense use, flat feet, poor shoes, anything dealing with high strain with the feet. It can be avoided by stretching. Stretching is so important and I was not doing as much stretching as I should have and now I plan for stretching before any activity.

Depressed on the Rainy Days?

My family just endured another rainy dreary day. I am a father of two beautiful girls. They were both a hand full when we were in the house, but when we were outside. They were a lot better. At least the oldest was. It sure is true about getting older; you learn to deal with yourself in boring situations like staying inside when it is raining.

My daughters were very illed tempered due to the cabin fever that we had to endure since nothing else was going on and we didn't want to go to the closest major mall.....1 hr away. Try to keep your wits about you and try not to take it out on the kids, because they are going through it too.

CureZone - Educate Instead of Medicate

I stumbled across this site. It happens to have a lot of blogs and other articles dealing with nature cures and also natural ways to lose weight and feel great. There was one article that talked about using coconut oil to help you lose weight. I am still investigating the natural way to cure your thyroid gland and coconut oil seems to be the way to do it.


Click here to view the site.

Nine Inch Nails - Capital "G"

Eating out doesn't mean to blimp out.

I went out to eat the other day at an all-you-can-eat buffet. They had steak there which is one of my favorite meats. So I went up there twice for the steak and everything else. The first time I went up I had a medium size piece. The second time up up, the lady remembered me so she gave me a bigger piece. Needless to say I had my fill of steak that night. After I got done eating, I realized that this is not how I eat at home. So why do I eat like this here? We do not have steak a lot at home so I guess when the chance arises I guess I have to get filled up.

This has made me think about eating out in a different frame of mind. Eating up should the time to have the foods that you typically do not have at home but also maintaining your good habits of eating. For instance, tonight we are going to be going out to eat at a seafood restaurant and I am going to get the typical shrimp but instead of the fries, I am going to get the baked potato with fat free sour cream. Make sure you ask your restaurant if they have this as an option because most do.

Rammstein and Rob Zombie

Americans are spoiled

I recently had the oportunity to travel to China for business. While I was over there, I had some questions to ask the locals about eating and exercise. First off, Americans are the largest consumers of soda in the world. Every meal that I ordered they offered some kind of soda instead of a bowl of soap which is what everyone else gets. I turned down the soda and got the soap because I wanted to experience their culture and eating habits.

All of the fruits, vegetables, and meat over there is mostly organic (disregard anything that is imported, not organic). Farms are all over the place. They do not waste any space whatsoever. There were farms right next to the landing field for my flight coming it. I also noticed that if their was an opening on the side of the road....there was a farm. (When I say farm I mean a greenhouse. I have a garden in my back yard and when I should it to the people that I was training, they thought I had a farm. So I am using that in comparison.)

When I was over their I ate nothing but the local food. I noticed that the food that I was eating was not that much and I was getting full off of it. It was so weird that I would eat a bowl of food that would normally make me want to get seconds, would actually fill me up. The book that I have been reading, tells me that this would happen and it is actually true. I wish organic food was not so expensive. I guess you would have to have a garden that would be all-years-round.

Listen to your body

When eating, have you ever noticed that you can eat a lot of food if you keep at it in one sitting and not take a break. Do you think that your body was made to do so or do you think that in nature, your body is use to eating little and then taking breaks to find the next meal and/or the next spot to sit and get out o the way from something that could eat you.? Your body is not made to eat a lot at one time. It is made to eat a bit here and a bit there. No I am not a doctor and no I am not a nutritionist. From some of the research that I have done I have concluded that that the human body is not made to sit down and get full. It was made to eat a little here and there because in nature that is what it had to do to survive. Just do a comparison to squirrels, deers, tigers, and any other animal out their and none, except for house hold animals, eat three meals a day. We force our eating habits onto dogs and cats so they are excluded from the study.

You have probably heard about the six meal diet which says to eat three meals that are small but full of protein, carbs, and fruits and veggies; and three meals that are based on snacks….healthy snacks. This diet is also known as just grazing which is to mimic the eating behavior grazing animals like cows, goats, etc. This diet is great, but they have only limited the feeding down to six meals which in my opinion should be more because the body then has to put itself back into storage mode. If you notice animals in the wild, they are eating a little bit and then eating something again shortly after unless they are going through a famine which their bodies then place itself into storage mode. My opinion and this is only my opinion, we should eat about a cup of food slowly every hour thereabouts. This would ensure that we get the food that our bodies only need and not want. This would mean that the food would have to be prepared prior too or you would have to buy something really small.

