BRIENMALONE's CalorieKing Blog
Turning Back Time: Feb 8, 2001...
Thursday, May 15th 2008
I love nostalgia. I had to review some really old emails for work today. In the process, I saw some personal conversations that really brought back memories. (Yes, I keep all of my email -- every piece.)The memories were of my first experience with a personal trainer and they came in the form of an email to an old friend, Susan.
Susan and Synchronicity
Susan and I are no longer in touch (for better or worse). She was a sweet, yet horribly foul-mouthed, amazingly strong, fitness-mi...
Potatoes Not Prozac Experiment
Monday, May 12th 2008
About a week ago I powered through Potatoes not Prozac by Kathleen DesMaisons, and was so inspired that I jumped back into my clean, sugar free diet.DesMaisons' book is about 180 pages too long, so I prepared to distill the most interesting and important points in a blog entry. After completing a journal detailing the finer points, I leaned over the computer to pick up a stapler that I had knocked over. In doing so, I bumped the power cord. >Bzzt< Gone.
This version is actua...
Face of the Earth
Friday, May 2nd 2008
Forgive me CK, it has been 3 weeks since my last blog
Maintaining Weight, but Losing Food Quality
Wow - Time sure does slip by. Well, here I am munching on my banana, pineapple and cottage cheese snack. I've managed to maintain my weight at appx 232 since I "fell off the wagon" back in late Feb. Could be worse, right?
Amazingly, in all of this, I have slipped back into my sugar cravings. I've had sundaes, milk shakes, sugary cereal... foods that I found completely disgu...
How Important is Accuracy.
Sunday, April 13th 2008
MedGem and Estimating Your BMRThe BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) or RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate) is the number of calories you would burn if you were to lie motionless all day. Rebecca (my last personal trainer years ago) suggested that if you eat your BMR calories every day, everything you do, from walking down a hallway to scratching your eyebrow will burn fat. While this is a bit of an oversimplification, the approach is valid.
There are a few common ways to estimate BMR. The Harris-Ben...
Furious
Saturday, April 12th 2008
I just lost a blog that I spent two hours writing. I was trying to type the letter "I" followed by a space... but I missed the shift key and hit [ctrl]+I, which opened my favorites, and the [space bar] which loaded the first entry on my favorites list. Because I left the blog page, I lost everything.When I make my own diet and exercise blogging site, I think I'll include an easy little piece of AJAX code that automatically saves a draft every few minutes. I've lost so many blogs ...