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I can't speak for their effectiveness personally, but these were highly recommended by someone on Spark: http://www.airdrives.com/default.asp?contentID=21

Not a fail! Progress towards a goal!

Wow, I'm a little behind. As I said before, visiting my folks right now. Eating healthy has been a major challenge. My folks want to get me my favorite foods and take me to my favorite places, and they're so excited about it that it's difficult to say no. It doesn't help that my mom's idea of a healthy breakfast is a muffin and fruit =P Best I can do it try and control my portions. Homemade rugalach is likely to be my downfall, though... 5/19/10 1 - recorded everything. Good thing my goal is just too record. =P 2 - off day 3 -off day 8am flight, so airport breakfast. Once I arrived, it was off to my parents favorite jewish deli in Sarasota. I probably should have gotten a salad or something, but the call of a good reuben was hard to resist. At least I got the turkey pastrami version, which wasn't quite as bad =/ My mom insisted on cheese blintzes for dinner. I can tell my sweet tooth has receded at least somewhat-it was like eating cheesecake for dinner =P 5/20/10 1 - recorded everything. My dad is diabetic, and came up with a tasty and reasonably low-carb breakfast, which helped my daily totals. Being too tired to eat saved me a bunch at dinner, too 2 - off day 3 -week 2 day 1 done! Proud of myself for doing it even while away. My parents just don't really get exercise, so trying to keep up around them is weird, and feels selfish =P Spent the day boating, tramping on the beach, and swimming in the Gulf. My appetite was huge today! I don't know if was the salt air, or the exertion of boating, or being on the beach, or what, but I was very hungry most of the afternoon. Bad part-ate rugalach instead of the healthy snacks I brought. Like I said, major weakness there. 5/21/10 1 - recorded everything. Good thing I was tired at dinner-ribs have a LOT more calories than I realized 2 - off day 3 -off day How do you calculate the caloric count of fighting a tarpon? It's certainly a workout, landing a 160lb fish =D

If you want to get really inspired, check him out in the very first season of Buffy-he was quite a skinny guy then (couldn't find a pic, sorry). I started watching that series mid-way through, so I'd thought he was always muscular. When I went back and saw the first season, I didn't even recognize him at first.....

Eh, log it anyway. I've found it worthwhile to see the jumps, personally-reminds me when I have a heavy day, that's it's happened before, it's no big deal. Honestly, though, the best thing to do is track median weight rather than actual-it helps you see the real progress. I've used some version of the Hacker's Diet for a while (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/).

I just had to geek out a bit....I'm on an airplane, somewhere between Rochester NY and Tampa FL (probably over PA somewhere), and I'm online! I even played some WoW. Speed is great, but cramped laptop is kind of annoying. Still, this is full of geeky win in my book =D

5/18/10 1 - recorded everything. Kinda went a little high on calories, over a friend's for dinner. 2 - off day 3 - finally...wk1 day 3 done. I need to be a little more consistent here, but still, not too bad. Saw my doctor and talked to him again about my knee. Maybe I was more specific, or maybe it was the magic phrase "it hurts when I exercise", but I didn't get the "lose weight and it'll be better" talk. I've got a scrip for an x-ray, which should allow him to justify the more useful MRI I probably need. Glad to be on track for figuring out this problem. Next few days are going to be a challenge-I'm visiting my folks. I love my folks, but I certainly didn't pick up my bad eating and slothful ways from the street I packed some good snacks-almonds, jerky, even a few protein bars-to try and keep me full and eating at least somewhat well. We'll see how it goes.

Holy crap, that's awesome, congrats!

Yeah, there are definite ways this recipe could be improved health-wise without affecting the taste. It's easily my favorite fish recipe, though...fast and tasty and it feels like I'm cheating....

5/17/10 1 - recorded everything. Still having a hard time getting enough protein. I'm really craving carbs, and I can't decide if it's b/c I'm used to them, or if my body really needs them. 2 - 18 mile commute, 1100 calories burned. 3 - fail day again =P Too rushed in the morning, too exhausted in the evening. I've always had problems losing weight while cycling, which seemed strange to me. I'm thinking that maybe part of the problem was that I haven't been eating enough to compensate-it's hard for me to really wrap my brain around how many calories biking really burns. I need to make sure I'm eating at a minimum the base 1200 calories + whatever I burned off. I know in the past I haven't eaten that much, and that could have been limiting me. Seems odd, eat more to lose weight...

Don't beat yourself up over it. Weight can fluctuate by a couple lbs. My usual strategy-if I have an unusually high (or low) weight, I weigh myself 3 day in a row. If it stays high, then I get concerned. Otherwise, it's just your body being its wonderful unpredictable self.

grats!

I have this same problem on big workout days. I figure, though, if I'm not interested in eating more, my body's not ready for it. I'll kind of slide about half the surplus calories into the next day, cause I'm usually famished come breakfast. YMMV, but our bodies rarely seem to work on clean 24 hour schedules...

