BMI Baby!

I just re-did my BMI (Body Mass Index)....I started at a BMI of 41.5 and now it's 32.8 !!! Incredible!!!

You can calculate your BMI here if your a RealAge Member: http://www.realage.com/WorkoutCenter/bmi.aspx?mod=YOAD_WT

If you're not a member of RealAge.com, then you can go here to quickly calculate your BMI:
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/


Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a person’s weight and height. BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.

According the cdc. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/adult_BMI/about_adult_BMI.htm Here's what the BMI number means:

BMI ...................Weight Status
Below 18.5............. Underweight
18.5 – 24.9 .............Normal
25.0 – 29.9 ............Overweight
30.0 and Above...... Obese

So according to the CDC, I'm still obese (duh!!), but I only have to go down 2.8 points to be just overweight!! Imagine that, I'm excited about being 'overweight'!!! Sounds a lot better than OBESE. According the RealAge.com website, my ideal BMI should be 22. It says to get there, I should weigh 157 lbs. That will never happen! I would be a walking skeleton. but if I reach 178, my BMI will be 24.9 and I'll finally be Normal!!!

Take Care, Eat Well

Rich

Lights Camera Action

My first attempt at a home movie... Enjoy!!!

Doing My Happy Dance

Well, after a 2 week plateau, I finally lost some more flab. I won't tell you how much yet, you'll have to read all the way down to the bottom of the post. I love keeping you in suspense.

I think I've done really well while on the You: On a Diet plan, but I have to tell you, I was feeling a little discouraged the last couple of weeks. It's disappointing to step on the scale and not lose any weight. I'm only human, folks. I was bummed. But you know what? I DIDN'T GIVE UP. I kept up my daily walking. I didn't slurp up the ice cream or throw in the towel. I just kept doing what I was suppose to do. I kept my eyes on my goal, visualized how I wanted to look, and kept telling myself that I can do this. One meal at a time, one day at time, one meal at a time. Several times during my other weight loss attempts, when I got frustrated, I cheated. I ate what I've craved. Then I felt guilty afterwards, felt bad, and ate some more junk. Then I told myself, 'self, you've blown it now, no need to continue the diet, try again next week, month, year'. Sounds familar to anyone else? I know I can't be alone in this cheat/guilt/gorge/guilt/give up cycle, am I? I'm really proud of myself this time for not throwing in the towel. High fives anyone?

Ok, thanks again for reading and here's the numbers....

Anyway, Here's the numbers...

Week.....Date.......Weight.....Lost.....Waist....Lost

Start.2/28/2007.......297.....n/a.......57......n/a

1.......3/07/2007.......289......8.........56........1

2.......3/14/2007.......280.....17........55.5.....1.5

3.......3/21/2007.......275.....22........55........2

4.......3/28/2007.......274.....23........53........4

5.......4/04/2007.......271.....26........52........5

6.......4/11/2007.......267.....30........52........5

7.......4/18/2007.......265.....32........51........6

8.......4/25/2007.......262.....35........50........7

9.......5/02/2007.......259.....38........48........8

10.....5/09/2007.......254.....43........47........9

11.....5/16/2007.......253.....44........46......10

12.....5/23/2007.......249.....48........46.....10

13.....5/30/2007.......247.....50........45.5...11.5

14.....6/06/2007.......241.....56........44.5...12.5

15.....6/13/2007.......240.....57........44.......13

16.....6/21/2007.......240.....57........44.......13

17.....6/27/2007.......237......60.......43........14

That's right!!! 3 pounds and 1 inch this week.. 60 pounds total!!!

Take Care, Eat Well,

Rich

n2styx@comcast.net

Nectar of the Gods

I've received many emails lately asking me how I curb my hunger and what do I do about sugar cravings. So here goes....

To curb those hunger pains: First of all, I usually eat about every 2 hours. Main Meal, snack, Main Meal, Snack, Main Meal, Snack. That routine usually keeps me from getting really hungry. But when I just have to have something, I grab some raw walnuts and/or grab a "Pepsi Jazz Strawberries and Cream Soda" or a "Diet Dr. Pepper Berries and Cream" and drink them quickly. The carbonation, I think makes my tummy feel full, I feel bloated and the hunger is gone. I also take a short walk, around the block, around the neighborhood. That little amount of exercise takes the edge off my hunger.

For my sugar cravings, again, the NECTAR OF THE GODS.. "Jazz Strawberries and Cream Soda" or a "Diet Dr. Pepper Berries and Cream". Not only do I find that these soda curb my hunger, they take the edge off my sugar cravings. If I feel I need something more tactile, I'll eat some frozen blueberries, low/non fat yogurt, chew Trident Sugar Free Cinnamon Gum (see a former blog for Trident information), a square of Trader Joe's 72% Dark Chocolate or suck on a Sugar Free Creme Saver Strawberries & Cream Hard candy.

These work for me, indivdual results will vary. I've heard that if you eat sugar free candies and sodas that this will only intensify your craving for real sugar and more sweets. This isn't the case for me. My cravings are gone after a Creme Saver or a Diet Soda. Again, this works for me, individual results may vary.

