yes yesyes it's muffin top, the prodigal daughter has rturned...

got these with my webcam on 'burst' mode. Ya know what, this is good for me. I think I imagine I'm fatter than I really am. Need to work on the belly but other than that, I think I'm alright.

measurements:

36 24 36 kiiiiiidding!

chest 32

waist 26

big belly 31

hips 34

big part o butt 37

thighs 20.5
for some reason when I put the pics on here, it put spaces between all of the other things I wrote. dunno why....hope it doesn't post that way...

ate today:

breakfast- massive amount of pasta with tomato sauce, cheddar cheese, and tuna. god how I love tuna.

lunch: the remainder of that pasta.

Dinner: I'm thinking grilled cheese.

Crap. I also had theSe veggie filled sticky bun things for a Snack. Fried. Not healthy. And some Chocolate. Crap.

exercise: woke up 727, yoga on beach, surfed for an hour. HA! I'm doing this every morning from now on, no excuses!!!

Did more yoga and crunches. My abs hurt. From 100 crunches! Pathetic!

schedule (quite proud of myself actually)

730 yoga surf

930 home, shower breakfast, cleaning up dog pee (freakin puppy)

1110 start writing

210 convince myself that I've been so good at keeping my schedule the last two days, what would one little foray into facebook hurt?

chat on facebook, comment on statuses, cq tells me I suck for not logging on here. Log on here. take bikini pics with my camera, can't find card reader... figure out how to take bikini pics with webcam. bye bye afternoon!

353- posting pics

4 should eat some lunch.

then clean

then go to work.

still proud of getting up to surf the last two days though

okay, goals:

surf every morning. (gonna try to walk on my longboard!)

yoga before surfing

100 sit ups a day

measure myself and post pics every sunday.

can eat for sweets--- dark chocolate (sorry cq =(

rest of sweets--- only on weekends. and eat normal portions ya retard (meaning myself of course...)

3/25/10 - CQ's Update: Look Ma, Less Back Fat!

Here are my updated photos. There is clearly less fat on my stomach area, and my back fat rolls are almost gone. I am at 141.2, so I have lost 6.8 pounds in 3 weeks. At work, I walk a lot and stand all day, so I account that as my exercise. I have been eating less, and changed my diet completely. I don't eat anything that has things in it I can't pronounce, food with preservatives, food high in salt, or enriched foods. My meals are very basic with very simple ingredients, and I put together and cook just about everything. Here are my photos.

muffin top--3-25-10

eating crap but getting lots of exercise. sigh. busy busy

muffin top--3-25-10

eating crap but getting lots of exercise. sigh. busy busy

3/22/10 - CQ's Update

Not much to report. I can't eat much. Everything is so limited.

Today I learned that I don't really care for icecream unless its chocolate.. which I can not have. I got vanilla, which I am not crazy about. And I looked all over for mint icecream thinking I really wanted it. I finially found some today that doesn't have chocolate chips or food dye. I am not impressed. I mean, its great for what it is. It's just not chocolate... or mint chocolate chip. So I feel like they are both a waste of time. I knew I loved chocolate prior to all this (and fruit). But I didn't realize how much they were a part of my life. Food seems to be an ingrained part of culture, atleast American culture. It is so social. And it is so difficult to not be able to share it with friends and family. I feel like every meal is a hassel now. I just can't go out and get a burrito or order a pizza if I am starving, or buy things from trader joes, or anywhere really. And I have to be really creative in what I make. I am tired of white food. Yeah, vegetables aren't white. But I would rather have colorful fruit, of which I mostly can not have. This is getting kinda depressing.

3-23-10 muffn top

Man, I always seem to quit posting on the weekends-- I think I actually won't post on sat or sunday-- those will be my free eating days, plus I always surf over the weekend so I know I get my exercise.

so, today-- breakfast- smoothie popsicles, terrific! Plus, woops, some marshmellows.

lunch- pasta with cheddar cheese and tomato sauce.

Dinner, not yet

exercise- siiiiigh, didn't get much today because I was on a huge cleaning kick. In fact that's all I did today.

A friend of mine who's a seamstress measured my waist this weekend--- 26 inches. I'll get a tape measure so I can measure it myself too.

