Rhode Island began on February 1, 2010 and completed on February 13, 2010
Archive for November, 2009
Attention Span of a Goldfish
I think it’s about three seconds. And yeah, that’s about how long my attention span is, especially with new technologies that don’t grab me.
Twitter didn’t grab me. I’ve already lost interest. I guess I don’t get it. 140 calories is so limiting. I kept wanting to write more than just the food I ate, and… well, I’d rather carry a journal.
I’m not going to delete my account, because who knows? I may come back to it, but for now, I’m going to stick with my blog and my regular journal, a nice blue composition notebook, to write my calories down in. I want to start blogging more often. I know that I like to see new entries in the blogs that I regularly read, and if I have an audience out there at all, or ever want to get one, then I need to post more often.
Today was an okay food day. Calories weren’t too horribly bad, and I went to the gym for sixty good minutes on the elliptical, so I feel today was a positive day. And tomorrow will be even better.
Put up a new Christmas theme. Like it?
1st Friday Weigh In
Quickie post. Going out with friends to celebrate a birthday.
But before I go…
Monday, 11-16-09, 338 pounds
Friday, 11-20-09, 334.5 pounds
Net loss, 3.5 pounds
It could be higher, but given that there have been days during this week where I’ve eaten close to 3,000 calories, I will take that as a victory. Additionally, I’ve been exercising for a LONG time, so I have to remember that I can’t drop weight like someone who just started. I’ll keep going as is, and until I can no longer lose two pounds a week consistently, I’m going to keep going. I ideally want to keep my calories below 2500, but if I go over from time to time, so long as I keep losing, I’ll continue to diet as is.
Twi… uhm… tweetering? Twittertastic?
I don’t think I am good at using Twitter, and to be honest, I still don’t get it for most things. However, I have come to realize that Twitter was created for the sole purpose of allowing me to instantly send my food and calories to the great Tweet-pile in the sky, and for that, I am grateful.
In the past three days, I have sent 24 tweets. (Is that right? That sounds stupid.)
It’s definitely keeping me on track, even if I’m not eating the greatest. I weighed 338 on Monday, and this morning, I weighed 334.75. I’ve found that I’m more prone to snacking all day than I realized. I truly suspect that in the past, I was snacking WAY more than I ever thought I was. Now, with my cell phone by my side where I can text my meal to my twitter account as soon as I eat, I’m not going to forget that, oh yeah, I had 150 calories of beef jerky after lunch. (Really gotta cut out that beef jerky addiction I seem to have developed, too.) But on Monday night, I realized that I was still a little hungry, (probably psychological), and I logged on, added up my calories, realized I had eaten plenty, and I decided to pass on those two pop-tarts that were calling my name from the kitchen.
Pop Tarts!
I’ve decided to make Fridays my official weigh-in day. So, even though I weighed 338 this Monday, and I’m going to call that my starting weight, I am going to record my 2nd weight (and all subsequent weigh-ins) on Friday. That will probably be my next post. I hope to be down to 330 by then! I don’t know if that’s realistic, and it probably isn’t, but 330 is my first goal, and I’d love to be below that for my second weigh-in.
Tweet My What Now?
A few things. One, I came across a very inspiring blog today, 344pounds.com. Basically, it’s about a dude who used to weigh 344 pounds and is striving to lose 150 pounds in 12 months. And he’s already pretty close to doing it.
Really inspired me, and honestly, it embarrassed me a little bit, too. Because I haven’t done that yet. I’m still hovering around the same weight I have been for SO long. There’s always some excuse to eat something I shouldn’t and swear tomorrow will be better. And tomorrow never is.
So I’m flat-out stealing one of his ideas. And I know he isn’t the one who invented this idea, but this is the site I read it on first. He tweets every meal he eats and the calorie contents. I am going to do the same.
I hope to eventually have a nice little widget on the side of this blog that will keep my most recent tweets there. Until then, you can see what I’ve eaten and how long I’ve worked out on that page. (Well, you’ll see it tomorrow. I’m starting fresh in the a.m. [Because I'm done eating for tonight.])
On a side note, NaNoWriMo is going awesome! I’m currently at 26,727 words, and I am not halfway through with my novel, so this one is definitely going to be more than 50,00 words. Best yet – I’m pretty sure I’m going to win this November! I may not finish the novel this month, but I am at least going to hit 50,000 words. And I’m hoping I can completely finish the novel. How cool would it be to have something on December 1st, an entire novel, that did not exist in any form on November 1st?