May 21st - 25th

Going into Saturday morning I accepted the fact I'd probably gain 5+ lbs. At the kickball tournament I put down a few beers (I know, pretty sad for a kickball tourney), one of which was out of a flabongo. What's a flabongo you ask, well it's a yard flamingo turned into a beer bong. Pretty freaking awesome! After the tourney SB, Michelle, Tony, and I attended the Timbers game which was grounds for more drinks and NACHOS! Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I was scared of what the scale would uncover and avoided it until this morning. Before I tell you what scale read to day, let me tell you about my diet.

Saturday May 21st
Weight: 210
Breakfast: scrambled eggs with chicken and spinach and a side of refired beans with cinnamon.
Kickball Tourney: two chicken tameles, 3 beers, 2 pieces of flank steak, and about 72 ozs of water
Exercise: Pitching just over 2 games of kickball
Timbers Game: 16oz of microbrew, cup of whiskey, and NACHOS!

Sunday May 22nd
Weight: ???
Strick slow card diet food. :-)
No exercise

Monday May 23rd
Weight: ???
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with kimchee, chicken sausage, kimchee and refried beans with cinnanmon
Lunch: Chipotle chicken salad
Dinner: many peices of fried chicken, broccoli and carrots.
Exercise: 4.6 mile commute to work

Tuesday May 24th
Weight: ????
Breakfast: Scrabmled eggs with chicken sausage, kimchee and spinach and black beans
Lunch: 2 peices of roasted chicken, side broccoli salad with nuts, bacon, and honey mayo dressing, and a green bean and mushroom salad from Whole Foods
Dinner: Fried chicken and broccoli
Exercise: 4.6 mile commute to work

Wednesday May 25th
Weight: 199!!!!!!!!!
Breakfast Scrambled eggs with pho chicken, spinach, and kimchee with a side of pinto beans
Beverage: espresso
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I've been slipping updating the blog...sorry about that. No excuses!

May 20th

In an effort to kick start the old metabolism, I hit the gym around 7:30 and knocked out the Kiwi Workout A routine (which includes 75 kettlebell wings with 52.8lb weight). It felt great that early in the morning. To keep the metablism cranking I drank a 20oz Americana around 10am. Hopefully with the long night of moving our Data Center doesn't screw with things to much. The kickball tourney tomorrow should be interesting. Hopefully I'll shead a few lbs in the process.

Weight: 210.0
Breakfast: lentils with bacon and sun dried tomato and basil sausage
Lunch: Chipotle Chicken Salad
Dinner: ???
Water intake: well over 72ozs

May 19th

I've been slacking on taking the calcium/magnisum pills which is causing some sleep issues. Either that or I really like seeing the sun come up. Recent none events lead me to believe I've hit a platue. I'm guessing it has to do with the SF trip and lack or consistant LI workouts. Hopefully the muscle mass program will change all this next week.

Weight: 210

Breakfast: left over lentils with bacon and sun dried tomato and basil sausage

Exercise: 2 mile ride to work

Lunch: chipotle chicken salad

Exercise: 2.3 mile ride home (we moved offices)

Dinner: Spicy chicken bento with veggies

Exercise: 30 minutes of dodgeball
Cheat: 2 small cups of amazing bud light

May 11th to Today May 18th

There's no way it's been a week since my last post. Sorry about that peeps, I've other than SF for 4 days, I'm not sure where I've been. Before my SF trip I was finally able to meet up with Bill to get my TI measured. The only "mistake" I had made was to work out prior to the measurements. Bill said I probably gained an inch because of it. After 5 weeks of being on the plan I had lost a total of 14lbs and 12+ inches. I'm possitve there was more "fat loss" than the 14lbs, however there was not way to account for the muscle mass gain. Lets take a moment to reflect on the 12+ inches I lost, that was the biggest shocker. That measurement provided assurance that this plan is working great.