3/17/10 - CQs Food Diary

I had four bites of oatmeal for breakfast. For dinner I had 1 baked potato with salt and butter. Had 1/2 cup of blueberries for a snack. I had 1/2 cup of vanilla icecream for dessert.

3-17-10 Muffin Top

Breakfast: 11am- Thai food made from a box with fresh peppers, onions, brocolli, and an egg. Meant to only eat half but extended the eating over 4 hours so ate the whole dang thing.
snack. Some dried mango. just a Couple pieces.
lunch? 630 pm limp veggies (eggplant, soy bean sprouts, cabbage, unidentified green veggies- several varieties, some lettuce, more sprouts, small amount of noodles, edamame)cooked in a massive amount of oil. (Oh Taiwanese cuisine!) One eggroll. two slices guava.

dinner: 10 pm more yummy fruit curry from upstairs neighbor who is saving my life! and four slices of sourdough with a slice of zuchini on top and some pepper sprinkled on it, mmm mm good (each slice was about the size of a fourth of a dollar bill- the small ones)

Exercise: 9:30-11 surf, including a pre-surf yoga sesh and 100 crunches, done while the puppy kept trying to crawl all over me. When I was 15 I did 350 crunches a day and didn't even feel them, but today I did 100 and totally felt it. Guess that's what 13 years of no crunches will do to ya.
3pm- 20 min walk on beach with dogs with some neck stretches.

Schedule:
sigh
9 walk dogs
930 surf
11 come home, shower, right into lunch.
during lunch browsing nothing but the time killer facebook--- that turns into a long stretch
12 prob still on facebook
1230 start writing a story about dogs for my friends website. Write craigslist ad to try to get this puppy adopted.
3 walk dogs
330 come home, wash all three dogs, clean bathroom, wash dog kennel, etc.
that brings us to 415.
think I will use the rest of the day to clean till I have to go to work. sigh. all I do is clean up after dogs. 4.15 -clean kitchen and bathroom-yeah! got it done!
5:00 work on getting Song lyrics printed for my class tonight Sweet! That worked too!
6:00 Now on train to work.
9:00 train home- study chinese
9:30 walk dogs
10 talk to friend
1030 reading blogs about writing
11 walk dogs again, short one, get ready for bed
1130 go to sleep while reading old new yorker short stories.

3/16/10 - CQ's Update

Yesterday I had oatmeal with milk and blueberries for breakfast. For lunch/dinner I had 4 fried chicken tenders (leftover from from dinner on Sunday). I made macaroons and had a several.

Today I had 2 leftover fried chicken tenders for lunch. I had the rest of the macaroons and maybe 4 oz of milk. For dinner I had 2 more chicken tenders and probably about 4 oz of blueberries.

tues march 16th 2010- muffin top

Breakfast- none, shocking
Lunch- some tasty leftover potato soup my friend made me, rendered unhealthy by my addition of cheddar cheese, but mmmm mmmm good!
dinner- Leftover fruit and veggie curry that my friend made me- lucky me! and half a bowl of cereal with some pb and j mixed in (I know I'm weird but don't knock it till you've tried it)
snack- dried mango which unfotunately had sugar added (my students read the chinese label for me- wah!)
midnight snack- two waffles with peanut butter and syrup

I've noticed that if I give myself a smaller serving size, after I eat I feel just as satisfied as if I ate a ton--- so I'm almost halving some of my servings =)

exercise- loooong walk this am with dogs- about 45 min.
slacklining with my buddy Nick.

schedule-
9amNick showed up to surf but alas, the wind was crazy and the waves were choppy closeouts- so we slacklined instead. He left about 12, and then I just had enough time to eat, shower, walk the dogs, and head to work.
120 train to work
145-3- sort out paycheck problem, go to bank and chat with students.
3 class
430 book it home to let puppy out
5 dinner
6 catch train back to work
7-9 teach
910 train home
930 walk dogs
10 clean kitchen
1030 eat waffles
11 load pics to sell friends surfboadonline while chatting with nother friend.
11-1245 which is now--- trying to get dog to stay still while taking pics so I can adopt him out and other worthless activities.
I need to go to sleep. but I'm going to do 100 sit ups first.

3/14/10 - CQs Update

Well, I have felt like crap the past 3 days. Been in A LOT of pain. Today is better than the last two. But I am still not a happy camper.

