Thursday, May 14, 2009

5/14/2009 Food Diary

Total Calories: 1596 kcal





Fat(g) Carbs(g) Prot(g) KCals

35.47 239.29 86.9 1596










Breakfast









110 g Egg White 0.19 0.8 11.99 57
28 g weight watchers cheese 8.39 0.54 6.62 104
1 serving weight watchers rye 1.5 19 5 90










Lunch









Cafe Steamers Sesame Chicken 6.00 50.00 17.00 330










Dinner









3 FF Sweet Onion Sauce - 27.00 - 120
1 serving Footlong Roast Beef 10.00 90.00 38.00 580










Other









1 Uncrustables 10am 9.00 25.00 7.00 210
1 medium banana 8:45 pm 0.39 26.95 1.29 105


Workout was 3 mile run on treadmill at 9pm.. Was not feeling it tonight. Not sure if it is the major calorie cut or just too late to start running. I was not tracking before this week but I was eating between 2500 - 3500 (bad calories, cookies and such).

5/13/2009 Food Diary

Total Calories: 1570 kcal
Fat(g) Carbs(g) Prot(g) KCals

36.43 224.71 103.53 1570





Breakfast









1 serving kashi go lean crunch 3 37 9 190
1/2 cup milk 2% 2.4 5.71 4.03 61
1 small box raisins 0.2 34.05 1.32 129










Lunch









1 serving Cafe Steamers chicken red pepper 5.00 30.00 20.00 250










Dinner









5 oz , boneless, cooked Chicken Breast 10.94 - 41.89 276
1 serving Rotini Pasta 1.00 42.00 7.00 200
2 servings Simply Steam Garden Vegetable Medley 1.00 22.00 4.00 100










Other









1 medium Bananas 4pm 0.39 26.95 1.29 105





1 serving Peanut Butter 9:30pm after walk 11.00 8.00 10.00 169





1 serving weight watchers rye 9:30pm after walk 1.50 19.00 5.00 90



As far as exercise for yesterday. I walked on the treadmill for one hour. I did this with the treadmill set to a 7% incline and covered 3.25 miles.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

My Biggest Loser Finale Recap

My Biggest Loser Finale Thoughts. I will try to be quick and to the point.

I was really looking forward to this seasons finale. More so then any of the other seasons.

Knowing this was going to be a 3 hour episode with MANY commercials I chose to utilize the DVR. I ran on my treadmill until about 9pm. Took a quick shower and started watching at about 9:15. This worked out great going through the commercials and I will admit I didn’t watch the stuff about the last contestant for the next season (shot me). While you are at it you can shot me for fast forwarding through the Pounds for Pounds segment.

Mike and Ron came out and Mike was voted America’s choice to be in the top 3 joining Helen and Tara. So Ron will be competing for the $100K. The eliminated contestants then came out to compete for $100,000.

The first group trying for $100K was Jerry, Estella, Nicole, and Damien. They all put up great numbers. I personally thought Jerry, and Estella looked older than there real age. However they are much healthier now. Nicole looked incredible, Damien is well on his way, and hopefully he will continue his weight loss.

Next up was Carla, Joelle, Filipe and Sione. Again they all looked great (from where they were). The ladies have some work to do still. The guys put up some great numbers, I hope their “culture” (their word not mine) doesn’t bring them back to where they were.

To be honest I am very fuzzy as to the order of the next 11 people to get on the scale. Ron was last that I do remember. But quickly on the 11 (in reverse order of % of weight loss).

· David – What can you say he is obviously not into it.
· Aubrey – Probably doing the best she can with her work load. I am not a big fan of the no time excuse but with 5 kids it must be hard. Not sure how much support he gets from her husband.
· Laura – I actually thought she looked better than the scale said she did.
· Daniel – Love this kid. I hope he continues to do well. Lost 142 pounds so far and is going in the right direction.
· Blaine – Looked good, fellow Clydesdale runner and triathlete. Sounds like he and his cousin are working hard.
· Cathy – To be honest nothing stood out to me.
· Shannon – See Cathy notes.
· Mandi – Is doing a great job. Hopefully she can inspire her sister and other family members.
· Dane – See Blaine notes.
· Ron – Lost a ton of weight (192 pounds) but it was not enough to over take Jerry for the 100K.
· Kristin – Is doing a phenomenal job but I really didn’t care for her choice of outfit and hair. Lost to Jerry by 6 pounds.

And now for the BIG 3. No pun intended (ok pun intended).