5/16/10 1 - recorded everything. Was way under b/c of a long bike ride. I ate some of it back, but I was too tired to eat more 2 - 15 miles of hills on a gorgeous day =D 3 - fail day =P Meant to, was too tired post ride. I should've just done them before I left. 4 - fail again. I'm thinking of dropping this one right now, as simply resting it is making a world of difference. Next month, I'll add the knee strengthening Went on a great bike ride down the rolling hills south of the city. Well, rolling in a car. Freakin' mountains on a bike I only had to walk a short way uphill, though, and it was a bad section-up hill to a stop sign, then up a steep long hill. My legs could do it, but my heart was gonna explode. So, I walked for about 50 yards or so and caught my breath, and got back on my bike and continued spinning my ass off. I also get to check off one of my one shots-I got my heart rate monitor/gps out of storage and got it working again. It's a nice little toy-maps my rides, calculates my speeds (fairly accurately), measures my heart rate, and calculates calories burned. This seems like it should be the most trustworthy count, too-it takes into the equation my weight the weight of my bike, and my exertion (heart rate). Still, it always seems high-yesterday, for an hour and a half ride, it said I burned 1100 calories! Still, I suppose there's a big difference between a 150lb person pushing a 20lb bike up hill (which is the base calculation most sites list, I believe), and a 215lb guy pushing a 30lb bike up a hill. I think no matter what I'll make sure my net calories are at least over 1200, and eat more as I'm hungry.

Totally agree with that. I've tried running a bunch of times, never got into it. Flying down a hill? Such a high... Only problem is climbing the hill in the first place, but beating that hill is a high all on it's own....

5/15/10 1 - recorded everything. Actually hit all my targets for calories and nutrient distribution, too, which is amazing. I feel like I'm eating nothing but protein though. 2 - off day 3 - off day 4 - still nothing. Although just avoiding anything bad for my knee (squats/lunges, jumps, running) seems to have made a big difference. Still, shouldn't ignore this I didn't do all that much specifically active, but it was still a good fitness day. I spent the morning prepping good food, so when I'm in a hurry it's ready to go. I now have a dozen and a half hard boiled eggs, cauliflower salad, and celery sticks ready to go, and I have 5 chicken breasts and 2 pounds of beef for jerky marinating to be cooked/dried today. I also went by my LBS to order my new bike. Just thinking about being on that bike inspires me, all I want to do is get out and ride it. I hung around for a free preventative maintenance/field repair workshop (love this bike shop). There was something about that whole trip that just made me feel like an athlete. It's not a moniker I usual own, and just the feeling of it....it gives me power. I'm not some weak fat guy huffing and puffing along trying to lose weight, I'm an athlete in training. Part of my training includes losing weight....but that's not the goal. It's just a different perspective, and it makes me feel powerful and full of drive. Gotta remember that!

Grats, that's awesome! Good to hear the C25k program works so well...

Nice, I'm jealous! I really need to work on my bike collection. I currently have an old Performance MTB that I've altered into half decent commuter bike that I've been riding pretty steadily for the last couple years. I've also been trying to ride club rides on it, but 30-40 miles of trying to keep up with road bikes on a mountain bike....well, it sucks a lot I'm picking up a 2009 Trek 2.1 in another week or so, though, and I can't wait to get on it....

I'm sure it's not what you were thinking....but I've been reading ebooks on my smartphones/pdas for years-first on my palm pilots, then my Treo, and now my iPhone. If you have a smartphone currently, it'd be worth giving it a shot. I was very surprised at how comfortable I was reading on the small screen. YMMV, of course, but it's an option...

Woot, another cyclist! What bikes do you ride?

Derby FTW! We finally have a home-grown derby team here in Rochester, and I've got about a dozen friends involved in various ways. Me, I've got my season ticket, suicide seats, tyvm =D I'm also struggling with being active w/ a bum knee. Cycling seems to be helping, as long as everything's adjusted properly-but check with your doc first, of course. Beyond that, I'm still looking....

Agreed, 2 lbs isn't much to really worry about. Maybe you ate something salty the night before (chinese food?), and are holding on to more water. I've also been told that after training hard, water replaces the glycogen in your muscles...and water weighs more than glycogen. I can't say for certain this is the cause, but it might be, or a factor. I'd try taking some other measurements. Measure parts of your body, and check that every few weeks. If you have access, check your body fat composition. If all of these are changing, then be concerned. Otherwise, revel in the fact that the human body is wonderfully inconsistent =P

What are you doing to quit? From my own experience, it's a damn hard habit to quit, and I wasn't a heavy smoker. I went the cold turkey route, but it meant some serious social changes for a while to avoid getting into situations where I commonly smoked.

Woot! Congrats! Proof that the 80/20 sort of rule works....do your best, and you'll get results

Obligations happen If you know what your church often serves for banquets, do a little research beforehand and see if you can figure out what might be better choices. Watch out for pitfalls.....ie lean meat is good, lean meat + sauce usually isn't. One plate, and fill up half of it with vegetables. After that....don't feel guilty