On Thursday I had some mini caramel rice cakes and a bitesized mini chocolate bar. I had 'In n Out' with a burger, fries and a dr. pepper. Oh, and I also had a HOT pickled pepper (peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers). Just wanted to see what would happen if I went off the deep end and ate all the 'IC no-no's' because I really wanted to verify that IC is an accurate diagnosis for me, and if the diet really did work. I didn't want to deprive myself of all the deliciousness in the world for no good reason, because having to limit myself so greatly really sucks!

So, what is in such a meal for the day afore mentioned one with IC is not supposed to have, you may wonder? Preservatives, chocolate, spicy peppers, likely soy (in the bun surprizingly), onions, special sauce that has salad dressing oil in it, ketchup which has tomatoes and vinegar in it, soda which has bubbles and caffine in it, and french fries which are likely made in vegeatable (soy) oil.

Anyhow, I paid for it that night and the next 3 days afterwords. I have my answer and I will NOT be doing that again. Imagine having the worst case of acid reflex, but in your bladder... constantly... for 3 1/2 days. No fun whatsoever. I hear there is an over the counter medicine that is supposed to neutralize the acid in food and make it so I can eat things that most people eat. However, at this point I am not willing to even risk it. Maybe in a few months if I get brave. All I know is that I spent the last two days in bed almost entirely, and spent as much time in bed the two evenings before that because of my little endeavour.

The next day for breakfast I had some home made crepes. Which actually turned out to not look like crepes, because for some reason the batter kept sticking to the pan, so they didn't turn out round. For dinner I had cottage cheese with blueberries, slivered almonds, and a sprinkle of brown sugar.

Saturday I had a bagel with lowfat cream cheese for breakfast. For lunch I had a ciabiatta roll, and for dinner I had (again) cottage cheese with blueberries, slivered almonds, and a sprinkle of brown sugar.

Today for brunch I made waffels, which I ate with honey and had a glass of milk. I wanted to make them with blueberries too, but I ran out. For dinner, the beau and I made homemade fried chicken strips and had about 1/2 cup of sweet potatoes.

I have been feeling a little better having got back on the regular ic diet. However, the pain subsides slowly once it decides to flare up. Simply miserable.

I am going to try and get this book 'A Taste of the Good Life' which is an IC cookbook. Then maybe I can come up with some more interesting things to eat, and won't feel so deprived.

While macaroons are actually not that bad for you, I think I managed to go without eating one this entire week!!

As for exercize, other than what I mentioned on monday, I have not exercized other than the vigorous walking around I do monday through friday at work. I'm still looking into getting a hula hoop. One of these days I will.

3-15-10 muffin top

food: breakfast- smoothie--- frozen fruit, 100% fruit juice, protein powder, anti-oxidant powder, electrolyte powder. Need something to repair my body from yesterday.
2 large glasses, mmmmmm fantastic.
lunch-5pm some curry my friend made. Yum
dinner-10pm- some potato soup my friend made--- yum again!

exercise: short walk (15 min?) on beach with dogs because one of my little punks decided to run off without looking where I was going and I know she ended up on the road by my gate scared and alone and at first I thought, you little brat, if you get hit by a car it's your own fault for running off but then I thought, oh no she can't get hit by a car- I love her, so ran back home. Thanks alot for ruining my new exercise plan you lil bitch (really, she is a bitch, I"m not just being mean.
That's it so far.
Yoga and another 15 min walk on the beach
hula hooping, 20 min at night (but not very vigorously cause was talking the whole time)

Schedule:
9 am woke up, finally a full nights sleep after crazy weekend.
9:20 get dogs ready and go for short walk.
9:45 prepare smoothie.
10 SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING TIME, but instead spent forever writing a thoughtful response to someone's response to my response on someone elses wall post on facebook. good lord!!!!
then I wrote the first post on this blog today writing in tablet mode on my new touch netbook--- fun but took a long time cause I"m not used to it and lots of errors.
11:00 friend from upstairs calls and says she called in sick to work and do I want to walk down to the coffee shop with her to get some healthy tea cause she's sick? I apologize but say no, it's writing time, I have to write from 10-1. feel like a jerk so give her some of my tea which is really good when you're sick.
It's now 11:52 and I haven't done any real writing. sigh. Going to send in the article proposal for the magazine I write for and start working on that for the last hour of my writing time.
1200 the last hour of my writing time was great! got topic approval from my editor and wrote 500 word Article in one hour! sweeeeet! Now all it needs is some editing!
1:00 took long walk on beach with dogs. It's now 2 pm
2:00-4:00 true to my terrible habits 'spent2 full hours On facebook and reading the New Yorker's fiction piece which was quite good!
4:00 vacuumed and Cleaned house.
At 5 l started gett ing ready for workn now at
6:00 Im_on the train.
7-9 work
9- train home, walk dogs
10 eat dinner and hula hoop with friend
11 read
1230 sleep

