Feb 222010
Weekend Update…in bullet time!
- I went Curling on Saturday. The best way to describe it is shuffleboard on ice (I guess), but it’s an Olympic sport and a local curling club was holding an open house over the weekend. My guess is that they were trying to play off of the Olympic hype, and it worked! The place was packed and everyone got a 30 minute session out on the ice to try it out. The main thing we practiced was the delivery, where you slid the stone down the ice. I fell on my ass. I have no grace, I’ll own that. We didn’t join the curling club as was their hope, but my friend and I may go back on Thursday for another more involved instruction. WooT!
- I won almost $300 bucks on Sunday. Sunday was a lazy day, and my roommate and I were bored as hell. I had a little extra cash in the wallet, so we went to to Charlestown Races and Slots in Charlestown, WV. I haven’t won ANYTHING in slots since 2005 (and I have been several times since) but apparently last night was my lucky night. I won something off of almost every machine I went to. I even strayed away from the safezone that is the penny machines, and I wont $200 on a two dollar machine, and $90 on a five dollar machine. I lost a fair amount too, sure, but in the end I still bringing home almost $300 more than I started with, so YAY! Roommate won jackshit, so that sucks, but still…
- I readed!!! Over the weekend I finished Dietgirl‘s (aka Shauna Reid’s) book, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl. I am now halfway through Pastaqueen‘s (aka Jennette Fulda’s) book, Half Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir. I absorbed weight loss stories like a sponge, whether it be book or blog (or book by a blogger), etc… I’m considering writing reviews for each, but I’m not sure yet. In the meantime, if anyone has other weight loss stories to recommend (especially dude ones) drop a comment. I’ve had Tales from the Scale recommended already, but I’ll take what I can get with anything else.
- I counteded!!! I’m still calorie counting, although the weekend counts are a bit higher than I would have liked. I’ve also stuck to the Black/Brownlists like awesome. It’s showing too, on the scale anyway. I’m a bit OCD in that I have to weight myself daily, and so far I like what I’m seeing. I’m hoping I can get it to a certain point by tommorows official weigh in, but we’ll see how it goes. Overall I’m trying to stick with to an 1800 calorie a day diet, but I’m trying to look at it more as a weekly calorie goal (so it’d be 12600 a week). I’m doing it that way so I can fluctuate the daily numbers, a) to keep my body in flux, which I think will help prevent a plateau, and b) to accomodate for any larger meals I may end up having.
And uh…that’s it. How was your weekend? Anything new and exciting going on your way?
It might be wise to be careful with looking at it as 12,600 calories/week. Having 1,000/day for 6 days and then scoffing 6,600 calories in the last day probably isn’t going to do you any favours. Allowing yourself to go over budget might also hurt your long-term effort by conditioning you to think it’s ok to splash out.
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I get what your saying, definitely something to consider. I’m not doing 1000 for 6 days then 6600 on the 7th day though, that definitely wouldn’t help me at all!
I’m trying to do a lower cal day, higher cal day, lower cal day, higher cal day, etc…etc…etc…
I still need to look more into this too. Thanks for the input
I loved Jenette’s book! I’m sure you’ll like it too.
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I’m almost done it, so far so good
I love it.
Curling sounds like fun! I’m not a big gambler, but damn! $300!
Good job on the calorie counting – it sucks when you’re just getting in the habit of doing it, but once you get on board, it’s like brushing your teeth (assuming you brush your teeth).
I brush…I just suck at flossing…maybe make that a non-weightloss goal?
Sounds like a fun weekend! Hope your hiney isn’t too sore from the curling fall. lol Good job counting-especially on the weekend!
Hehehehe…my hiney is okay at the moment…let’s see what happens if we go back on Thursday though
Congrats on the winnings! Ummm, can I borrow 20 bucks now? lol j/k.
Good job on the counting over the weekend. I did a lot better this weekend–no drinking OR baking. Now if I could just avoid fast food!
Good luck on the scale manana!!!
Awesome job w/ your weekend! The reason I didn’t put fast food on my blacklist is that I know its really unavoidable with me…but I’ll work around it and get the best menu choice I can (cuz fries ARE on the list…dammit! :p)
Future Curling Champion, Gambler Extraordinaire, Fashion Icon — Dude, what are you going to bust out next? As for great reads on weight loss I would make sure to check out this sweet blog I found called nomorebacon.com.
Seriously though Steve, good work bro!
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Heh heh heh…nomorebacon.com eh? Hmmm….I think I’ve heard of that one
I think in order to qualify as a Fashion Icon I’d need to have more name brand and less Walmart and Target. I have a lllooonnnggg ways to go
Nice work man, sounds like you’ll be happy with your weigh-in this week. I’ve started counting calories too, which has been going well for the most part. If nothing else it’s made me more aware of what I’m eating. Sometimes I’ll get ready to eat something, and then think, “I don’t want to have to log this”, and then put it back. So it’s also acted as a bit of a deterrent in some cases too
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I’ve had a few “I don’t want to have to log this” moments. It’s good in a way, but I can see myself becoming very OCD about it down the road…
I reckon you should see some good progress on the weightloss front this week! Congrats on the winnings!
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I have less than 24 hours to not eff up and eat an entire pizza. It’s chancey, but I think I can pull it off
want to go 50/50 on some lottery tickets Steve!!
Hahaha…don’t get too excited. I won 300 bucks, sure…but between scratchoffs and slot machines throughout the years I’m still in the hole.
An unexciting as curling may be to watch, I think it’d be a blast to play…at least to say it’s something you tried. Sounds fun!!
Exactly, I tried!
I’m becoming more and more open to new things, and I love it!
Man, I would go try curling because I just don’t get it. At all.
My weekend was okay. Nothing too exciting.
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I really didn’t understand it either until the open house…I mean, I got the basic idea, but the scoring was a complete mystery to me.
WooT to an okay weekend, better than a bad one
As any good Canadian will tell you, you were doing it wrong when you went curling if you weren’t half-drunk and still pounding beer whilst sweeping.
Duh.
Is that how it goes? I’ll remember that for next time!
hey you read it already! thanks! I thought the zombies might have won out
reviews are ALWAYS welcomed, i link to mine on my blog so let me know and I can add ya!
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Well, my impatience got the best of me, and I read the first chapter on the publishers site before the book came in…so I HAD to finish it
Since the author herself welcomes it, I think I’ve been swayed towards a book review. WooT!
I love that you tried some new sport. You were probably more focused on learning the sport than the amount of calories you burned. That’s the part I love about losing weight and getting some energy back. There are so many more things to try/do.
This weekend I went to a street painting festival, and I took the opportunity to turn it into exercise. I parked far away, walked to and through the festival, and then I went further (to the beach). It was six miles total, and it felt great.
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A street painting festival, that soudns like alot of fun! And you’re right, I was much more interested in the sport than the calories
Loved it!
I loved those books, reading Tales from the Scale now. ‘Hungry’ is by a boy. I didn’t read all of that one before it had to go back to the library.
I saw Hungry on Amazon, actually! I’m going to order it, just haven’t yet
I’m gonna hafta check out those books.
Grats on giving curling a try, it’s fascinating to me to watch.
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