Take Care, Eat Well.
Rich
n2styx@comcast.net

Holding Steady

After enjoying Father's Day and accepting all the 'treats' offered on the day from my kiddos, I managed not to gain any weight this week! I didn't lose any either, but that's ok! It did make me think, though, how much in our culture we celebrate with food. What's a birthday, without cake and ice cream? What's Father's day without going out to eat with the kids? And don't even get me started about how celebrating the birth of Christ involves sweets of every imaginable combination. What's up with that?

Anyway, Here's the numbers...

Week.....Date.......Weight.....Lost.....Waist....Lost
Start.2/28/2007.......297.....n/a.......57......n/a
1.......3/07/2007.......289......8.........56........1
2.......3/14/2007.......280.....17........55.5.....1.5
3.......3/21/2007.......275.....22........55........2
4.......3/28/2007.......274.....23........53........4
5.......4/04/2007.......271.....26........52........5
6.......4/11/2007.......267.....30........52........5
7.......4/18/2007.......265.....32........51........6
8.......4/25/2007.......262.....35........50........7
9.......5/02/2007.......259.....38........48........8
10.....5/09/2007.......254.....43........47........9
11.....5/16/2007.......253.....44........46......10
12.....5/23/2007.......249.....48........46..... 10
13.....5/30/2007.......247.....50........45.5...11.5
14.....6/06/2007.......241.....56........44.5...12.5
15.....6/13/2007.......240.....57........44.......13
16.....6/21/2007.......240.....57........44.......13

No pictures this week. Same old me.

Take Care, Eat Well.

Rich
n2styx@comcast.net

Happy Father's Day!!

To all you father's out there, Happy Father's Day! Enjoy the day, relax and don't worry about the YOAD. On Father's Day, it's the YOAD less traveled. Enjoy the day with your kids and let them let you know how much they appreciate you and all you do.

Rich
Eat Well, tomorrow!

Rich

Another One Gone

Well it was weigh day and I lost another pound!! It's only a pound, but I'm actually surprised because last week I lost 6 pounds and contributed it to water or something freaky. I expected this week to actually gain weight to make up for the unusually big lost last week. But I lost another pound, I'LL TAKE IT!!

Here's the numbers...

Week.....Date.......Weight.....Lost.....Waist....Lost

Start.2/28/2007.......297.....n/a.......57......n/a

1.......3/07/2007.......289......8.........56........1

2.......3/14/2007.......280.....17........55.5.....1.5

3.......3/21/2007.......275.....22........55........2

4.......3/28/2007.......274.....23........53........4

5.......4/04/2007.......271.....26........52........5

6.......4/11/2007.......267.....30........52........5

7.......4/18/2007.......265.....32........51........6

8.......4/25/2007.......262.....35........50........7

9.......5/02/2007.......259.....38........48........8

10.....5/09/2007.......254.....43........47........9

11.....5/16/2007.......253.....44........46......10

12.....5/23/2007.......249.....48........46..... 10

13.....5/30/2007.......247.....50........45.5...11.5

14.....6/06/2007.......241.....56........44.5...12.5

15.....6/13/2007.......240.....57........44.......13

New Stuff

I started thinking about what I could do to get people to cruise over to my blog and spend a little while, so I found these neato Widgets. You can see them and use/play them if you scroll down the page, they're on the left side of the page. I thought Pac-Man was so appropriate for a bunch of dieters. Go figure. Enjoy!!

Rich

Yawn

After posting my daily routine and menus, I realized how boring and unexciting my days are. Blah. I hate keeping 'food diaries' and these post have been just that.. Therefore, I'm not going to post them anymore. Hopefully the days I've posted gave you a good idea of what I'm doing.

Eat Well,

Rich

Saturday

I slept in until 10 AM today. WOW !! That felt awesome.

10:15 AM - Cheerios with cinnamon, blueberries and raw flaxseeds

10:30 AM - Treadmill, Level 4, burned 320 calories, 1.8 miles. woo hoo!!

Noon - Yogurt w/flaxseeds and walnuts.

Went to the local fair grounds for the weekly flea market.. walked around for about 3 hours. I had a frozen custard. I couldn't resist. I figured I'd walk enough to burn it off.

4:30 - Yogurt

Friday's Routine

Slept in until 9 AM this morning. I have to work until 11 tonight, so sleeping-in was nice.

9:30 AM - Omelette with veggies cooked in olive oil.

10:45 AM - Tradmill, 30 minutes, 275 calories gone!!

11:30 AM - Low Fat Yogurt with raw flax seeds and 6 walnut halves.

1:30 PM - Salad (Romaine Lettuce, Tomato, Feta, Walnuts, Chicken Breast, Cranberries)

2:30 PM - I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go... blah

6:00 PM - Salad (Romaine Lettuce, Tomato, Feta, Walnuts, Chicken Breast, Cranberries)

Thursday's Routine

Got up, and hit the treadmill rightaway! 275 calories GONE!