3-14-10 muffin top

Food---
Breakfast- water
Lunch- water
Dinner-One ravioli at 4:30pm. No I am not going anareoxic it was just a busy day and I forgot to eat!
630 pm came home and ate the rest of the ravioli.
Midnight snacks- 6 packages of seaweed (that's a lot of seaweed) and a cup or so of cranberries and almonds.
I sorely wanted chocolate as it's that time of the month but I live out in the boonies and chocolate is not available...so guess that's a blessing though it didn't feel like it last night!

Exercise for the day: Surf, 1 hour--- several long walks down the beach with my dogs, perhaps adding up to another hour and a half.

Schedule:
Rudely awakened by surfer friends at 7am, after having gone to bed at 2am. Assured them that I would be ready to surf at 8, fell back into bed.
7:30 up, walk dogs, load surf board and surf gear.
8:00 bs with friends as we got ready to leave the shop and surf. Does bs-ing and talking story use calories?
9:00 surf- waves were terrible, steep close-outs, thus spent a good deal of time wallowing in the white water. DEFINITELY a fine work out. Spent at least an hour out there- gosh it must have been way more because I got back into the beach at 12:00. Could I have been out there for three hours? didn't feel like it but I guess I was and I was exhausted. wow. Anyways, got in, saw that puppy had drank all his water and looked dehydrated, so decided to take the long walk home and get him into his cool, comfy crate.
12:30 walk puppy home on beach, 30 min.
1:00 shower, fall into bed.
2:00 surf buddies come get me again, just to hang out. Hang out with surf buddies at club.
3:00 home, Nick comes over to drop off the sleeping back I loaned him. We talk really animatedly for a long time. we get really crazy when we talk- bet that burned some calories.
4:30 realize I forgot to eat all day and that's why I'm feeling woozy. tell Nick I gotta cook. Make ravioli.
5pm eat one ravioli, then nick says he wants me to check out this surfboard he wants to buy. drop ravioli and begin long walk down beach to surf shops, taking dogs with me. walk, at least 30 min.
530 bs-ing with people at surf shop. Meet the love of my life and find out he's engaged. (could you guys separate for a while? Pretty please? that man was beautiful and easy to talk to and oh man he was wonderful. please tell me the dude has a single brother)
Check out surf board. Cute but totally wrong style for Nick who needs something chubby and floaty. check out rest of board shops and find a suitable epoxy longboard for him- good price too, SWEEEEEEET!!!!
6:00 watch nick try out longboard before he buys it- I was going to try it but water was too cold for boardies and didn't want to surf in my braless state anyways. Loose Boobs hitting the board - not pleasant.
6:30 Nick taking too long so decide to walk home with my dogs. 30 min walk on beach.
7 Home. snorking rest of ravioli. Friend Grace and her entire family shows up to help translate for me and my landlord- yelling ensues- do bad feelings burn calories? I offered to paint the inside of my house, he hated the colors I chose, but now he won't paint it white either. come on now sonny, I'm sick of living in a cave, and I'm sick of spending money every time you change your mind about what I can do to the house.
8pm- Grace and family leave. I play with my new computer and putter around the house and walk dogs until midnight.
What a crazy ass day, and all of it unexpected.

No more slackinK sog, I am on here everyday no matter what.

-k so I suck! I got sick and I got a new puppy in my house (up to my elbows in dog urine here folks) , and I started slacking.- CQ, can you forgive me? l really want to do this!
And I don't just want it to be about weight loss. l want to also Keep track of how l am managing my time and My life.
I'm going to make this my home page, and every time I get online I'll fill it out.