They all looked incredible. But although I was hoping Tara would win, I knew when I saw the 3 that Helen would win. You can just tell that she worked her ass off. I am sure the other 2 worked out like crazy also but Helen just look amazingly fit. I can't recall from past seasons what the top 3 contestants lost percentage wise but these 3 seemed to be very high. Helen lost 54.47% of her body weight, followed by Mike at 53.35% and Tara 52.72% (slacker). I wouldn't be surprised if Helen put on 10 pounds from last night just from drinking water over the last few hours.

All and all I really enjoyed the show. I find it very inspirational and I hope it inspires me to re-lose about 30 pounds and then an additional 20 or so.

The only problem with watching on DVR was that I had my lap top and was following past contestants and others from the East Coast on Twitter. Like passing an accident while driving I didn't want to look but I had to keep checking the Twitter updates. Even Ali was posting during commercial breaks. I think I ended about 15 minutes after the show ended. So it took me about 2 hours to watch the 3 hour finale.

Here is my post with the final percentages of all the contestants.

Yesterday's food journal

Not sure how this will copy and paste, but I will try it. I am using http://www.fatsecret.com/. I found the application for my Blackberry and liked it so much I decided to also use the website. It is a free site and if you are looking to track your food and exercise it looks like a great site so far.



This was from 5/12/2009

Total Calories: 1501










Fat(g)Carbs(g)Prot(g)KCals
Daily Totals38.93208.7193.531501

Breakfast




1 serving kashi go lean crunch 3.00 37.00 9.00 190.00





1/2 cup milk 2% 2.40 5.71 4.03 61.00





1 small box raisins 0.20 34.05 1.32 129.00





Lunch



1 serving cafe steamers chicken 5.0030.0020.00250





Dinner








5 oz boneless, cooked Chicken Breast 10.94-41.89276





1 serving Rotini Pasta 1.0042.007.00200





Snacks / Other








1 medium Bananas 0.3926.951.29105





1 serving life savers -15.00-60





1 serving Lightly Salted Dry Roasted Peanuts 14.005.007.00160





1 serving Sugar Free Creme Brulee Rice Pudding 2.0013.002.0070


On the exercise side I ran 4 miles on the treadmill last night.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Biggest Loser Final Numbers - Spoiler Alert


Starting Weight Ending Weight Weight Loss Percent Weight Loss





Helen 257 117 140 54.47%
Mike 388 181 207 53.35%
Tara 294 139 155 52.72%















Jerry 369 192 177 47.97%
Kristin 360 193 167 46.39%
Nicole 269 146 123 45.72%
Ron 430 238 192 44.65%
Sione 372 226 146 39.25%
Dane 412 258 154 37.38%
Filipe 364 229 135 37.09%
Damien 381 245 136 35.70%
Mandi 263 171 92 34.98%
Estella 242 159 83 34.30%
Carla 379 251 128 33.77%
Shanon 283 191 92 32.51%
Cathy 293 198 95 32.42%
Blaine 365 249 116 31.78%
Daniel 454 312 142 31.28%
Laura 285 199 86 30.18%
Joelle 309 229 80 25.89%
Aubrey 249 194 55 22.09%
David 393 350 43 10.94%

Proud - Heather Small

Biggest Loser final tonight.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

My 3rd leg of the American Odyssey Relay.


Finally getting to my 3rd leg of the AOR. So this leg came after a night of about a half hour of sleep. I woke up feeling like shit. Thought I was going to puke and actually thought if I did I would feel better. I didn't.

So my leg called for 6.5 miles on the C&O canal. Very flat and shaded. I started off good running the first 11 minutes or so. Then I went to run 5 minutes and walk 1 minute. Then I quickly went to 1 minute run and 1 minute walk. I was very happy to see that my leg turned out to be only 6.25.

Activity
Route:--Elev. Avg:221 ft
Location:Point Of Rocks, MDElev. Gain:-13 ft
Date:04/25/09Up/Downhill: [+101/-114]
Time:10:43 AMDifficulty:2.5 / 5.0
Weather:Fair
88 F temp; 31% humidity
86 F heat index; winds W 3
Performance

Distance: 6.26 miles

Time:1:16:52
Speed:4.9 mph

Pace:12' 17 /mi

Calories:1120

Map
Elevation (ft)
Pace (min/mile)
Splits
MilePace (min/mile)Speed (mph)Elevation
Gain
actual+/- avgactual+/- avg
110' 31-1' 465.7+0.80 ft
211' 48-0' 295.1+0.2-10 ft
311' 47-0' 305.1+0.20 ft
413' 00+0' 434.6-0.3-3 ft
513' 02+0' 454.6-0.3+3 ft
613' 20+1' 034.5-0.40 ft
end11' 23-0' 545.3+0.4-3 ft
Versus average of 12' 17 min/mile

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