Category: Personal
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18
burned 701 calories doing 63 minutes of “Cardio/Strength Mix (with HRM and Calorie readout)” #myfitnesspal completed his food and exercise diary for 12/11/2011 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal Damned fruitflies. Deliberately exceeding my daytime calories so my evening exercise will cancel it out. Hopefully no more days of 600-800 net calories. burned 290…
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The Gift of Yourself
It’s six weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… I am now just over 200 pounds, or nearly 22 pounds down from where I started. To her credit, my wife took our wedding vows literally, loving me for better and for worse. At the beginning of November 2011, I’d certainly never looked worse. …
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11
posted a new blog post http://t.co/8ayJIG3a #myfitnesspal burned 451 calories doing 45 minutes of “Aerobics, general” #myfitnesspal completed his food and exercise diary for 12/04/2011 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal burned 143 calories doing 30 minutes of “Walking, 3.0 mph, mod. pace, walking dog” #myfitnesspal completed his food and exercise diary for 12/05/2011…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04
I lost 15.4 pounds this month, and it’s only the beginning. #BurnBabyBurn @AubrieMcg Thanks, Aubrie. Can’t wait until next month. =) .@Ms_CLau I started with just calorie counting, but added exercise when I plateaued at 9 pounds down. Added 30+30 min cardio and strength. Less of me to love: 222 (Nov 3) –> 206 (Nov…
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Can you look at yourself naked?
Today is four weeks since I started this physical rebirth. Sixteen pounds doesn’t seem like much to have lost, and maybe it’s gone unnoticed by other people, but there’s already a perceptible effect to me. The other day I passed by the large mirror in the washroom at my workplace… and I actually caught my…
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The Hacker’s Diet – November 2011
So, when my weight hit 222 pounds I had something of an epiphany and decided on a diet and exercise regimen. I chose The Hacker’s Diet, which I’d actually tried 2 years ago. Nothing wrong with the diet, I just wasn’t committed enough to stick to any kind of reduction. As diets go, Hacker’s couldn’t…
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Moar Powar
Recently I decided to slim down. I’ve been overweight all of my adult life… Plan: Lose 72 pounds in the next 6 months Steps: Engage in ritual semi-starvation until even the brown fat perishes in my metabolic flames Embarrass myself daily by posting highly personal details about my aging body to the Internet, in glistening,…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Prince & The Revolution (6), Split Enz (2) & Herbie Hancock (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR @LebeauRox I fully expected to see a picture of a bottle of wine, but Muppets… they’re cool, too. My body is fighting my diet. It’s shifted my metabolism to compensate for the calorie cut, so I’m…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13
Five days into calorie counting + exercise plan. Lost 6 pounds. Betting this will slow down a lot as I go, but an encouraging first week. R.I.P. Heavy D., died of pneumonia? aged 44. | Watch D. & The Boyz – Now That We Found Love (ft. Aaron Hall) – YouTube http://t.co/AXfizLQW @nextlibris I’m down…