So here are my goals:
1. keep track of all the food I'm eating here.
2. Go for a long walk on the beach with my dogs every morning, and while on the beach do 100 crunches and yoga.
3. surf or slackline every day of the week.
4. Hoop 5 nights a week, at least 20 minutes.

That's for health, but I'm going to use this for the rest of my life too (CQ and anyone else who stumbles on this blog, feel free not to read the rest of my posts because they'll probably be quite boring- but this is my way to keep tabs on myself in a public, anonymous place.)
I'm in this amazing spot in life where I can support myself by working 2-3 and a half hours a day. I know. Most people are doing the 40 or more thing. I work 13 hours a week. That leaves so much free time to accomplish amazing things, and yet...half the time when I lay in bed at night, I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck I did with all my glorious free time that day. My house is a wreck, I'm not accomplishing what I want writing-wise, I don't surf enough ;) It's frustrating and I don't want to live the rest of my life like this. So I'm going to write down what I do each day to figure out where that time goes!
So I'm going to start with yesterday on my next post and go from there. haha the idea of this blog keeps changing. CQ sorry I was a bum--- just felt like I got really really busy, but that's no excuse when I still spent hours bumming around facebook. I think I spend too much time on facebook so from now on my only facebook time is on the train ride between home and work- about 40 min a day. so there...

3/9/10 - CQ's Food Diary

Breakfast: Two homemade oatmeal carot ginger muffins with cream cheese. 12 oz of lowfat milk.

Lunch: Delicious salad as shown below. Greens tossed with olive oil, organic pasta, carrots, red bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, chicken.

Snack: Pear.

Dinner: Potatoes with red and yellow bell peppers, 1 egg. Watermellon.

3/8/10 - CQ's food diary

Breakfast: 2 homemade blintzes (made with homemade crepe batter, with aprox. 3 tablespoons ricotta total)

Dinner: 2 homemade oatmeal ginger carrot muffins with cream cheese. 1/2 cup plain pasta. 1 cup milk tea. 1 cup watermelon.

Tomorrow I am going to have a delicious salad for lunch. I will post photos!

Exercise: Today I actually exercised! Did some ab stuff and arm stuff. Also, I went to work today, which requires me to walk around a lot. I would say I probably get about 30 mins of walking in at work each day. And now I'll be there 5 days a week. Hooray!

P.S. Check out the omelet photo below that I just updated, inspiration via muffin top.

muffin top food diary 3-8-10

I had the craziest weekend so fell off the food reporting wagon!
I think all I ate was tons of pizza and rice crackers- some alcohol was involved. On the plus size got in nice hiking/dancing work outs ;)
today- omelet (who says variety is the spice of life)
limp veggies for lunch (at 630 pm haha)
and just now a snickers on the train.
also had an orange this morning.

I cant figure out how to eat less at night, heeeeeelpppppp!!!!!
today no exercise except for long walks on the beach cause I adopted apuppy who needs to be housetrained.
wah.
I think we need to get measurements up on here and I'm going to start working on making some specific, measurable goals for the second week!

3/7/10 - CQs Food Diary

Breakfast: Omelet with asparagus, red peppers, and fresh spinach. 1 pear.

Lunch: Two homemade coconut macaroons.

Dinner: Two homemade oatmeal carrot ginger muffins. 1 pear.

3/6/10 - CQs Food Diary

Brunch: Plain bagel with reduced fat cream cheese. 1 cup of steamed milk, lowfat.

Dinner: 1 piece homemade fried chicken breast and 5 spears of asparagus.

Snack: 4 homemade coconut macaroons.

Tomorrow the beau and I are making those omelets you made (minus the corn, because I forgot to buy some).

3/5/10 - CQs Food Diary

Peanut Butter in Cereal???????? You're a strange one Muffin Top.

Breakfast: 2 homemade crepes with 1 pear. 1/2 cup cottage Cheese.

Lunch: 1 leftover homemade fried chicken breast from last night. 5 homemade macaroons (I LOVE those things!)

Snack: 1 pear.

Dinner: 2 slices thin crust 9 inch pizza. Small corner of foccacia bread. Salad w/ red peppers, olives and crumbled cheese.

Dessert: Shared a piece of blueberry torte with the beau and had a cup of steamed milk.