With the small amount of food consumed and the frequency that the food is eaten, the person will not be hungry and not full. This will eliminate the storage factor to kick in and have the body go into storage mode.

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

This song has a great beat and really keeps you moving.

Eminem - The Way That I Am

I love this song for lifting. It always gets my testosterone just pumping.

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Classics are also great to listen to. I like this song for cardio.

Organic Chime

This entry is to get people thinking about organic alternatives. I have been doing a lot of research on the positive alternatives to organic living. Last year I never felt any better than when I was eating out of our garden which is 100% organic. I would get full off a little amount of veggies and it would keep me satisfied longer than if I were to buy from the grocery store. At first I never even thought about the effects that I was experiencing, but I read an article stating that organic foods will fill you up faster and stay with you longer than grocery foods do. Also, the chemicals that were used to preserve and clean the veggies actually acts like a hunger driver. I am not sure that the food companies know about this and I hope they don't, but the chemicals used are making people more hungry which is why the food doesn't satisfy after so long.

This is just a first chime on the subject with more to come. Just about this, when you get a salad or a basket of veggies or fruits, don't you feel better after eating those? Why do you think that is? Maybe because anything that is canned or bagged is filled with chemicals that might take that feeling away? Just sit and ponder.

Coconut Oil - How bad is it? It's not!

This just proves that the FDA and the American health and nutrition experts still do not understand the foods we eat and the medicine we use. They promoted that coconut oil was bad for over 50 years but to be complete opposite of all of the good that it promotes. Please read the benefits of the oil and you make the decision yourself.

Authors comments: "I could not believe that something natural could be bad for our consumption. Anything natural we have evolved to and should not be bad but a benefit.

Immune Support

• Coconut oil is rich in medium chain fatty acids and monoglycerides which have immune-boosting and antioxidant activity and are antimicrobial, according to Dr. Jon J. Kabara (2001)

• Lauric acid (which makes up about 50% of coconut oil), and its derivative monolaurin, support the immune system and may dampen or prevent toxic/allergic reactions - as well as playing a role in destroying pathogens like HIV, herpes, and the flu (Dr. Mary G. Enig, 2001)

Metabolism and Thyroid

• Coconut oil may boost the metabolism and improves thyroid health (unlike soy or canola, which can suppress the thyroid). Animals fed on “cheap coconut oil for fattening” in the 1940s became more active and were leaner, as opposed to animals fed on corn and soybeans. Corn and soy feed were used to replace thyroid-suppressant drugs that were given to animals to make them sluggish and heavier (Dr. Ray Peat, 2001)

Blood Sugar

• Coconut oil appears to stabilize blood sugar levels and prevent symptoms of hypoglycemia (Peat, 2001)

Cholesterol

• Coconut oil, unlike most fats, has been noted in two 1995 and 1988 studies as a “neutral fat,” having no negative impact on cholesterol or the health of the arteries (Enig, 2001). A 1989 study showed that men who were accustomed to coconut oil in their diet demonstrated undesirable changes in their HDL-LDL cholesterol ratio when corn oil was substituted instead of coconut in the diet

• Coconut oil feeding resulted in lower serum cholesterol than olive oil in a cholesterol study in 1997, and a 1994 study showed similar results when comparing coconut to olive and corn oils.

No Rancidity

• Unsaturated oils oxidize at high temperatures and go rancid - outside and inside the body. Unlike other cooking fats - including olive oil - coconut oil is not damaged at high heat, nor does it contain any (“partially hydrogenated”) trans fats which have been linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, and obesity (Dr. Mary Enig, 2000)

Raw Food Diets

• Raw coconuts and coconut oil are widely recommended in raw food diets, some of the healthiest diets for weight loss and cleansing

Coconut’s Undeserved Bad Reputation: Where did it come from?

According to Dr. Mary G. Enig (2001), “The coconut industry has suffered more than three decades of abusive rhetoric from the consumer activist group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), from the American Soybean Association (ASA) and other members of the edible oil industry, and from those who learned their misinformation from groups like CSPI and ASA.”

It all began in the late 1950s with the misinterpretation of several studies showing the health impact of polyunsaturated and saturated fats (Enig, 2001). These studies were used by various groups, including the CSPI and the FDA, to make a case that partially hydrogenated (trans) oils were the healthy ones, while coconut and palm oil were called “cheaper artery-clogging oils from Malaysia and Indonesia.”

In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, several American health boards (some of which had originally been in favor of the more stable saturated fats over unstable unsaturated and trans fat) began to use the same misinformation to promote domestic corn, soy, and other oils over foreign coconut, palm and palm kernel oils, under the guise of sage health advice.

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