The trip to SF was filled with booze and great food! Luckily I was able to sneek in the Kiwi Workout B on Friday and a little 3+ mile jog Sunday during Bay to Breakers. I was able to stick to the diet pretty much the entire time. A few exceptions was an amazing green chili burger around 2am Saturday morning, oysters and scallops over pasta Sunday night, and some candy on the ride home Monday. What I think hurt was the masive amounts of whiskey Friday night, the 5 beers on Saturday, and quite a bit of booze (beers, bloody mary's, whiskey) on Sunday. Drink all that booze without a good helping of water keep the most of the toxins in. Tuesday I drank more than 72oz of water which helped right the ship.

Friday pre SF trip weight: 207
Tuesday morning post trip weight: 210
Wednesday morning: 209lbs.

Wedneday breakfast: Scrambled eggs with chicken, green onions, and cilantro and a side of refried beans with cinnanmon.

Wednesday lunch: Chipotle pork and chicken salad.

Wednesday exercise: Kiwi Workout A (hello 75 KB swings with 53.2lb kb)

Wednesday diner:

May 10th

A nice two lb loss is great, hopefully I can it sub 205 by Friday morning. With hopes of seeing 200 by next week to then start the muscle gain program. It's been an interesting run so far and practicing some some control on gorge days is key.

Weight: 208

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with spinach, refried beans with cinnamon, and mixed greens (broccoli, cauliflower, snap peas, and carrots)

Lunch: Velo Cafe zatar chicken and cauliflower with capers and parsley.

snack: Refried beans with cinnamon

Dinner: Pork chops, lentils with bacon and capers, chicken sausage, and mixed greens (broccoli, cauliflower, snap peas, and carrots)

Exercise: bike ride with Amelia around the hood and fun at the park.

Snacks: Jerky and almonds

Exercise: n/a

May 9th

Today started with a decent 1lb loss. My focus was to get back to keeping fueled and not waiting to eat until my hunger was no long tolerable. Hopefully the mix of a full tank of gas and basketball will account for a decent result on the scale tomorrow am.

Weight: 210

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with spinach, green onion, and cilantro with a side of refried beans and mixed greens (broccoli, cauliflower and carrots)

Lunch: Lemon grass chicken and steak over greens

Dinner 1: Refried beans and broccoli, cauliflower and carrots

Dinner 2: Fish balls, Chineese broccoli with garlic, kimchee, and fish soup.

Exercise: rode to and from work and 4 games of basketball

May 6th, 7th (Gorge Day) and 8th

May 6th

The morning started off nice as I was down half a pound and was looking forward to getting my TI measured again. Unfortunately Bill's was unavailable to help me out. Hopefully we can find time this next week. Friday night was filled with fun at the Timbers game, however after a 4 whiskeys, a margarita, 2 polish dogs with sour kraut, green salad with eggs and bacon, 3 pieces of shrimp and 3 fried chicken wings I was fearing the scale prior to our Gorge day even with playing soccer prior.

Friday's Weight 208.5

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with kimchee and spinach

Lunch: Chipotle chicken salad

Dinner: see above.....

Exercise: 44 minutes of soccer

Gorge Day May 7th

The day didn't start as bad as I expected. Only gained a half a pound, considering how much I had eaten I'm was OK with that number. The focus for Saturday was portion control, tons of water, and scaling back the alcohol.

Saturday's Weight: 209

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with kimchee and spinach and black pinto beans

Lunch: chicken pho and assorted dim sum.

Dinner: Various curred meats and cheese, pulled pork over a green salad, stuffed mushrooms, and a 4 or 5 glasses of wine all to celebrate Timm Kings birthday.

Sunday May 8th Mothers Day

This was probably the easiest Sunday in a long time. Not having to worry about losing 5+ pounds to get back on track is nice. Looking forward to kicking ass this week to get back to my goal. Hopefully we'll see sub 207 by Friday.

Weight: 211

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with kimchee and spinach and refried beans with cinnamon.

Lunch: various snacks (2 crab cakes, green salad with chicken)

Dinner: mixed green salad with refried beans with cinnamon

Exercise: Kiwi workout B

Throughout the weekend I've probably drank damn near 5 gallons of water and 3 liters of green tea. Hopefully tomorrow morning we'll be looking good.

Cinco De Mayo!!!