PS. The beau and I are discussing making those omelets you made.
Also, I checked out that hula hooping video. Seems pretty cool. My friend says there is a class near me that does it. However, I'll more likely just buy one and do it on my own. I'll keep you posted!

3-5-10

blah ate a ton today!!!! Mostly tonight
bowl of cereal in the morning with a spoonful of peanut butter mixed in (I kid you not, it's delicious)
lunch, a nice big veggie filled omelet.
dinner........
tons of rice crackers, an orange, 2 waffles with plenty of PB and maple syrup.
yikes-- it doesn't look like much but trust me my stomach is distended.
yeeeeech!
I gotta simmer down on the eating at night

Exercise; didn't get out for a surf (wah!) but cleaned house all day, which has got to count for somethin!
bleh, I gotta eat less at night!

3/4/10 - CQs Food Diary

I am going to try and post in the mornings after I eat breakfast, then come back and edit the post the next day with my updates.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with milk 1 tablespoon butter, and tablespoon organic sugar. 3/4 cup milk.

Lunch: Homemade gnocchi with homemade pesto. 1/2 cup. 1 pear.

Dinner: 1 Homemade fried boneless skinless chicken breast. Homemade mashed potatoes.

Dessert: 4 Homemade Coconut Macaroons.

Muffin Top food diary 3-4-10

Wasn't hungry this morning at all so all I had was a little smoothie popsicle (I make smoothies out of frozen fruit, orange juice, protein powder, electrolyte powder and anti-oxidant powder, then i freeze the leftovers as popsicles. Each popsicle is pretty small, like a fourth of a cup)

Then about 1pm I made this scrumptious salad--- lettuce (ice berg, unfortunately- I live in Asia and it's hard to find spinach!) corn, brocolli (neither cooked cause I ran out of time) 1 hard boiled egg, cherry tomatoes, a splash of olive oil and a pinch of salt, oh yeah and a bit of cheddar cheese....








For dinner I went to an Italian place--- prob not the low-fattest option, but mmmmmm delicious! I had pumpkin soup, a fresh salad, and a baked pasta dish with fake chicken meat (made of soy?) and smothered in cheese. Yeeeeeeeeah! I love me some cheese.

now I'm home and trying to curb my night-time snacking. So far I've had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the remains of my pasta, and a couple of rice crackers. I guess it's sort of like that salad was my breakfast, the pasta was my lunch, and this is my dinner. I've heard that eating late at night will make you fatter, but I don't really see why- I mean, isn't it all about caloric intake vs. energy expenditure? but who knows maybe there's something to it or maybe you're just more likely to eat more at night. so I'm going to try to eat a bigger breakfast to see if it helps me eat less at night. And for the rest of tonight, I'll limit myself to four more rice crackers and some seaweed (oooh man since I moved to Asia I've been a bit obsessed with the seaweed- not too bad, a lot of sodium but some fiber and minerals too.)

For exercise I hooped for an hour till I was sweaty and red-faced. It was GREAT.
Gotta surf tomorrow. Was going to go today but too windy for my tastes. Here's to no wind (or off-shore wind) and beautiful open faced waves tomorrow ;D

Hooping

CQ make sure you buy the right hoop--- it's gotta be a little heavier and thicker than your average cause if you learn tricks you're gonna be throwing that thing right and left. I believe there are tutorials about what kind of hoop to buy online. I'm jealous, if I get one shipped from the states it's over $100 US. Mine is too big and heavy- it's supposed to be for exercise not for tricks.
Anyways here's one of my fav hooping videos. I'll post one of me soon too, but don't know how I'm going to disguise my face! haha

3/3/10 - CQ's Food Diary

Today for breakfast I had 3 homemade crepe blintzes with ricotta cheese and fresh blueberries as fillings.

Late lunch: 2 Homemade carrot muffins. 1 tablespoon sliced almonds.

Dinner: 2/3 cup homemade knoshi (spelling?) with pesto.

Dessert: 4 homemade coconut macaroons.

I really like your omlette idea. I can actually eat all of those things except for the onions, and it would be a great way for me to get some more veggies in my diet, as most of what I am allowed to eat (atleast for now) is white, except for veggies, pears (which are white on the inside), blueberries, and watermellon.

I am considering purchasing a hula hoop today.

Just the two of us, we can make it if we try, just the two of us, you and I!