9:00 AM - Ate Cheerios with Cinnamon, Blueberries and 2 Tablespoons of raw flax seeds

10:00 AM - Went to Costco and avoided all the 'free sample' booths (yay!) I did make myself walk up and down every aisle, because I like to look, because of the exercise.

12:30 PM - Ate Lunch, (Rice Pilaf and Chili) from Yoad Book.

3:30 PM - Ate a cup of Dannon "LIght and Fit" Yogurt (Strawberry - 60 calories, 0 Fat) with 6 walnut halves and 1 Tblsp of raw flax seeds

5:30 PM - 1 baked Chicken Breast.

7:30 PM - 2 squares of Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate (72% Cocoa).

Wednesday's Routine

8:30 AM Woke up, went potty, and got on the scale

8:45 AM - Ate Cheerios with Cinnamon, Blueberries and 2 Tablespoons of raw flax seeds.

9:00 AM - Walked to the grocery store, shopped, came home, total time, 40 minutes.

10:00AM - Took my weekly pictures, wrote my blog, while watching "The View" (Rosie, I miss you)

10:45 AM - Ate a cup of Dannon "LIght and Fit" Yogurt with 6 walnut halves and 1 Tblsp of raw flax seeds

12:00PM - 30 minutes on the treadmill, 275 calories gone!

1:30 PM - Salad (Romaine, Walnutes, Crandberries, Feta, Turkey Breast), Lipton Diet Green Tea.

3:00 PM - Grabbed some raw walnuts and ate them while watching 'Hell's Kitchen' (recorded).

5:00 PM - Dinner time. I'm eating Rice Pilaf and Chili, both from the YOAD book. Yummm.

OMG!!

Wow! I cannot express my amazement and surprise when I stepped on the scale this morning. 6 pounds!!?!?!?? How can this be? I'm trying to think of what I did this week to justify 6 pounds. I can think of nothing. Did I have a big water loss? Was it fat? Was the scale on the fritz? I'll accept this today, but I'll be leary next week.

Here's the numbers...

Week.....Date.......Weight.....Lost.....Waist....Lost
Start.2/28/2007.......297.....n/a.......57......n/a
1.......3/07/2007.......289......8.........56........1
2.......3/14/2007.......280.....17........55.5.....1.5
3.......3/21/2007.......275.....22........55........2
4.......3/28/2007.......274.....23........53........4
5.......4/04/2007.......271.....26........52........5
6.......4/11/2007.......267.....30........52........5
7.......4/18/2007.......265.....32........51........6
8.......4/25/2007.......262.....35........50........7
9.......5/02/2007.......259.....38........48........8
10.....5/09/2007.......254.....43........47........9
11.....5/16/2007.......253.....44........46......10
12.....5/23/2007.......249.....48........46..... 10
13.....5/30/2007.......247.....50........45.5...11.5
14.....6/06/2007.......241.....56........44.5...12.5



Eat Well,

Rich

The Routine

Several people have asked me what I'm eating every day, how much am I exercising, etc. I will TRY (yeah, I hear Yoda, "Do or do not, there is no try" in the background)

to post daily what I did, what I ate and when.

So here goes....

Since I worked until 6:45 AM this morning, I came home and went to bed. I slept until 11:30AM. I woke up, and after reading the paper and doing my normal 'morning grooming' stuff' (please don't ask for details) I went to the grocery store. I got home about 12:30 and ate 1 cup of Low Fat Yogurt while cooking the YOAD Chili and Rice Pilaf. At about 2 PM I ate a salad with Romaine Lettuce, walnuts, turkey breast, feta cheese, cranberries, and chopped cucumber. I portioned out containers of rice and chili and placed them in the freezer for later meals. At about 5pm I ate a portion of rice and chili. At 5:30PM I walked 30 minutes on my treadmill (level 3) which burned 275 calories, walking a distance of 1.6 miles. I drank a lot of Lipton Diet Green tea during the course of the day. It's now 7PM and I'm done eating until tomorrow. I plan on watching "America's Got Talent" tonight on tv.

Yeah, I know, I live a real exciting life. woo hoo!!

Take Care, Eat Well,

Rich

What a Week

It's been a crazy week. The biggest thing that happened is my hard drive on my 3 month old HP Pavillon CRASHED. I was typing an email and the computer froze in the middle. So I did the 3 finger salute (Ctl-Alt-Delete) and rebooted. But the new HP wouldn't hear of it. I got a "Cannot read from hard drive" message when I tried to boot. I tried several utility programs to try to recover the hard drive (including one from HP), but the Hard Drive gave up the ghost. Luckily it is still under warranty and after talking to "ANN" with a curiously heavy Indian accent, I got a new hard drive overnighted with 'Recovery" software Disks. So I got my HP back up to 'just like purchased' status and began the task of reinstalling all my programs, email contacts, favorites, etc..

Why am I mentioning it here? ALL MY Before, during and after pics of my journey to lose weight were on my hard drive. They are gone. The only ones left are the ones posted here and at the link posted on here. "All my photos in one place". Although it's a good selection of my pictures, I had a lot more. Oh well.

Tomorrow's weigh day and I'm hoping all the stress helped shed some pounds.

Take Care, Eat Well.

Rich