Once again I'm slapped in the face by one of the main 4HB rules. Stay ahead of your hunger so that you don't over eat at dinner. There was a good 6 hour gap between lunch and dinner lead to massive over eating. Focusing on keeping fueled throughout the day is my new goal. Also, I've decided to stick with the "diet" phase until I get down to 200lbs. Tomorrow should give some greater insight as to my progress. I'll be getting my TI calculated, lets hope it's less an 200. :-)

Weight: 209

Exercise: Kiwi workout A (60 53.5lb kettlebells swings)

Breakfast: Scrambed Eggs with kimchee and spinach, and refried beans with cinnamon

Exercise: 2 mile ride to work

Lunch: Chicken salad from you know where

Snack: half can of mixed beans

Exercise: 2 mile ride to home

Dinner: Roasted chicken, kimchee, and refried beans with cinnamon.

Exercise: DODGEBALL

Snack: mixed nuts

May 4th

Lost another few pounds to get me down closer to 206. I added some cinnamon to my morning beans and incorporated green tea into my daily intake of fluids. We'll see how this shape up tomorrow.

Weight: 208

Breakfast: Scramble egg with kimchee and spinach (left overs from yesterday) and refried bean with cinnamon.

Lunch: Chipotle chicken salad (yes that's 3 times in 24 hours, but it's so good and perfect of the "diet")

Snack: bean melody

Dinner: Roasted chicken, black beans, and kimchee

Exercise: 7.5 miles on the bike, park time with Amelia

Cheat: Half a cupcake....Thea is working on her first order and I had to help her test. And yes, it really was only 1/2 a peanut butter chocolate frosted cake.

May 3rd

Day 29 isn't a very good day for me. I can't believe I was so close to my goal to then somehow "throw it away" just before reaching it. This past weekend really screwed me up. Hopefully riding my bike the 1.75 miles to work helped kick start my metabolism. We'll see that the scale and the measurements say tomorrow.

Weight: 210

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with kimchee and spinach.

Snack: mixed beans

Lunch: Chicken salad from Chipotle

Dinner: Chicken salad from Chipotle

Exercise: Bike to work, work to inlaws, and inlaws to home. Total distance 7 miles

May 2 (Weekend Included)

This weekend was a cluster fuck to say the least. Prior to leaving for Rockaway Beach for the weekend and just after my soccer match Friday evening I weighed in at 206.6. Finally breaking 207 was an awesome feeling. The entire drive to the beach I keep telling myself "take it easy this weekend".

Considering the limited resources he had to work with, Stevie B and May put out a great steak, lentils and spinach dinner. After dinner was down he hatch, my will power went to shit and i started shoveling chips and other crap down.

Saturday
Weight: UNKNOWN

Breafast: scrabled eggs with left over steak, beans, a few mini muffins, and some bites of Thea cinnimon roll.

Lunch: Cheeseburger and fries, 2 amazing bloddy mary's, New York style cheese cake with strawberries all curtisy of The Bite in Rockaway Beach

Dinner: Home made seafood chiappino with 3 pieces of garlic bread.

Snack: Probably around 1/2 of Dried spicy squid and 4 bears spread through out the day.

Sunday
Breakfast: Fried eggs, black eyed beans with onions and cilatro, and spinach

Lunch: cabbage soup with groud turkey meat balls

Weight: 215

Exercise: Kiwi work out B and kickball (for what it's worth, pitching in the sun is tough work. espically when you haven't seen the sun in many months. ;-)

Dinner: Hot pot with lots of greens, mushrooms and fish balls.

Monday (May 2nd)
Weight: 211

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with spinach, kimchee, and beans with corn, cilantro and white vinegar.

Lunch: Spicy chicken, miso broccoli with carrots, and beans from New Seasons.

Snack: Beans and corn mix with 2 peices of turkey bacon

Exercise: Racquetball from 8pm to 10pm. Didn't get a good enough sweat to make a difference. Playing with 4 people on 1 court is tough. However during our last game of cut throat I did have the pleasure of doing 220 pushups. :-)

Dinner: Chicken with Chineese broccoli and some chicken and mushroom soup.