Hey CQ, fat ass and skinny midget bailed on us-maybe they didn't like my names for them? -it's okay, we'll continue together- you better not bail on me too!
By the way, bikini photos here we come!
I had to do the sucking in one to make me feel better...only it didn't really make me feel better--- it's okay!!! by July, we'll be bikinilicious!

Day 1- food and exercise, muffin top

Ate:
10am: an omelet with two eggs, corn, asparagus, peppers, onions, and plenty of cheddar cheese (maybe too much cheddar cheese.
throughout morning and afternoon: snacked on dried cranberries and almonds- ate kinda a lot of those.
6:30 pm: Went to Chinese buffet- ate small lunch box of food. Tried to stick to veggies but even those cooked with a ton of oil till they were pretty limp. Still good though!!!
10pm: let the games begin- this is where I get most of my calories
countless little rice cracker snacks
lots of seaweed
peanut butter and jelly on thick piece of toast.
and I'm probably not finished yet--- why do I have to eat myself silly before I fall asleep?
This is something I probably need to change.
I'll try to stop eating tonight. I think I'm done.
Maybe I'll try to stop eating at 7pm, but its tough because I work from 7-9 and by the time I get home at 10 I'm ravenous.

Exercise: surfed for a very short time cause the waves weren't great- probably about 30 min, with 20 minute walk with my surfboard down the beach.

Contestant Quatro

3/2/10 - Starting Weight: 148. My Goal is to lose 10 pounds in 3 months (June). I want to lose 15 pounds so I can look hot in this bikini by July 1st. I am also an avid rock climber. I want to get back to climbing at the 5.11a level by August 1st.

I recently incountered a health condition where I need to change my diet. This will cause me to have to change my diet (what I eat), and I can only eat at certain times, as I have to arrange my meals with my medication schedule.

I also recently had a surgery that has affected my level of activity. I have spent most of the last month in bed. I actually love to be active, but have to take it easy and gain back my activity gradually. And even then, I will be limited in my activity. However, I still should be able to rock climb and do yoga. My goal is to rock climb and do yoga atleast once a week each.

So, this is a challenge, but I think I can do it. I'll check in with new photos once per month, and update my weight progress once per week. I will look for my measuring tape tomorrow, and report my measurements. I'll report my measurements once per month as well.

Post Numero Uno! -muffin top

(side view, week one-- hopefully this view will be a little better in a couple of weeks!)

Okay, it's week one of the fat loss extravaganza (except for skinny midget- for her it's a weight gain extravaganza) Here's the point of this blog- we three friends are going to keep up on the blog and check in with eachother on our health goals. There will be heckling, there will be insults and hopefully there will be PROGRESS. We will be competing for some trophies- I'll have to ask my cohorts what we will name those first, but I think we'll have a sort of overall progress trophy, a best fat joke trophy, and I dunno something else. three trophies just seems like the right number.
And yes, you've got it, we're going to insult eachother here on our blog- it's motivating.

I don't know about you fools - Fat Ass and Skinny Midget, but I (Muffin Top) am going to start like this-
Every day:
1. write down what I ate
2. write down the exercise I did
Every week:
1. write down my fitness goals
2. measure for lost inches
3. *drum roll please* I'll post pictures of my progress. Sans face, of course.
Notice there will be no weighing- I don't believe weight is a good measure of health. Muscle weighs more than fat and I want more muscle, so might weigh more when this process is through.
so without further ado, here are my pics...well would you look at that! My muffin top isn't actually as bad as I thought!!! These pictures are already serving their purpose of giving me some perspective. Anyways though, I'd like it if these jeans fit smoothly again and didn't produce that squelch of flesh hanging out the top. Let's do some more photos.










Now this is by far the most disturbing image I've seen in a long time. I'm really letting it all hang out. Target area= belly.











And this photo is just going in to make me feel better =) I think I still look okay if I suck in.

post errguh, muffin top

I'd like to formally welcome contestant quatro, who is joining our fitness efforts from across the globe. Contestant quatro has extended a bikini pic challenge- CQ, I accept!
*warning* for those with sensitive stomachs, the following images might be disturbing....

contestant quatro would like to lose 15 pounds. I'm trying to convince her that weight is not the best indicator of overall health-- anybody want to back me up on that??? I think its better to measure our progress in inches, or how we look in our skinny jeans....